Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1936 — Page 15
sational figure.
Scribe Paints Word Picture of Scene at Local Track
as Tragedy Stalks Trials 5...
Sees City Youth Climb Eagerly Into Cockpit With Bill Denver: Third Passenger Rides Unseen—Gabriel’s Got Them!—Other Drivers Least Perturbed of All.
BY JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer
EW YORK. May 29%
A flash-back to the 500-mile race, the world’s
greatest automobile competition, the twenty-fourth renewal of which takes place tomorrow at the old Indianapolis brick track. . It's late in the afternoon, a Sunday afternoon. You're sitting in a high press coop at the Speedway. A sullen, oppressive heat has settled
over the grounds.
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The low sprawling stands along the homestretch are filled with peoOver in the infield thousands of passenger cars are parked side by
side. Vendors circulate in the crowd hawking iced drinks, hot dogs, balloons. The atmosphere is that of a country fair.
The flags hang limp, motionless in the still air. Everybody is in sleeves. Corn-fed maidens in gay dimities parade the walks. They look very nice and very healthy. Down in the paddock—the garages —visitors study the watch charm racing cars, puzzled, fascinated. “You don’t mean to tell me them little things go a hundred miles an hour?” “Say, brother, when they don’t go a hundred and - fifty they just ain't trying.” Out on the track three other cars, their newly enameled bodies glistening in the sun, are smoking around the track. There f5 a sinister hum of motors that seems to bespeak both power and peril. These three cars are seeking to qualify for the race proper. To do this they must circle the two-and-a-half-mile track 10 times at 100 miles an hour or better. ” ” » RESENTLY the three finish. Two of them qualify. The third is out of the race. By now another car is warming up, No. 42. A blue thing with red markings, called a Brady special. Three men comprising the technical committee watch the preliminary maneuvers. These men decide on the fitness of drivers and cars.
Nearby a tall, soft-spoken man is slouched over the rail of one of the its. In the war days he was a senThe newspapers Yalled him the “ace of aces.” As an American aviator Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker was the Lindbergh of his time. . . . “Those fellows will be lucky to last>a lap,” comments the captain, making no attempt to conceal his concern. Car No. 42, motor primed, rolls up to the starting line. Bill Denver, the driver, sits at the wheel, smiling, waiting for the signal to go. At his side sits Bob Hurst of Indianapolis, mechanic, adjusting his goggles.
_ This is a great day for young Bob
Hurst; he has just been selected over three other mechanics for the Job. Denver holds his left hand in a stiff awkward position. When you ask about this you learn the arm is partly paralyzed. But this -hasn’t seemed to handicap him as a drivar. He has been starring on the dirt tracks. He is known as a desperate driver, but nobody's fool at the wheel. 5 ” o s ITH a thunderous roar and in an explosion of black-blue smoke, car No. 42 is off. The day is
fading and the sun has begun to sink behind the tall scrubby maples that fringe the track. Some of the more restless people are leaving for town. Car No. 42 shoots past the grand stand. In another breath it is streaking up the back stretch, a blurred, blue comet . To all appearances it is just another car trying to qualify. There is no hint of tragedy, no evidence that a third, unseen passenger rides between the two men in their clean white overalls. The rubber rimmed wheels turn faster and faster but no man-made motor was ever too swift for death. Coming out of the turn at the end of the back stretch Car No. 42 is seen to swerve slightly, skid, turn completely over . . . “Gabriel's got them,” cries a veteran in the press box. This is a phrase peculiar to automobile racing. It means the fate of the men lies in the hands of the angels. The angels weren't with Bill Denver and Bob Hurst that Sunday afternoon. When car No. 42 came out of its spin it headed for the guard rail at the top of the banked turn, somersaulted, and dropped from sight. ® 2 =
FT HAT was the earthly end of Bill Denver and Bob Hurst. One of them was picked up dead. The other died a few minutes later. You found yourself strangely awed by the swiftness with which these two lives were blotted out. Less than a minute before you had seen them at the starting .line, youthful, smiling, eager for the word “Go!” and now they were dead. Gone forever. And still everything else was unchanged. The thousands still sat in the stands. The vendors plied their trade. The corn-fed maidens in dimities gurgled and giggled. The tall trees nodded in the heavy heat. The soft spoken war hero dabbed his forehead nervously with a handkerchief and murmured, “The poor devils.” Death had come and gone, as often it does at that shrine of speed. And nobody seemed to mind it a great deal. And least of all the drivers themselves. They went right along preparing for*the race which was to come with tomorrow. They said it was all racing luck and that either you have it or you don't.
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Amateurs
No Indianapolis Amateur Baseball Association games were scheduled for today. Tomorrow's schedule in three leagues;
BIG SIX LEAGUE J vington Merchants vs. Hoosier Cab, at
Ellenbe arine vs. Inland Container, at Riverside 3. Community Service vs. Brinks, Ine., at Riverside 4.
EM-ROE SENIOR LEAGUE - Priels 30th and Illinois Street Merchants vs. Bennett Coal. at Garfield So Athic A. C. vs. Eagles No. 211, at Riverside 7. ashion Cleaners vs. Sexson Bros. Coal, at Riverside 6. eld’s Tavern vs. Gulling Auto Electric, at Riverside x CAPITOL CITY LEAGUE Holy Cross vs. Question Marks, at Brook-
side 1. Southern A. C. Robinwood, s 1.
Rhodiu Question Marks are to practice this evening and hold a meeting immediately following. Tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 at Garfield No. 3, the Marks tangle with the Pivot City Club. Sunday the Marks are to play the Holy Cross nine at
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contest.
The Maccabees oppose the Fall
Creek Athletics Sunday at River- Cnc
side No. 9. Maccabees have open dates after July 12 and wish to schedule games with out-of-town teams. Write to Gilbert J. Menchhofer, 3526 W. 12th-st, Indianapolis. Greenwood, Brownsburg, notice.
Salvage Equipment Co. nine will play the Greenwood team Sunday morning at 10 o'clock on Riverside diamond No. 1. All players are requested to be present at 9:30.
PETEY MIKE WINS BOUT. By United Press : DALLAS, Tex, May 29.—Petey Mike, 157, New York, outpointed Al
Trulman, 161, Los Angeles, in the 10-round windup event of the local boxing show here last night.
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Games Today
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INDIANAPOLIS at Columbus a St. Paul a eapolis. Milwaukee at Kansas City.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago at Detroit. (Only game scheduled.)
NATIONAL LEAGUE
1 Cohen and Garbark: H Southard and Thompson. alley; Hass. erry
000 001 010— 2 ukee 413 101 fox—11 n pa chinson and Pasek: Heving
Minneapolts Kansas Ci Crabovity and’ Geo and Madjeski
Kennedy. Evans ana Sewell: v. ans an we! Kimsey, Sullivan and Cochrane.
(Pirst Game: Ten Innings) Philadelphia i 030 1— een Ha e hy Vo eo i Rr Ai sell and Bolton Sez. Mossi Newsom. Res
(Second Game) Philadelphia 50 000 000— 0 5 © Washi ington 101 100 20x— 5 7 1 Wilshere, Turbeville and Hayes; DeShong and Millies.
ook vo Eu 8 9 Malone and Glenn; Ostermueller, Henry, Wilson and Berg
St. Lo 016 3 91 Cleveland 00 40x— 6 8 3 Knott and Hemsley: "a and Sullivan.
NATIONAL LEAGUE First Game) 000 412 1
200— 4 1 TELL A > umac Coffman and Mancuso. ACR
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Cantwell Chaplin IE Lewi Si Gabler and Mancuso. S. Cas tleman,
073 010 00%—1} 10 0 Rm Holl fingsworin. Hilcher. Stine, Frey and a Lombardi; Warneke and Hart-
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rnshaw. Jeffcoat, Brandt and Berres; Johnson, Zachary, Kowalik, Bowman and Grace.
Pittshureh 400 110 jg 3 3 1 t. Louis 000 100 00 1 Weaver and Padden; Walker er Hallahan, Haines and Davis.
STERLINGS TO OPPOSE KAUTSKYS AT MUNCIE
Sterling Beers will engage an old rival when they oppose the Kautskys, now playing under the banner of Richmond in an IndianaOhio League tilt. The game will be played at Muncie Sunday afternoon. Paugh and Fornell will form the Sterling battery. Reynolds and
Huntling are expected to work for the Kautskys.
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5-Game Visit
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Series Calls for Pair of|r
Doubles; Tribe Crushed at Columbus.
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Bush LOUISVILLE, May 29.—Red Kill- An
efer’s seventh-place Hoosiers visited Louisville today for the first time this season to meet Burleigh Grimes’
Colonels in a five-game series con- | gee ©
sisting of a single tilt this afternoon and double-headers both tomorrow and Sunday. The Indians dropped three out of four in Coiumbus and the Colonels are looking forward to fattening their batting averages at the expense of Tribe pitchers. The Indians’ current road series will end Sunday after which the |S team will return home to play Toledo at Perry Stadium Monday night.’
FIELD DAY FOR BIRDS
| Three Home Runs Help Columbus
to Easy 10-4 Victory. Times Special COLUMBUS, O., May 29.—Burt Shotton’s Red Birds kept on galloping yesteraay and crushed the Indians, 10-4, in the windup of the four-game series. Vance Page weakened in the late innings and was knocked out of the box in the eighth. Rookie Sharp relieved and proved easy for the locals. Rookie Trout
7 o/ also tried his hand, but it was the | Page same story—the Birds were in no |sh
mood to be fooled by young hurlers. Columbus collected 13 hits including two home runs by Jack Winsett and one by Nick Cullop. The pair hit successive circuit blows in the third frame. The Redskins got off to their usual lead but lost punch and pitching as the game advanced. They were held to five hits by Bill McGee, righthander. Old Nick Cullop had a field day
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at bat and pounded out four safeties, including a home run and a double. The Indians tallied three times in the second ana once in the sixth. Columbus scored twice in the third, once in the fifth, three times in the seventh and closed with a cluster of four in the eighth. It was the Tribe’s third straight setback.
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Dutra Leading Tourney Field
Forges Ahead as Michigan Meet Goes Into Final 36-Hole Round.
By United Press BIRMINGHAM, Mich, May 29.— The $3500 True Temper Open tournament, “tune-up” for the National Open golf tournament at 3Baltusrol, N. J, next week, moved into the final 36-hole round today after a series nf upsets. Olin Dutra, Los Angeles, former national Open champ, regained the lead yesterday, finishing the second 18-hole round with a 69, equaling the earlier low mark of Orville
White of Walter Detroit, whose 71
card of Wednesday unseated Dutra
. 1! | with a par 72, lost his stride and fell
into a five-way tie for seventh place with 71-7T7—148 at the end of the
ires— | first 36 holes.
Four strokes behind Dutra was Lighthorse Harry Cooper, Chicago pro, who held the lead temporarily with 145. He had a 74 after the opening round and added a 71 on the second 18. Ralph Guldahl, St. Louis, dropped his third-place tie into fourth with 73-74—147. Other leagers among the original field of 112 contestants were: F. Walsh, Chicago, 74-73—147; MacDonald Smith, Glendale, Cal, 7672—148: Jack Fassezke, Jackson, Mich, 74-74—148; W. B. Barbour, Cleveland, 73-75—148; Les Madison, 77-72—149, and Al
Marchi, Columbus, O., 80-70—150. ‘Babe Ruth, who made the rounds with Dutra and; Cooper, provid many laughs the crowd that followed him through traps on the second round. His 36-hole total was
88-81—169.
Franklin Humbled By. Bulldogs, 16-9
Errors Contribute to Early Butler Lead.
Butler University marked a 16-to-9 victory over Franklin College yesterday in a baseball game at the Fairview diamond by taking ade vantage of Baptist errors to establish an early lead. The Bulldogs batted around in the first and second innings, scoring five runs in the initial frame and six more in the second. The visitors collected 15 safeties off the offerings of Blackaby and Corbett, while the locals were limited to 11, but eight bobbles in the field were costly to the losers. Joe Macek, East Chicago sophomore, paced the Bulldogs with three hits in four trips to the plate. Vandiver, Franklin first baseman. garnered four bingles in five times at
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CANADIAN GRAPPLER WINS By United Press DETROIT, May 29. — Walter Sirois, Candian light heavyweight, triumphed over Stanley Buresh, Australia, in a mat bout here last
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