Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1931 — Page 23

MAY 22. 1931

MICHIGAN IS BIG TEN CHOICE

300 Track Aces Clash Illinois Chief Threat in Title Event Opening Today. EVANSTON, lit, May 22.—Michigan ruled a strong favorite to win the thirty-first annual Big Ten track and field championships opening at Dyche stadium. Trials in fourteen of the sixteen events were scheduled today, with finals in all events Saturday. More than 300 athletes, a dozen or more of them promising candidates for the 1932 Olympic team, composed the formidable field. Michigan won last year’s meet with 51 points, followed by Illinois, 44!4; Wisconsin, 35; Ohio State, 31!4; lowa, 24: Indiana, 20; Northwestern, 18; Chicago, 7; Purdue, 7, and Minnesota, 4. The battle for the first four places will again be between Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio State. Michigan has entered thirtyfour athletes, headed by Eddie Tolan, Negro sprinter, who is expected to add ten points to the Wolverine’s total with victories in the 100 and 220-yard dashes. Numbered in the field were seven of last year’s individual champions. Os the title holders, Lee Sentman of Illinois seemed to be confronted with the hardest task of retaining h;s two hurdle championships. Bothered by injuries Sentman has load an inconsistent year, and Jack Keller, Ohio State’s sophomore ace, and James Hatfield, Indiana, have both beaten him. Among the records most likely to be threatened are the shotput, the pole vault, the 120-yard high hurdle mark, the javelin mark and the half-mile record. MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 22. Notre Dame was a heavy favorite as athletes from eleven schools opened competition in the sixth annual central intercollegiate track and field championship here today. Butler of Indianapolis was the other Hoosier entry.

Eastern Big League Clubs Hold Edge in Intersectional Battles

BY LEO H. PETERSON United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, May 22.—Major league baseball teams prepared to resume sectional competition today with the Philadelphia Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals holding first place in their respective circuits. The first in ter sectional imbroglio of the year came to a close Thursday with the east holding a decided edge over the west. In the American League, representatives of the Atlantic seaboard won thirty-

Froebel of Gary Favored to Retain State Track Title

With a well-balanced, eleven-man squad, Froebel of Gary, Indiana and national interscholastic track and field champions, will invade Butler bowl Saturday a favorite to retain the Hoosier laurels they won last spring with ease. Coached by Carl Olsen, the Steel City athletes have many point winners in their group, although the squad is not the largest representing any one school. Tech of Indianapolis ranks among the chief contenders, although Neely, hurdler, was the only performer to turn in an outstanding performance in the sectional last week. In the century dash, Perrotta of Froebel, who turned 10.1 last week, and Smith of Michigan City, who ran the distance in 10 flat, loom as the outstanding contenders, with Beldon of Seymour, Hollis of Warren Central, McQueene of Lafayette and Henderson of Wiley of Terre Haute as others counted in the running. Bartlett of Bloomington with 16.1,

State Prep Track Mark EVENT RECORD WINNER SCHOOL DATE 100-Yard Dash 9.9 sec. Fowlkes • Mur.cie 192$ 220-Yard Dash 21.6 sec. Walter Kokomo 1925 440-Yard Dash .50.3 sec. Fuqus Brazil * 1930 Saif Mile Run 2:00.2 min. Sears technical 192$ One Mile Run 4:32.1 min. Wooley Wiley (X. H.) 1930 120-Yard Hurdle ....16 tec. Abrams Froebel (Gary) 1930 220-Yard Hurdle ....24.6 sec. Abrams Frobel (Gary) 1930 Hith Jump 6 ft. in. Evans Sraril 1921 Broad Jump 22 ft. S% in. Northam Sheridan ' 1922 Foie Vault 12 ft. 444 in. Carter Washington 1930 Wansowlcz Froebel (Gary) 1930 Shot Put 51 ft. 5 in. Knee Wabash 1935 Hammer Throw 140 ft. 5H in. Conwell Van Buren 1908 Discss Throw 117 ft. 614 in. Stockton Honticello 190$ Mile Relay 5:29.6 sec. Brazil Srazil 1927 Half Mile Relay 1 min. S3 sec. Mancie Huncle 192$ Note—Hammer and Discus have been discontinued as events.

State College Golfers Clash By Timet Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 21. Thirty-four golfers, representing seven schools, teed of! at Rea park municipal links here today in the annual Indiana intercollegiate golf tournament. Team championship honors were to be decided in today’s thirty-six-hole round. - All players within sixteen strokes of today’s low medalist will play another thirty-six holes Saturday, to determine the individual title winner, Purdue, Indiana, Notre Dame, Valparaiso, De Pauw, Wabash and State Normal have teams entered. IRISH CAPTAIN NAMED By Timet Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 22. W’lliam McCormick of Granite City, tti has been elected 1932 track captain at Notre Dam£ He has been a* consistent winner in dash events for two years. SOUTHPORT TRIPS PARK Getting nine hits off R. Cline and v ciine, while Waymann held Park school to three safeties, Southport hight school nine turned ln a6-to-l triumph Thursday. Waymann fanned ten and issued no jnlfefc

La Barba Title Choice

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Fide! La . Barba By United Press NEW YORK, May 22.—Fidel La Barba of California, who as a flyweight was one of the truly great ring champions of recent years, will battle for the world’s featherweight title tonight when he meets Christopher (Bat) Battalino of Hartford, Conn., in a fifteen-round bout at Madison Square Garden. Both of the title bout participants are graduates of the amateur ranks. La Barba won the Olympic flyweight title in 1924 and then turned pro-

Yanks, Canadians Even in Davis Cup Singles Test

By United Press MONTREAL, May 22.—With each country having won one of the opening -singles contests, the United States and Canada met in the doubles match today of their final North American zone round of Davjs cup tennis play. Frank Shields and Sidney Wood, both of New York, will form the

two contests while losing eleven, while eastern clubs of the National League registered twenty victories against twelve defeats. The Philadelphia Athletics profited most by the intersectional strife, for they won all eleven of their games and established their leadership in the American League to two and one-half games over the second-place New York Yankees. The St. Louis Cardinals, who built up a substantial lead in the National circuit against western teams,

and Hampton with 16.3, made the best , showing in the 120-yard hurdles in the sectionals and will fight it out with Abrams of Froebel, who set anew record last year. Abrams appears a certain winner in the low sticks, in which he set another mark last year. Scott of Froebel and Hollis of Warren Central both broke the broad jump record in sectionals last Saturday, and the nine-year mark appears doomed. Bolding of Bedford bettered the state record in the mile. Elser of Horace Mann (Gary) put the shot 53 feet 6 5 4 inches, shattering the state mark. Froebel and Tech loom strongest in the mile relay, while Froebel is doped to battle it out with Bloomington and Elkhart in the half-mile team event. The pole vault and high jump records appear safe, but with the fine performances in the sectionals, it appears some of the other marks are due to tumble barring weather handicaps.

French Matman on Cadle BUI Cowboy Jones, Wyoming, and A1 Baffert, French mat performer, will meet in tonight’s main go on the wrestling card at Cadle. They are heavyweight*. Women will be admitted free and the first bout will start at 8:30. In the semi-windup the popular Charlie Stanton, California heavy, will oppose John Arnold, German, while Harold Sims and Buck Lipscomb, local light heavyweights, will meet in the prelim. LAWLESS SEEKS REVEXGB By United Prtet CHICAGO, May 22.—Bucky Lawless, Syracuse, N. Y., welterweight, who defeated Jack Thompson, 147pound champion in a nontitle bout here recently, will attempt to avenge a knockout at the hands of Gorilla Jones when he meets the Akron, 0., Negro in a 10-round bout at the Chicago Stadium Monday night. IN THREE-I THURSDAY Peoria. 6; Quincy. 5. Evansville. i3; Terre Haute. 6. Sonnafieid. 8: Bloomir.ston. 3. Decatur. 5: Danville. 4 ROBINS FARM COHEN Brooklyn has released outfielder A1 Cohen to Hartford of the Eastern ..... J „ _

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Bat Battalino pessional. winning world flyweight honors and retired undefeated in 1927. Battalino started boxing as an amateur in 1925, and in 1927 won the national flyweight title. He turned professional the same year, and after twenty-three bouts won the world’s championship on a fifteen-round decision over Andre Routis of France in September, 1929. The little Hartford Italian is an 8 to 5 underdog in the betting.

United States pair and will be pitted against Dr. Jack Wright and Marcel Rainville. Shields and Wood ranked as slight favorites. Shields won an easy victory Thursday over Wright, 8-6, 6-2, 6-2, while Rainsville beat Wood in a gruelling five-set battle, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4.

fared badly in the east and lost four of six contests. Their margin rfjver the second-place New York Giants was reduced to .004 per cent The records of the clubs in the first intersectional series follow: AMERICAN’ LEAGUE ?$a b Yi L 6 d&oH I IS- Louis.-;:;;;. 1 i rk I Chicago 3 7 3051011 5 7iCleveland o 11 national league BoSon ork *2l Pittsburgh .... W 4 *4 i a.ih.i-:: | fj&JssStv.v;; J j Eastern teams of the American League registered three victories Thursday, as all of the clubs in the National circuit were idle because of rain. Heine Manush hit a home run triple and single off Tommy Thomas and Hal McKain to account for all of the runs in Washington’s 4-to-2 triumph over the Chicago White Sox. Babe Ruth’s fifth homer of the season, a triple and double, aided the Yanlcs in nosing out Cleveland, 7 to 6. It was the twelfth straight setback for the Indians. Earl Combs of the New Yorks stretched his safe hitting streak through twenty games. The Athletics drove out eighteen hits off four Detroit pitchers to turn in a 12-to-5 triumph. Three hurlers were used by the Mackmen and gave up fourteen hits. St. Louis Browns turned in the only western triumph, when Collins held the Red Sox to four hits in winning a 2-to-l decision. ILLINI TRIP PURDUE Big Ten Leaders Hand Hoosiers 9-to-2 Setback. By United Press CHAMPAIGN, HI., May 22.—Illinois diamond pastimers continued to lead the Big Ten parade with seven victories and one defeat today after their 9-to-2 win over Purdue here Thursday. A triple and home run by Fuzak, Illinois left fielder, featured the victors’ batting attack. Hoopegardener and Schupp, Boilermaker hurlers, were slammed for fourteen hits.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Three Top Scraps Set Chief Elkhart Returns to Take on Anderson in Ten. Three ten-round matches to a decision will feature Tuesday night’s final Legion show at the Armory, and were announced today as follows: Ten Rounds—Benny Touchstone. Detroit, vs. Mues Kerr, Indianapolis; heavy* weights. Ten Rounds—Harold Anderson, Indianspoils, vs. Jack Ch es Elkhart, Culver; Urht-heawweizhts. Tea Rounds—Eddie Burl. Jacksonville, Fla., vs. Soldier Doznbrowski, Detroit; feathers. Jack (Chief) Elkhart, who, according to a prominent sports writer, came from a “leading Alabama tribe,’’ is back in ring harness once more, after a year’s layoff due to illness, and his manager, Don Curley, states Jack is “better than ever.” Fort and Armory fans will recall the exciting battles in which Elkhart engaged a few seasons ago. Soldier Dombrowski, who gave Tracy Cox his hardest fight of the season here, has been matched with Eddie Burl, just arrived from Florida and boasting wins over Jackie Rogers, Babe Manela and others. The supporting bouts will be arranged by Saturday, Legion officials state.

Baseball Calendar

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION „ , Won. Lost Pet. Columbus 17 13 .586 St. Paul 15 It .577 Louisville 15 12 .556 Milwaukee 14 14 .590 Minneapolis 14 14 .500 Kansas City 13 15 .464 INDIANAPOLIS 12 17 .414 Toledo rinv--* 12 17 - 414 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct.l ' W L. Pet. philadel. 20 7 .741 Chicago. 12 17 .414 N. York. 18 10 ,643iC1eve.... 12 18 .400 Wntll 19 12 .613 Boston ..11 18 .379 Detroit.. 16 18 .47l!St. Louis 9 17 .346 NATIONAL LEAGUE , W. L. Pct.l W. L. Pet. St. Louis 16 7 .696 Philadel. 13 15 .464 N. York 18 8 .692IPitsburgh 13 16 .448 Boston.. 16 11 .593'Brooklyn 12 17 .414 Chicago. 13 12 .oSOlCincy.... 6 21 .222 Games Today AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INDIANAPOLIS at Toledo. Louisville at Columbus: will be played in double-header Sunday. Milwaukee at St. Paul. Kansas City at Minenapoll*. AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit at St. Louis. ' Chicago at Cleveland. (Only games scheduled.) NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn at Philadelphia (two games). (Only games scheduled.) Results Yesterday AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Kansas City 000 001 101— 3 13 0 Minneapolis 040 000 00*— 4 5 3 Haukins. Sanders. Sheehan and Peters; Henry and Griffin. Louisville ......... 012 010 020— 6 10 3 Columbus 201 500 00*— 8 11 4 Walsh. Williams, penner and Thompson; Ash and Hinkle. Milwaukee at St. Paul. cold. AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington 102 000 100— 4 7 0 Chicago 001 000 001— 2 5 2 Hadley Marberry and Spencer; Thomas. McKain and Tate. Boston ’. 000 610 000— 1 4 2 St. Louis 000 001 10*— 2 7 2 aad Bary: cona ° iiy - Philadelphia 200 012 232—12 18 l Detroit 100 001 300— 5 14 1 R-unmen. Mahaffev. Walberg and Coehra a; Bridges. Suhivan. Herring. Sorrell ana Schang. Hayworth. NewYork ......... 220 002 100— 7 IS 1 Cleveland 103 110 000— 6 12 3 Gomes. Sherid and Dickey; Hudlin. Miller and SeweU. Magate. NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati at New York. rain. St. Louis at Brooklyn, rain. Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, rain. Chicago at Boston, rain.

Major Leaders

Following averages, compiled by United Press, include games Diayed Thursday, May 21: LEADING HITTERS Player and Club G AB R H Pet. Simmons. Athletics.. 27 no 28 48 .436 Ruth. Yankees 21 72 24 29 .403 Fothereill. White Sox 17 63 6 25 .397 Cochrane. Athletics.. 27 lie 25 42 .382 Roetteer. Reds 24 100 9 38 .380 HOME RUNS Arlett. Phillies..., 9jCochrane. Athletics 6 Klein. Phillies.... 81 Hornsby. Cubs..., 6 Simmons. Athletics B;Bluege. Senators.. 6 Gebris. Yankees.. 71 RUNS BATTED IN Simmon*. Athlet’s 34 Arlett. Phillies... 29 Gehrig. Yankees. 32;Averill. Indians.. 28 Cronin. Senators. 32i

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