Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 103, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1932 — Page 11

SEPT. 8, 1032,

Golf Cup Play Set Columbia Club and I. A. C. Renew Battle for Marott Trophy. With the count standing two to one in favor of the Columbia Club, play for the SIO,OOO George Marott golf trophy will be waged by Indianapolis Athletic Club and Columbia Club teams over Highland Country Club course next Thuaday, Sept. 15. The winner will be determined by the twenty-five low gross scores. The low gross shooter also will have his name engraved on the trophy. Handicaps will be used only in determining individual net prize winners. I. A. C. captured the trophy in 1 9? o. t-ha first year of competition, and tne downtown club has captured the last two events. Ed Zimmer of I. A. C. was low scorer in 1929, George Lance of Columbia Club in 1930. and Lance and Jack Bixler for Columbia Club in 1931. Awarding of prizes will take place at the annual banquet at Columbia Club following the links play, A reduction of 50 per cent has been made in the fees for the golf play and banquet, the price being $3 this year.

Pin Gossip BY LEFTY LEE

Johnny Fehr saved the Indianapolis League from being a complete "flop" on its opening night, the little Coca Cola Mar crashing the maples for a count of 69J with games of 224. 220 and 244 Jess Pritchett helped Fehr with a 608 total and the Cokes scored 3.007 to take three from the Pritchett Recreation. Paul Stcmm was the reason the Stemms Quintet took the rubber from the Underwood Transfer, the winners anchor hitting the pins for a total of 621. Pal! City started with a rush, taking the first two from the Wheeler Lunch, but they faltered and dropped the final game to the luneh team. Roy Switzer led the play in this contest with a mark of 597. Young Bohbv Wilmoth had a 581 total that led the Thompson Restaurant team to an odd game win over Seven Up. Weigel was the only member of the losing team to roll near form. Gilbert and Manly combined to give the P’ishback Grille a two out of three win over the St. Philip A. C. Bill Moran of the st. Philip team made it hard for the Saints to take any. Gregory and Appel showed better each fame aiid won the final two from the totel Antler five. Carl Hardin had a 598 count for the winners, finishing with games of 203 and 216 after a slow start. The Hotel Antler team featured the Fox family in Its lineup. Frank, Larry and Ray rolling with Rassmussin and Weisman. The Commercial League has room lor two more teams to bring the loop to a twelve-club organization. Any teams that wish to roll in this loop night on the Parkway alleys, should see Norman Hamilton at once. Women bowlers are busy with plans for the new season Laura Alexander, secretary of the Ladies' Social League, announces the start of play for this loop Tuesday night. Sept. 13. Mrs. Alexander has room for two more teams In this fast loop, and would be glad to hear from any women bowlers that wish to roll. Mrs. Alexander can be reached at Irvington 3526. The Wheeler Lunch Ladies League also Is preparing to start their season's play on the Illinois alleys. For Information and reservations in this league, call Lincoln 0740. Results In the Uptown League play showed the new Seven Up team to be a real threat to give the Augustlner Beverage a run for ton honors this season, the bovs from the south side that form this team hitting the maples for a total oi 2 963 to take three games from Ci'y Candy. Behrens and Laug were the pin spillers for Seven Up. having marks of 642 and 639. Augustiner also won three from TiptonLvtle. rolling 2.932 to put this win over. Alrien Spencer nnd Rav Roberson had 632 and 620 for the winners, while Kellv. after two poor games, tossed in a 278 to total an even 600 for Tipton-Lytle. The veteran John Naughton showed good earlv season forom. having a threegame mark of 620 to lead Bader Coffee to a triple win over Scherer Electric. R. Bader helped a lot with a 614 total. Harpers Garage surprised the Citizens Gas team bv Inking the odd game during their series. Holt was the reason, his sheet showing a total of 614. After losing the first game to Selmeir Towel Coca Cola came back with two good games to cop the rubber from these bovs. Schmitt's 601 for Coca Cola feattired this session. Heat Units and Drips took the entire' series from Accounts and Generators, as Gauges and Scrubbers won two from Pumps and Gas. during the Citizens Gas. fnorth stdei league plav on the Uptown drives. Johnson was the star of this plav. leading the field bv a wide margin with a total of 609 on games of 207. 203 and 199.

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Bowes Seal Fast won a hard-fought game from Maplewood Sunday, 3 to 2. The Seal Fast nine led all the way. Excellent defensive ptav and fine pitching by Hendricks of Seal Fast and Roberts of Maplewood featured. Midways, who have won sixteen out of nineteen games this season, will play at Jamestown Sunday. A special practice is carded for Fridav night at Garfield and all players are requested to attend. Midwavs have Sept. 18 and 25 open and would like to book MoorrsvtUe. Fortville and Zionsville. Call or write B. Pierson, Dr. 6020-W. 1544 Draper street. Indianapolis Cubs are without a game for Sunday and would like to hear from a fast state team Write Gail Smith, 1745 West Morrisvstreet. The Cubs will practice Saturday afternoon at Rhodius park. Tremount All-Stars want a game for Sundav with a team holding a diamond permit See Jim Collins. 523 Kentucky avenue. Tremounts will practice Friday at 4 30 at Diamond Chain. Winamac Red Men will tackle Riverside A. A s Sundav at Riverside diamond No. 1 at 3 n. m. The Winamacs defeated the Monte Carlo nine Monday, 10 to 8. The Flanner-Buchanan team will play the Sholty Motors next Sunday instead of the C'.overdale Grays, as previously announced. Indianapolis Ramblers will play at PflumvlUe. Sunday. Sept. 11. Porter Mayes is asked to get in touch with the manager. The Ramblers have open dates after Sunday. For games call Drexel 0174 and ask for Jerry. Beech Grove take notice. The Fifty-Second Street Merchants defeated O'Hara Sans, 12 to 5, r Campbell allowed only five hits. Conn 11 hit for five bases himself. Next Sundav the Merchants will meet St. Mary's Pirates at Alexandria Practice will be held this afternoon at 2:30. Ins'anapolis Bulldogs will play the Knii ituvcii K. of P. nine Sunday Sept. 11 All slavers report for practice Fridav at Riverside diamond No. 2at 3:30. All Bulldog plavers are requested to meet at Indianola park Sundav at 11:30 sharp. For games write Lester Archer .833 Waldemere avenue.

Major Leaders

LEADING HITTERS G. AB. R. H. Pet. ODoul. Dodgers .. 132 538 111 196 .366 Foxx. Athletics .. 138 518 137 189 .365 Alexander. Red Sox 105 317 45 114 .360 V. Davis. Phillies.. 110 352 41 123 .349 Ruth. New York.. 128 443 117 154 .348 Klein. PhiUies .. 136 579 141 201 .347 HOME RUNS Fnxx, Athletics... 51 Simmons. Athletics 32 Ruth. Yankees... 40 Averlll. Indians.. 31 Klein. Phillies .. 35 Gehrig, Yankees.. 31 Ottj Giants .. 32 GREENTREE FOUR WINS By Time Special WESTBURY. N. Y., Sept. 8 Greentree and Templeton will play for the national open polo championship here Saturday. Jock Whitneys Greentree four upset Eastcott here Wednesday, 11 to 10.

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Swedish Captain Could Steer Craft When He Was 11

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The Gripsholm of the Swedish-Anicrican line.

In responsibility and authority few posts that men can flil exceed the captaincy of a great ocean liner. Only one who can meet the most rigid tests of character, training, and general fitness can aspire to such command. Outstanding among the men who have met such tests are the captains of half a dozen great liners running in and out of this port. In a series of articles, of which the following is the fourth George Britt describes these master mariners and their careers. BY GEORGE BRITT Times Staff Writer (Copyright. 1932, by the New York "World Telegram Corporation) OLD Capt. Johann Lundmark of the freighter Kiruna, flying Sweden's crossed blue flag out of Stockholm, was known in all the ports of northern Europe because of his children. At every school vacation, back when families were permitted to go along, the captain brought his wife on board and their two sons and five daughters and the Siberian sledge dog he had picked up at Vladivostok. All summer the youngsters swarrped about the ship as if it were grandmother’s barn. By the time the boy Sven was 11, he could steer as true a course as any quartermaster. He worked at it seriously, steering, and his father paid him wages of ten ore —four ore being equal to 1 cent—for every hour at the wheel. Summers went by, and one year, lying in the harbor of Middlesborough, the pig-iron port in Yorkshire, a Finnish square-rigger ■ dropped anchor alongside a Russian ship in registry, by name, Imperator Alexander 11. Captain Johann knew the Finnish master. "Well,” he said to his boy, “here is a chance if you want to follow the sea. You are 15, and that’s the time to begin, if you’re going to.” Twenty-six years ago that was, the beginning of the career of Capt. Sven Lundmark, for the last five years skipper of the yachtlike Swedish - American liner Gripsholm, and still today, at 41, one of the youngest masters of big passenger ships entering the port. tt tt tt HE proved his father's word. Furthermore, it was his fortune to exemplify in his own career the change of the sea from old to new. Trained and grounded in the traditions of sail, he grew up on steamships and now commands a famous motor ship. There are marine architects who claim that from steam to Diesel motors is as historic a transition as from sail to steam. The first thing he had to learn, becoming a regular sailor, was the Finnish language—at least, a few words of it. There were a dozen nationalities on the Imperator Alexander 11, the Finns predominating. One of the watches was Finnish. They spoke no Swedish. To this the rookie was assigned. "What I remember most, though,” recalled the captain the other day, “was going aloft on Christmas Eve while the rest of the crew was below, having their holiday celebration. "The mate called me and said, ‘Sven, you see up at the end of the main royal, there’s a couple of lanyards loose. You go up and fix them.’ "I’d never been up there, and, besides, I was alone. But I climbed the rigging, then hand over hand up a chain of twelve feet more to the royal .yard, and slowly I

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hitched my way along to the end. "I thought no ship ever pitched and rolled as that one did then. Finally I finished, and I thought I was a real sailor.’ That voyage took the youth around the world, in eleven months. The next was around the Horn to San Pedro, Tacoma and back, after which he knew at least what can be learned from the old-time, hard-case, ill-spawned and heaven-condemned bucko mate. tt tt tt THE mate fitted the ship. She was a four-masted bark which under her original name of the Annie M. Green had hung up a record of fourteen days from Glasgow to New York. Now, under different ownership and anew name, she was operated on the principle that if the crew were driven hard enough they would jump ship at the first port and their wages would be saved. Lundmark was one of only three who didn’t jump at San Pedro. He was young then and thought he could take it. When eight, of the crew were sick and disabled near ..the Horn, he saw the mate dive into the fo’c’s'l swinging a belaving pin one morning and all eight streamed out to work with sore heads. "I was steering while he stood nearby, one day,” the captain smiled, “when a big knife whizzed by me and stuck up in the deck about an inch from the mate. "Four men were working high overhead on a yard, but when the mate looked up they were too busy to make any sign. “While we lay at San Pedro, the mate wouldn’t go ashore. And it was a good thing. The men were waiting for him. "When he started out again we had a crew of what they call ‘box car sailors,’ but one was a big Norwegian, who beat up the mate and got away with it. "And coming out from Tacoma with a cargo of 4,000 tons of wheat in bags, the whole crew virtually mutinied, tore the ship’s articles off the wall and threw them overboard, demanded better treatment and really got it. The voyage back was not so bad.” * a * FOR all that, however, the voyage back very nearly was the last. For three days the ship lay heeled over in a storm on her beam's ends, as nearly capsized as could be without going over completely, from which she was saved Only by continuous day and night work by all hands—plus the grace of St. Christopher, the sailors’ friend. Learning the trade on steamships is no pathway of roses, either. The young man served on German freight liners to India and on British tramps, got the master’s papers and then, times being hard, shipped before the mast again. Later he came with the Swe-dish-American line, and in 1916 was promoted to be chief officer of the Texas, calling regularly at Vera Cruz, New Orleans and South American ports. That Texas the old devil sea had picked for his own. She was jinxed. Captain Lundmark traveled with her while she all but sank in a West Indian hurricane, caught fire wtih a cargo of cotton

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Captain Sven Lundmark of the Gripsholm.

and went smoking clean across the Atlantic and finally grounded on the coast of Norway and was beaten to pieces by waves. No doubt of there being jinxed ships, and the Texas was one of them. The date of the hurricane is fixed in Captain Landmark's memory, Sept. 2, 1918, off the Windward islands, bound from Norfolk to Rio de Janeiro. There was a heavy swell ahead and the wind blew steadily from the southeast. n tt n SHORTLY after noon the hurricane broke. Toward midnight, the Texas characteristically disabled herself with a loosened balance wheel on the propeller shaft. She had to be hauled to, for a quarter of an hour, to be repaired. “The wind was enough to blow the horns off a bull,” said Captain Lundmark. “Looking up at the crow’s nest from the bridge—l do not exaggerate—l saw the waves higher than that. “Immediately the engine slowed down, the ship lost steerage way, drifted around nearly broadside on and lay down for her beating. “A single wave swept away every lifeboat. It even took the steam pipes on the deck winches. The next day, when the storm was passed, I saw the pipe broken up and twisted in small pieces, caught in corners on deck. “And it had been new pipe when we started. “We had three pigs in a pen on the after deck. They went overboard, of course. I never saw a ship so battered, except one which had lost her funnel, too.” NOWADAYS the nearest thing to adventure experienced by the youngish captain of the Gripsholm is when Crown Prince Gustavus Adolphus makes a voyage or Greta Garbo does one of her conspicuous hideaways onboard. Last summer in a fog off the Maine coast, it is true, the ship ran down a fishing schooner, but to the captain's anxious inquiry through his megaphone the schooner shouted back, “All safe.” The tough schooling of the sea is not apparent in Captain Lundmark, except in his confident and easy cosmopolitanism.

He is medium-sized, athletic, and has blue eyes and brown hair that has begun a retreat from his forehead. Aside from the sea, what he really likes is to talk with doctors. Next—lrving of the Aquilania.

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Staab Joins Irish Eleven By United Pres* SOUTH BEND. Ind., Sept. 8 —Fred Staab, Madison, Wis., who played full back on the 1930 Notre Dame team, will return to school this fall and try to regain his old berth, Coach Heartly Anderson announced today. Staab was out of school last year because of illness. The return of Staab, who weighs 185 and was highly regarded by the late Knute Rockne, gives the Notre Dame team half a dozen first-class full backs. Three letter men from last year, George Melinkovich, Steve Banas and Jimmy Leonard, will be back, and Rube Grundeman, reserve last year, and Fred Carideo. cousin of Frank and a member of the freshman squad last year, are two other strong candidates. BLUE GRIDMEN DRILL Shortfidge high school gridmen today continued practice sessions for the opening of their 1932 schedule Sept. 16. with Lebanon here. Coach Bob Nipper sent his Blue squad through a long drill on blocking and dummy tackling Wednesday.

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Predicts Close Big Ten Battle By United Prets EVANSTON, 111., Sept. 8— Dick Hanley, Northwestern football coach, today predicted that the Big Ten race' this fall, will be one of the closest in years, with any one of six teams likely to win the title. "Purdue, Ohio State and Minnesota appear to be • the three strongest teams at this time,” said Hanley. "Both Northwestern and Michigan may be contenders, depending on the outcome of their game Oet. 8. There isn't likely to be a really weak team in the league this year.”