Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1936 — Page 23

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GRIFF SAYS YANKS WILL SKID

SEES HEREDITY AGAINST THEM

NY YOR K, July 9. — Normally Mr. Clark Griffith, owner

of the Washin

ashington Senators must be accepted as a thor-

gly sane person. He does not argue that white is black,

en spot of the world. But he does insist the New York |

Yankees won't win the American League championship this

year.

In this, Mr. Griffith appears to be completely alone, and, over, all the visible evidence seems to- support the

majority opinion.

Not only are the Yankees far out in front |

but the keen competition expected from the expensive Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians, not to mention the defend-

ing champions, who happen to be the Detroit Tigers, has

-failed to develop. ,

Nevertheless Mr. Griffith tan’t visualize a triumph for the - New

Yi ers, | "something new.

“Their menace is hereditary,” said Mr. Griffith. This was What did the gentleman mean by hereditary as ap-

plied to a baseball team? “Well, you see the Yankees have finished second so often this feeMng of frustration is communicated from one team to another year after year. Sooner or later it will affect the present

Yankees.” Just how and where would this malignant condition make itself felt? Mr. Grifith wasn’t quite sure but he pointed out the Yankees ' haven't been in a hitting slump &o far this year, and added, “where would they be now if it hadn't been for their hitting?” This required ho answer. It was too obvious. The Yankee hitters have been carrying the pitchers all year. sn ” ” R. GRIFFITH was quite sure the Yankee hitters would not continue to carry the pitchers. “No ball club ever went through an entire season without suffering at least .one severe hitting slump,” he said, “and the Yankees aren't ‘likely to prove an exception. When this slump comes, and it’s bound to _come, the Yankees will get those ‘second place blues’ again and they'll stop winning ball games. Wait and Well, if the Yankees weren't going to win the championship, who was? Mr. Griffith refused to be precise on this point. He thought any one of the first division clubs had a chance. And naturally this included his Senators, whose showing up to now has been more or less surprising. . The only thing he seemed certain about was that the Yankees - would not win. It’s his theory they will beat themselves in the end. Since they have been beating every body else, this would at least be a diversion, 3 os ” Coming back on the train from the All-Star game I mentioned Mr. Griffith’s unhappy thoughts to Mr. McCarthy, the Yankees’ . manager. Strangely, he did not .. attempt to dive through the window. On the contrary, he remained wholly unmoved. “Griff is the Jim Corbett of baseball,” smiled Mr. McCarthy. “I'm glad to hear he’s picking us to lose. That makes it a cinch. Griff has never been right. You'll remember he also said the Tigers couldn’t win last year.” ” ” 8 TILL, Mr. McCarthy readily admitted the possibility of a hit‘ting slump. Also that the Yankees “owe. their present exalted position in the race to hitting strength, rather than pitching strength. ‘But there are signs the pitching is coming on, and it may be that when and if the hitting slump strikes us, we “will be getting better pitching. Sometimes it works out that way. In any event, I see no cause for worry. I have every confidence we “will be in the World Series this fall.” " Mr. McCarthy was busy at the _time selecting an all-star team for «the Sporting News. He had never “picked one before. He was limiting his selections to players he had seen in action. He decided to ptt Gabby Hartnett behind the bat as the greatest catcher he ever saw—greater than Mickey Cochrane or his own Bill Dickey. “That's at least - “one thing Griff and I agree on” he *laughed. Mr. Griffith, it should be noted, calls the Cubs’ truck horse the greatest of all catchers, and he "goes back much farther in experi-: ence than Mr. McCarthy. 2 8 =» i For his pitchers Mr. McCarthy ‘named Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson and Bob Grove. “I would have named Grover Alex“ander instead of Grove,” he explained, “but they wanted a lefthander on the staff. For his infield he named Lou Gehrig at first base, Eddie Collins at second, Hans Wagner at short and Pie ‘Traynor at third. - He thinks Gehrig, before he is through, will have established

y underrated in the all-star rankings. | Wagner, of course, was

TEE TIME

BY PAUL BOXELL F you're figuring on going out to Speedway to see the all-star

golf exhibition this afternoon—and

it should be a show well worth seeing—Dick Collins suggest that you be on hand about 2:40. The actual exhibition match, which is to feature Lawson Little, Jimmy Thomson, Horton Smith and Marion Smith of Crawfordsville, is not scheduled to begin until 3, but Collins reports that the visiting luminaries intend to take to the practice tee 20 minutes prior to the starting time for a short demonstration. Mr. Collins is manager of the local A. G. Spalding and Brwthers store which is sponsoring the show. No admission is to be charged. The manager figures the demonstration

should be just as interesting and

educational as the match. Probably more so.

Clayton Nichols is all smiles. He was notified today that he has ° been named fourth man on the team to represent Indianapolis in the national public links tourney this month. It means a trip to New York. Don't mind that hat. Nick says it’s the best sun turnerbacker he ever styled.

" " #

HE team to represent Indianapolis in the national public links tourney is now™tomplete and set to invade Farmingdale, Long Island, one week from next Monday. Officials of the local public

links association met last night

and selected Clayton Nichols, South Grove, and former pride of Manual High, to fil in the fourth position on the squad. In the qualification round, Charley Boswell and Harold Stricklin tied for the No. 4 post, but both reported later they would be unable to make the trip. Young Nichols was next in line. Boswell and Stricklin qualified at 300. Clayton had 301. “The first three qualifiers have assured officials that they "will be

ready to make the invasion. Bobby

Dale and Bill Reed Jr. are repeaters from last year’s team; Mike Pollak and Nichols are newcomers.

public linkers also want it known that the annual Bankers’ Handicap, scheduled for this Sunday, will be deferred until the following Sunday, July 19. The event was scheduled at Coffin, which will have its hands full with. the public links championship match on that particular afternoon.

= = : OHN NIBLACK, Indianapolis’ spokesman in affairs of national golf government, is well pleased with the team. He states: “Indianapolis will be represented at the national meet by a mighty

“I want _to commend the qfficers of the Indianapolis Public Links AsSsociation—especially Ken Hoy, Norman Thompson and Herman Olsen, who performed the actual work in staging the local tourna-ment-—on their efficient efforts.

“The team members will stay at|

the Whitman Hotel, Jamaica,

18 the big | nildest me disputes with umpires. The Pitt pilot was chased on once as a player and never as a manager. He wi

oosier A Aces rorginent in

Olympic Field!

Records “On Spot’ When |

259 Athletes Vie for 56 Unfilled Places.

BY LESLIE AVERY United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, July 9. — World|

track and field records are threatened with the most vicious assault in four years at Randall's Island Satufday and Sunday with record holders and record breakers competing in 12 of the 17 events on the program of the final Olympic tryouts. Not since the 1932 California Olympics has there been assembled such a galaxy of track and field stars. Even the record.holders will be pressed to the limit because the competition is severe with the nation’s 259 best athletes vieing for 56 places on the United States squad. It is a promoter’ s idea of a “dream meet,” comparable only to the annual ‘all-star major. league baseball game. And judging from the heavy sale of tickets the last few days, the new $1,000,000 siadium, seatin 21,000 persons, will be jammed both days. The receipts -will go a long way foward building up the Olympic committee's funds to send United States athletes to Berlin. The meet brings together, probably for the last time, America’s great trio of milers — Glenn Cunningham, Gene Venzke and Bill Bonthron—in the Olympic distance of 1500 meters. These three always run a spectacular race. Bonthron’s 3:48.8-is the world’s record. In addition to these three this year there will be Archie San Romani, National Collegiate Athletic = Association champion and Charlie Fenske, Wisconsin’s new 4:10.9- miler, shooting at the mark. Great 800-Meter Race Due

Burning up the- cinders in the preliminary eliminations, the nation’s best quarter-milers are cer-

tain to stage one of the most hotly |

contested 400-meter races ever witnessed. Archie Williams and Jimmy Luvalle, the California Negroes, will be pressed closely by six other topnotchers including Harold Smallwood of the University of Southern California who beat them both in the nationals last week. The fastest field of 800-meter men ever brought together, headed . by record holder “blazing” Ben Eastman, threaten the world mark: of 1:498. Eastman was reported to

have bettered it while training ‘in

California, but denied it upon reaching New York. Up against him will be Ohio State’s new national A. A. U. champion, Charlie Beetham; the Pittsburgh Freshman, Johnny Wood Chuck Hornbostel, formerly of Indiana, Jimmy miller of Los Angeles, Lou Burns, Howard Borck, Ross Bush and Abe Rosenkrantz.. Beetham bit 1:50.3 last Saturday. Woodruff and Hornbostel have bettered 1:51.

Lash May Crack Record Another highlight of the competition will be the return duel of Ohio State's famed Jesse Owen and Marquette’s Ralph Metcalf in the 100 meters. Eulace Peacock, who has been recuperating from a leg injury hopes to be in shape for this event and the broad jump. A fourth Negro star, Mack Robinson of Pasadena, has vowed he will beat both Owen and Metcalf in the 200 meter, an event in which the latter two will meet for the first time. With only one assignment this: week, “Iron Man” Don Lash from Indiana will be in good condition to crack the 5000-meter record. He never was exerted in winning the National against Norman Bright, the! California school teacher, last week. The 3000-meter steeplechase features Harold Manning, the Wichita (Kas.) boy who broke the Olympic mark for the event by more than six seconds last week against Joe McCluskey of the New York A. C., Glen Dawson of Tulsa and Tommy Deckard of Indiana. STEINKE PINS ZAHARIAS By United Press LOS ANGELES, July 9.—Hans Steinke, Germany, threw George Zaharias, Colorado, last night in the natn event of the local wrestling ow

HUGHES TOSSES PASSAS BOSTON, July 9.—Leonard (Cowboy) Hughes, Oklahoma wrestler, tossed Steve Passas of Hartfor:, Conn, here last night in the feature attraction of the mat program.

Hotel Washington. New officers for the

Island, which is tourney ne retary

“I feel confident that if our boys

will get in there and shoot their |

THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1986

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FINAL

Among Low Scorers in

HE c¢ameraman caught the above group chatting inforally, probably about the weather, and most certainly about golf, during the State Lions Club annual links tourney at the Broad‘moor Country Club yesterday. At the extreme right is O. E. Cummins, Fortville, who won the meet for the second successive year, securing the large tourney trophy permanently for the Fortville club. Cummins carded a gross 75. Reading back, right to left are G. H. Norris, Fortville, winner in '34, who scored an 86; Charles C. Peek, city, 108; C. J. Nicholson, Fortville, 103; Harry Leive, Fortville, 87; Dr. J. C. Ferrell, Fortville, 89; R. K. Stafford, Fortville, 101, who was elected president for

+ the coming year last night, and A.

R. Shireman, Martinsville, 89.

College Trainer Claims ‘Golf Bug’ Responsible for Bonthron’s Lapse

By United Press PRINCETON, N. J, July 98— Matty Geis, Princeton trainer, today furnished the answer to Bill Bonthron’s poor track performances this. year. . ‘BO nthron bolder of the world’s record for 1500 meters, finished = fourth in the event in - § the. national A. A. U. championships last week. © “Too much golf, that’s all,” Geis said. “His muscles are too tired. He was in condition to run the 1500 in 3:52 Saturday, and then finished - : fourth when the winning time was only 3:54.2. “He ‘has been playing 40 to 50 holes of golf a day, all during the training season, and that’s foo much for any man, let alone one who aspires to be a runner.” |

Lewis Ends Drills for Marek Battle

By United Press CHICAGO, July O~Light- heavy. weight Champion John Henry Lewis concluded brisk training to-

. Bonthron

day for his 10-round overweiglit |

match tomorrow night with Max Marek of Chicago. The bout, to bé held at Comiskey Park, originaly was scheduled as a return ‘match between Lewis and Bob Olin, from whom he lifted the title last winter. aqavek, who whipped Joe Louis as an amateur, may earn another shot at the crestfallen Brown Bomber if he whips: the Negro light-heavy-

WINS CASTING MEET 1 De. Kyle B. Mayhall Takes First |

MER Lng ake ook oni} honors on Je casting tournamens, sponsored ;

yesterday by the Dogs ers’ Club of the Hoosiar A. G. gveni Was. held at Kernels

Lions Club Roundup

athletic | |

Junior Legior Leaders Pl

|Big Four Nine Carded

Feature Game at Rhodius.

the local American Legion Ju Baseball League tomorrow. league-leading Big Four Post squad meets Indianapolis Post Rhodius No. 1. Memorial Pus

Garfield No. 3. Garfield 88 are paired at Bi No 1. B. P. Robison 133 draws ye. 3 The standings up to date: Be Jolr erin . gidvingion Neg : 2{Memorial Broce Robi 3!Garfleld Indianapoli 3| Schedule #5 Tuesday, July 14 Robison vs. Negro “Y” at Brookside No. 1; Farfield vs. Memorial at Rhodius No. 1; Jdianapolis vs. Irs vington at Garfield No. 3. Big vs. bye. Schedulé for Friday, July 1: Big Four vs. Bruce Robison at Riverside No. 1; Indianapolis vs. Memorial ag Brookside No. 1; Negro “Y” vs. Gare field at Garfield No. 3.. : Scores of games played last Tues= day; Negro “Y”, 12, Ldianapoliss 8 Bruce Robison, 17, Memorial, 4 ; Big Four, 12, Garfield, 6. £

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