Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 126, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1931 — Page 10

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CARDS CONFIDENT AS THEY RENEW TITLE ACTION WITH A’S

Macks Hard to Beat at Home, Ruth Warns St. Louis Has Best Chance to Take World Series of Any National League Club Since 1926, Babe Asserts; Even Break Spurs Birds. BY BABE RUTH PHILADELPHIA, Oct, s.—ls confidence were a sure guarantee of world series success, I think I would have to change right now and agree that this series looks like a sure triumph for the St. Louis Cardinals. 1 don't think I ever saw a ball club so satisfied that it was on its way to victory as those Cardinals were when they arrived In Philadelphia Sunday for the third game of the series. From manager to bat boy they believe in themselves. Perhaps the answer is to be found in the success which they had in peppering Lefty Grove so hard in the first game, and in Hallahan's brilliant form in the .second game. But a big part of the answer is to be found in the fact that they proved themselves at least as good as the yt’s in the first two games. “If we could do those things in those games, why can’t we keep on doing it?” was the way one of the Cardinals expressed it to me this morning.

Card Rookie Under Knife By United Press PHILADELPHIA, Oct. s.—Dr. Herbert M. Goddard performed a minor operation today on Paul Derringer, young pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, who was suffering from nasal abscess. Dr. Goddard said Derringer would be confined to his hotel room for a clay or two. He refused to say whether Derringer would be able to pitch in any of the remaining series games with the Athletics. Gabby Street, manager of the Cardinals, asked Dr. Goddard to do \ls best to have the pitcher ready lr the, Tuesday or Wednesday .4 me. The doctor made no oromises.

Can Take ’Em IT has been fifteen years since Al Feeney was the allwestern center team mate of Knute Rockne and mainspring in Notre Dame victories. But today Al carried two black eyes and a broken nose, part of the 25-0 victory scored by the Irish over Indiana at Bloomington Saturday. Al, regularly on hand at most of the Irish games, was holding one end of the head linesmen chains when Sheeketski made a wide end run. Lyons, big Negro Crimson end made a diving tackle. As they headed for the cinder running track that bounds the gridiron, Feeney attempted to check Sheeketski’s fall. A foot of the little half back whirled in the air and struck the veteran star in the face. Feeney, who is to broadcast this week, rejoices at the fact he is not to be on television.

Runyan Cops Golf Honors D't Timex Special ROCKVILLE CENTER, N. Y., Oct. s.—Paul Runyan, White Plaine (N. Y.) pro, today held the metropolitan professional golf championship. He turned in a brilliant subpar performance here Sunday to thump Gene Sarazen, Great Neck star and tourney medalist, 3 and 1. Runyan togjc a three-hole lead on the first eighteen with a 70 and increased his margin to 5 up on the first afternoon nine when he reached the turn in 31. five strokes tinder par. Sarazen won back three holes, but Runyan ended the match on the seventeenth green with a birdie 2.

Exciting Tilts Are Staged in Local Amateur Leagues

Seven games were played Sunday in the opening round of the EmRoe amateur football leagues, three in the senior division and four in the junior class. The contests were staged on city park fields. Compe-

H. S. Scores Saturday

p Cthedr.l (Indianapolis). 35; SouthWestfleld. 12* Sheridan. 0. Kokomo, 13; Peru 6. Muncte 21; Logansport. 7. New Albany. 6: Columbus, 0. Goshen. 26; Michigan City 6 Newcastle. 7; Huntington. 0. Albion. 111., 12; Boonvllle. 0. Jasper academv, 21; Worthington, 6. Connersvllle, l3: Richmond, 0. I. U. Harriers Picked to Win By Timex Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 5. Indiana university will open its cross-country schedule Oct. 17 with the lowa runners at lowa City. The pchedule includes three conference dual meets and two post-season events. The dates follow: Oct. 17—Iowa at lowa City. Oct. 31—Purdue at Bloomington. Nov. 14—Ohio State at Columbus. Nov. 21—Conference meet at lowa City. Nov. 26—National A. A. U. meet at Ypsilanti. Mich. The Crimson harriers are favored to capture the Conference title again for the fourth straight time.

Series Fans Survive Pliilly Sunday—Hear New Record at Shibe Park

BY H. ALLEN SMITH United Press Stall Correspondent Philadelphia, oct. s.—a large and unanimous sigh was heard at dawn today as a Philadelphia Sunday—one of the most horrible experiences known to human man-kind-faded into history. Perhaps the largest and most sonorous of all the sighs was sighed by Babe Ruth. Mr. Ruth sighed from top to bottom, from bottom to top, from east to west and from

I have been through these world series and there are times when a player can not help having his doubts about winning. This usually happens when you fall behind the other team in the first two or three games. • You know, I was in one series when we did not win a game. These Cardinals lost their first two games in 1928 to the Yankees and in 1930 to the Mackmen. Best Chance Since 1926 Under such conditions a club will keep up a brave front and tell what is going to be done, and also hope to do it. But no ball player can believe that it is easy to win four out of five games, as is necessary to take a series, if a team drops' the first two. The Cardinals of 1926 broke even in the first two games with the Yankees, and they won that series. Here are the 1931 Cards, also with an even break to spur them on. It is so different from their status after the first two games of the 1928 and 1930 series that the entire morale spells confidence. They figure they can do to the A’s this year what Hornsby's Cardinals did to the 1926 Yankees. And I believe this Cardinal team has a better chance to win than any National League team has had since 1926. The next three days, however, are likely to be tough ones for trfe Cardinals. The A's will be playing at home, and that gives them a tremendous advantage. Not that baseball is played differently at home than when a team is away from home. But you will find that most great clubs are even more effective on their own field, even though they will win a majority of their games while away. A’s Tough at Home For, the past tour years, American League teams have found the going very tough at Shibe park. Foxx and Simmons like that left field pavilion so well that occasionally they hit one over the top deck. Mickey Cochrane, Mule Haas and Max Bishop have a habit of hitting over the right field wall at oppor- j tune times.

The A’s seldom lose a series at home. I have not seen the exact figures, but I doubt if they have dropped more than four or five series all season on their home field, and it wouldn’t surprise me if the figure is still lower. I will be greatly surprised if the Cardinals should take two of the three games they must play up to Wednesday. The Yankees have been able to give the A’s a lot of trouble in league play during the three pennant years of Mack’s team. But we found them very difficult at Philly, and we had to take some of our worst beatings there. ■ I regard the A’s as a better ball club at Shibe park than they were in St. Louis or than they are in any other American League park during the regular playing season. If the Cards can take this coming three games series they are a better club than I think they are, and I have no hesitation in classing them as a real world series team, well worthy I to compete for baseball’s highest I honors.

tition in the junior league was close, three tie tilts occurring. Large crowds viewed all games. The Holy Trinity-Mohawk game in the senior loop was hard fought, th" Trinity warriors winning, 20 to 12. R. P. C. defeated Brightwood, 33 to 6, and Ferndales downed Company H. 151st infantry, 13 to 0. Ft. Harrison eleven drew a bye in the first round. In the only game that went to a conclusion in the junior division, English Avenue Boys’ Club swamped R. P. C. Juniors, 31 to 0. Assumption A. C.s and Tigers staged a thriller, finishing even after an exciting battle, 7 and 7. Scoreless games filled with thrills were played by Riley Cubs and Wizards and Trinity Bearcats and Crimson Cubs. HALL CAPTURES RACE Terre Haute Pilot Wins at Gardens; Schneider Absent. Honors in the feature twenty-five-mile dirt track auto race at Walnut Gardens Sunday went to Ira Hall, well-known Terre Haute pilot. McComb finished second. Crawford third and De Hart fourth. On Saturday the track management announced that Louis Schneider, winner of the 500-mile classic last May, would compete on the Gardens program, but the famous driver failed to report. No reason was given for the absence of the star.

north to south. Each of Mr. Ruth’s 227 pounds threw themselves wholeheartedly into the business of sighing. The sum total of this effort was the finest sigh the city of Philadelphia ever has seen. “A Sunday in Philadelphia,” he suggested, “is enough to try the soui of man. No place to go. Nothing to do but tat. Did you ever tat? No? Well, you haven’t lived if you haven’t tatted. “This blue Sunday business is a

Schwartz Does His Bit for Irish

Notre Dame hasn't uncovered another Frank Carideo yet, but the Irish are not lacking in ball carriers and stellar blockers. Os course, Marchy Schwartz, the 1930 hero, still is the No. 1 man, but Sheekeetski, Brancheau, Cronin, Koken, Banas—all gave good performances in the 25-to-0 triumph of the Fighting Irish over Indiana Saturday. Here’s Schwartz going on ai) eight-yard jaunt through the Crimson line in the first quarter.

Notre Dame Swamps I. U., Purdue Takes Two, and Butler Tumbles

BY DICK MILLER Called upon to carry on for “Rock" the 1931 Notre Dame grid team flashed powerful, but inconsistent form to swamp Indiana at Bloomington Saturday, 25 to 0. The Irish machine, again a contender for national honors, unleashed a second half drive that smothered Indiana hopes which had risen after splendid opening half play. A sweltering crowd of 18.000 looked on, and after the matinee was over and the reserve team had crashed for a final counter in the last four minutes, there was no doubt left that each week will find the team now boasting twenty consecutive wins a stronger and a more Rockne-like eleven. The big treat, however, came in the display of another Irish “find.”

College Elevens Make Early Bids for Sectional Laurels

BY DIXON STEWART United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct. 4.—Despite the risk of getting red in the face before the season is completed, there is a strong temptation to seek fame as a -orecaster by nominating St. Mary’s of California, Notre Dame and Northwestern in the middlewest, Georgia in the south and Pittsburgh, Yale, Georgetown and N. Y. U. in the east, as leading contenders for 1931 sectional football honors. The season is barely under way and a majority of major teams still are to be tried against formidable opposition, but two weeks of play have been enough to draw the lines and the “big boys” already are standing out above their sectional rivals. Saturday’s program, in striking contrast to the competition of a week ago, failed to produce a single “upset” unless Georgetown’s 25 to 7 triumph over Western Maryland, unbeaten in twenty-seven consecutive games since 1928, could be classed as a surprise. With only. a few real tests of strength on the program, none of

40 Rounds of Boxing Carded by Legion on Opening Bill Tuesday

With six bouts arranged, the legion fistic officials are ready to go with their initial card at the armory Tuesday night, the program calling for forty rounds. The feature will be the heavyweight encounter between Walter Pickard, former local headliner, and Benny Touchstone, aggressive mauler out of Detroit. Bud Taylor. Terre Haute, has taken over the management of Pickard and Walter is said to have improved his boxing skill. A1 Grande, brother of Frisco Grande, both in the Taylor stable, will open the Tuesday action in a four-round-er with Eddie Roberts, Indianapolis bantam. Complete card follows. '^ e ll,^ oun^s —® e nny Touchstone Detroit wcichts tCr Pickerd ’ Indianapolis; iieavyvcEll?B t f e r ßO ili?k S ' —Rose ', Cincinnati, vs \ L etel Mike. Indianapolis; Welterweights. Sis Rounds—Andy Kellett, Terre Haute, vs. George Welsh, Chicago; heavyweights. ’ Six Rounds—Pat Bennett, Terre Haute, vs. Eph Virt, Indianapolis; middleweights. Six Rounds—Tiger Lyons. Cincinnati, vs. Bruce Britt, Terre Haute; junior lightweights. p ouv Rounds—Al Grande. Terre Haute, vs. Eddie Roberts, Indianapolis; bantamweights. EARLY FOOTBALL NOTES Asa warmup lor the opening of the Em-Roe City League next Sunday, the Oak Hill Flashes met the Bingo A. A.s at Brookside No. 2 field Sunday and won. 20 to 0 Brummet. Decker and Moore scored the touchdowns lor Oak HiU. Mike Zimmerman registered two points after touchdown with drop kicks. Richard French was lost to the Flashes when he received a broken collar bone in the second quarter. He showed well in the back field before going on the crippled list. Flashes desire dates after Nov. 8. Write Larry Coffee, 6030 Crittenden avenue, Indianapolis.

curse. This morning I got up. feeling like I had been struck out with the bases loaded. MOB "OUNDAY I had a whole day to kill and it almost killed me. I asked the hotel clerk to recommend some place I could go and have a good time. And do you know what that dope suggested? He says for me to go to Independence hall.” Mr. Ruth sucked meditatively at

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

- With the antics of a bucking broncho, a chap named Brancheau spun, twisted, dashed in pleasing fashion. While some thought he was doing all of it, Laßorne dashed off a few yards as another find cr.d Vejar who went in with the last back field, demonstrated there are more “finds” to come oefore the season is over. Purdue amassed enough points during the afternoon to claim a double header. 28-0, from Western Reserve and 19-0 from Coe. Ohio university, who felt the sting of defeat the first in twenty games last week when they lost to Indiana, took it out with a vengeance on Butler Saturday at Athens, 0., 40-0. Manchester college proved the same old stubborn foe for De Pauw and did not wilt until the end,

the favorites were defeated and the major teams which met weak opposition piled up satisfactorily large scores. St. Mary’s 14 to 0 triumph over California and a previous victory over Southern California, just about assured the Gaels of Pacific Coast honors for the season. Unfortunately St. Mary’s is one of the coast’s “small” teams and its future games against West Coast Army. San Francisco U., Gonzaga. Santa Clara, Olympic Club. U. C. L. A. and Oregon will be an antt-climax to the victories over the star members of "Big Three.” In the other feature coast games. Southern California defeated Oregon State. 20 to 0. and Stanford nosed out Santa Clara. 6 to 0. Notre Dame’s 25 to 0 triumph over Indiana and Northwestern’s 19 to 7 victory over Nebraska featured .the middlewest’s program. The big six of the Southern Conference. Georgia. Georgia Tech. Tulane. Alabama, Tennessee and Vanderbilt came through Saturday’s game unscratched. Tulane had the hardest time defeating Texas Aggies. 7 to 0. while Georgia, which defeated V. P. 1.. 40 to 0. and Alabama which defeated Mississippi. 55 to 6, appeared the most impressive. Georgia, pointing for Saturday’s battle with Yale at New Haven, used two complete teams and showed plenty of power. Pittsburgh's 20 to 0 triumph over lowa provided the leading intersectional contest of the dav and the Panthers gave signs of having a team to rate with .ts national championship contenders of 1929. All of the east’s “Big Three,” Yale, Harvard and Princeton, won with ease. Princeton, playing its first game under Al Wittmer, flashed an entirely new attack, which led its followers to predict the most successful season in years. Yale used its regulars for only a short time and made only nineteen points against Maine, but did not appear to be attempting to pile up a score. Harvard outscored Bates, 28 to 0. but was held for downs four times inside the ten-yard line. N Y. U. impressed with a 54-to-0 triumph over West Virginia Wesleyan and Fordham downed West Virgnia. 51 to 0. Army was far too strong for little Knox college of Illinois and added 67 points to its total for the year, while navy was held to a 13-to-6 verdict by William and Mary.

Seals Face Hollywood By Times Special SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 5. Pennant winners in the spiit-season Pacific Coast League diamond race are scheduled to open action in the title series here Tuesday, with San Francisco Seals opposing Hollywood Stars, winners of the first half flag. Five games are carded. The Seals won the second half of the race by a four-game margin over Los Angeles, Hollywood finishing fifth. ALL-DAY SHOOT SET Three events are carded on the all-day shoot program to be staged at Indianapolis Gun Club Wednesday, starting at 9:30 a. m. Singles shoot at 150 targets from sixteen yards feature the card. Other events are the fifty target handicap and fifty-target doubles. A trophy will go to the winner of high over all honors and many attractive prizes have been posted. FRED FRAME WINNER WOODBRIDGE, N. J., Oct. 5. Fred Frame, Los Angeles speed pilot, today held his sixth consecutive victory at Woodbridge oval. He won the 25-mile feature Saturday in 18:37.6.

his cigar, stared ominously at the desk where the hotel clerk would have been had he been on duty, and muttered a few r random curses. Mr. Ruth was not alone in his misery. Thousands of other customers here for the third game of the world series, wished they had something to tat. As the hour drew near for the Athletics and Cardinals to clash, so-called, on the field of honor, •it appeared likely that all seats at Shibe park would be taken.

27-14. Wabash never got their fighting spirit up until Evansville scored a safety but before it was over iz was all Wabash, 27 to 2. Ball Teachers of Muncie was crushed at Oxford, 0., by Miami, 47-6. Phil Brown and his veteran Rose Poly crew opened things up all wrong for Earlham and defeated the Quakers, 20 to 6. Oakland City mussed up Indiana Teachers college hopes, 13 to 0, and Valparaiso continued winning ways at the expense of Central Normal of Danville, 19 to 0. Notre Dame failed to function during most of the first half and the I U. boys held the upper hand until Sheetetski got out and ran seventy-two yards for the first Notre Dame counter. Bright spots tor Indiana besides the fine tackling in the opening half was Zeller’s recovery of a fumbled punt. Vic Dauer's forty-yard return of a punt and Dauer’s attempted place kick that just went under the bar. In the second half. Brancheau clicked off yardage galore. After Indiana intercepted a pass with the Irish th*eatening, rnoiana tossed one and Gorman grabbed it and dashed for a second Notre Dame touchdown. The mighty Schwartz took a lateral pass for the third Irish counter in the fourth quarter and with less than four minutes to play the Irish reserves (what reserves!) rushed in and Cronin led a savage attack that gave the upstaters their fourth and final touchdown. Stories from Purdue tnat Alex Yunevich, the star sophomore lull back and the junior flop, intends to stir things up in ni§ senior year proved true. The big Bickneil boy took things in his own hands against the tougnest of the two BoilermaKer foes, Coe and scored all three touchdowns. He traveled more than 200 yards in twelve attempts and his most orilliant play was a seventy-yard dash througn the open field that made half backs envious. The Kizermen scored all their points in the first half, and against Western Reserve they scored two touchdowns in the first and third periods. Coach Noble Kizer flashed a find in the Reserve game. Doxie Moore who starred as a basketball star at Delphi He scored three of the four touchdowns fn tne game. Roy Horstman, again battling Yunevich for the full back job scored one. Harry Bell’s Buuer boys snowed form just twice at Athens and the Bobcats scored in every quarter. Kenny Booz threatened to score once after a 28-yard dash, but all other attempts were erased. The, Buckeye team worked everything in the. football catergory, including the ancient statue of Liberty play which was used not once, but twice- on the Bulldogs. And Indianapolis is a city of monuments! It took a 74-yard return of a punt by the De Pauw flash, Don Wheaton to give the Tigers a 7-0 lead over Manchester, playing without two mainsprings. With only a few minutes to go, the Chesters opened up with pass attack and Chapman tossed one to Piper and followed it with a beauty to Denlinger who caught the oval in the end zone. Chapman duplicated Wheaton’s place kick after .ouchdown and the half ended 7-7. A Chester fumble, a dash bv Wheaton and a plunge bv Crain again put the Tigers in front in the third auarter. They widened the gap further with a fortyyard dash by Wheaton for another. But the ever fighting upstaters came back with passes and Chapman tossed one to Cordier for a counter and were still in range for a tie. DePauw again sent the game into the ice territory when Wheaton scored his third of the afternoon. He scored three extra points with place kicks. A reserve team started bv Pete Vaughan was scored upon early when the Evansville Aces downed Neal in the end zone as he attempted to punt. The downstaters lead 2-0 at the end of the quarter. Speedy Varner put the Little Giants in front with touchdown, just before the half ended. In the third Quarter Swartout clicked sixteen yards for a counter and Engel climaxed a sixtv-yard march with another. Kutz. one of the strong Wabash reserves, scored the final marker in the last quarter. , Muncie got off to a flving start and scored in the first two minutes at Oxford, but trailed 7 to 6 at the end of the quarter. A last half drive bv Miami was crushed and the Teachers went down fighting. After Creedon took a pass to give Rose Poly a 6-0 lead in the first quarter, Earlham retaliated with one to Schnriderwind and the count was 6-6 at the half. The third quarter remained scoreless. Creedon scored again in the' fourth quarter and Henderson followed suit to give the Engineers their second consecutive victory. Central Normal was going along good at Valparaiso with the first half nearly over and scoreless. The Brownies covered a fumble on the one-yard line and took it over. Longs sprints by Gauthier, Bauer and Benke obtained another. In the third quarter, the great Kowalski scored on a lateral pass. The Indiana Teachers of Terre Haute took to the air in an effort to score over Oakland City and to their sorrow. Loge captured one toss and raced it back sixtyfive yards for an Oak counter and later in the game Hollen intercepted another Teacher heave and raced seventy yards for another.

BENNY LEONARD STARTS Former Champion Opens Comeback Against Pal Silver. By United Pi ess NEW YORK, Oct. s.—Benny Leonard, retired undefeated lightweight champion, will make the first step in his announced comeback when he meets Pal Silver of Brooklyn Tuesday night at the QueenSborough stadium. Leonard plans a campaign for the welterweight and middleweight titles. If the former champion is successful Tuesday he will meet Paulie Walker at Madison Square Garden on Oct. 16.

This phenomenal fact may be ex- | plained as follows: The people of Philadelphia love to sit. They are so bored with living that they would "go to a turtle race, and a mock turtle race at that, just to get out of reading the Sunday papers. For this the brothers Shibe are So grateful, in fact, that they have bought two new records for their bleating phonograph. One is ’’Asleep in the Deep.” The other is on other side of "Asleep in [the Deep.”

Sox Need One Win Hose Lead Cubs in City Series, Three Games to Two. By United Press CHICAGO, Oct. s.—Chicago’s White Sox needed only a victory over the Chicago Cubs today at Wrigley field to win the 1931 city series. The American League cellarites took the lead in the series, three games to two, by winning Sunday’s game at Comiskey park, 13-6, before a crowd of 41,523, larger than has attended a world series game in two years. Vic Frasier, White Sox rookie right-hander, and Guy Bush, Cubs’ right-hander, who won the second game, 1-0, were named to pitch today. Home runs by Smead Jolley, with the bases filled, and by Bill Cissell, with two men on, featured the White Sox’ third victory. Charlie Root, Cubs’ ace, was knocked out of the box for the second time in this series Sunday. Red Faber, although relieved in the seventh by Ted Lyons, turned in his second victory for the Sox. The score: gub* 100 201 101— (Sill 1 S°X 100 050 34x—13 15 1 Root, Malone, Mav. Smith and Hemslev: Faber, Lyons and Grube.

TALKING IT OVER —BY JOE WILLIAMS

Oct. s.—That ninth-inning mix-up in the second game of the world series still has the boys up to their ears in excited controversy. About all that anybody is willing to agree on is that it was pretty lucky for Jimmy Wilson, the Cardinals catcher, that Max Bishop didn’t slam one into the stands at that precise moment. You remember, of course, the details of the play. Leading by two runs. Wild Willie Hallahan passed two men in the ninth between outs. Then Connie Mack sent up a pinch-hitter named Jim Moore, and this gentleman proceeded to set the stage for one of the strangest climaxes ever seen on anv ball field. With two strikes on him he took a swing at a curve ball that was so low it bounded into the dirt before reaching the catcher’s glove. In such circumstances it is necessary to touch the batter out or throw to first. But Mr. Wilson did neither. He threw to third to head off double X Foxx who at the moment was storming up the base line to third. Just why Mr. Wilson did this probably

-Pin GossipBY LEFTY LEE

Rolling one of the most consistent doubles sets ever seen on local drives Jerry Prochaska and Roberson won the season’s first sweepstakes shoot, at the Illinois alleys, with a total of 1,312. Each player had a score of 650, to count an actual 1,300, and the twelve pins were added as a handicap. Sweitzer and Faust won the runnerup position with a mark of 1,282, while Sweitzer and W. Heckman capped the high single game award with a score of 463. Eddie Streibeck just missed the bowler's dream, while rolling a practice game at the Pritchett alleys Sunday, a single pin standing on his final ball, to stop him at 299. Newt Werner had nine in a row to start during the Washington League play Friday night,, but opened up in the final for a 264. Werner says he will keep on trying, however, and win a medal yet. Jess Pritchett will be up in the air notv, his 688 topping the field last week, to win the air ride award of the Hoosier airport. Mindach, Ward and Hansen were but one strike away from this mark, having 679, 678 and 676, respectively. Helen Mueller will go airminded this week, her 562 nosing out Burnett by four pins, to win the free ride award. Mueller also produced the hign single game for the week, a 218, In the Ladies Social League. Four totals over the 3,000 mark were scored during last week's play, the Troy Oil team leading with a score of 3,064. Fifty-fourth Street Merchants had 3.008; Hanna Register, 3,007, and Bade!- Coffee. 3,006. Eddie Hofstatter, former secretary of the Indianapolis Bowling Association,' was up to his old time form during last week’s play, having sets of 649 and 655 to average 217. Goldy Goldsmith, a member of the Gem Coal team of the Washington League, took the lead in the individual average race of this loop when he added 679 to his record to bring his season’s Ir L a vl„ u ' s 217. Goldsmith had games of 212, 210 and 257 in his latest splurge. Hutchinson’s Tees again lost three eames during the Avalon League series at Pritchett’s alleys. Darnaby’s Putts, with Mack and Darnaby hitting 60fi counts, having an easy time sweeping the series. P a V s Divots and Zimmer’s Traps also lost three to Youngs Drivers and Fox’s Roughs, while Hunker’s Caddies won the rubber from Burt's Irons. Qse apparent fact in the Avalon League is Captain Hunker’s ability to make the members of his team work to win games. If any of the boys start lagging, the captain just misses another spare, and then they have to bear down to pick him up. The Casady Fuel team of the St. Philip No 1 League was over the 1.000 mark its first two games, but dropped to 910 in the final and Kirschner Auto Service avoided a shutout. Bill Sargent putting them across with a 234 count. Jack Hunt, the new manager at the Central allevs. is having a hard time findmg the control that makes him one of the best, and as a result his average suffers. Kromer thinks his new ball is the reason for his consistent 600 totals. The Ft Harrison star can make any claim he liKes. ana back it up. his average sheet proving he is wood. A1 Kimmel is another veteran who goes on forever, his play on the Uptown alleys being of high order. Kimmel’s two boys also are getting the wood, but “Dad” still holds his edge. Chris Rasmussen started the season in great style, but has been below his usual form for the past two weeks. Here is one veteran who is pulling for colder weather. . Secretary Wilber Durbin of the Washmgton and Delaware leagues is a “hound’’ fro. figures and can veil you any team or individual average of these leagues without referring to the records.

Post-Season Series

St. Paul-Rochester Standing n . . W. L. Pet. Rochester 3 1 .750 St. Paul 1 3 .*0 Statistics, Four Game* Total attendance. 22.068. Total receipts. 528.924.75. Commission’s share. $4,338.70. Clubs' share. *7.231.18. Players' share. $17,354.85. Next Game—Tuesday, at Rochester. Crown goes to team winning five games. Sox-Cubs Standing W. Let. Pet. White Sox .. 3 2 .600 Cubs 2 3 .400 Filth Game Figures Attendance 4r.523 Receipts $46,780.50 Commissioner s share 7.017.0,7 Cubs' share 39.763 42 <Plavers share in gate receipts only for first four games * Total for Five Games Attendance 101.563 Receipts *119.541.50 Players’ share . 37.108 10 Commissioner's share 10,885.35 Clubs' share 64.502.16 Next Game—Today, at Wriglev field.

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BILLY ROSE, above, Cincinnati welterweight, comes to the Armory Tuesday night to meet Peter Mike in the eightround semi-windup preceding the Walter Pickerd-Benny Touchstone feature. Rose has fought many times in the Legion ring and is a great favorite with the fans. His opponent, Peter Mike, formerly of New York, but now residing in Indianapolis, fought a fine fight with Billy Hoon at the Armory last season. The opening Legion show has six scraps scheduled with action billed to start at 8:15. COBURN GOLF CHAMP Ben Coburn defeated Eddie Zimmer, 5 and 3, in the final match of thirty-six holes to win the Indiana Country Club golf championship Sunday.

will never be known. I note by the press dispatches that Mr. Wilson admits he was bewildered bv it all and had no clear perspective on the play. I was dumb and I am big enough to admit it." says Mr. Wilson. *The tacts seem to speak for themselves. Mr. Wilson is in truth very big and there seems to be no Question but that he was dumb. But was he the only dumb person on the field? According to Mr. John J. McGraw with whom I have just been talking about the play he was not. In fact Mr. McGraw is disposed to argue that in effect Mr. Wilson’s throw to third base was proper enough in that it actually retired the side. ‘ Ball players aren’t supposed to think." says Mr. McGraw. who ought to know, having once been a bail-player himself. 'But umpires are different—they ought to know what it is all about at all times.” There is no subject on which Mr. McGraw waxes more eloauent than that of umpires. In this narticula: instance he winds up and takes a full swing at what he calls the colossal stupidity of his old pal. Bill Klem, who was umpiring at third base. "Now when Moore swung at that ball he was not out,” says Mr. McGraw. "There were two men on the bases at the time. Moore was entitled to first base if he could get there. Finally he got there. (Mr. McGraw fails to state that he got there bv wav of Emporia. Kansas. Galesburg. 111., and points west.) "All right then. With Moore a base runner this mado it imperative that „he two other base runners had to advance to make room for him at first, and so the chance for a forced play at both secand and third was created. Wilson threw to third. I will agree it was a dumb Play, but when he threw there he forsed out Foxx and the game was over. “Klem was remiss because he did .ot promptly call the out and send the piaycis from the field. If Bishop, who was illegally permitted to bat had made a hit and defeated the Cardinals. Klem. and not I Wilson, would have been the chief ofi fender.” n n u \ r T'HERE has been some debate as ! to whether Flowers was on the bag at third when Wilson threw to him. It had been my thought that he wasn t. But Mr. McGraw says he was. , f ° ll ,? wed the flight of the ball very intently, savs Mr. McGraw. "and I have „.. d s V nct ’ Picture of Flowers standing on ar >d I was the mosi !w a *i a nd,i man L n the Park when Klem did not render a decision.” It should be mentioned, however, in this Flowers threw nis soul wholeheartedly and enthusiastically into the orgy of dumbness—by contending that ,if ?!? s on the bag when he received t^thtow— attempting to put the bail on double X Foxx when that player came into tne base. This was sufficient evidence that Flowers among others, including all those orignt fellows who write sports, didn’t kn#w what time it was Even the official scorers were ,a nd twice j changed their minds Finahv thev scored it as a strike out for Hallahan and an error for Wilson. ,a^a Mc S raw ’a Who refuses to agree with anvbodv these davs. contends this was all wrong, too. "How can vou charge Wilsdh with an error when, even on a dumb play, r.e retised, J side"? McGraw insists the play should have been scored a fielder’s choice, a strikeout for Hallahan. and inferentiallv an error for Klem. - the delightful argot of baseball, a fielder s choice loosely is a plav where the fielder elects to ignore the hitter and get a putout somewhere else. But Mr. Wilson is not technically a fielder. He is a catcher. Possibly it would be more accurate to call it a catcher's choice. And why not blame the whole thing on short trading, prohibition and the outrageous conduct of mfldern vouth? Besides what difference will it make a hundred years from now. and didn’t the Cardinals win the game anyhow? Continuing to talk with Mr. McGraw, I was somewhat astonished to learn what a low opinion he has of Connie Mack’s three-time champions. To be sure Mr McGraw is a National League partisan, but usually he is not the type to allow prejudice to color his point of view'. "Take Simmons and Cochrane off that team, and w-ha have you got”? he asks. Before vou can contrive a snappy comeback he answers vou with: "A ball club that wouldn’t finish in the first division in either big league.” Os course, this kind of speculation 1s ridiculous because after all, Simmons and Cochrane are on the team. I mean it ts much like saving, take Ford’s millions away from him and he would have no dough. Mr McGraw claims that If the Cardinal* had had anybody but Andv High on third base fnev would have won the first game. He is referring obviously to that ball High let get awav from him to start the third inning and which later developed into a four-run rally. "I don’t know whether the Cardinals can win now or not.” added Mr McGraw. "But they ought to be leading bv J two games now. instead of being even-up ” >

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.OCT. 5, 1931

Rochester Far Ahead Red Wings Lead Saints in Series, Three Games to One. By United Press ST. PAUL. Minn., Oct. 5 Rochester's International League champions needed only two more victories as they moved back to their hc* field today for the remaining games of the “little world series” with St. Paul. American Association pennant winner. The Red Wings made the count j three games to one by defeating ' the Saints Sunday, 2 to 1. Both teams left Sunday night for the east to resume play Tuesday. A ninth-inning homer by George ; Puccinelli; Wings outfielder, after pitcher Huck Betts had worked the ] count to three and two, provided | the winning run for Rochester. | Betts allowed but five scattered hits, | but the Wings forced one into a run in the sixth before Puccinelli's homer. The Saints hammered Ira Smith for seven hits but could make only one count in - the fifth when they filled the bases and sent a player home before a double-play retired the side. The score: Rochester onft 001 001—2 5 0 St. Paul OOft 010 OOO—I 7 I Smith and Florence; Betts and Fenner.

Blue Eleven Tackles Ball Smarting under their second successive setback, Butler's Bulldogs started today to prepare for their Friday night battle with a Hoosicr rival, Ball State of Muncie. Coach Bell and his squad returned from Athens, 0., after losing a topheavy decision to Ohio U., and the Blue mentor announced at least two intensive drills under t.he arcs this week. In their last meeting. Butler defeated the Cardinals, 12 to 0. in 1928. Bill Layout, formerly of Shortridge, is expected to see action in Friday night's encounter.

Heavy Matmen Top Hall Bill Jack Washburn of California and Jack Zarnes of Ohio, husky heavyweight matmen, will tangle in the

top two - out -of - three-fall event at Tomlinson hall tonight, with a two-hour time limit. Washburn weighs 225 pounds and Zarnes 210. Frank Bronowicz, 215-pound Polish grappler, meets Young Gotch of Boston in a forty-five-minute time limit affair. Leslie (Red) Beers, Purdue coach, tangles with Ralph Han-

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cock of Elwood in a thirty-minute event and Young Haddock of Chicago tangles with Sam Martwitz in the opener at 8:30. Pat Wright of Louisville will referee.

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GALA Fall Opening October loth of the Show Boat with CONNIE and his 12 radio artists Connie, who has just concluded a very successful and outstanding engagement with Fairvicw hotel at Lake Manitou, will be here for only a limited time. You have enjoyed him on the radio, now see and hear him at Indianapolis’ favorite dancing palace. Nightly—lo I\ M. till??? SHOW BOAT WA. 3918 for Reservations