Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1935 — Page 10
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TOUISVILLE, May 4.—1 trust the more aesthetic followers of this department will pardon my mentioning' the fact that there is to be a certain amount of gambling done on the Derby today. This sordid matter was called to my attention yesterday by Col. Matt Winn, the moon-faced gentleman who controls the historic old track out here, known formally as Churchill Downs. Without the trace of an apology for his interest in such a forthright commercial item, the Colonel, lifting his third chin from the ambrosian delights of a mint julip, predicted that more than one million dollars would be gambled on the race. "I wouldn't bo surprised to sop the total roach $1.250.000 or higher, assortod the Colonel as the oil painting of past Derby winners that hang on the walls of his office looked down upon him in icy horror. aaa a a a ("GETTING farther and farther away from the improvement of the J breed, the hallowed traditions of the race, the beauty and chivalry of the old South, the Colonel added. “There is more fresh money around this year than I have seen in five years and that means there will be a brisk upswing in the betting. This is more than just an offhand guess, too. Even our week days have shown a 20 per cent up.” Before I could escape the unholy atmosphere of the money temple, the Colonel had informed me that the track hasn't had a million-doilar Derby since 1331 when the machines turned in a total of $1,374,000. In 1932 the total dropped to $850,000, and in 1933 it dropped still farther, to $745,600. low for the past ten years. a a a aaa r T'HE betting peak was reached in 1926. the year Whiskery won. when A $2,093,000 was poured into the machines, a total that has never been equalled for one day s racing on any track in America. So even if the Colonel’s optimistic forecast, stands up for him, the day's receipts will fall far behind the all-time record. To a New Yorker accustomed to emerging from the betting sheds with splintered bones and tattered clothes after a session with the bookmakers the simplicity and dignity with which such enormous sums are handled in the machines on Derby day is amazing. Anticipating the added demands imposed by a crowd of some 80.000 people special machines are placed in operation to handle wagers on the Derby exclusively. The race comes late in the day. but the arrangement is such that you can place your bet the moment you arrive at the track. By the time the race itself comes up four-fifths of the Derby bets are down, the spectators are in their seats, and the only worry remaining is whether the right horse will do it. aaa s a a COL. Winn is known among other things as the father of parimutuels in this country, a parental achievement of which he is quite proud. He installed the machines here in 1908, setting a vogue that was to be adopted by every racing state in*the union with the long exception of New York, where certain legislators entertain a deep and abiding sympathy for the bookmakers. aaa aaa DOME time ago thr Colonel was quoted in the metropolitan gazettes as saying he hoped New York would never adopt the machines . . “Tha* is not so," the Colonel insisted today. “If anything. I am stronger for the machines than ever. I certainly prefer them over the books, both as a matter ot convenience for the public and as a safeguard against intrigue New York will never become the great racing center it should be until it legalizes tne machines. The Colonel thought such a bill should impose a daily racing fee on the tracks of say, S4OOO. rather than a percentage of the bets. . . “In this wav the state would collect close to $1,000.00 yearly irrespective of how much was bet. At the same time it would eliminate any criticism that the state was a partner to a gambling enterprise.” a a a aaa CpMMENTING on the popular complaint that the machines in time drain a community after the pitiful manner described by Senator .Tames J. Crawford, who grieves loud but poignantly over the pauperized textile workers ot New England, the Colonel said, in eloquent effect, “nuts.” Opening his little black book he showed me that every meeting here grew stronger instead of weaker the longer it lasted. “That's not only true of this track it is true of every track where the machines are in operation,” he added. "The last half of the meetings is always better than the first half both in attendance and in betting. If the machines bankrupt a community how do you account for those comparaive figures?”
Butler Win Streak Broken by Earlham Local Netmen Suffer First Loss in 3 Seasons. The Earlham College tennis team handed the Butler University racquetmen their first defeat in three seasons of competition at the Fairview courts yesterday, the Richmond netters gaining a 5 to 1 edge. Mounier was the only Butler virtor. He downed BuAank, 6-8. 6-1. 7-5. In other singles matches Brooks defeated Brafforri, 6-4. 6-3; Smith beat Yule, 6-3, 6-4. and Hedrick nosed out Johnson. 7-5. R-6. The Bulldog netmen were to meet. Indiana State at Terre Haute today. SLAPS AT BRADDOCK Foster Asserts Challenger Is Lucky Victim of Money-Makers. By Ttm< * s/n viol PROVIDENCE R. 1.. May 4 •'James J. Braddock isn't in the same class with Max Baer. He merely is the fortunate victim of a high-handed scheme to enrich a few individuals connected with the fight game.” Edward C. Foster, president of the National Boxing Association, said here Thursday while discussing the coming heavyweight title fight. COACH WANTS MORE MONEY By ( nit,A Bees* MICHIGAN CITY. Ind.. May 4 Coach Loren Ellis of Michigan City High School today had made formal application with M C. Murray, superintendent of schools, and the Board of School Trustees, for a salary increase during the 1935-36 school year. Ellis has returned a rontract which offered an increase of $54 over the previous year. MESA OI'TSPEEDS 22 By t nited Brett NEWMARKET. England. May 4 —Pierre Wertheimer's Mesa outsped a brilliant field of 22 fleet fillies yesterday to capture the 1000-guinea race, second classic of the flat season. James Schand's Hyndford Bridge was second, and Lord Lonsdaole's Canetta. a 9-to-4 favorite, was third
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Joe Zimmer, above, one of the state's outstanding softball pitchers last season, will bear the brunt of the mound duty for the Citizen's Gas team this year. The club will play in the Smith-Hass-ler-Sturm Day-Night League. SOFTBALL LOOP GOES . INTO ACTION SUNDAY The Inter-Fraternity Softball League swings into action Sunday morning, all games being scheduled to get under wav at 10. In the openers. Ace Club plays Beta Sigma at Ellenberger. Mercury Club meets Chi Sigma Chi at Brookside No. 1. Kappa Sigma Delta tangles with Kappa Alpha Phi at Riverside 'East) and Phi Lamba Epsilon faces Phi Sigma Chi at Willard No. 2. The large team trophy will again be at stake, and this season a sportsmanship medal will be awarded to the player voted as most valuable to his team. AMBERS NEAR WEIGHT FOR TITULAR CONTEST By t niteil Br, s ORANGEBURG. N. Y. May 4 With a week to go in training. Lou Ambers today was only one pound over the lightweight division limit of 135 pounds for his 15-round title bout with Tony Canzoneri. The Herkimer (N. Yd hurricane said he planned to taper off the rest of the way and go into the ring weighing about 134. NORTH VERNON MEETS SEYMOUR IN OPENER By 7*l if< Bpnrial NORTH VERNON. Ind.. Mty 4 The usual opening-day ceremonies will initiate the baseball season here on Sunday The first ball will be pitch n d by Mayor Long, a band will be on hand to pep i>p the festivities and a flag-raising will precede the opener between the North Vernon Reds and Seymour Reds.
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Star Hurlers . Annex Third N.L. Victories N. Y. Ace Subdues Reds, 9-2; Dodgers Nose Out Bucs; Others Idle. BY L.\WTO\ CARVER 1 nitrd Prfs, Staff Correspondent. NEW YORK. May 4—The major league sea-on is dragging and, with little more than two weeks’ play, postponements approach an a’ltime record. Yesterday four games were postponed in the American League and two in the National, bringing the to-
tal to 24. The junior circuit has been hit hardest, with 15, against nine in the National. In yesterday's only games the Giants handed the Reds a 9-to--2 lacing and the Dodgers beat the Pirates, 2 to 1. Carl Hubbell scored his third victory against
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one defeat in the New York game and seldom was bothered by the Reds. Mel Ott helped him by hitting his sixth home run to pull into a major league four-way tie. Hubbell allowed only six hits, while the Giants pounded Frey, Brennan and Herrmann for 16 safeties. In the Brooklyn-Pittsburgh game Van Lingle Mungo became the Dodgers’ second three-victory pitcher. but Lefty W. Watson Clark, whom he joins, is unbeaten, while Mungo has iost two games. He won for himself yesterday in another typical Dodger hair-raiser in which a seventh-inning rally beat the Pirates. Herman's single and Traynor’s double netted the Pirates their only score. Taylor singled in the seventh and finally was singled home by Stripp to tie the score. Then Mungo added another hit to score the winning run. * Buzz Boyle. Dodger outfielder, contributed his share to the thrills in the ninth, when he caught Thevenow's fly and rifled the ball home to catch Suhr at the plate with the tying run. Mungo pitched a six-hitter, while the Dodgers got nine off Big Jim Weaver.
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BY GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent. C CHICAGO. May 4.—Notes from a a Big League Press box: Pie Traynor, Pittsburgh manager, couldn't sleep the night after the brawl between the Pirates and Cubs. . . . Paul Waner and Babe Herman are back on beer and ale. . . Steve Swetonic, out of baseball two years with a dead arm, is back with Pittsburgh as a relief pitcher. Charlie Grimm. Cubs’ manager, may announce his retirement soon as an active player. . . . Phil Cavarretta, Cubs’ rookie first baseman, is one of the big surprises of the early season . . his fielding and hitting has been a revelation . he's only 18 and the youngest regular in either league. a a a The White Sox made 16 runs and 19 hits off Schoolboy Jtowe. Detroit ace. in the 12 2-3 innings he worked against them in two games. . . . Joe Vance. White Sox rookie pitcher, doesn’t wear sox off the field . . . the players call him “Sockless Joe” in memory of “Shoeless Joe” Jackson. Roy Henshaw, Cubs’ rookie southpaw and University of Chicago graduate, speaks precise English on and off the field . . when his curve ball is breaking well he says, •'my curve bisected the plate at the proper place.” . . . Hank Greenberg. Detroit first baseman, who was in a batting slump when the Tigers played the White Sox here, asked Sox fans around first base to stop riding him “Oh. say. fellows, lay off me.” he said to them. a o a TIMMY DYKES. White Sox man- ’ ager, picks the following team to represent the American League in the all-star game at Cleveland July 8: Cochrane and Dickey, catchers; Harder. Gomez and Rowe, pitchers; Gehrig, first: Gehringer, second: Cronin, Werber. third: Simmons, left; West, center; Manush. right. Cookie Lavagetto. Pirates’ second baseman, is one of the toughest kids in the National League. This is his Second year up and already he has scars on hands and legs from spike wounds. . A1 Simmons. White Sox outfielder, was robbed of three ties, a suit, three shirts and several handkerchiefs at a Cleveland hotel during the White Sox recent visit there. a a a Roy Joiner. ex-Cubs pitcher who was shipped to Los Angeles the day after his fight with Guy Bush, claims the world's rpcord for innings pitched in a bull pen he was in the bull pen almost every day during the tenure with the Cubs. The White Sox players are up in arms over a rule they can’t get passes to Comiskey Park for their friend?. FOHL LEADS BUTLER TO VICTORY AT FRANKLIN I 'l* Stirr! jJ FRANKLIN. Ind.. May 4.—Led bv Fohl. who cracked out four hits in four times at bat. Butler University - baseball squad trounced Franklin here yesterday. 10 to 2. Laymon of Butler clouted a home run in the fifth inning. Sutphin kept 12 grizzly blows well scattered. Score: Butler .100 322 200—10 11 2 Franklin 000 000 200— 2 12 5 Sutphin and Costas; Land and Mahin.
INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1935
Southpaw Bill Clark of Brooklyn —Flipping Over a Fast One
William Watson (Bill) Clark has pitched three victories for the Brooklyn Dodgers this season—and he is a castoff. He was obtained from the Giants last winter for the waiver price. Lefty used to hurl for the Dodgers and apparently is pleased to return. You see him above —from the start to the finish of his pitching form—when he flips over a fast ono. It looks like a comeback and a large year for the left-hander.
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WHAT looks to be a dead heat in the mile run during the dual track meet between California and Stanford, at Berkeley, was won by Warren Dixon, left, of Stanford, when his heaving chest touched the tape a split second ahead of Bob Heavie, Bear star. This excellent action picture was taken as California won its first track meet in a dozen years from the Indians.
Killefer’s Redskins to Play Three Tilts Over Week-End Twin Bill on Card in Milwaukee Tomorrow: League Leaders Bump Into Blizzard in North. BY EDDIE ASH Times Snorts Editor. Well, the Indians have had everything this spring except a good run of heat. It was a. blizzard yesterday and the series opener with the Brewers in Milwaukee was postponed. It will be played off in a double ! header there tomorrow, after a single tilt is staged at Borcher Field today.
The Tribesters are slated to depart for Kansas City tomorrow night to begin a series with the Blues on Monday. During spring train’ng and the regular season the Tribesters have been annoyed at different times by rain, cold weather, dust, snow, and now a blizzard. Still they are on top and eager for action every day. The Redskins have won seven in a row and the postponement of yesterday was unwelcbme. No ball club relished a day off when it is in the midst of a victory march. However, two other American Association games were postponed yesterday and big leagues also felt the heavy hand of the weather man. Grief for the Magnates The magnates suffer when a schedule is disrupted. Salaries and player “keep” must be met, come rain or snow, and plans to pile up big attendance over the year are knocked into a cocked hat. In the case of the Indians, postponements are particularly hard on the pitching staff. Several of i the Tribe flingers will have to be sold or released by May 10 to meet the requirements of the league player limit, and all of the Redskins' flingers want immediate work in the hope of escaping the tinware when Manager Red Killefer is- compelled to swing the ax. TRIBE BATTING AB H 2b 3b HR Pci. Coonev 59 27 7 1 0 .458 Heath 56 24 8 1 3 .429 Riddle 29 11 3 0 0 .379 Rhein 8 3 0 0 0 .375 Sherlock ... 56 21 5 0 1 .375 Stephenson .. 53 18 2 1 0 .349 Moore 1. 3 1 1.0 0 .333 Bedore 64 18 3 0 0 .281 Bluege 55 15 1 0 0 .273 Cotelle 47 12 1 0 0 .255 Stoneham .... 28 7 4 1 0 .250 Sprinz 28 6 1 1 0 .214 Lawrie 5 1 0 0 0 .200 TRIBE PITCHING *G. W. L. IP. H Chamberlain 4 3 1 27 3i Gallivan .... 7 3 0 32 2-3 41 Page 4 2 1 19 21 Thomas .... 3 2 1 20 28 Walsh 3 1 ft 12 7 Sharp 4 1 ft 4 1-3 7 Wright .... 3 0 0 8 8 Turner 1 0 0 7 10 There was a rumor in Louisville Wednesday saying that Nellie Flag wasn't eating as her trainer thought
necessary, but Thursday the fiilly stepped out and set a dizzy pace in a practice sprint. The weather forecast in Louisville today was probably fair, continued cool.” Here is the way the writer thinks they will finish in the Derby: 1. Boxthorn. 2. Nellie Flag. 3. Omaha. 4. Today. Alabama Kid Faces Kelly in Muncie Go By Time• Special MUNCIE. Ind., May 4.—The Alabama Kid and K. O. Kelly will tangle in the main event of th*' •>xing show here May 8, Reid Armstrong, promoter, has announced. The bout will be a ten-rounder. In aother ten-round go Carl Martin, managed by Kelse McClure of Indianapolis. will tackle Stan Nagey of Akron. Three four-round encounters are on the supporting card. YALE REGATTA FAVORITE By Vnited Berts PHILADELPHIA. May 4.—Yale today was a slight favorite over Columbia and Pennsylvania as the eight-oared crews met on the Schuylkill in another chapter of the Blackwell Cup regatta, first held in 1927. WABASH NETMEN LOSE By Times Special ANN ARBOR. Mich.. May 4 —The University of Michigan tennis team defeated Wabash College. 7 to 0, in a tennis meet here Thursday. The Michigan team includes two top-ranking intercollegiate players. When the Schwitzer-Cummins League wound up it.s session's schedule at the Park*av Alleys last night, two teams were tied for the top position, and in order to determine the real champs, the loop staged a post-season series between the two leaders. In the plap-ofT Automatics easily downed the World's Greatest in two straigth ’antes a two best out of three series and the fireworks were over Dunne the circuit's regular schedule. Automatics Hydraulics Even Temperature and World's Greatest won twice over the Stokosta's. Underfeed. Dependable, and efficients. Only two team series were completed in the South Side Recreation League at the Fountain Souare Alievs last, night Inland Coals winning three from Enos Coal, as Citizens Gas bested the Jack's Place in a pair. Leon Tailoring and Trov Oil* were unopposed. Johns 62l was the best individual totals of the evening. t
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’ N. I). Old-Timers to Test 1935 Varsity lift Timex Special SOUTH BEND. Ind., May 4. The fleet fee£ of George Melinkovich. last Notre Dame football player to serve as a freshman under the late Knute Rockne, will crunch the sod of Notre Dame Stadium for the last time tomorrow when the Old I Timers meet the prospective 1935 | Irish varsity in a regulation game. Others Included in the OldTimers’ lineup are Quinlan. Wunsch, Weidner, Robinson, Schrenker, Vyzral Bonar Laßorne and Banas.
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Results Yesterday AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Toledo 100 non 030— 4 11 1 Minneapolis 000 000 010— 1 3 0 Sullivan and Susce; Perrin. Marrow', Sundra and Hargrave. Indianapolis at Milwaukee; blizzard. Columbus at St. Paul; cold weather. Louisville at Kansas City; cold. AMERICAN LEAGUE New York at St. Louis; wet grounds. Philadelphia at Cleveland; rain. Washington at Chicago; rain. Boston at Detroit; rain. Pittsburgh 000 100 000— 1 6 0 Brooklyn 000 000 20x— 2 9 1 Weaver and Padden; Mungo and Lopez. Cincinnati 100 000 001— 2 6 2 New York 230 102 Olx— 9 16 0 Frey. Brennan. Hermann and Lombardi; Hubbcll and Mancuso. St. Louis at Boston: cold weather. Chicago at Philadelphia; wet grounds.
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LEADING BATTERS G. AB. R. H Pet.. Hogan. Braves 10- 29 3 13 .448 Vaughan. Pirates 15 56 13 25 .446 J. Moore, Phillies 13 51 13 20 .392 I Hemslev. Browns 12 41 6 16 .390 I Foxx. Athletics 13 49 7 19 .388 l HOME RUNS Ott, Giants 6 Foxx. Athletics 5 Camilli. Phillies 6 Johnson. Athletic' 5 ! J. Moore. Phillies 6 Frev. Dodgers ... 5; Bonura. White Sox 6 RUNS BATTED IN Johnson. Athletics 18 Bonura. White Sox 16 Camilli. Phillies 18 Ott. Giants IS Frey. Dodgers... 17 RUNS Bonura, W. Sox.. 18 Radcliff. W Sox . 13 Rolfe, Yankees.. 15 Vaughan. Pirates. 13 Taylor, Dodgers. 15 J. Moore. Phillies 13 Frey. Dodgers .. 14 Bartell. Giants 13 Johnson. Athletics 13 Medwick, Cardinals 13 Hayes, White Sox 13 HITS Vaughan. Pirates 25 Leiber, Giants .. 21 Johnson. Athletics 22 Koenig, Giants .. 21 j Ott. Giants 22 Bottomley. Reds . 21 | Terry, Giants .. 22 Hayes. White S. 21 j
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The annual 54-hole championship tournament of the Indianapolis District Golf Association will be held June 3-5, it was announced late ThursdayThe first round of the medal competition will be played on Highland course, the second at Hillcrest and the third at Broadmoor. Dave Mitchell, national Public Links ch impion and district winnes last yeai, may not defend his district championship because of a possible conflict with his business at New Albany. tt tt tt The association, after deciding upon the district dates during the j meeting yesterday, voted to present | the Indianapolis Women's Golf Association with a cup to be awarded annually to the queen of the local fairways. The association also pledged cooperation with the Veterans of For- i eign Wars, Indiana Department, in \ the sponsoring of the SSOOO Indianapolis open in October. All officers were re-elected. E. L. Lennox, Indianapolis, retains his office as president for the fifth consecutive year. Other leaders renamed were: Wallace O. Lee, first vice president; Leland Crawford, second vice president; Don Kennedy, Martinsville, third vice presi- j dent; Eugene Pulliam. Lebanon, fourth vice president; Neal Grider, treasurer, and Secretary Wagoner. ILLINI GOLFERS AT I. U. By Timrs Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., May 4. The Indiana University golf team encountered Illinois in a Big Ten match here today. The Crimson baseball team was scheduled at Chi- i cago while the tennis team tested j Western state at Kalamazoo Mich. 1
Cronin Seeks Replacements Joe. Cronin, boss of the Boston Red Scr, needs a second baseman and nisi is on the lookout for a frst sacker who can hit better than Babe Dahlgrcn, even thoi/cjh Babe is a sensational f elder. Boston scouts arc ivatching Yin Sherloce, Indiannpolis second base wan.
At Simmons Sees Great Slugger in G. Washington Chisox Vet Tabs Rookie From Indianapolis ‘Most Powerful Left-Hander in League in 12 Years.’
BY HARRY GRAYSON NE.% Sport.% Editor CHICAGO. May 4.—"1 can not tell a lie,” says Aloysius Harry Simmons, “George Washington, up from Indianapolis, looks like the mast, powerful left-hand hitter who has broken into the American League in my 12 years.”
WASHINGTON, who was christened Vernon, but who will be George as long as he plays baseball, is advised not to wait for a finer compliment. Aloysius Harry Simmons has a lifetime major league average of .354 and a slugging average of .573. On top of that he has seen many fine lefthand batsmen make their bows. There are several reasons why the suprising Chicago White Sox, a
unanimous choice to continue their ocupancy of the basement, are fighting for the league lead instead. The action of Catcher Luke Sewell helped the veteran pitchers, Sad Sam Jones. George Earnshaw and Ted Lyons, to land new leases | on life. Jimmy
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Dykes came up with two corking young right-handers in Johnny Whitehead and Joe Vance. Les Tietje and Vernon Kennedy are two more of whom much is expected. Luke Appling and Jack Hayes, free of injuries for a change, give the White Sox a well oiled second j basing combination and have contributed generously to the at- , tack. Zeke Bonura picked up where | he left off last fall, and Marty Hop- 1 kins filled in acceptably at third base when' Dykes pulled up with a cholly hoss. Simmons has obtained a flying j start on what should be one of his j largest years, and Washington and I Ray Radcliff give the outfit needed left-hand hitting strength. a a tt BUT in relating the story of the transition, Simmons speaks of Washington first. “Radcliff is a good hitter, but I'm telling you that Washington is a great one.” asserts Simmons. “All pitchers look alike to Washington, and he hits the ball savagely and on a line. He hits the ball against the right field fence so hard it bounces all the way back to the infield. “When they started pitching outside to him the other day he dumped the ball into the left-field stand, something I’ve never before seen a left-hand hitter do at Comiskey Park. He hits any ball he can lay his bat on. He broke up one game by smacking a pitch that was over his head.” nan OTHER big league outfits laid off Washington because he had the reputation of being a none too accomplished defensive player. He hasn’t looked bad on a single chance to date, and already has proved that he is far from being a Smead Jolley, despite the fact that a irghtfielder in Comiskey Park has both the sun and wind t contend with. I Earl Webb, the former major league flychaser, beat Washington to the American Association batting championship in 1934 by a single point, with .368. Washington stands 5 feet 11% inches, weighs 190 pounds and has j a pair of shoulders like Max Baer# I His rugged and wind-burnt .pan j makes it unnecessary for him to tell j you that he is from the plains. He j combs his sandy hair straight back and has a dimple in his chin. nun WASHINGTON was bom, | reared, and still lives on his father's farm near Linden, between Texarkana and Shreveport, In northeast Texas. Washington is 26 and launched his professional career rather late, “maybe because I didn’t have to play ball.” While he has played since he was a kid. he says that he really did not become interested in j the game until he was 20. He had no boyhood baseball idol, never j read of the sport, and seldom does j now.
WASHINGTON twice has helped ruin Lynwood Rowe, of the i Tigers, already this season. He as- : serfs that he hit well against the Schoolboy as a member of the Lindon club in a semi-professional cirj cuit prior to 1932 when both crashed i the Texas League. “I hit Rowe in the Texas League, too.” declares Washington. Washington was dragged off the farm by Hub Northern, an old player who introduced him to Walter Morris, business manager of the Shreveport club. The husky outfielder hit. .350 for Shreveport, and .325 for Ft. Worth the following season. Washington says that to date American League pitchers haven't looked any different to him than those of the American Association. Cardinal Trackmen Top Shelby, Manual Southport High School totaled 44'/a “points to triumph in a triangular track meet at the Cardinal field yesterday afternoon Manual Training followed with 38 markers, and Shelbyville was third with 36' The Cardinals scored a .slam lit the shotput as well as taking handily the mile relay. Gunning of Shelbyville was a double winner, setting anew Southport record of :16.3 in the 120-yard high hurdles and taking honors in the broad jump. Manual won the half mile relay and JolifT won the low hurdles. MIDGET RACE TRACK BUILT AT NEWCASTLE By Timm Special NEWCASTLE, Ind., May 4 get automobile racing programs will be offered in Newcastle beginning May 23, George Sweigert, operator, has announced. Anew grand stand has been erected and the oval will be known as Mt. Lawn race track. Mt. Lawn will be a member of the Midget Miniature Auto Race Association, and 30 drivers of that cir cuit already have entered the opening races here. GIBBONS TAKES DECISION ST. PAUL, May 4. —Jack Gibbon?, St. Paul middleweight and son of the famed Mike Gibbons, easily outpointed Solly DukeLsky. Chicago, in a 10-round fight here Thursday.
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