Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1936 — Page 33

'APRIL 24, 1936.

JAMAICA RACE MAY CHANGE ODDS ON KENTUCKY CLASSIC

Field of 20 Likely When Derby Starts Many Eligibles Still Look Sound; Railbirds Watch Wood Memorial. By United Press LOUISVILLE. April 24.--One of the largest fields in the history of the Kentucky Derby iras forecast today for its sixty-second running on May 2. A resume of the 102 eligibles shows that at least 20 have shown enough form to be considered as starters. Brevity, held at 12 to 5. is one of the shortest-priced winter book favorites in history. So much advance money has been wagered on the Belair Stud entry that bookmakers have hammered the price down to protect themselves. The odds are expected to be shuffled after tomorrow’s running of the Wood Memorial at Jamaica race track in New York. Hollyrood, Granville—a son of Gallant Fox, Derby winner in 1930—Ned Reigh and several other Derby candidates probably will run in it. The winner, if its victory is impressive. is expected to become second favorite for the Derby, with a possibility that enough heavy money might come in on the Wood winner later to make Brevity a second choice. Expected to go to the post for the $40,000 added Kentucky classic—unless they suffer severe form reversals during the next week—are the following members of the 3-year-old brigade: Horae, Owner— Odds. Banister (E. R. Bradley) 15-1 Blen .101 l (E. R. Bradley) 15-1 Bold Venture (Morton L. Schwartz).. 12-1 Brevity (Joseph E. IVldener) 12-5 Bright Ll*:ht (Shandon Farm) SO-1 Bright Plumage (C. V. Whitney) 20-1 Coldstream (Coldstream Stud) 10-1 Delphinium (Rronkmeade Stable).... 15-1 Dnelper (Mrs. P. A. B. Wtdener)... 50-1 Grand Slam (Botnar Stable) ........ 8-1 Granville (Relalr Stud) 10-1 He Did (Mrs. Silas B. Mason) 2t-l Hollyrood (Hal Price Bradley) j>-l Indian Broom (A. C. T. Stock Farm) 12-1 Ned Reigh (Willis Sharpe Kilmer).. 12-1 Sangreal (Milkfr Way Farms) 20-1 The Fighter (Milky Way Farms).... 10-1 Tintagel (Marshall Field) 20-1 Teufel (Wheatley Stable) 25-1 Valevtctorlan (Mrs. Silas B. Mtson) 60-1

Greencastle Has Big League Day St. Louis Cards Stop Off for Exhibition. Times Special GREENCASTLE. Ind., April 24. Putnam County mobilized in this college town today to see the biggest sporting event in years—a baseball game between the St. Louis Cardinals and De Pauw University's Tigers. 4 Preparations had been made to take care of a crowd of 2500. Special bleachers were erected at Blackstock Field. State police were on hand to aid Greencastle’s police chief, Lawrence Graham. The big leaguers were scheduled to have lunch at the Phi Kappa Psi house, where lives Fred Frick. De Pauw sophomore and son of Ford Frick, president of the National League. The Red Birds, with all stars in uniform.-were expected to take the field about 1 o’clock. The game was to be called at 3.

Loop Leaders Turn Wary Eyes on Mack’s Rookies Athletics, Improving With Each Game, Promise to Prove Trouble-Makers; Cleveland Goes in Front. Py United Presg ~ * , . . NEW YORK, April 24.—They laughed when old Connie Mack said his rookies would “fool many of the wise boys.” Mtvck, whd has fashioned nine pennant winners and won more world series titles than any other baseball leader, did a little laughing himself today over the showing of the boys who have been renamed by many

the “Philadelphia Esthetics.” Gray-haired Connie has no visions of a pennant—‘‘at least not this year.” But he was correct when he said “with so many young

players around anything might happen.” It has—sooner than expect ed. The A's are tied for last place today in the American League with the St. Louis Browns at two vie tor i e sand six defeats. But Mack’s club, with rookies in almost every

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position, has played a hustling type of game that promises to make trouble for the contenders. Since the season started, the team which was reduced from a championship outfit to a cellar contender by sale of its stars, has improved gradually. In their first two games, the A’s were soundly drubbed by the Red Sox. Prom then on they played close baseball, losing two to Washington and one to Boston by the slim margin of one run. F titles Red Sox Sluggers Monday, the A’s unleashed a heavy hitting attack to win their first gams of the season—a 12-11 victory over the New York Yankees. Tuesday they dropped another onerun decision, this to the Yanks. Yesterday, they turned in one of the best games of the new campaign. With Harry Kelley, a 29-year-old rookie from Atlanta, holding the opposition to three hits, the Athletics whipped the Red Sox 9-1 —the wcfrst licking Yawkey’s millionaires have received this year. Only two men got hits Jimmy Foxx, who hit his third homer of the season and a •single, and Relief Pitcher Jim Henry, who singled. Ths A’s battered Wes Ferrell, one of Boston’.* two ace pitchers, foj eight hits and all their runs. It was the first defeat for Ferrell in three starts. The defeat, however, did not af-

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That one on the right (the one you wished you had caught) is a large mouth bass, taken by Ross Hewes, 1009 W. 35th-st, who doesn’t seem to mind the 616 pounds of weight he’s holding on one hand at all. The other swings the scales at 3!6 pounds. Both taken from Shafer Lake at Gano’s Camp. Hewes used to be a ball player and knows the art of making fancy catches.

• Let’s Go Fishing • By JERRY SHERIDAN

UP bobs Connie Stumph, dormant these many weeks gone, with the very civil tale of five elegant bass caught last Sunday, thereby upholding the contention that his might with the rod is strictly comparable to his skill with the gun.

Five bass, my fellow Waltonians, caught on the Heddon River Runt during one session of sunning himself. But then some fellows have all the luck. Not all, perhaps, for in today’s mail Walt Jones relays the information that his friends, Jim Johnson and Ed Boyles, on a trip to Kentucky took fourteen bass, averaging better than two pounds. The largest was a beamish boy of 4',i pounds. tt tt it AN interesting problem comes in today’s mail when George Bertrand, 1011 W. 34th-st, asks how his catch of an 11V 2 -inch crappie compares with others • taken from White River in the Indianapolis district. Now there is something we will have to pass on to you fans who have soaked your lines in that stream considerably, for we feel poorly qualified to make an answer. What do you suggest? tt tt tt WHAT about this business of the care and feeding of the mighty bass? Our newly acquired friend, Walt Roeder, of Em-Roe’s,

feet Boston's runner-up position in the league standings. The Cleveland Indians took over first from the Chicago White Sox by beating them 6-0. The Sox went to third. The Indians scored four runs in the first and two in the fifth as ex-Yankee Johnny Allen held the Sox to seven hits. Auker Tames Browns The Yankees took undisputed possession of fourth place with a 10-6 victory over Washington, which had been tied for the berth with New York. The World Chapion Detroit Tigers, after losing a pair to the St. Louis Browns, came back with a 10-0 victory behind Eldon Auker’s six-hit pitching. National League warfare war featured by a pair of 10-inning games. The New York Giants, who tied the score with two runs in the ninth and took the lead with another in the tenth, lost, 4-3, when the Brooklyn Dodgers pushed over two in their half. The Giants held on to first place, however. In the other overtime game, the Cincinnati Reds crushed the St. Louis Cardinals, 8-6, scoring three in the tenth after the Cards had tallied once in the same frame. Myer’s homer with Campbell aboard scored the winning runs after Campbell’s single had brought in the tying score. The Chicago Cubs whipped Pittsburgh. 2-1, while a homer by Watkins with Chiozza aboard in the ninth gave Philadelphia a 5-3 triumph over Boston. Yesterday’s Hero—Sidney Gautreaux, third-string Brooklyn catcher, whose first hit in the big league, —a tenth-inning pinch single with the bases loaded—brought in the run which defeated the New York Giants.

ADTO LOANS and Refinancing 20 Months to Pay WOLF SUSSMAN, Inc, 239 W. WASH. ST. f.xtuhlishrrt .14 V?r< Opoysltr Mntrhnr. 1.1-5715.

brought up the question of how often bass (in their wild and untutored state) are likely to feed. Excluding the spawning • season when they hurriedly gobble as much as possible and store up for the rainy day, and times when he is just plain itching for a fight, is there any rhyme or reason to the contention that the lordly bass gets hungry every second day? Could this be the reason behind fruitless trips to spots where we just know there are real fish? You have all done it, I suppose. Spend one day, get some real sport and try again the next day with no reward. Perhaps they do eat enough to supply them for two days (hand running, as we used to say back home). Any help from you whose trips have taken the wilder and less sullied trails? Help! a a tt AND now we are going to stick our neck out just a little and ask a certain gentleman of the medical profession here in town for some further details on the fishing system of "day of the month and time of the day” which we hear indirectly he is checking. We have an opportunity to compare notes with him if he is Interested. It seems that there is a prevailing commercial system depending somewhat on the phase of the moon, the tide, weather and other less vital elements to foretell the proper time to get out the worms or the plugs (substitute here your favorite bait) and get your feet wet. u * WE are of an open mind in the matter—stranger things have come to pass than that something better than luck should determine our plans for fishing trips. If any of you have a contraption, plan or whatnot, let’s have it. Or your opinions on this one suggested. It may sound phoney—but let’s wait until the doctor and I have given it our best scientific inspection. Shall w T e collaborate on this experiment, Doctor? I’ll trade information on time the catch was made for some gossip on your own trips and those of your friends. I’ve never been able to catch fish by the clock (and sometimes I have not been able to catch them at. all); but have any of you?

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City Mittmen Rap Invaders Turn Back Three Lafayette Champs; Big Elza to Headline Card. BY HARRISON MILLER Three local amateur fighters today had added another victory notch to their belts by conquering Golden Gloves champions of Lafayette In inter-city matches last night on the weekly mitt program at Tomlinson Hall. Big Elza Thompson, the ambling Negro heavyweight, is to return to the program next week, it was announced. Matchmaker Roy Wallace is trying to find a suitable opponent to oppose Thompson, who has yet to be rocked by a solid blow. Cottey Wins Handily Les Douglass, featherweight champ of the invading Lafayette team, had lost only two fights in 18, but last night ran into a scrapper who cut him down with a clever body attack. Bud Cottey, twice winner of the local tourney, stayed within the wild, open flaying attack of Douglass and won a fourround decision with fierce lashes to the midrift and head. Sock Kurtz, Lafayette fireman and former Purdue full back, turned in his second triumph in a local ring in scoring the only victory for the invaders. The heavy-punching light-heavyweight king easily won a technical kayo victory over Johnny Bunny, Negro, who was making his first appearance here. The Negro southpaw offered a wideopen target for the damaging body thrusts of Kurtz, who gained the decision in the second round. Gustafson Gains Edge Johnny Denson, stiff-punching middleweight, outclassed Joe Giovanni of Lafayette to win a technical kayo verdict in the second round. Merle Roberts repeated his victory over Bob Wallace, Lafayette .welter champion, with a threeround decision. Jimmy Gustafson and George Hoyt renewed their local rivalry with a three-round slugging bee, Gustafson taking a hairline decision in three rounds. In other matches, Harold McDermid outpointed Dave Norris. Bob Halligan scored a technical kayo over Johnny Martin in two rounds, and Bobby Red Wing outpointed Joe Faccone.

Charges and Denials Are Heard in Wrestling Row Promoter Curley Is Questioned on Profit-Sharing Contract; Shikat $25,000 Offer Is Revealed. COI.TJMBUS, 0., April 24.—1nt0 the records of the United States Federal Court today had been written testimony that Dick Shikat, a claimant of the world’s heavyweight wrestling championship, had declined an offer of $25,000 for four matches under the direction of Jack Curley of New York, following his victory March 2 at Madison Square Garden over Danno O’Mahoney of Ireland.

Curley told of the offer when he took the stand as the first witness at a hearing before Judge Mell G. Underwood on a request made by Joe Alvarez, Boston promoter, for a temporary injunction against Shikat. Alvarez alleges breach of contract. Curley denied that either he or Rudy Dusek, whom the defense contends was an employe of Curley, visited the dressing room of Shikat on the night of the O’Mahoney match and told him to “drop” the bout in “45 or 50 minutes.” The promoter also denied he had ever “fixed”, any match. While on the stand Curley was questioned on his “profit-sharing contract” with Joseph Monut, Los Angeles; Paul Bowser, Boston; Ray Fabiana, Philadelphia; Ed White, Chicago, and Tom Packs, St. Louis. The defense held the contract created a wrestling "trust” and manipulated matches. The only witness called yesterday besides Curley was Garrett L. Smalley, Kansas City, chairman of the Missouri State Athletic Commission. Missouri is one of the states in which the heavyweight was suspended. The hearing here is another phase of the long battle between Eastern wrestling interests and a Midwestern promotional group headed by Art Haft of Columbus. FIGHT STOPS EARLY PORTLAND, Me., April 24.—Ad Zachow, 162, Portland, knocked out Bemie Monahan, 165, Providence, R. 1., in the first round of a scheduled 10-round main go here last night.

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THEY’re talking about women's rights again on Butler University campus. Women’s right to issue challenges has been challenged by the Butler Independent Association. And it all centers around a

game of golf. It seems that three Kappa Kappa Gamma girls wlio are individual golf stars in their own right banded together into a team and then discovered they were bereft of competition. The state intercollegiate tourney is for men’s teams exclusively. Hostilities in city and state open tournaments are for solo honors

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■pvON LASH, above, of Indiana University, is in Des Moines to participate in the famed Drake Relays. He is a star of the Big Ten, and track experts believe he is in a fair way to do some recordsmashing, especially in the twomile run, his favorite event: Other Hoosier state track and field aces are in the West for the collegiate classic. GREYHOUNDS OPPOSE PHY-EDS TEAM TODAY Indiana Central was scheduled for a return game today at 3 with N. C. A. G. U. at the University Heights diamond. The Phy-Eds held the Greyhounds to a 2-to-l victory last week in the opening game. Dorton and Collier were expected to form the battery for Indiana Central.

PLAINFIELDNEXT FOE FOR SILENT HOOSIERS The Silent Hoosiers baseball team today prepared for the encounter at Plainfield tomorrow following a triumph over Southport High School, 12 to 9. Smiley’s home run yesterday with two men aboard in the sixth inning broke a deadlock and provided the winning margin over the Cardinals. Ayres also connected for the circuit and Lee hit safely three times for the winners. Score: Southport 000 036 0— 9 7 1 Silent Hoosiers 300 333 x—l 213 3 Sanders, Tex and S. Wasson, Brown; Fields, Ayres and Lee.

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only. The Butler intramural league is a closed shop as far as the feminines are concerned (our heroines tried to break in, but met with rebuff.). No little irked by all these restraints, the sorority suffragettes sounded their disapproval by challenging any masculine team in the school, from the varsity on down. u u u THAT’S where the B. I. A. took the matter up. Kennet Golden, B. I. A. chief, called Miss Dorothy Dunbar. Kappa Gamma president, and offered to select a three-man team from his organization for a match with the fair fairwayers. Acceptance was prompt, to say the least. Mr. Golden added, being it was leap year, the girls might select the date, site, and choice of weapons, and they did. Continued Mr. Golden: “Our gentlemen not only agree to the match but offer you as much handicap allowance as befits a lady.” No answer has been forthcoming on that proposal. Thus, the Misses Lillian Reese, Carolin Vsrin and Harriett Randall. Kappa Gamma’s golfing trio of state-wide fame, are to cross clubs with Edwin Eaton, Paul Lindeborg and James Fick, pride of the B. I. A., at Speedway course Sunday, May 3. The route will be 18 holes. Tipoff that the trouser trio will be no pushover is given in the recollection that last Saturday Eaton limbered up by firing a 72 on a city course. Good luck, boys and girls, and may the best gender win! tt n tt IMMEDIATE local news has to do mostly with stag dinners. The links season is to be sent officially on its way by two local clubs with no-women-pre sent parties tomorrow night. Tonight, a stag banquet is on the program at Hillcrest. New members will be welcomed. Indianapolis Country Club will let the steak dinner suffice as an opener for the time being. Meridian Hills .men will form two teams tomorrow afternoon for a rivalry round, possibly to decide who is in best early season trim, possibly for nothing more than to allot the dinner checks, probably as an appetite whetter, and certainly a combination of all three. Cecil Lykins and Walter Montgomery are chairmen in charge. n tt BILL REED JR., District champion, says he is hanging up his clubs for this season, and possibly for good ... no particular reason. But note carefully that he doesn’t say positively. tt tt tt NOTRE DAME’S golf team tomorrow will be host to Northwestern, the only team to defeat the Irish in their last 25 starts. . . . Since 1930, when the pitch-and-putt pastime became a part of Notre Dame athletics, the South Bend school has won 40 of 43 dual matches . . . and has gone undefeated in four of the six seasons . * . Irish golfers won the state team and individual titles each four times ... and will be out for more glory in the state renewal.' 're May 25-26. tt a Red Kelso, Indiana football captain and center last year, is a member of the Indiana University Law School golf team. He should have plenty of driving power. tt tt tt CLEVELAND wants to sponsor a golf tournament in connection with the Great Lakes Exposition, and is just waiting for some one to suggest what kind of tourney, where to hold it, and a trusting soul to kick in a $3500 advance fund. That’s all.

Local Bowlers to Receive $17,937.70A. B. C. Prizes Share Well in Distribution of National Event Awards; 286 Teams Enter City Tournament. BY BERNARD HARMON THAT Indianapolis will share well in the distribution of the $108,928.00 prize fund of the recent 1936 American Bowling Congress staged at the State Fairground coliseum, was assured today when a list of winner* was released by A. B. C. officials. i

Local pin smackers are to receive $17,937.70 when the checks are distributed tomorrow afternoon by Norman Hamilton, city association secretary. Os this sum, $5853.70 was won by keglers participating on the regular squads wnile $12,084 goes to teams which bowled in the booster division. Seventeen regular five-man teams collected $2,165.82 in the team events, Falls City Hi-Brus, the new champions, faring best with a cash prize of SIOOO and five diamond medals. Doubles and Singles Jerry O'Grady and Herman Bohne, who are to receive S4OO for third place in the doubles, top the list of 40 duos collecting $1,638.72 in that division. A total of $1,5£*3.61 is to be paid to 86 winners in the individual event, Raymond Fox’s $275 second place prize being tops. Johnny Murphy heads the list of 11 individuals who are to be rewarded to the extent of $452.55 for high scores in the all-events division. Murphy is to receive $175 for first place. Secretary Hamilton is to be at the Severin between 1 and 4 tomorrow afternoon and requests that all prize winners call there for the awards. Low to cash in the various events were as follows: Five-man, 2703; doubles, 1139; singles, 582; allevents, 1811. n n n THE largest entry in history of the city bowling tournament is to display its scoring prowess when the event opens at the Parkway alleys May 2. Two hundred eightysix teams are to fire at the maples during the course of the affair, which is expected to run over a period of three weeks. With separate prizes in each of the three classes, bowlers with lower averages as well as the city’s top notchers are to have an opportunity to cash. Class A, including teams with averages over 900, drew an entry of 21. Class B, which embraces teams with averages between 825 and 899, inclusive, is to have 102 quintets in action and Class C, teams with averages of 824 and under, is to have 163 fives on the drives. Minor events also drew record entries. u n ALTHOUGH several leagues were in action last night, no pastimer reached the 650 mark in his trio of games. Solo honors of the evening went to Frank Livengood, who, in his Elks League appearance, totaled 648 through games of 245, 168 and 235. Wilbur Trennepohl of the Industrial League assembled a 646 that was good for runnerup honors, while Ji'fn Hass with a 645 in the Universal League took the show position. Harry Wheeler was the only other ho: ior shooter of the Industrial loop. He halted right on the 600 mark. Fay Rugh with 632 and Larry Sutphin with 627 completed the Universal’s list of 600 scorers. tt tt tt OTIS FORD and Bill Ittenbach turned in series of 634 and 619 for honors in the St. Philip No. 2; Buses with 629, Banks with 625 and Boucher with 607 were the top scorers of the Automotive; Neilus at 627 and Renner at 617 were the L. S. Ayres leaders, Hubbard, Pearson and Baker topped all rivals in the Parkway Recreation with totals of 625, 613 and 612 and Freddie Herther outscored all West Side Merchants’ pastimers through a 605.

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Hoosier Runners Among Favorites Star Tracksters on Marks at Drake Relays. (Continued From Page Thirty-Two) in the special college events, and the decathlon and 110-meter hurdles have been eliminated entirely. Twenty-two events, featuring the 400-meter hurdles, distance college medley relays, 3000-meter steeplechase, 440-yard college relay and discus throw and shot put, were on today’s program. The carnival will wind up in a blaze of speed tomorrow when Jesse Owens, of Ohio State, and Eulace Peacock, Temple, two of America’s fastest humans, meet in the 100-meter dash. Fortyfive events are on the final day's program. Champions are entered from every section of. the country except the Pacific Coast. Owens and Peacock, the Negro rivals, will be the busiest athletes. Both will compete in the 100 meters and broad jump. In addition, Owens will anchor four Ohio State relay teams and Peacock will try to crack a record in the hop, step and jump and will anchor Temple’s 880yard relay team. Many records are expected to fall because of the superb condition of the new $6500 track, which replaced the old track, churned to a powder by 40 years of competition. Brubaker Choice to Whip Abe Feldman By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, April 24.—Phil Brubaker, Dinuba, Cal., heavyweight “white hope,” faces the stiffest hurdle of his professional career tonight when he meets Abe Feldman of New York in a 10-round main event bout at Dreamland Auditorium. Although many experts disagreed, home town backers bet heavily on on the Dinuba youth and the odds were 10 to 7 in his favor. Brubaker’s most noteworthy ring achievement thus far has been his 10-round decision over King Levinsky, the former Chicago fish peddler. MANCINI KAYOES GRUVER Times Special EAST LIVERPOOL, O-, April 24. —Dominio Mancini, 139, Pittsburgh, Pa., scored a knockout victory over A1 Gruver, 139, Akron, 0., last night in the second round of the scheduled 10-round windup of the local boxing show. Ml