Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 14, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1931 — Page 15

MAY 27, 1931

GIANTS, CARDS WAGE TORRID BATTLE FOR LEAD

Yankees Snap 17-Game Winning Streak of A’s Gomez Checks Mackmen; Schulmerich’s Two Hits Ruin No-Hit Hopes of Hubbeil, McGraw Slabman; St. Louis Holds Slight Point Edge. BY LEO H. PETERSON United Pres* Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, May 27.—The struggle between St. Louis and New York for first place in the National League, overshadowed for a time by the winning streak of the Philadelphia Athletics, continued today with the 1930 pennant winners holding a margin of .004 percentage points. Actually, however, the Giants are half a game ahead of St. Louis, but because the Cardinals have lost one less contest they have a higher average. New York has won 21 and lost 9 games, while the Cardinals have won 19 while losing 8, for the percentages of .700 and .704, respectively.

New York gained a half a game Tuesday by defeating the third place Boston Braves in both ends of a double-header while St. Louis was winning from Pittsburgh. Carl Hubbeil allowed only two hits In shutting out Boston, 3 to 0, in the first contest, while Bill Walker shut out the Braves in the second game with eight hits, Bto 0. In the first game, Wes Schulmerich, Braves rookie outfielder, got both hits off Hubbeil. Only four men reached first base. Card Rally Wins A six-run rally in the eighth Inning after the Pirates had gone Into the lead, 6 to 5, gave St. Louis a 11-to-9 decision over Pittsburgh. The Pirates came back for three more runs in the ninth, but fell short of victory. Chicago advanced to within a half a game of Boston by taking a double-header from Cincinnati, 7 to 2 and 9 to 6. Smith held the Reds to eight hits in the first game while splendid relief pitching by Charlie Root enabled the Cubs to win the second. Root relieved Ed Baecht in the fourth after the Reds had tied the score and allowed but two hits during the remainder of the game. Jim Elliott of Philadelphia defeated his old teammates, the Brooklyn Robins, for the fourth time this season, 8 to 4. Only two of the Phillies’ runs were earned, the others being due to errors by Finn and Thompson. The victory enabled Philadelphia to take fifth place, a half a game ahead of Pittsburgh. Ruth Clouts Seventh Lefty Gomez and the New York Yankees finally broke the winning streak of the Philadelphia Athletics after it had extended to seventeen straight games, 6 to 2. It was the longest winning streak recorded in the major leagues since 1916. Gomez held the Athletics to seven hits while his mates collected ten, including Babe Ruth’s seventh home run of the season, off three Philadelphia hurlers. The victory enabled the Yankees to take second place, four and a half games behind the Athletics. Washington’s 6 to 4 defeat at the hands of Boston shoved the Senators down to third place. Jack Russell registered his third consecutive triumph over Washington, while Jones, Senators hurler, was touched for thirteen hits. Cleveland Bags Two Cleveland took a double header from St. Louis, 12 to 0 and 4 to 2. Miller allowed only seven hits in the first contest while in the second Harder yielded but six blows as his mates were bunching the nine hits allowed by Collins and Kimsey. George Uhle pitched and batted the Detroit Tigers to a 4 to 2 triumph over Chicago. His home run in the fourth inning with a mate on base gave Detroit the winning margin. The veteran Red Faber started for the White Sox but gave way to Braxton in the fifth.

Other Tuesday Scraps

BY UNITED PRESS AT NEW YORK—Billy Wallace, I58V ? , New York, outpointed Joe Vega, 161*4, Spain, (6); Artie Murphy. 127, Providence, knocked out Joe Freno. 13014. New York. (3). AT NEW YORK—Rav Mevers, 130. Yorkville, won from Frank Marchez, 128'.2. New York. (81: Fredde Lattanzlo. 115. New York, drew with Johnny Ladao. 11414. Phillip Dines. (6). AT NEWARK. N. J—Jimmy McNamara, 139. New York, defeated Benny Levine. 140, Newark, (10). AT PORTLAND. ME.—Art Giroux, Canadian bantamweight, rallied after a thirdround knockdown to shade Marty Gold of Philadelphia In twelve rounds. AT NEWARK, N. J.—Sammy Baker of New \ ork was stopped in the sixth round by Young Terry. Trenton (N. J.) middleweight. AT BOSTON—Marty Gallagher. Washington. won from Gene Stanton, Cleveland (10). A1 Morrow. Los Angeles, won from Mike Mandell, St. Paul (4). AT LOS ANGELES—Battling Dozier. San Francisco welter, had little difficulty in winning a ten-round decision over George Kerwln of Chicago. Jim Jeffries, former heavyweight champion, refereed. An interesting sidelight was the appearance of Jack Johnson, the Negro heavy who conouered Jeffries in the memorable title battle in Reno in 1910. The old rivals shook hands in the ring. IRA HALL AT" FUNK'S By Th*ra Special WINCHESTER, Ind., May 27. A list of prominent drivers, headed by Ira Hall of Terre Haute, will compete in the five events at the fast Funk's Speedway dirt oval Saturday. In addition to attractive purses, an additional prize is being offered for the driver who breaks the onehalf mile record of :23 4-5 seconds set here last year by Hall. The first race will start at 2:15 p. m. „ TUESDAY COLLEGE SCORES Chicago. 10; Michigan State, 9. Pennsylvania. 10, Lafayette, 6. Yale, 10; Hftsei Japant. 2. Michigan. 7: Ohio State 3 Indiana State. 5; Ball State, I Notre Dame. 10; Purdue, 7. Wabash. 4; De Pauw. 1.

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Baseball Calendar

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION W. L. Pet. St. Pan! .. 18 13 .581 Collimbus 18 I* **‘B Louisville 17 lo .531 Milwaukee 17 16 -015 Kansas City 18 1* <BS Minneapolis J* iS INDIANAPOLIS 1* lg .433 Toledo 14 19 -121 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet.| W. L. Pet. Phila... 24 8 .750,C1eve1... 16 20 .444 New Yk. 20 13 ,606bhlcano.. 14 20 .412 Wash... 20 14 .588 St. Louis 12 20 .375 Detroit. 18 21 .462:805t0n.. 12 20 .3.5 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet.l W. L. Pet. St Louis 19 8 .704 Phila 16 18 .471 New Yk. 21 9 .700;Pittsbgh.. 15 18 .455 Boston.. 17 14 .549 Brklyn... 15 20 .429 Chicago. 16 14 .533 Clncln... 7 25 .219 Games Today AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INDIANAPOLIS at Columbus. Louisville at Toledo. Milwaukee at Minneapolis. Kansas City at St. Paul. AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit at Chicago (two games). St. Louis at Cleveland. , New York at Philadelphia. Washington at Boston (two games). NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston at New York. Pittsburgh at St. Louis. Chicago at Cincinnati. Only games scheduled. Results Yesterday AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Milwaukee 000 120 021— 6 12 0 Minneapolis 000 110 100— 3 6 1 CaldweU and Manion; Benton and Hargrave. Kansas City .... 000 303 000 2 8 13 2 St. Paul 000 010 050 1— 7 9 1 Bayne, Swift and Peters; Bream, Munns and Snyder. AMERICAN LEAGUE (First Game) St. Louis 000 000 000— 0 7 2 Cleveland 510 010 23-—l2 12 1 Blaeholder, Stiles. Stlely and R. Ferrell. Crouch; Miller and Myatt. (Second Game) St. Louis 020 000 000— 2 6 2 Cleveland 020 020 00*— 4 2 2 Collins. Kimsey and R. FerreU; Harder and Myatt. New York 030 002 010— 6 10 0 Philadelphia 001 000 001— 2 7 1 Gomez and Dickey; Rommel. McDonald. Shores and Cochrane. Washington 000 002 110— 4 13 2 Boston 100 120 02*— 6 10 1 Jones and Spencer: Russell and RueL Detroit 000 030 001— 4 11 3 Chicago 100 000 010— 2 11 0 Uhle and Hayworth; Faber. Braxton and Tate.

Double Windup Set

A double windup of two finish matches has been arranged by Promoter Carl Singleton for the opening outdoor wrestling show at Broad Ripple next Monday. Cowboy Bobby Chick of Texas will battle Leo Alexander, South Bend light heavy, in the top half, with Coach Billy Thom of I. U. tackling Leslie Fishbaugh of Newark, 0., in the other two out of three fall event. One other event will be carded to start at 8:30. A price reduction and women admitted free are other features announced by Singleton. RACEif AT RUSHVILLE By Times Special RUSHVILLE, Ind., May 27.—The Tristate Racing Association of Indianapolis has leased the Rushville motor speedway and will stage its first dirt track program of the year on Saturday. Decoration day. There will be three 10-mile races and a 5-mile match dash between the two cars showing the best qualifying time. First event at 2:30 p. m. Prominent pilots of the middle west have entered.

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Schaaf Stops Jim Maloney By United Prett BOSTON, May 27.—Ernie Schaaf, protege of Jack Sharkey, boosted his heavyweight stock at Boston Garden Tuesday with a convincing one-round knockout victory over Jim Maloney. Maloney was counted out afttT one minute and ten seconds of fighting in the first round. Clearly outclassed from the start, Maloney was floored by a flurry of left and right hand punches to the head. PARK BEATS FACULTY Park school varsity trounced the faculty squad in a diamond tilt Tuesday, 20 to 10, in their annual game. Garett hurled for the faculty and F. Cline for the varsity.

NATIONAL LEAGUE (First Game) Chicago 000 102 121— 7 13 2 Cincinnati 100 100 000 —- 2 8 1 R. Smith and Grace: Benton. CarroU and Sukeforth. (Second Game) Chicago - 230 111 010— 9 12 0 Cincinnati T 040 200 000 — 6 7 3 Baecht. Root and Hartnett; Rlxey, Ogden. Eckert and Asby. (First Game) Boston 000 000 000— 0 2 0 New York 002 000 10*— 3 7 0 Zachary. Cunningham and Spohrer; Hubbell and Hogan. (Second Game) Boston ~....! 000 000 000— 0 8 3 New York 220 000 02*— 6 9 1 Cantwell. Haid and Cronin; Walker and O'Farrell. Philadelphia 023 010 002— 8 13 1 Brooklyn 000 010 2dl— 4 7 2 J Elliott and Davis; Shaute. Day. Helmach, Quinn and'Lombardi. Pittsburgh ........ 000 100 053 9 14 S St. LOUIS .......... 021 020 06*—11 13 ? French. Spencer and Phillips; Hallahan. Derringer and Wilson.

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McLarnin Favorite Vancouver Welter Seeks Revenge in Petrolle% Tilt Tonight. By United Prett NEW YORK, May 27.—Jimmy McLarnin, the “baby face” battlei from Vancouver, has an opportunity to avenge one of the worst beatings of his ring career tonight when he meets Billy Petrolle of Fargo, N. D., in a ten round bout at Madison Square Garden. It will mark McLamin’s first fight since he broke his hand last November as Petrolle administered him one of the most decisive beatings in his career. That right hand is back in shape now, McLarnin contends, and with it he hopes to derail “the Fargo Express” tonight. McLarnin will enter the ring a favorite. He has been quoted at odds ranging from 8 to 5 to 6 to 5. The Irishman probably will have a weight advantage of six pounds. He probably will scale 144 and Petrolle 138.

Maj’or Leaders

Following averages, compiled by United Press, include games of Tuesday, May 26: LEADING BATTERS G. AB. R. H. Pet. Simmons, Athletics ...32 130 32 55 .423 Cochrane, Athletics ..32 131 31 52 .397 Ruth, Yankees 26 87 27 34 .391 Arlett. Phillies 35 135 26 51 .378 Averill, Indians 36 151 26 56 .371 HOME RUNS Arlett. Phillies.. lOf Gehrig, Yankees... 7 Klein, Phillies a: Cochrane, Athletics 7 Simmons. Athletics 9 Foxx, Athletics .... 7 Herman, Robins .. 7 Ruth, Yankees 7 Hornsby, Cubs ... 7 RUNS BATTED IN Cronin, Sf—t.ors. Gehrig, Yankees Arlett. Phillies ...371 \verlll, Indians ...35 Simmons, Atmetic.. ..

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Stops ’Em

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A LANKY young southpaw, who Joined the Yankees from the Coast League in 1930, but was unable to stick in the majors, stopped the winning streak of the Philadelphia Athletics at just two games short of tying the American League record. Vernon Gomez, 21-year-old hurler, who finished last season with St. Paul in the A. A., let the world champions down with seven hits as the Yanks snapped the Mackmen’s winning streak at seventeen games Tuesday. The league record of nineteen straight was set by the White Sox in 1906.

WOODWORTH ENTERS RACE By United Prett CHICAGO, May 27—Red Woodworth, former Northwestern football star, who won the recent Albany-to-New York outboard motor boat race, will attempt to win the Milwaukee to Chicago event Saturday.

Four Knockouts Feature Mitt Show, Touchstone Wins

Decision ring scraps which will become effective when the new state boxing commission begins functioning, made their bow to local mitt fans at the final Armory show Tuesday. In the first two bouts, the judges were not called upon for decisions, the scraps ending in knockouts. However, Pat Murphy, Danville lightweight, and Jack Malone, local veteran, battled six rounds and when the two judges and referee got their heads together, they gave the edge to Murphy. Fans, as well as newspaper men, were agreed that Malone had gained a clear decision. There was little opportunity for the judges to wrong In their only other chance to vote during

Old Feud By United Press CINCINNATI, 0., May 27Hack Wilson, Chicago Cubs outfielder, has reopened his old feud with the Cincinnati Reds, which smoldered during the 1930 season. Although riding the bench because of his batting slump, Wilson came out of the dugout during the second game of Tuesday’s double-header and challenged Ed Roush. Roush spiked Charley Grimm and the Cubs’ first baseman charged he did it on purpose. Wilson rushed out to take up the arg- .ment, but quick action by the umpires prevented any trouble. Last year Wilson engaged in fist fights with Ray Kolp and Pete Donohue, both of whom were with the Reds at that time.

the evening. The ten-round route proved too long for Muggs Kerr, the promising young local heavy, and he lost to Benny Touchstone. Kerr tired badly in the ninth and tenth frames after holding the Detroit vet fairly even. Eddie Burl, the Jacksonville. Fla., battler, showed soeed and a healthy wallop In disposing of Soldier Dombrowski, Detroit, in the third round via the technical K. o. route. The Soldier was down nine times. Max Smith stopped Ray Drake In the fourth round in a welter scrap; Johnny Dill stopped Rouahouse Gregory In the third and James Kidd. Nashville (Tenn.) feather, stopped Charlie Rodgers of Elwood In the first. ILLINOIS OUSTS JONES Akron Negro Suspended for Scrap With Lawless. By United Press CHICAGO, May 27. Gorilla Jones, Akron, 0., Negro welterweight, has been suspended for six months by the Illinois State Athletic commission and fined SI,OOO for his “poor showing” against Bucky Lawless, Syracuse, in a bout here Monday night. Lawless won the decision although floored for a count of nine in the fifth round. Jones claimed he injured his hand. LETTS is DIRECTOR By United Press CHICAGO, May 27—Dale Letts, University of Chicago middle distance runner and Big Ten half-mile champion, will manage the national interscholastic track and field championships at Stagg field June 12 and 13, director of athletics, A. A. Stagg announced today. Twentyfive schools from ten states already have entered.

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