Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 July 1931 — Page 9

JULY 1, 1931

MACKS, CARDS GAIN

Champions Add Points Make Sure of Positions on July 4; Blaeholder in Top Form. BY LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Stall Correspondent NEW YORK, July I.—The Philadelphia Athletics and the St. Loris Cardinals once more are building up comfortable margins of leadership in the major league pennant races. The Athletics and Cardinals, whose pace-setting positions in the American and National Leagues, respectively, were threatened a few days a*o by Washington and New York, t today enjoyed a three and one-haW game advantage over the second-place clubs. That Old Saying That lead means that both Philadelphia and St. Louis are sure of holding the leadership when July 4 rolls around. And it’s an old saying in baseball, even though it doesn’t always pan out, that the team holding the lead on July 4, goes through to win the pennant. Both teams Tuesday assured themselves of leading their respective circuits at least until the games of July 4 are played, the Athletics by defeating Cleveland, 11 to 7, and the Cardinals by beating out New York, 11 to 10. George Eamshaw, although he allowed twelve hits, had little trouble in registering his thirteenth victory of the season as his mates pounded Brown and Lawson. Allen Cleans Sacks The Cardinals-Giants encounter was a free-hitting affair, with three St. Louis players and two Giant batters poling home runs. One of the New York homers was made by Allen, a pinch hitter, with the bases loaded. George Blaeholder of the St. 'xmis Browns turned in the best lurling performance of the day yhen he shut out the Washington senators, 7 to 0. Blaeholder allowed '■inly two hits. Goose Goslin was j,ne big gun in the St. Louis attack in Fischer and Burke, getting four alts in five times at bat. . The Detroit Tigers went eleven Innings before thev nosed out New York. 8 to 7. The Yankees scored two runs in the first pt the eleventh after Lou Gehrig's nineteenth home run of the season had tied .he score In the ninth, but the Tigers came jack to score three runs on five singles, a base on balls and a sacrifice. Boston defeated Chicago. 7 to 1. in the other American League contest. MacFay‘■den allowed the White Sox only six hits. Manager Rogers Hornsby’s hitting featired Chicago’s 14 to 3 victory over the p.’hiladelphia Phillies. Hornsby hit two ,iome runs and a single to account for seven ol the Cub tallies. The Cincinnati Reds backed the pltch<lng of Prev and Benton with fourteen hits ■to defeat the Brookly Robins. 4to 3. Frey held the unoer hand until the eighth ingoing when Benton replaced him to cut short a Brooklyn rally. Boston defeated Pittsburgh. 5 to 1. behind the five-hit hurling of Fred Frankthouse. Moore’s home run with two mates .on base in the first inning brought about ‘the downfall of Brame. <■—

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RUTH’S LESSONS—No. 11 NEVER SLIDE INTO BASE HEAD FIRST BY BABE RUTH THIS lesson deals with base sliding and what is to be avoided In sliding into a base. There are things to be avoided. I admit, in sliding into a base feet first, but the greatest danger is met in these head-on slides.

Never slide into a base head firs You may say that a player is in danger of being stepped on with spikes if he slides feet first. That is true. But the feet are protected to some extent, while the hands and arms and head are usually bare in such a slide. Then again anybody would prefer a cut on the leg on or foot to the hands or head. The proper way to go Into a base is to throw oneself feet first and in such a fashion as to land on the side of the leg between the knee and hip. Most players strike close to the thigh when they slide into a base and ride into the bag with their weight well balanced. Sliding pads are worn on the thigh and these prevent what we call “sliders” or a chafing of the skin where the uniform is forced against the bare leg. There are dangers, of course, In the feet-first style of sliding. Occasionally you read of a player breaking an ankle. This sometimes happens when a player starts to make a slide and then tries to stop himself for some reason or other. That is a danger that must be avoided. Once you start to slide into a base, go right through with it whether the ball is far away or the play is close. Don’t stop in the middle of a slide. Have your legs relaxed when you throw yourself toward a base feet first and there is less chance of injury than if you hold them too stiff. Another danger is that of throwing the arm under the body to break the fall. Invariably this practice results in a strain of the wrist which is called upon to bear the weight of the body as it is nearing the ground. When the slide is made properly, the hands have no part in it, either to break the force of the body hitting the ground, or for any other reason. Some players throw their hands above the heads as they throw their feet toward a base. Then there is no tendency to fall on them. When the player strikes the ground with the upper leg and

City Rivals Will Clash Under Lights Thursday

The Dady A. C.s and the Y. M. S. nines will clash at Washington park Thursday night under the arcs at 8 o’clock. The A. C.s have a record of seven games won and none lost. Reb Russell or Russ Paugh will be on the hill for the Dady’s and Reno or Dean will do the chucking for the y. M. S. Probable lineups: dady t. m. s. Dalv. 2b Huesing, cf Flora, 3b Shaffer. 3b Kelly, c Booz. 3b H. Dady. lb Schott, lb Smith, ss Bauer, rs Peck, cf Field. If Hoff a. If Borrough. ss C. Dady. rs Mueller, c Russel or Paugh. p Reno or Dean, p

thigh, there Is no occasion to break the fall. This is the natural way of sliding along the ground after running. Do not think that sliding Is easy for everybody. Some players never become good base sliders, and others pick it up quickly. The best way to learn is on soft ground or sand. Some managers have sliding pits of sand at the training camps and players get the knack of throwing themselves on the ground and sliding into a base. Then it is easy on a big league diamond as the base paths generally are soft enough until late summer when they often became dry and hard. Until a boy has had an opportunity to practice sliding under a competent coach or instructor, it is a good idea to go easy. Base sliding on the average back lot diamond is something that I would not particularly advise. It is a dangerous practice unless properly taught. (Copyright. 1931. by The Christy Walsh Syndicate and The Times! frolic" for middies Navy Boys Will Get Four Trips This Fall. By United Press ANNAPOLIS, Mo, July I.—The naval academy’s regiment of midshipmen will attend four of Navy’s away-from-home football games during the 1931 season. The games include the Maryland game at Washington, Oct. 10; the Princeton game, Oct. 24; the Notre Dame game at Baltimore, Nov. 24, and the Pennsylvania game at Philadelphia, Dec. 5.

Off-Season Bowling News

Mrs. Floretta D. McCutcheon of Pueblo. Colo., rated the greatest woman bowler, has returned to her Colorado home for the summer after an active year of exhibition work. Mrs. McCutcheon. In addition to her wonderful bowline, has proved to be a very capable Instructor. She has helped to develop many new bowlers among the women. The first national bowling tournament of the American Legion will be held in connection with the national convention In Detroit In September. The committee intends to schedule all Detroit teams, as well as those within a radius of 100 miles of Detroit, during the convention which will run from Sept. 5 to 23. Detroit bowling leaders have started work for the 1932 American Bowling Congress tournament, which will be held In Detroit next spring. Members of the Detroit Bowling Proprietors’ Association held a booster meeting a short time ago and representatives of the leading bowling organizations In Detroit were in attendance. Detroit hopes to break the team-entry mark of 2.639. which was established at the A. 3? C. In Buffalo last March and April.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SCHOOL BUDGET APPEALS LOOM AS CERTAINTY Board, Tatting Itself on Back/ Ignores Pleas •for Delays. Appeals to the state tax board from the 1931-32 Indianapolis school budget appeared almost certain today, due to insistency of the school board in proceeding with the budget adoption in the face of pleas for delay that hearings might be held. Ignoring the request of Harry Miesse, secretary of the Indiana Taxpayers’ Association, that his organization be given some time to study tire budget, the school board adopted the $7,459,546 appropriation measure in a self-laudatory resolution. Miesse Makes Plea Miesse told the board that he had not had an opportunity “to look over this budget and I would like to examine it, item by item, with the board. I am not sure about the procedure here. I don’t know whether the budget has been drafted under the old school law or the new law.” Russell Willson, board president, replied that “the budget had been here all the time. You could have come over any time you wished and obtained any information you wanted.” “I couldn’t possibly have gone over this budget in ten days,” Miesse replied. Resolution Is Adopted Willson declared that Miesse was welcome to examine the budget, but as soon as the taxpayers’ association secretary left, board member Merle Sidener offered a self-laudatory resolution, which was adopted with relish, and the budget was hurried through. “We considered the 1929 election a mandate that the schools were to be conducted on an efficient, a businesslike and a high professional plane, and that the only consideration which should enter into our decisions would be the welfare of the school children of this city,” said the resolution. “This has been the case. We are not unmindful of the financial stress through which we are passing and of the necessity for keeping government cost at the minimum consistent with real and not false economy. “Painstaking Study** “The budget for 1931-32 was prepared with these considerations in mind. For nearly six months the officers of the board have worked on the budget for the coming school year, and after the most painstaking study have presented to us a budget of $7,459,546, of which $403,335 is for the operation of the library, $61,200 for the operation of the free kindergartens and $14,000 contributed to the Art association and the Chidren’s Museum, and leaving a total of $6,981,011 for the operation of the schools. “We believe that this budget, whiGh we have all so carefully studied, is just, fair and the minimum amount with which the schools can be operated wi;h any degree of I efficiency.”

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BY BEN STERN WITH apologies to the late lamented Mr. Aesop, let us essay this little fable of the boy who had a nice big chair. Once upon a time in a land not a chew of tobacco distance from Indianapolis there lived a little chap who dearly coveted a nice, big comfortable chair, which he had seen owned by others. He tried once to get it and failed and then tried again and, through fortuitous circumstances, he won the chair. It was a nice, big roomy one, giving the owner much authority and bearing upon it the state seal and the monogram, “S. 5.,” which some say meant “secretary of state.” From all appearance the chair could be his for some time. All his playmates who had helped him get it, and many others who had not, patted the little boy on the back, praised him and boasted how worthy he was to fill the chair. u a a Some time later these same friends, a few of whom stole into the chair to try its comfort when the little boys was away, told him there was a much finer chair in existence, bearing a larger seal and the morlogram “G,” which, it is also said, represented the word Governor. They told the little boy that he should be the one to possess this finer chair, describing in detail to him its peculiar softness and the fact its possession would make him the envy and admiration of all, and he would rank among the few powerful in the entire land. So continuously did they din the praises of this fine chair in his ears that the little chap could not sleep at night for dreaming of it. Desire for this other chair so preyed upon him that he felt his entire happiness was tied up in it. One day while being carried in his own chair upon the shoulders of his friends, both old and new, he saw resplendent in the glory of great lights the other chair. - nan With a shriek of delight he sprang out of the chair safely his and ran toward the beautiful one before him. Without stopping to halt, he ran on and on to the wondrous chair, which seemed always within arm's reach. No matter how fast he ran, he just could not put his hands upon it. . Weary and footsore, the little boy turned his step backward to where he had abandoned the other chair presented by the people, which could have been his for some time. Just as he rounded the top of a hill overlooking the spot where he had deserted it, he saw one of his playmates climb into it to be triumphantly borne away. And as for the moral, for, willy nilly, all fables must have a moral —why just ask Frank Mayr Jr., Bob Codd, Ruddy Ackerman, Chester Montgomery or Jim Carpenter.

EI6HT HURT ON CROWDED CITY STREETUOADS Crashes Increase as Heat Sufferers Seek Relief on Highways, Eight persons were injured, two seriously, late Tuesday in a series of automobile smashups on streets and roads near the city that were jammed with persons seeking relief from the heat. Losing control of his car on State Road 67 at Harmon Hill, Paul Grant, North Wallace street, was hurt critically when the automobile crashed into a tree and overturned into a ditch. His right arm was severed and he sustained severe cuts and bruises. When the auto in which she was

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riding collided with another at Twenty-ninth street and Capitol avenue, Mrs. R. S. Dyson, 46, of 2621 Central avenue, sustained a fractured hip and internal Injuries. She was taken to St. Vincent’s hospital. The other car was driven by Harold Thompson. 43, of 653 Eugene street. Attempting to avoid striking an 8-year-old boy, Ray Birch, 38, of 2514 East North street, wrecked his truck against the curb in the 800 block, South West street. Eugene Snowden, 817 V South West street, the boy who ran into the path of the truck, was knocked to the pavement, suffering head and shoulder injuries. Police today sought the hit-and-run Negro driver of the utility truck who struck Willis Coon, 47, of 602 North Alabama street, as he crossed North Illinois street in the 1100 block. The truck was lost to pursuers five blocks from the accident. Others injured were Dorothy, 3, and Marie Curtis, 6, of 223 North Noble street, cuts and bruises, and Miss Nellie Wade, 22, of 1125 Madison avenue, bruises.

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JUDGE PONDERS GASSUIT PLEA Receivership Petition Taken Under Advisement. Petition for a receiver for the Citizens Gas Company was taken under advisement today by Judge Clarence E. Weir after a hearing in superior court 4 Tuesday afternoon. Judge Weir has announced he will make an early decision in the case, filed by Allen G. Williams, Indianapolis taxpayer, against the Citizens Gas Company, city of Indianapolis and Indianapolis Gas Company. The city and gas companies are demanding that the court strike out all main allegations of the complaint, which ask that a contract between the two gas companies be relitigated. Judge Weir also was asked to rule on the court's jurisdiction.