Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1936 — Page 17

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'ENGLIS Scribe Finds Cricket Has Lost Ground

Tradition Goes Overboard in| London; Baseball Gains | in Popularity. |

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BY JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer LQNDON, 8.—1 think most, had here, a: the sun really does shine at vals, is the discovery that cricket . hot the national pastime. 5 & football. It: has that nobody played anytl cricket in the Empire. But what do I find to be the ac-| anne tual state of af-| fairs? 1 find it to| be generally mitted that et is losi popularity and, preposterous as it | may

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strike that in certain] circles, well] worthy of respect, | baseball is| looked | upon as its possible successor. | Those who! pro-| fess Know say the younger element isn't playing | cricket any more and it is fundamental that when the younger ele- | ment deserts a sport the ture | of that sport is seriously imperiled. Only the test matches, paralleling | the World Series games in baseball, | attract capacity crowds. The routine matches are ignored. “I think it is definitely true that | cricket is on the wane,” Brigadier aA. C. Crit told me the other | day. # is England's promoter. A shrewd

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chley most sports observer and, despite his profession- | al activi not at all unsvmpa- | thetic the amateur field. “Crickel’s appeal in the past,” continued Critchley, “has been to a large ex- | tent its tradition. I mean to say it was the thing to do, to play cricket and to see cricket. There is distinct evidence that this traditional appeal has been worn threadbare. and ‘that if cricket is to survive or hold its own there must be changes in both the presentation of the game and its basic structure.” ’ = ® = i hie is getting a foothold here. There is a semi- | pro league of six clubs in Greatef London. One of the clubs was aood enough to beat the American Olvni- | pic team, 5 to 2. That probably | would have been 4impossible two | years ago. Top salary in the leacue | goes to a pitcher nanied Bozo Fisk, of West Ham. Fancy that, my Jdear Cuthbert. Bozo! He gets $75 a week. which is still a few quid under the record sum paid our Mr. Babe Ruth several years ago. There was a paid attendance of 15.000 at a game between Hull and | White City a few Sundays ago, | which would seem to indicate that | the game is catching on. The hanaicaps are many. There are only a | few really skilled players, and only | ce or two men who are capable of | umpiring. Brawls are numerous | Four players have been set down for | flugging the umps this season. The | practice seems to be universal. It | must be sound. | But despite the handicaps the pro- | moters are optimistic and are build- | ing for the future. There are sev-| eral <baseball nurseries” in London | where youngsters are equipped and taught the rudiments without cost. | The stand-out league players of this! Year will be sent to America next | spring to train with one of the big| league outfits in Florida; the pur- | pose being mainly publicity or bally- | hoo, a device with which the Brit- |

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Zaharias Duo ~ Scores Twice

i It was Frank Brown who ‘faced | Chris Zaharias in the special semi- | final match on the Armory mat | card last night. But it was brother | Orville’s “Indian deathlock” which | appeared in the possession of an-| other and won the first fall of the] bout. = | But the - famous legsstretching | hold proved to be of no avail in the | long run because Chris, with plenty | of side-line coaching by Brother | “Cry. Baby,” roughed Frank in the | second and thirds falls to win the! decision. : The crowd became so incensed | with Referee Paul Martin's alleged | failure to prevent illegal manhand- | ling of Frank Brown by Chris Za- | harias that police and national guardsmen were required to usher | the official out of the arena at the | close of the match. /( = | Trick holds had an all-around bad | night when Dick Raines’ renowned “back-breaker” back-fired on its] master and caused his ultimate de-| feat. Raines worked on George | (Cry Baby) Zaharias for 25 min-| utes trying to apply his trick hold, | but in the end found himself in the wrong end of head scissors and flat or his back. | Raines started off better in the! second heat and lost no time work- | ing Zaharais into the “back-braak- | er.” But while in the process of! - polishing off his] opponent, Raines! : got his leg caught during a shufle | and tore a cartilage. The. Texas Tornado was unable to return for the deciding tussle and the match | was awarded to Zaharias. i Cliff Thiede, Los Angeles, Eddie Newman, New York in the thirteenth minute of their schedtuled 30-minute argument in the! curtain raiser. |

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KRIEGER STOPS CHONG NEW YORK, Sept. 9. — Solly Krieger, 163'2, New York. stopped Ralph Chong, 163, New Orleans, in | the seventh round of the feature | bout at the Coney Island Velodrome | * here last night. |

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U. S. Horse Wins St. Leger Stakes

By United Press

DONCASTER, England, Sept. 9.— |

Boswell, owned by William Woodward of New York, today won the St. Leger Stakes, last of the season's fi horse races. It was the one hundred sixtieth running of the race first held in 1776

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I | Derby, was third, fully three lengths | behind. Thirteen ran. | - Boswell paid ius backers 20 to 1 { while Fearless -Fox closed at 100 to 6. Mahoud was 5 to 1, secondary favorite to Lord Astor's Rhodes | Scholar, which closed at 6 to 4 and | finished out of the money. | Lord Hirst's Magnet finished { fourth, and Thankerton, fifth. The race is a little over a mile and | three-quarters and carries a purse of $20,000 added.

BOSTON, Sept, 9.—Dick Stahl of Germany threw Hermi Olson, Min-

wrestling card here last night.

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

HORIZONTAL 1,6 Who is the girl in _the picture? 12 White poplar. 13 Ethical. 14 Browned bread. 15 Woolly. 16 Smooth. 17 Sleigh. 19 Musical note. 21 Dung beetles. 26 To spoil. 30 Rigorous. 31 She is U.S. A. champion 32 Northeast. 33 Perched. 35 Jewel.

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k at Butler Camp

The serious business of defending a championship and stepping into major competition is under way at Butler University where the

Bulldogs of Fairview prepare for the ule. Shown above is Head Coach

impending eight-game grid schedTony Hinkle as he called several

backs and ends into a huddle to impress them with the necessity of hard training as practice started yesterday. Seated, left to right, are

Wally Stout, Sheridan; Bill Stalcup

, Bloomfield; Frank Welton, Man-

ual; Silvio Constantino, Manual, and Joe Macek, East Chicago. Clutch-

ing the ball in the background, is

Spero Costas, captain. and quarter

back of Canton, Ill, who shoulders the responsibility of this year’s campaign. Frank (Pop) Hedden, freshman coach, and Wally Middles-

worth, assistant varsity mentor, also are pictured.

issued to 37 candidates yesterday, a

Uniforms were nd others were to report today.

Calendar

AMERICAN LEAGUE .. Pet. w .662| Wash'ton.. 533] Boston ... .526| St. Louis. . .526| Phila

NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. W. L. Pct. 81 52 .608| Cincinnati. 67 66 .504 Louis.. 76 57 .571| Boston. ... 7 Chicago . 76 59 .563| Brooklyn.. Pittsburgh 72 63 .533| Phila

Games Today

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION (A. A. Playoff Series) Indianapolis at St. Paul. Kansas City at Milwaukee (night).

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Washington at Detroit. New York at Cleveland (2). Boston at Chicago. : Philadelphia at St. Louis.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago at Philadelphia (2). St. Louis at Boston. Cincinnati at New York (2). Pittsburgh at Brooklyn.

Ww. New York ¢ Chicago. . Cleveland. Detroit...

Results Yesterday AMERICAN LEAGUE , 101 000 201— 5 168 1 2 § 610 000 00x— 7 11 1 Auker, Phillips and Myatt; Cain and Sewell. ?

Only game scheduled.

NATIONAL LEAGUE No games scheduled,

MAJOR LEADERS

LEADING BATTERS Player Club Averill, Cleveland Appling White Sox.... P. Waner, Pirates.....1] Dickey, Yankees 102 296 Medwick, Cardinals ...114 55 HOME RUNS

Gehrig, Yankees. 43] Ott, Giants 37| DiMaggio, Yanks

99 200 |.

30 25 RUNS BATTED IN 132]

129| Bonura, W. Sox. 129| Med wick, Cards. .

HITS - 204| Demaree, Cubs.. 188 201! Bell, Browns..... 187 200] WINS BY KNOCKOUT NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—Harry Balsamo, 15912, New York, kayoed Al Rossi, 162, Newark, in the second. round of their fight in Queensboro Stadium here last night.

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Foxx, Red Sox.. 127

Averill, Cleve... Gehr'ger, Tigers Medwick, Cards

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Times Special

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 9.—Eight the quarter-finals of the national girls’ tennis tourney here yesterday with Helen Bernhard, New York, and Eleanor Dawson, Piedmont, Cal, encountering any trou-

top-seeded piayers entered only two,

ble.

The six others who swept through their matches easily were, Barbara Winslow, Hollywood, Cal., Margaret Hope Elena Mass. Jane Stanton of Los Angeles and Patricia Cumming of Westfield,

Osborne of San Francisco, Knowles of Philadelphia, Cicone of Newton Center,

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National Net Meet Program Today.

BY STUART CAMERON United Press Sports Editor FOREST HILLS, N. Y., Sept. 9. They came down to the levelling stage in the national men’s and women's tennis championships today with three of four matches scheduled rated strictly even con- | tests. Show piece of the day was in the feminine division, where two of the | girls were slated for an international match. It was brunette vs. blond, West Coast of America vs. the heart of London, raven-haired Carolin - Babcock pitching against fair Kay Stammers.

Match Is Tossup

‘ Here is a dead level contest. It pits the girl who saved the Wightman cup for America against.one of the English disappointments in that series. Miss Babcock has shown some of the best form of her career in this tournament while Miss Stammers’ play on this side has been a vast improvement over the form® shown at Wimbledon and other English competitions. The other scheduled women’s match is an all-California affair, with Alice Marble playing Gracyn Wheeler. The match should go three sets. . Bitsy Grant of Atlanta plays John Van Ryn of Philadelphia in the only potentially close match of the men’s side. Grant, seeded No. 2, would be an overwhelming favorite except for the fact that Van Ryn right now is playing some of the best tennis of his long and brilliant career, Perry Wide Choice

Fourth match of the day is a .setup.. Fred Perry of England, almost a sure thing for the title, is playing Henry Culley of California. Don: Budge is giving his followers some concern. He seems just a bit fagged after a tour which started last spring. He was carried to four sets yesterday before beating Gene Smith; fellow Californian. Otherwise yesterday's play ran without special incident. Probably the most noteworthy event was the straight-set victory of defending champion Helen Jacobs over Mrs. Virginia Johnson of Brookline; Mass. This was so. because Helen is suffering with a badly sprained thumb, hurt when she fell during practice Sunday. It's her playing thumb and is swollen half again its normal size.

COWBOY HUGHES LOSES PROVIDENCE, R. I. Sept. 9.—

' | Salvatore Balbo, New York, pinned

Cowboy Hughes, Oklahoma, in the feature go of a mat card here last night.

NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—The New York Giants have announced the

outright purchase of George Scha-|

rein, snortstop of the Nashville club | in the Southern Association, for de- |

livery next spring.

Women’s Rivalry Features,

Given Spot on Casting Tourney ~ Program Listed

The sixteenth annual tourna-

Amateur Card

Harold McDermid, above, local featherweight fighter, has been pitted against Bobby Guss, sharp- | shooting: Washington A. C. scrap-| per, in one of the! three-round supporting bouts of Roy Wallace's! amateur ring card at the Illinoisst arena tomorrow night. McDermid and Guss have been prominent on recent programs, but have never crossed paths in their campaigns. Guss annexed the Golden Gloves Novice flyweight title and has since stepped into the heavier class. Walter Johnson, Oliver A. C. bantamweight belter, is to meet Leroy Dycus, Bess A. C. Negro, for the third time in the fourround feature bout. Each has won once in the series. There will be five other three-round matches.

OLSEN IS VICTOR NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—Cliff Olsen, Minneapolis grappler, tossed Rudy Dusek, Omaha, in the main event on a mat program here last night.

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Manuaftceurers, wholesalers, re-

tailers anda individuals have made liberal donations of prizes for the various events. Tne program fol lows: Sunday, Sept. 13 9 A. M Distance fiy, five and three fourths ounce rod 100 A. M—Dry flv accuracy, five and three-fourths ounce rod. 1:30 P. M.—Three-eighths ounce plug,

accuracy. : 3 P. M—Wet fly accuracy, five and three-fourths ounce rod. Sunday, Sept. 20 8 A, M.—Three-eignths ounce plug, dise

tance. i . 10:30 A. M.—Pive-eighths ounce plug,

distance. 1:30 curacy. 4 H. J. Walker 1s president of the casting club. Other officers are J. I, Knowles, vice president; Don Brafe ford, captain, and H. E. Frost, sec= retary-treasurer.

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