Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1936 — Page 12
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MICKEY MEDWICK OWNS ONE BAT » = o ; NOT MANY 1932: YANKEES LEFT
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THE st. Louis Cardinals carry a carload of bats, but their best hitter, Mickey Medwick, is not choosy and only one
in the rack is under his ownership. . . . The average big
league slugger usually has a half dozen pet clubs. .. . “I use anybody's stick,” Medwick says, “just so it's well made.” . . . . The nickname of Raymond Davis, the Cincy Reds’ rookie right-hander, is Peaches. ‘Notre Dame has five home football games this fall and the advance ticket sale has tripled last year’s at this time.... On his last visit east, Frankie Frisch, pilot of the Cardinals,
was informed by Ford Frick,
National League prexy, that
the Gas House Gang had held up 63 games jawing with umpires. . . . It was a warning to pipe down, but the boys were not long in breaking loose again.
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LOT of new faces have taken their places on the New York Ameri-
cans’ roster since they were “tops” in 1932.
Of the wrecking
crew of that year, only eight familiar names appear—Lou Gehrig, Bill ‘Dickey, Lefty Gomez, Tony Lazzeri, Frank: Crosetti, Charlie Ruffing,
~~ Myril Hoag and Arndt Jorgens.
Perhaps a practical joke helped get the Chicago Cubs back on their feet after losing three in a row to St. Louis. .
. At any rate, the tele-
phone in the Bruins’ dressing room at Wrigley Field jingled early in the
afternoon the other day.
“Hello,” said the voice on the other end.
Woody English answered.
“That you, Jurges?”
“Just a second. I'll get him,” replied English. “Hello, English,” said the voice, when Billy Jurges responded.
“What's wrong with you?” barked Jurges to
is for you.” “Helo, Jurges,”
English. “This call
repeated the vofce when English took the receiver.
After another round or two of this, the clubhouse was in an uproar as everybody except Herman and Jurges laughed.
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Charlie Grimm was right . . . He said his Cubs were at their best when chasing somebody for the league .lead . . . Thereupon .the Bruins lost first place to the Cardinals . . . Now what to do? . .. His
Cubs are back on top and have to |
battle the Cards again this week in St. Louis, starting today . . . And from this distance it look like the Card mound staff has cracked under the strain . .'. Manager Frisch used six pitchers yesterday while losing a double-header to Cincy.
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ESTERDAY was the fourth time this season the Cards lost a double-header. They previously had fallen victims twice in one day to the Giants and Dodgers on their home ground, and on the Fourth of July were beaten two games at Cincinnati. . . . St. Louis fans are fickle. . . . A crowd of 27,500 booed the team and Manager Frisch yesterday when Flint Rhem was announced as the starting pitcher for the second game. . . . “We want Diz!” was the yell that rolled down from the stands when it was noticed that Dizzy Dean was not .in the warm-up box. . . . And Frisch was booed every time he batted. » ” ”
The Hambletonian Trotting Horse Stakes, a mile test for 3-year-olds on a best two out of three heats basis, is up for its eleventh running Wednesday at Goshen, N. ¥.... On five occasions it was won by colts and fillies were triumphant four times . . . Greyhound, last year’s
: © winner, was the first gelding to win, + and in the fastest time, doing one
heat in 2:02, 2 ” 2 ED KILLEFER’S Hoosiers con- - quered the Twin Cities this year . . . The Indians are through playing Minneapolis ‘and St. Paul and have trounced the Millers 12 times in 22 battles and triumphed over the Saints 13 times in 22 tilts . . . Lou Pette, with 21 mound victories for the Apostles, has lost seven games—three to Indianapolis . And Jake Flowers found the Twin Cities his promised land , . . six home runs in four days!
Amateurs
Field’s Tavern and Fashion Cleaners are still deadlocked in their battle to determine the chamjplonship of the Em-Roe Senior ague. In an attempt to settle a tie in the standing yesterday, the teams fought 10 innings to an 11-all tie, being halted by the Sunday 6 o'clock law. They will meet again this week, the date to be named
later. Yesterdays score: Field's Tave 000 124 030 1—11 17 © Fashion Cleaners. . : 300 005 100 1—11 168 2
Proelick, Schmoll and Gray: Barnes, Hurt and Bucksot.
U. 8. Tires pulled into a tie with P. R. Mallory for first place in the * Manufacturers League by winning two games. The teams will engage
3 in a playoff Wednesday. The Tire-
- men won over the Mallory squad,
9 to 1, and defeated ChapmanPrice, 7 to 5. Mallory remained in the running by nosing out E. C. Atkins, 7 to 6.
Walt Galloway hurled a no-hit, no-run performance in. seven innings to give Roy Steele Red Sox a 3-to-0 triumph over Real 8ilk in
~ the Co-operative Lea League.
Question Marks hu hung up four victories over the week-end. The Marks beat Link Belt, 6-2 and 4-0, in the Factory . League Saturday and turned back Chevrolet Body, 9 tod and 8 to 5, yesterday in the same Jeague, Chevrolet also won two tilts Saturday, heating Hnion PrintHis 11 to 8, and taking the second
. game by forfeit.
In the local tournament of the 5 Baseball Congress,
Former Grid Ace and German Mix
Jim McMillen, former Illinois University star who has been absent from local mat warfare during the current outdoor season, is coming back tomorrow night to tackle Milo Steinborn, the German “Strong Man Milo has been a ‘consistent winner here with his crushing “bear hug” hold, but in McMillen the German will be meeting a top flight foe generally ranked as one of the “first five” heavies in the McMillen game. Jim has spent the summer in the East meeting all comers and is reported at the peak of form. Steinborn | weighs 220 and MecMillen 230. The match stacks up as one of the best on promise this season at Sports Arena. Two other bouts will be offered on the Hercules A. C. program, the first at 8:30. Al Maynard is slated to tackle Big Boy Davis, the Ohio mauler, and Jack Thomas is billed to clash with Paul Harper. It's an all-heavyweight menu and all principals are seasoned grapplers.
World Games
at a Glance
Final track and field team standings figured unofficially on & 10-5-4-3-2-1 basis: Men's
United States, 203; Finland, 80%; Germany, 69%: Japan, 51 13-32; Great Britain, 43 1-11; Canada, 22 1-11; Italy, 20 13-32; Sweden, 18 1-11: Holland, 12; New Zealand, 10; Switzerland, 9; Poland, 5 1-11; Mop way, 5; Australia, 4 . Philippines, 4 Latvit, ey Argentine, 4; Czechoslovakia, 3 1- 1; Brazil, 2; Greece, 2; Hungary, 1 2-11; South Africa, 1; Australia, 2-11. | Women's ; Germany, 51%; United States, 22 1-3; Italy, 16; Poland, 14; Great Britain, 10; Hungary, -10; Canada, 8; Japan, 2 Holland, 4 1-3; Austria, 3; France, 21; Sweden, 1; Australia, 1-3. Men's Swimming Japan, 12; Jlungary, 10; Germany, 2; United States, 1 ‘ Yesterday" Ss Olympic champions: Track and Field Marathon—Kitei Son, Japan. 1600 Meters Relay—Great Britain (John Powell, Godfrey Rampling,
: Willian Roberts and Arthur Brown).
400 Meters Relay—United States (Jesse Owens, Ralph Mejcaite, Foy Draper and Frank Women's 400 Meters Ol Unite ed States (Annette Rogers, Eliza-
Helen Stephens). Women's High Jump—1Ibolya Czak,
Hungary. Swimming
Men's 100 Meters Free Style— Ferenc Csik, Hungary. Today’s Program Men's springboard diving, final. 800 meters free style swim relay for men, trials. Water polo. 100 meters free style swim for women, finals. 400 meters free style swim for men, trials.
L.’S. Pratt Scores 49 in Skeet Event
L. S. Pratt missea only one target
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MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1986
When Charlie Ruffing, Yankee pitcher, boasted he would win 20 games this year, following settlement of contract troubles in the spring, experts paid little attention. He has won 15 to date.
AMERICA REASSERTS TRACK SUPREMACY
U. S. Men Win Vin 12 Olympic Crowns, Shatter 9 Records;
Divers Boost Pool Prestige
Polish Off Campaign With Record Relay Run; Girls Trail Germany.
BY STUART CAMERON United -Press Sports [Editor
BERLIN, Aug. 10.—American men still rule the world in track and field. Eight days ago crack athletes from all corners of the globe began competition in the eleventh Olympic Games—determined to wrest from the United States the cinder path title it has held since the Games
were revived in 1896 at Athens. But today those stars were forced to admit that Uncle Sam's boys still are tops. The sturdy band from the United States retained its unofficial
-| team championship with one of the
createst displays of athletic prowess the world ever has seen. The Americans won a dozen titles and rolled up 203 points—-more than the combined scoxes of their three nearest challengers, Finland, Germany and Japan.In whipping the world, they shattered nine Olympic records. Five of those new marks were superior to the old world records. ‘The American women were not so fortunate, however, in the track and field competition which ended in huge Olympic Stadium yesterday. They finished second to Germany in team’ standing. The track competition evoked one of the greatest assaults on records in history. Nine world records and 17 Olympic marks were bettered by men and three world and five Olympic records were shattered by women.
Surpass World Records
The number of Olympic records broken by men fell short by two of the all-time record of 19 established in 1932 at Los Angeles, but the total of world records bettered was four better than four years ago. America’s total of a dozen men’s titles was one better than in 1932. The Americans tied their record of 12 out of 23 championships won at Paris in’ 1924, and fell only one short of the all-time Olympic mark of 13 made by the U. S. A. at Stockholm 24 years ago. Thus, an American team that was handicapped by injuries and bad weather during training outdid even the fondest expectations of its followers. In two events—high jump and
_decathlon—it swept. the first three
places. It swept the 100, 200 400 and 800-meter runs for the first time since 1912. And it produced the first winner of three events since Paavo Nurmi in 1924, That man was Jesse Owens, the ‘Ohio State speedster, who won the 100-meter and 200-meter titles in world record breaking time and -shattered the Olympic mark as he captured the broad jump title.
Ailing Back Responsible»
Although it didn’t score as many points as the 1932 team, the 1936 team was the best-balanced squad ever to represent the United States since 1912. It won all the four running races between 100 and 800 meters; it took three jumping titles; made a clean sweep of the two hurdle championships and won the discus. | Only in javelin throwing, distance runand shotputting was the United States weak. In. the shotput, only an ailing back suffered. by Jack Torrance, the world record holder, prevented the United States from winning 13 titles. All records established prior to 1932 were wiped from the Olympic books. One of them, Matt MecGrath's hammer throw mark, was the oldest record in existerice. That mark, set in 1912, was shattered by Karl Hein of Germany. The United States 400-meter relay team, paced by Jesse . Owens, won that championship in the last day of competition with a 39.8 seconds journey that shattered the 40second world and Olympic mark go; 3% another United States team:
Even Hitler Cheers
Even Adolf Hitler rose with throng of 110,000 spectators an cheered as Frank Wykoil, threetime Olympian, breasted the tape to complete the record trip. ‘Others who ran on the team were Ralph Metcalfe and Foy Draper. ; The United States suffered & sur-
prising setback when Great Britain | first
won its first race of the gam 1600-meter relay in three utes nine seconds. The United ites finished second. * }
Compensation for the defeat came when the United States girls’-quar-tet won the women’s 400-rneter re-
, the
{lay Htle - ovr the heavily fayored Germans. \ Food
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American Boxers Win First Bouts
By United Press
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BERLIN, Aug. 10—America’s box- |
Degener and Myers Star in Springboard Events as Swimmers Trail.
BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, Aug. Olympic swimming team after a disastrous start came back today to furnish promise of w: a real Hg for the title that Japan won in 1932. After Dick Degener of Detroit hac swept into a lead at the halfway point in the springboard diving, the United States paddlers placed three men in the semi-finals of the 400meter free style event tomorrow. The Americans won only one heat
of the six qualifying trials, however,
and that honor went to Jack Medica of Seattle who triumphed ‘in the sixth heat in the good time of four minutes, 55.9 seconds. John Macionis of Yale University and Ralph Flanagan of Miami, Fla., moved into the -semi-finals by taking second places in the first and third heats, respectively. Japan served notice that it would not relinquish its s§ g crown without a battle by phi three entries in the semi-finals, with one of the Nipponese setting a new Olympic record in winning his heat. Germany’s trio. advanced, while Great Britain, France, Canada, Peru and Hungary divided the remainder of the 14 berths, each placing one entrant in the next round.
Mermaids Fare Badly
Uncle Sam’s mermaids fared badly in the first final of their division, salvaging only one point when Olive McKean took sixth place in the 100meter free style. The event was won by Wilhelmina Mastenbroek of Holland, who broke her old Olympic record of 1:06.4 with a brilbant 1:059. Jeanette Campbell, Argentine stenographer, was second; Gisela Arendt; Germany, third; Willie Den Ouden and Catherine Wagner, Holland, fourth and fifth respectively. The other U. 8. qualifier for the final, Katherine Rawls of Fort Lau-
derdale, Fla., finished seventh—and|
last. The U. S. 800-meter relay team entered the finals by winning its heat in today’s trials, but again bettered the Americans’ performance when its four paddlers churned
their way to _a new Olympic record
of eight minutes, 56.1 seconds. Degener Leads Teammate Best show of any American so far
‘was made by Degener when he fin-
ished his five compulsory dives from the board with a point total of 74.86 to top his teammate, Marshall Wayneawho was second with 72.47. Degener’s form had the crowd of 15,000 cheering. Tsun Shibahara of Japan was third; Al Greene of the United States, fourth; Ehrhardt Weiss, Germany, fifth; and Tomio
Koyanagi, Japan, sixth. They will
make their five optional dives tomorrow, The Japanese three 400-meter free-style stars won their individual heats with Sunpei Uto churning to a new Olympic mark of 4:45.5 in the fifth heat. America’s Flanagan was second to Shozo Makino in the’ third heat and Macionis came in after Hiroshi Negami in the initial trial.
Water Poloists Ousted The United States relay team of
Charlie Hutter, Ralph Gilman, Paul
Wolf and Medica, easily won the second heat~of those trials today, finishing in 9:10.4—10 seconds ahead of the Hu team, but 14 seconds behind the Japanese’ recordbreaking performance. France, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and Sweden also qualified teams for the fina Despite a brilliant last half rally, the United States Olympic water polo team lost to Belgium, 4 to 3, today, and was eliminated from the competition. Belgium moved up to the semifinal with Holland, which tied today with Uruguay, 1 to 1, eliminating the South American nation ‘because of its two previous defeats. The United States hopes of regaining - the Olympic title from Japan received a serious blow yesterday when Peter Pick of New York could do no better than sixth in the 100-meter free style. Japan marched off with second, third and fourth places behind Ferenc Csik of Hungary who gave his country its
- Peru Ignores Ruling, ~ May Withdraw Team
ers scored two victories in the first { hpoke
10.—America’s |
title in 32 years. Art
Chalk up two more firsts for the United States team in the eleventh renewgl of the modern Olympics games. And these NEA radiophotos, flashed across the Atlantic from Berlin, show how it was done. At left, Glenn Morris of Colorado soars over the
The friendly pat on the back and.brief chat with Chancellor Hitler was reserved for a chosen few Nordic vietors at the Olympic games, like the women javelin throwers basking in the beam of Der
Scenes in Berlin as Uncle Sam's “Athletes Dominate Track Rivalry
bar in the pole vault of ‘the decathlon, in which he set a new record of 7900 points. At right, Archie Williams, dusky California quarter milers, romps home with the 400-meter title, closely followed by ‘Arthur Brown of Great Britain.
Hitler’s favors.
Fuehrer’s smile at left. Jesse. Owens, Ohio's Negro three-event winner, gpparently gets even more fun out of complying with fans’ persistent demands for his ‘autograph (right), than the Nordics get out of
Track, Field Records Set in World ie
By United Press
Games:
utes 41.4 seconds.
Discus, Kenneth Pole vault, Earle
linger, Isle Doerfeldt, 46.4 seconds. Discus, Gisela Mauermayer, turn.)
cause courses differ. record.)
M illigan, Pratt Tie in Gun Club Event
BERLIN, Aug. 10. Copy ack and field Tecords set during Olympic
—Men’s— x 100 Meters, Jesse Owens, United States, 10.2 seconds. © Xx 200 Meters, Jesse Owens, United States, 20.7 seconds. x 1500 Meters, Jack Lovelock, New Zealand, 3:47.38. 5000 Meters, Gunnar Hoeckert, Finland, 14:22.2. X Marathon, Kitei Son, Japan, 2 hours, 29 minutes, 19.2 seconds. X 3000-Meter steeplechase, Volmari Iso-Hollo, , 50,000-Meter walk, Harold Whitlock, Great Britain, 4 hours, 30 min-
nland, 9:03.8.
x110-Meter hurdles, Forest Towns, United States, 14.1 seconds. Xx 400-Meter relay, United States, Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe, Roy Draper and Frank WykofT, 39.8 seconds. X Decathlon, Glen Morris, United States, 7900 points. High jump, Cornelius Johnson, United States, 8 feet, 7 15-16 inches. Shot put, Hans Woellke; Germany, 53 feet, 1 13-16 inches. Hammer throw, Karl Hein, Germany, 185 feet, 4 1-16 inches. Broad jump, Jesse Owens, United States, 26 feet, 5 21-64 inches. arpenter, United States, 165 feet, 7 29-64 inches. eadows, United States, 14 feet, 2 15-16 inches, X Hop, step, jump, Naoto Tajima, Japan, 52 feet, 5 15-16 inches. Women’s— x 100 Meters, Helen Stephens, United States, 11.4 seconds. x 80-Meter hurdles, Trebisonda Valla, Italy, 11.6 seconds. X 400-Meter relay, Germany, Emmy Albus, Kathe Kraus, Marie Dol-
Javelin, Tilly Fleischer, Germany, 148 feet, 225-32 inches.
, 156 feet, 3 3-18 inches.
(x World record; xx Owens made “world record for race around one
(Note—No world records ‘for marathon or steeplechase on: books beHowever, best Olympic mark accepted as world
BOXERS, WRESTLERS VIE FOR FORT HONORS
Pirst eliminations in the boxing.
and wrestling championships of the Fort Benjamin Hamgrison Citizens’
Military Training Camp are to be ‘held tonight in the C. M. T. C.
arena. . Nearly 100 candidates “have sub-~
Yankee Basketball Team Wins, 52-28
By United Press BERLIN, Aug. 10.—The American basketball team looked like the coming Olympic champions today on the basis 6f their first game of the tournament. The lanky Americans swamped Estonia, one of Europe’s best teams,
152 to 28, yesterday.- Dazzled by the
height of the United States quintet, e Estonians put up a gallant deense, but weré at the short end of a 27-to-6 score at half time. The Americans had early trouble adjusting ' themselves to Olympic rules and 16 of their points were disallowed.
Six Mat Tussles
on Card Tonight
Six bouts are to be presented on an amateur wrestling program, promoted by Jay Gardner, at the Illinois . Arena tonight. The arena is located in the 900 block on N. Illi-nois-st. John Clapp, 116, vs. Bill Murphy, 122, Indianapolis. Jim Baker, 127, Paragon, vs. Don Biggs, 130, Knox. Carl Kord, 145, vs. Bob Natiamal, 145, Indianapolis. Ed Willsey, 185, Indianapolis, vs
Buster Keaton, IIs; 140, vs. Myron Brant, Hillsboro, 150. All matches are for one fall.
A. A. UMPIRE INJURED]
Times Special:
KANSAS CITY, Aug.
hospital today with a broken collar | bone. . He received the injury Sat-|
urday night in - the ColumbusRansas (Clty ‘game When. struck by
camp | o foul,
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Cubs, Cards Resume Duel for Top Spot
Chicagoans Favored After Regaining Bat Power to Swamp Bucs.
By United Press , NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—The Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals, jockeying for first place in the National League, begin anew today after a six-day baseball cycle that took them nowhere. The Cubs led the Cardinals by two percentage points when they squared off in a four-game series at Chicago last Tuesday, and that’s how. they stand as they open a new three-day tiff at St. Louis today. After taking three out of four from the Cubs to go two games up, the Cards tottered and dropped two out of three to Cincinnati over the week-end. The Cubs took three straight games from Pittsburgh, thus nullifying results of the. “crucial” series. Emerge With Blast The Cubs probably will go inte the series today the betting favorite because of the vigor with which they've come out of their batting slump, and the temporary. collapse of the Cardinals’ pitching. Including their 14-5 victory over the Cards in the final game of the series last week, the Cubs collected a total of 56 hits and 36 runs in their last four games. In 10 previous games they eked out only 18 runs. The Chicagoans went on a real rampage yesterday, pounding out a total of 29 hits as they twice downed the Pirates, 9-2 and 10-1. St. Louis was pummelled by the Reds, 10-2 and 12-5, the Cincinnatis mis treating a total of six pitchers for 20 hits in each game. New York, the real gainer by the Cubs-Cards turnabouts, defeated Philadelphia, 6-2, leaving the Giants only 3% games
‘| from the almost deadlocked leaders.
The New York Yankees and remained 12
‘Butler School
Coaches returned to their books today to brush up on fall and winter sports diagrams as the largest of the four annual Butler University coache ing schools opened sessions at the Butler fieldhouse this morning. With a record-shattering enroll ment of over 130 mentors, athletic directors and trainers matriculating before the initial lecture started, Athleties Director Paul Hinkle’s staff of sports instructors began six days of classes and demonstrations in football and basketball. Fritz Cris ler, head mentor of Princeton University’s vaunted Tiger gridders, «| headlined the grid sessions; aided by Noble Kizer ‘and Mal Edward of Purdue. Hinkle is in charge of hardwood discussions, with Everett Dean, coach of Indiana University’s Big Ten co-champions, sharing the assignment. They are to be aided by Archie Chadd of Anderson High School and Frank White of Male High School, Louisville. Registrations from Canada and 33 states are included in this year’s group which tops the enrollment of 109, which ‘attended last year.
A. B. C. SQUAD SPLITS . TWO WITH EVANSVILLE
The Indianapolis A. B. C. Negro baseball nine divided a doubles header engagement with the Sere vel club of Evansville yesterday at
Perry Stadium. Tne local pastime ers annexed the opener, 7 to 3, but dropped ‘an abbreviated tilt in the nightcap, 3 to 2. The second game was halted by the Sunday 6 o'clock law at the end of six ine nings.
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