Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1937 — Page 9

SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1937

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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WILLIAMS RECEIVES RACING TIPS FROM TRAINER HIRSCH

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Max Has List Of Good Derby Possibilities

Pompoon Stands Out From Group, but There Are Several Others in Running.

wlan, By JOE WILLIAMS

Times Special Writer SEBRING, Fla.,, March Indian courier from the a note reached me here today in| the tropical fastness from Mr. Max | Hirsch the hoss trainer. Singularly | it had to do with the subject of | hosses, a subject with which Mr. Hirsch is more than slightly familiar. Specifically, the note concerned the list of nomi- | nations for the | Kentucky Derby | which had just | been made public. Although admit- | ting it was rather early for sizing up | the race, Mr. Hirsch seemed to think Pompoon, the winter book favorite, was a le- | gitimate choice

27.—By mainland |

Mr. Williams

but -, ., “I ‘don’t like him & whole lot bet- | ter than some of the others, notably | Clodion, War Admiral, Reaping Re- | ward and No Sir.” Just about a vear ago I received a similar note | from Mr. Hirsch. At that time he | also liked the winter book favorite, | Brevity, but not to the exclusion of everything else. . . . ‘I've a good colt in Bold Venture and if he comes up to the race in good condition he might take it all. There's another thing in the race | called Indian Broom that will bear watching, too. This colt can go as fast as any of them. The only ques- | tion is whether he can carry weight a distance.” I review this background because it tends to confirm Mr. Hirsch's position as a prophet. Brevity didn’t win the Derby last vear but ran second. Bold Venture was first across and Indian Broom was third. | Thus the three colts the old trainer | liked long before the race accounted for all the money to be won. Tt | might be well, then, to keep in mind his early selections.

2-Year-Olds

The boys are saying there wasn't | a real good 2-year-old last year and because there wasn't the Derby will be a wide-open race. There is something oddly reminiscent about this. The bovs said the same thing last year and Bold Venture came on to win both the Derby and the Preakness before he cracked up. Everybody admits it takes a real good colt to win those two fixtures. The year before there wasn’t anything in the field that struck the boys as a standout, and along came Omaha to move them to raptures They wound up calling him a great | colt And it was pretty much the same in 193¢ when Cavalcade won. He wasn’t considered an exceptional 2-year-old, but before he rounded out his career he was being compared with Man o’ War. The fact is it is difficult to be sure about 2-year-olds, Once in a while a smashing voungster like Man o' War will come along, eliminating all doubts and conjectures, but the intervals between such sensations are widely stretched. Most 2-yvear-olds do not find themselves until they move up into older company. Who is there to sav for sure that of the 103 colts, geldings and fillies nominated for the Louisville carnival, some splendid campaigners won't be developed?

All Are Tops

Indeed, the gentlemen who conduct that extraordinary proposition known as the winter book seem to consider practically every possible starter in the Derby a potential Man © War. With characteristic generosity they have presented a list f prices that is at once ridiculous and hilarious Pompoon, for example, is the favorite at 8 to 1-—and the race is still six weeks away. This would be an excellent price at the track on a Derby favorite but its absurdity hits you right between the pveepers when vou are reminded it is a reasonable bet at 4 to 1 that any nominee you care to name at the moment won't even go to the | post. Ed Bradley, the old gambling | man, Is the authority for this quotation with respect to the Derby. The winter book is strictly a sucker “come on” as I have pointed out for vears and it becomes even more $60 when the promoters shave the price on the top hoss to 8 to 1, and scale the rest of the possible starting field in proportion. I am assuming, too, that the sucker realizes he doesn’t get his money | back if his hoss fails to go to the post. Close to Institution

The winter book is the closest | thing this country has to a national | lottery and is about as crude a lottery as might possibly be devised. To begin with the winter book is accountable to ho supervising | agency and there is no guarantee beyond the local reputation of the promoters that winners will collect. The winter book lacks even the pretense of aiding the Government in revenue, a quality that is loosely associated with the average lottery, it is completely an individual promotion and the wide open manner in which it flourishes in a country | that even frowns on keno at church bazars is an increasing source of mystery. Should the promoters be unexpectedly overtaken by what the | boys call the shorts, meaning in- | capacity to pay despite the enor- | mous percentage in favor of the | house, the sucker has no redress. This happened in 1923 when Zev, well played at surprisingly good odds, won the Derby. The promoters simply closed the books and took a nice walk for himself. I don't wish to create the impression that T am a pious old gent with an acidulous opposition to good clean fun. As a matter of fact IT am one of the suckers who always has some sort of a bet riding in the winter book, and I happen to be one of the suckers who | got hooked on Zev. But if the win- | ter book is to become an American | institution I think it should be subjected to responsible regulation. i

| entrants see action. | Class A entrants, and the majority of the quintets are local aggregations.

| pions,

| Class A teams scheduled.

|B team on the squad. | Wayne quintets and one team from |

| house, Ft.

| Paul

{champion Hi-Brus, din at

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tilt,

| pace for the winners.

| clashes, Hiller Office | Coffee turned

| Hillers, Baders and Dutch Myers’ 605 for the | Green Rivers were the only honor |

It Runs in the Hirsch Family Killefer to Pit

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Mary Hirsch is shown above with her horse trainers.

the nation's most prominent terest in her father's business and self. Her father he discusses with Joe Williams in

father, Max Hirsch, one of Mary takes an avid indoes some pretty fine training her-

has his ideas about this vear's Derby runners, which

the Bréicle on this page.

Women’ S State Bowling

Tourney En

ds Tomorrow

By BERNARD HARMON

Th final squad of entrants in

tournament of the Indiana Women's State Bowling Association is sched |

the team events of the 14th annual

uled to face the maples at the Pritchett Alleys tonight at 8 The tournament has been in progress over the last two week-ends

and is to be concluded tomorrow Thirteen of

Bowes Seal Fasts, 1937 city chamSunshine Cleaners, Shoe Store, Security Benefit Association, Knit Shop, Falls City HiBru, John L. Hahn Wholesale Meats, Hatfield Paint and Ernest Johnson Coal Co. are the local Indian-

apolis Real Silk, is the only Class

Richmond completes tonight's lineup. Tomorrow’s squads of minor entrants are scheduled to get under way at 2, 4 and 6. Practically members of tonight's team entries

are to try their luck in the doubles | land singles events,

The feminine pastimers in action over the week-end will attempt dethrone the following leaders: Class A team event, Wayne Hardware, Ft. Wayne, 2427 Class B. team event, City Light, Ft. Wayne, 2302: Class A doubles, Helen Mc-Anly-Daisy Stuart, Indianapolis, 1031; Class B doubles, Eleanor Whitehouse, Ft. Wayne-Caroline Trissal, Indianapolis, 949; Class A Singles, Erna Keller, Ft. Wayne, 536: Class B Singles, Alice Caldwell, Muncie, 531; Class A all-events, E. Ahcenbach, South Bend. 1593 and Class B all-events, Eleanor WhiteWayne, 1517. Heavy Scoring Features

One of the heaviest scoring sessions of the season resulted from last night's session of the Beam Recreation League at the Pennsylvania Alleys. John Blue's 763. Carl Hardin's 721, John Fehr's Stemm's 708 featured the individual rivalry, while Falls City HiBrus with 3291, Packard Motors with 3279, Barbasols with 3193 and L. S. Ayres with 3126 were the outstanding in team competition.

Blue fell two pins short of tieing |

the season city record held by Bill Wischmeyer when he tossed games of 252, 255 and 256. His Packard Motors were opponents of the world who had Harthe anchor position with games of 252, 247 and 222. Despite the fact that the Brus had had the help of four other classy solo contributions, the Packards nabbed two of the three games. Fred Mounts stacked up a 696 for the champs through games of 214, 248 and 234, Joe Fulton tossed ! a 661, Ray Roberson assembled a 610 and Charley Cray had a 603. Games of 1082, 1123 and 1086 gave | the Brus their big total, while the

| Packards reached their 3279 on 1043,

1136 and 1100. Leo Ahearn’'s 694 from 202, 224 and 268 and Dad Hanna's 665 proved a big help to the Packards in their victories,

Ayres Loses Tough Series

The Barbasol quintet nabbed three

S. Ayres & Co., but it knew it had been some place when the session was over. The Ayresmen dropped the first two games by three-pin margins and were constant threats in the final

and 1035 for their 3126, while the Barbasols turned in 1008, 1091 and 1096. Fehr's 716, garnered through games of 235, 253 and 228, set the Jess Pritch- | ett Sr. gained momentum as he | progressed, following a 194 opener | {with games of 229 and 258 for a | 681. Don Johnson completed the | Barbasol’s list of | heavy hitters, | turning in a 646. For the Ayres team, Dick Nord- | holt's 660 set the pace. Jack Hunt | tossed his fifth 800 series of the | week, a 635; Bill Brunot had 633 and | Bud Argus 611, to round but their quartet of honor shooters.

Stemm Shoots 708 Stemm'’s 708, resulting from games |

[of 268, 230 and 210, along with Ed | Stevenson's 637, paced Marott Shoes |

to two victories over Lieber Beer,

| which had Jerry O'Grady’s 615 as Bowes Seal Fast also | | nabbed two wins, Sterling Beer be- | ing its victim. Bd Striebeck's 675

its top series.

featured for the winners, while Rav- | mond Fox's 615 set the pace for the Sterlings. In the

loop's remaining

Marmon-Herrington and River, Hank Shriver’s

John Bader’s 614 for

counts posted. _Olin Hardy,

Banker S League star,

LIGHTING FIXTURES

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all |

to |

716 and |

They had games of 1003, 1088 |

team | and Bader | in double wins over | Green | 640 for the | the |

when three squads of minor events

14 teams on

2 i

missed a perfect score by three pins | during the loop's session at the

[Pritchett Alleys. He registered elev- |

strikes and then the head pin on his final delivery, leaving the 1, 3 and 6 pins. He had preceded his gallant effort with games of 173 and 201 that gave him a 671 total that easily won him solo honors. Herb Lawrenz with 646 and Vollrath with 612 were his nearest rivals Merchants National

en consecutive missed

turned in the loops best single game |

of the season, a 1031. Some nifty totals emerged from the Washington League's gathering at the Illinois Alleys, Harold Cork, who attracted attention as the leading scorer at the A. B. C. tournament last week-end, continued his 600 march with a 656 that was good {for honors. He had games of 190. 232 and 234, leading Zink's Market to a shutout victory over Indianapolis Paint & Color Co. Russ Buley’'s 653, Oakley Woodard's 651 and Harold Koehler's 650 were other totals of 650 or better.

Several individuals passed the 600 | having 619, | Henry Bunch 618, Reid Sharum 617. | # Joe Hughes 607,

mark, Fred Baehre Clarence Stone 604 Berry 602. Herman E. Illinois Service Shop three-game winners in the team clashes. Falls City Lager, in its double victory, turned in a 2924, the top team total of the session.

and Elmer Schmitt and were other

League Race Close A shutout victory in last night's matches kept Connecticut Generals at the top of the team standings of the Insurance League, rolling weekly schedule on vania Alleys. New Amsterdam took | advantage of Equitable Life's double | beating, and through a triple win

nabbed second place, one game behind the leaders. | nosed out Rich Schmitt for solo i honors of the session, 645 to 640. | Others topping the 600 mark were | Charlie MeCahill Kirschner with 611 and Joe MecCurdy with 602.

its

|

Peck Pierson and Gib Smith were |

the lone 600 shooters of the Big | Four Railroad League's matches at the Fountain Square Alleys. The | former, | totaled 640 while Smith had a 618. A trio of honor counts were turned | in by Hillerest Country Club mem-=-bers. Three Falls City Hi-Bru stars passed the 600 mark in their warmups for their Beam Recreation ap- | pearances. Charley Cray had 631, Carl Hardin 619 and Joe Fulton 611, Sansone’s 634 in the Central Recreation League at the Ceniral, Ed Stevenson's 616 in the Construction at the Pritchetts and Powers’ 605 in the Chevrolet Commercial Body Corp. at the Indiana were

ning.

tonight's program are |

the Pennsyl- |

George Peet |

with 629, Fred |

through a 256 middle game, |

other outstanding scores of the eve-

Tribe Against ~ Semipro Club

Indians Will Play Series of Practice Tilts With College Team | dss Bl

i « Times Special { BOWLING | 27.—Manager | whipped his

GREEN, Ky. veo) Wade Killefer today Indianapolis Indians into shape for their exhibition game | [tomorrow with the Bowling Green Barons, local semipro outfit. He announced that the Tribe [would play a series of practice games | {with the Western State Teachers | [College Hill Toppers following to- | morrow's contest. | Before cutting some of his rookies loose without testing them under | fire, Killefer yesterday divided the vounger members of the Tribe into two teams and sent them into a five-inning battle. Team 1 came out on top, winning 5 to 1.

Has Fdge in Pitching i An edge in the pitching, and the | hitting of Bob Latshaw, first base- | man, were the factors that decided | the contest in favor of Team 1. Ox | Hartley and James Sharp were on | the mound for the winners. { There was not a great deal of hiting on either side. Errors played a | | prominent part in the game due to | the extreme cold, the losers being | guilty of several more bobbles than the winners. Team 1 got off to a good start in the first inning with a three-run | scoring splurge as Latshaw hit the | | first of his two doubles with two | aboard. Bob Kahle, third sacker for | | the winners, also banged a double, | | accounting for a run in the second frame. Final Tally in Third The final tally came in the third The losers counted their lone run in the fourth when Elmer Riddle [hit a triple, the only safety ofl [ Sharp. The winning outfit, in the order in which they batted, was composed | of Charles Parker, second: Babe | Lawrie, shortstop; Bob Kahle, third; Ronald Hibbard, left field: Bob iatshaw, first; Peter Ray, center field: {Chester Francis, right field: Ben | Lady, catcher, and Hartley and Sharp, pitchers. The losers’ lineup consisted of Vie Mettler, center field: James Dea- | |kyne, second; George Cof§man, | | third; Charles Morris, shortstop; Doug Wheeler, first: tto Meyers, right field; Joe Hoover, catcher, and | Tom Gallivan and Elmer Riddle, pitchers.

3 Positions Open On Indiana Nine

Times Special

BLOOMINGTON, Ind Coach Everett

March 27 Dean is hunting for an outfielder, an infielder, and a catcher to shove into his firststring Indiana University baseball team lineup. The Hoosier pastimers are to open their season in 10 days. Coach Dean put his plavers through their first outdoor drill this week. They will meet Carleton Col= lege here Tuesday, April 6, and DePauw on April 7 before taking a spring vacation trip to play Miami. Cincinnati and Louisville. With co-Captain Russ regular catcher, still on list, Steve Kubic, Dick Hall and Bill Heldt are vving for the receiving assignment. Kubic is the only one | of the trio with varsity experience. | Only two of last season's regular | outfielders, John Hobson and Jim | Clark, are available, although eo- | Captain Willis “Babe” Hosler and Henry Becker, pitchers, alternate in | the gardens. Bill Baise, slugging first baseman, | is the only regular gone from last season's infield. Tommy Thompson at second, Ellis Abernathy, short= | stop, and Herb Queisser, third baseman, are holdovers. Ernie Andres. sophomore, is bidding for one of the positions.

TO MEET LOS ANGELES.

BR) ited Press LOS ANGELES, March 27-— | Jimmy Dykes brought the Chicago White Sox here today to meet the! Pacific Coast League Los Angeles | club. The Sox jinx held good ves- | terday and they beat the Chicago | Cubs, 4-2, for the eighth conse utive | | time. Parmelee walked Clint Brown | with the bases full in the sixth to permit the winning run.

Grieger, the sick

Tillie Pesut’s 570. Nettie Crane's

553, Lucie Court's 553 and Blanche |

| Maas's 552 were the leading dividual totals of the Dr. nel Optical League, nine circuit in action. | rolled at Pritchett S.

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Three Sport 8 Events |

Scheduled at Culver

Times Speetnt CULVER, | letic contests will play an impor-

tant part in the full Raster weeksocial, |

lend program of military, | dramatic and academic events | scheduled for Culver Military Academy cadets, | noon. At 2 p. m,,

tary instructers from the academy, and at 3:30 p. m. the varsity swim- | mers were to meet the Huntington | Y. M. C. A. team. Last on the pro-

| gram was a special exhibition by |

| the gymnastic team.

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State Amateur

Net Tourney Pairings Made

‘Games to Begin Monday

Pennsylvania Railroad Gymnasium.

The schedule for the 20th annual amateur basketball tournae-

ment to begin Monday in the Pennsylvania Railroad gymnasium had

state

been drawn todas

Michigan were dropped schedule after advising officials that they could not meet tourna= ment requirements. Twenty = six teams remain in the tournament. Indianapolis will be represented in the net met by five teams, in= cluding the Hoosier Optical quintet, winner of the city title, Other local teams won their ways to the finals by taking sectional championships at Clayton, New Augusta, Lawrence and Whiteland.

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The Crown Point Independents, 1936 state champions, are to play their first game Tuesday afterncon against the Lyons sectional tourna=ment winner. The final game in the Lyons tourney is to be played tonight. The schedule follows: MONDAY Afternoon nce ve, University

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