Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1931 — Page 11

MAY, 25, 1931.

HACK WILSON BENCHED BY ‘RAJAH’

Cub Star in Slump Johnny Moore, Rookie From Coast, Takes Homer King’s Place. BY GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, May 25.—Hack Wilson, major league home run leader last season and one of the highest paid players in the National League, has been removed from the Chicago Cubs lineup by Manager Rogers Hornsby, Batting only .266 as compared to .356 a year ago, Wilson’s slump has been one of the principal reasons the recent decline of the Cubs. During the recent eastern invasion, Hornsby considered taking Wilson out of the lineup, but it was not until Sunday against Pittsburgh that he actually benched the Cubs’ outfielder. Lost Eight Out of Ten Hornsby would not say how long he planned to k3ep Wilson on the bench, but it may be for several days. Johnny Moore, Los Angeles rookie, who is batting .230, has been shifted to Wilson’s former place in center field with Riggs Stephenson playing left field, where Wilson has played a few games recently. The Cubs have dropped eight of their last ten games, and today were In fifth place with a percentage of .481, five and a half games from the top. The plight of the Cubs has not thrown Manager Hornsby into a panic, but he has ordered morning practice at home and on the road in trying to shake off the recent slump. Ragged pitching cost the Cubs’ Sunday game. Cubs Need Work "We need work badly,” said Hornsby, “especially our pitchers. The many layoffs we had in the east have thrown our whole team off form.” The benching* of Wilson, whose salary is said to be $35,000 a season, did not bring the wrath of the rabid Cubs’ fans down on Hornsby as severely as many would have imagined. Hornsby was roundly cheered every time he appeared at bat Sunday, and he did everything he could to keep his team from losing with his seventh home run of the season and two singles in four times at bat. BILL TILDEN WINNER B’i Timex Spccinl HARTFORD. Conn.. May 25.—8i1l Tilden again proved his superiority over Karel Kozeluh, Czecho pro tennis star, here Sunday, winning 10-8, 8-6, 5-7, 9-6.

Baseball Calendar

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Won. Lost. Pet. St. Paul IK 11 .6"! Colombo* 19 13 .•'>94 Louisville IK It .533 Minneapolis 15 IK .4K4 Milwaukee 15 16 .484 Kansas City 14 <4 .132 INDI ANATOLIS IS 18 .419 Toledo 13 18 .419 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet.| W. L. Pet. Phtladei. 22 7 .759 Chicago.. 14 18 .438 N. York 19 11 ,633|st. Louis 12 18 .400 Wash. ..20 13 .fiOSlCleve 13 20 .394 Detroit . 17 21 .447|Boston .. 11 20 .355 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet.l W. L. Pet. Pt. Louis 18 8 .692 Chicago.. 13 14 .481 N. York. 10 9 .679 Pliiladel.. 15 18 .455 Boston . 17 12 .586 Brooklyn 15 19 .441 Pittsbgh 15 16 .484ICtncy ... 1 23 .233 Games Today AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INIHANAPOUS at Columbus. Louisville at Toledo. Kansas City at St. Paul. Milwaukee at Minneapolis. AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago at Cleveland. , . ~ Detroit at St. Louis; played In doubleheader Sunday. Washington at Boston. New York at Philadelphia (two games). NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh at Chicago St- Louis at Cincinnati; will be played tt later date. ..... (Only games scheduled.) Results Yesterday AMERICAN ASSOCIATION (First Game) Louisville 900 000 021— 3 4 1 Columbus 200 101 20x—- 610 0 Penner and Thompson; Campbell and Hinkle. (Second Game) Louisville 900 243 000 — 918 2 Columbus 000 030 310— 710 3 Williams, Welland and Shea, Thompson: Wetherell, Winters. Dean. Boker, Chapman and Desautcls. Kansas City 001 091 009— 2 8 1 6t. Paul 001 000 aix— 412 2 Holley and Peters; Murphy and Snyder. Milwaukee ........ 020 201 010 — 6IS 1 Minneapolis 000 000 100— 1 8 2 Knott and Manion; Morgan, McCullough, Dumont and McMullen. Griffin. AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia Si® H? 5 New York 000 002 01(b 3 11 0 Walters and Cochrane; Ruffing, Pipgras, Weinert and Dickey. Boston 013 001 004— 9 11 1 Washington HO 212 03x —10 11 1 MacFavden, Moore and Connolly; Crowder. Hadley. Jones and Spencer. (First game) . „ „ Chicago 101 000 020 —■ 4 9 0 Cleveland 002 000 010 —• 312 1 Lyons and Grube; Brown and Myatt. (Second game) Chicago 1-0 000 000— 310 1 Cleveland 011 000 000— 2 5 2 Caraway and Tate: Thomas and Spring. (First came) . . ‘ Detroit 300 000 00(4 3 6 1 6L Louis 112 022 02x—10 14 1 Sorrell. Henning and Hayworth: Stewart and Ferrell. (Second game) . _ l Detroit 001 011 000— 3 8 3 6t. Louis 000 100 000 — 1 7 3 Bridges and Schang; Coffman, Kimsey and Ferrell. NATIONAL LEAGUE (First Game* , _ New York 231 010 004—10 14 0 Boston 003 000 121— 7 15 2 Mitchell. Hevlng and O'Farrell; Scibold, gherdel, McAlee and Spohrer. (Second Game) (Six Innings, Sunday Law) New York 000 000 — 0 4 1 Boston 020 000— 2 8 2 Fitzsimmons and Hogan; Brandt and Cronin.

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McLarnin-Petrolle Winner Offered Chance at Crown

BY DIXON STEWART United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, May 25.—With two ball parks available for outdoor boxing shows and not a single attractive match in sight, Madison Square Garden officials are hoping that Wednesday’s return bout between Jimmy McLarnin and Billy Petrolle will produce a winner worthy of receiving a championship chance in the opening show of the 1931 summer program. The Petrolle - McLarnin match will close the indoor season at the Garden—a season which was none too profitable—and unless one of the participants scores a decisive victory the Garden’s expensive option for exclusive use of the Polo

(First Game) St. Louis 000 001 010— 2 6 1 Cincinnati 020 000 Olx— 3 11 0 Grimes and Mancuso, Wilson; Si. Johnson and Sukefortlu (Second Game) St. Louis 300 103 510—13 14 3 Cincinnati 001 000 005— 6 11 0 Haines and Wilson; Kolp, Strelecki, Eckert, Wysong and Asby. (Ten Innings) Philadelphia 100 000 400 0— 5 13 0 Brooklyn ..........111 000 002 1— 6 13 1 Dudley. Stoner. Benge and Rensa, Davis; Phelps, -Luque and Lopez. - Pittsburgh ......... 031’ 302 100—10 15 2 Chieago 101 032 OOO— 7 14 1 Brame, Spencer and Phillips; Root. May, Bush. Teachout. Blake and Hartnett.

Six State Records Fall as Froebel Wins Track Title

Froebel and Gary track stars today started their fourth consecutive year as champions of Indiana high school track and field events. The Steel City athletes, holders of the national crown, piled up 39.6 points to win the honors Saturday at Butler oval, Kokomo was second with 28, followed by Tech of Indianapolis with 23. Abrams, lanky Negro hurdler, led the title winners with two recordbreaking performances. He shattered the marks he established last

Major Leaders

Following averages, compiled by United Press, include games played Sunday, May 24: LEADING HITTERS G. AB. R. H. Fct. Simmons, Athletics.. .29 118 29 51 .432 Ruth. Yankees 23 77 26 31 .403 Cochrane. Athletics ..29 118 27 45 .381 Goslin, Browns 26 96 17 36 .376 Fotherglll, White 50x.20 74 6 37 .365 HOME RUNS Arlett, Phillies....lOlGehrig, Yankees... 7 Klein. Phillies 9! Hornsby, Cubs 7 Simmons, Athletics BiHerman, Robins .. 7 RUNS BATTED IN Cronin, Senators. .36| Gehrig, Yankees... 33 Arlett. Phillies .. .35; Averin. Indians ...33 Simmons. Athlet’s 34| JONES, LAWLESS CLASH By United Press CHICAGO, May 25.—Bucky Lawless. Syracuse welterweight, will meet Gorilla Jones, Akron (O.) Negro, in a ten-round bout on the Chicago stadium’s final indoor boxing program of the season tonight. Jones holds a knockout over Lawless, who recently defeated welterweight champion Jack Thompson in a non-title bout here. Two Chicago lightweights, Ray Miller and Danny Delmont, will meet in another ten-rounder.

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Grounds and Yankee stadium may prove a white elephant. From a business standpoint, a McLarnin victory would be best for the Garden and Jimmy already has been established as an 8 to 5 favorite to defeat Petrolle, who in a previous meeting gave the coast fighter the worst drubbing of his career. Unless McLarnin can defeat Petrolle, and do it impressively, he will lose prestige as a welterweight title contender and can not be used in the proposed title bout against Jack Thompson, with which the Garden hopes to open the outdoor season next month. McLarnin is a great drawing card in New York, and probably the only fighter available foir a money-making bout with Thompson. Petrolle, a natural lightweight, has been promised a title match with lightweight champion Tony Canzoneri in event he repeats his victory over McLarnin and also might be used against Thompson. AMERICAN GIRL WINS By United Press TURIN, Italy, May 25.—Miss Loretta Turnbull, 18-year-old Monrovia (Cal.) schoolgirl, defeated Europe’s best outboard motor pilots Sunday to win the final heat of the twenty-five-mile feature race in the grand concourse regatta on the river Pof.

year in both the high and low stick* with 15.4 in the former and 24.5 in the latter. Scott of Froebel leaped to anew broad jump record with a 22 feet 7inch performance, and Babb cleared 12 feet 7 inches for a high jump record. Elser of Horace Mann (Gary), put the shot 52 feet 11% inches to raise the record and Bolding of Bedford turned in the sixth new mark with a 4:28.5 in the mile run. Several other records stood up by scant margins.

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Yankees Oppose A’s in Five-Contest Series Champions Hope to Prolong 15-Game Winning Streak and Eliminate M’Carthy’s Team From American League Title Chance. BY LEO H. PETERSON United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, May 25.—Manager Joe McCarthy led his New York Yankees to Philadelphia today for a five-game series against the world champion Athletics, which will go a long way toward deciding the 1931 American League pennant race. The Athletics, riding on the crest of a fifteen-game winning streak, have visions of a clean sweep over their most dangerous rivals, and if this ambition is realized the Yankees will be virtually out of the fighting. Connie Mack’s team now is running like a well-oiled machine and has not lost a game since May 4. With the pitching staff of Grove, Earnshaw, Walberg and Rommel in top form and the hitters setting a fast pace, the A’s believe they have an excellent chance of equaling the American League record of nineteen consecutive victories estabiishd by Chicago in 1906 and the major league record of twenty-six in a row made by the New York Giants in 1916.

New York’s initial attempt to shatter the Philadelphia winning streak failed, when the Yankees dropped a 7 to 3 game to the Athletics at Yankee stadium Sunday. Rube Walberg allowed eleven hits, including homers by Babe Ruth and Chapman, but was effective in the pinches, while his mates bunched their ten safeties off Ruffing, Pipgras and Weinert for seven tallies. Nats Drop Red Sox Washington’s Senators kept pace with the Athletics and advanced to within hlalf-a-game of the second place Yankees, by defeating Boston, 10 to 9. Boston threatened in the ninth, scoring four runs and putting the tying counter on base, but “Sad Sam” Jones went into the game and retired the side. The Cleveland Indians, who broke a twelve-game losing streak by defeating Chicago Saturday, were unable to repeat and dropped a dou-ble-header to the White Sox, 4 to 3 and 3 to 2. Ted Lyons, Sox pitcher, won the first game by singling with the base filled in the eighth, and Pat Caraway held the Indians to five hits in the nightcap. Detroit ran its losing streak to eight games by dropping the first game of a double-header to St.' Louis, 10 to 3, but came back to take the second contest, 3 to 1. Cards, Giants in Near Tie St. Louis and New York remained in a near tie for first place in the National League, the Cards dividing a double-header with Cincinnati and New York breaking even in two games with Boston. St. Louis still holds a .013 advantage in the percentage column. Cincinnati’s 3-to-2 victory over St. Louis In the opening game, saw Burleigh Grimes taking his first defeat of the season. The Reds pounded Grimes for eleven hits, while Silas Johnson was holding the champions to six. St. Louis slammed out 14 hits in the second game and Jess Haines coasted to a 13-to-6 triumph. Clarence Mitchell, veteran southpaw, hung up his fifth triumph of the season to give New York a 10 to 7 victory over Boston, but the Braves tok the second game, 2 to 0, in six innings, with Ed Brandt registering his seventh victory. Pittsburgh made it two in a row over Chicago, 10 to 7. and moved

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into fourth place with the Cubs dropping to fifth. Gilbert’s double and Finn’s single in the tenth inning gave the Brooklyn Robins a ten-inning decision over the Phillies, 6 to 5.

U. S. Cuppers Trip Canada MONTREAL, May 25. —Having shattered Canada’s hope of international tennis success, the United States Davis cup team was en route today for Washington, D. C., to meet. Argentina in the American zone finals, May 28, 29 and 30. The United States players qualified for the series by defeating Canada, four matches to one, in the North American finals. The Argen-tina-United States winner will advance to the inter-zone finals to determine an opponent for France in the challenge round. LOCAL CLUB VICTOR Indianapolis Turnverein won the men's team event on the Indiana district A. G. U. tournament held at South Side Turners over the weke-end, scoring 79.9 points. The Indianapolis Turnverein women also won with 46.8 points.

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LIVES PAID RY TWO IN CHAIR FORSLAYINGS Convicted of Killing Four Pay Roll Guards in Pennsylvania. By United Press BELLEFONTE. Pa.. May 25.—Two men, convicted of killing four pay roll guards by dynamiting a mine pay car in Luzerne county, were electrocuted today at Rockview penitentiary. The men were Sigismund (Big Joe) Szachewiczs, Wilkesbarre, and John <Tex) Nafus. Plymouth township, Luzerne county. HOOVER DOG MUST GO First Lady to Dispose of Wolfhound Which Bit Guard at Camp. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 25. —Mrs. Herbert Hoover is planning to dispose of her large Irish wolfhound. Shamrock, following an incident at Camp Rapidan over the week-end in which a marine guard was bitten, but not seriously wounded.

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