Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1937 — Page 6

THE PAYOFF

Mistuh Joe Louis’ Exhibition Tour Termed an April Fool Affair by Sports Writers in Its Wake.

: By RICHARD M'CANN | NEA Sports Writer |

T was quite appropriate that Mistuh Joe. Louis, nee the Brown Bomber, should terminate his exhibition boxing tour on April 1, which is known around and about the country as April Fool's Day. You see, judging by the press notices sprayed in his wake, every day was April Fool's Day on Mistuh Joe's tour. The newspaper boys, it seems, didn't think that it was at all fun to be fooled. ; For instance, after crearily watching Mistuh Joe cuff around a couple of traveling companions, a Des Moines sports writer wondered to his public why “the 3rown Bomber's stage hands couldn't figure out a better act,” and an ink-stained wretch in St. Joseph, Mo., true to the “you-gotta-show-me’’ Missouri code, snorted that “we'll take wrestling, anagrams or a spirited game of backgammon in preference to a Louis display of his ring wares,” and an Oklahoma City gentleman .of the press declared thet “Louis hurts no one but himself by being a party to such a farce as he staged here.” That's just what th: boys objected to—Mistuh Joe didn’t hurt anybody, including his opacnents. And, of course, his opponents didn't

hurt him. After all, who would bite the hand that's feeding him?

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Coodly Crowds Turn Out

UT, though the scribe: didn’t like Mistuh Joe’s exhibiting, the pharisees seemed to. i In every city the circus attracted goodly crowds. It is estimated that some 25,600 in the 1€ different stop-overs considered it worth their time and their money te watch Mistuh Joe plunge his fists into the blubbary balloon known as Seal Harris or drum out a tune on the gaunt ribs: of the Phrail Philadelphia Philosopher, Leonard Dixon. As a result, Mistuh Joe came home with some $8000 in the coin of the realm after all his expenses were paid. ; This, we believe, is better than Mr. James J. Braddock did orfa similar tour. You remember Nr. Braddock, of course. He's the hzavyweight champion of the world—or, at least, he wa§ when court adjourned. But, as we were saying, this seems to be about the best tour a fighter has made—from a financial standpoint—since Jack Dempsey stalked through the stick: a dozen years ago belting out this and that stooge. Of course, W. L. (Young) Stribling, who traveled more than a rumor, made considerable money knocking out his chauffeur at every stop sign on the road, but nething like 38000 on one trip.

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ND certainly Mistuh Joe journeyed in grander style than all the rest. The aforementioned Willie Stribling used to bounce from town to town in a coughing au.o, while Dempsey and all the other tourists were content to cramp taemselves into a drawing’room or a compartment. : But not Mistuh Joe. He had himself a private Pullman car ’'n’ everything for his party, which included Co-Manager John Roxborough, Trainer Jack Blackburn, Eooking Agent Max Bauman, Bodyguard Carl | Ne'son, Half-Brother Alonzo Brooks and Sparring Partners Seal Harris, Lzonard Dixon and Eddie Malcolm. He took everybody along but a referce, and that wasn't necessary. : You may, by the waj, remember this Malcolm mentioned above. | It was his good fortune one afternoon several months ago to be in the ring cowering in a corner when Mistuh Joe slipped on a wet spot in the canvas and fell. Right away word got around that Louis had been floored by Mal- | colm and the sparring partner was immediately signed for a couple of bouts in different small clubs. . But to get back on tae track. ... The cost of transporting this caravan about the countryside was $5200 and the three squares a day totaled about $1500. Mistith Joe had to pay this feed bill—along with a $75 weekly wage to the sparring partners—but the train tabs were picked up by the various promoters. They gave Mistuh Joe 50 per cent of the gate receipts in each town and so the Detroit Dynaniiter easily grossed scme $10,000 in nuggets. Mistuh Joe would have made more if Boxing Commissioner Frank McDonald of Michigan hadn't stepped in. You see, the caravan was going to make a lucrative stop in Detroit, Joe's home town, but Mc- | Donald said, phew, shco!

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There for Cards’ Fight

By HENRY McLEMORE

United PINEHURST, N. C., April 5—I

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am extremely grateful that I was

in Pinehurst, N. C., And nct Tampa, Friday night when the bloody battle was waged between the 3t. Leuis Cardinals, under the leadership of

General Dizzy Dean, and the sports writers,

Field Marshall Jack Miley % For had I been there in the hotel auring the shooting the chances are that I would have been let draped over a potted palm, with no one] more efficient than-the bell captain or the cigar-stand girl to dress my | wounds, take down my last words, | and forward my personal :ffects to | my wife. Mine would have been a double | predicament. As a rcokie shortstop | who worked out for several weeks with the Cardinals, Miley would have swung upon me as @& baseball player. And as a sportswriter the Cardinals would have been obligated to beat me lustily on the profile. As for myself, I wouldn't have known whom. to hit. The only way I could have solved tne problem, I guess, would have been to punch my ownself twice—once for being a sportswriter and once for being a ball player.

That's Too Many

That would have meaat three people hitting me at once, and that’s exactly three too many. There prob‘ably would have been a fourth party swinging on me, because it is no secret that Mrs. Patricia Dean, wife of the Dizzy one, would like to have my auburn scalp dangling from her belt, and my pelt stretched out as a rug in her Bradenton home. : When I went to Sarasota, Fla. this winter to report the bac-ball players’ golf tournament, I was warned to watch my step when I saw Mrs. Dean—that she was very angry because of a story I had written about Dizzy and Paul, and aimed to swat me over the head with her umbrella when she saw me. I saw her once or twice as she followed Dizzy’s play, but it was at a distance, because I cautiously stayed in the middle of the fairway, which is a spot people who follow Dizzy at golf seldom tread.

Miley Was

If the account of the battle I read was accurate, future historians won’t have any trouble deciding who won it. Miley, it seems, carne out of the fray not only with a clean-cut right eye, but the same sort of triumph. When 15 or 16 of the baseball playing species bop you over the head with spiked shoes, and you hold your ground and are capable of giving an account of what happened, -you automatically are the winner. I think that historians

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probably, will sum up the fight with the statement: “It was a ‘triumph of mind over matter.” ! I think, too, that the battle put the lie to reports that the Cardinals no longer were the ‘“gas-house gang.” Those of* us who feared the men who represent the city of St. Louis in the National League had absorbed a modicum of. culture and might become gentlemen, now know that our fears were not warranted. They still believe in “gang” warfare, and their motto still is: “All for one and all against one— with spikes.”

Bulldogs to Play Purdue Saturday

Butler University's baseball team began its final week of pre-season drill today before tangling in 1s opening game. of the year with Purtiue Saturday at West Lafayette. Only five lettermen have returned to the Bulldog lineup this season. All three pitchers from last year's team—Inman Blackaby, Norman Grauel and Norval Corbett—are back in uniform this season to boister the team. 3 Byron Schofield, reserve catcher last year, probably will draw the backstop assignment, replacing Spero Costas, who died a few months

ago. Larry Wilson, sophomore, also is making a strong bid for the po-

sition. Joe Macek of East Chicago, center fielder, probably will be moved io first base to take the place of Fred Kline, who was graduated. Eldon Staller,. shortstop; Cody | Burdette, second baseman, and Clarence Lajmon, third basemen, all veterans, will complete the infield. The three outfield positiqns all are cpen. Tom Hardin, former Crispus Attucks player, is the only candidate who appears to have one of the positions clinched.

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Killefer Is Keeping Squad Of 27 Players

Team Will Be Cut Only on | | Last Day of Spring = | Training Session.

By EDDIE ASH

BOWLING GREEN, Ky., April 5.— Entering their fourth week of spring training the Indianapolis Indians were scheduled to return to the double practice routine today and Manager Wade Killefer advised the boys to prepare for heavy duty. He announced that the entire squad of 27 players will be held intact until the Redskins break camp on April 14, and this news was especially encouraging to the rookies. : The tribe roster will be cut to 21 pastimers on the day the tribesters depart for Indianapolis where drills will be held on April 15 and 16 prior to opening the American Association season with Columbus cn Saturday, April 17. In the meantime Chief Killefer will continue the search for a new first baseman. He is convinced by now that Bob Latshaw is not ready for Class A competition and that Doug Wheeler, the semipro rookie Californian is too green for fast company at this time. Latshaw is making .2 courageous effort to hang on, but the odds are ! against him. The youngster needs another season out in the little | minors. . | Buck Fausett, regular third base-

iman, who is a full-fledged holdout,

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| has not communicated with the club {in recent days and Killefer has | | about given up hope for him. How- | ever, the Texan will not be | suspended until opening day hecause | in baseball the. holdout situation usually clears up just before contracts begin paying dividends. Lewis Also Absent

| Another absentee from camp is | Bill Lewis, catcher, who was called | home last week on account of ill- | ness in his family. Rookies show- | ing best at bat during exhibition and I intrgsquad practice games are Bob | Kahle, third sacker from Richmond, 1 Ind., and Victor Mettler, outfielder, | formerly of Notre Dame. Bill Lewis | also ‘has been pounding the ball, but {is \not classed as a recruit.. He has had plenty of minor league experiicnce and also got into several games

Oscar Eckhardt is pacing the regulars at the plate and apparently is pointing himself to grab off the American Associaticn batting champicnship this season. He missed by a narrow margin in 1936 after leading the Pacific Coast League in 1935. With the exception of his teeth, the big fellow is in fine physical condition and the molars are being taken care of now. He had three teeth extracted Saturday and was ready to climb back into uniform today. After two days of splendid spring weather, the law of averages caught up with the Hoosiers yesterday and wet grounds forced the cancellation of their game with the Bowling Green Barons, local independent nine. the diamond and the athletes were | dismissed. Sunshine in the afternoon came too late to erase the i muddy going and Manager Killefer® played it safe and took no chances |on courting injuries to players on the slippery field. Trounced Collegians

The Indians trounced the Western Kentucky State Teachers College nine Saturday, 23 to 0. It was a’ no-run, no-hit triumph. Pitchers Jimmy - Sharp, Elmer Riddle and Elbern (Ox) Hartley tied the ‘hapless collegians into knots. The Westerns were short of practice and couldn't connect with the fast balls and curves. The leaguers slammed the ball to all corners and a home run by Fred Berger traveled at /least 400 feet. He hit a curve and the ball sailed in the manner of a Babe Ruth wallop. The Indians next exhibition tilt will be with the crack Negro Homestead Grays of Pennsylvania on Thursday. The team is a member of the Negro National League and is winding up training in the southland. Manager Killefer is satisfied with the spring training setup in Bowling Green and has no complaints to make about the weather. But the exhibition game schedule is weak and his athletes are not facing real pitching. Big league clubs do not penetrate this section and the college and independent nines are not in shape to offer stern competition. Perry Returns

Owner Norman A. Perry returned to Indianapolis last night with Business Manager Dale Miller. The Tribe president is to return.to Bowl. ing Green tomorrow. Norman Perry Jr.. is here handling the baseball broadcasts for WIRE, Indianapolis, at 5:45 o'clock each evening, except Sunday, when it goes on the air at 10:30. Shortstop Francis (Salty) Parker, cbtained from Detroit, who has been taking it easy in camp on account of an operation several weeks ago, is expected to build up to the regular drill routine tnis week. The

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Outdoes Parent Club The San Antonio baseball team, Texas League farm of the St. Louis . @#Browns, frequently has drawn bigger

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INDIANS TO DOUBLE PRACTICE TODAY

A heavy downpour of rain failed to damnen the spirits of the world champions Falls City-Hi-Bru bowling team when they left for New York

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By BERNARD HARMON

Six local teams are to partcipate in the American Bowling Congress turnament during the week, four being: scheduled in the five-man events on Thursday night and two Saturday night. Members of the quintets on the Thursday program are to roll their minor events Friday, while the Saturday night pastimers are to appear in-their singles and doubles Sunday. Falls City Hi-Brus, the 1936 champions, are en route tec New York, scene of the tourney, having left Saturday morning. Lieber Beer, 1936 state champions, Mobilgas and Selmier’s Caddies are to leave on the Eastern journey today and tomorrow. The four aggregations arc on the 10:30 squad Thursday night. Barbasols and Bowes Seal Fast are on the Saturday night schedule. «. Indianapolis’ hopes . of gaining another championship should materialize during the two nights of action, for members of the six teams have established themselves among the city’s topnotchers and all carry high averages. ] Stars in State Meet | 7 Joe Michaelis, a member of the ocal L. S. Ayres team, today is in first place in the all-events division of the annual state tournament in progress at South Bend. The local pastimer totaled 1884 in his nine games, getting 639 in the team events, 588 in the doubles and 657 in the singles. His 639, along with Jack Hunt's 646 gave the Ayresmen a 2801 total that elevated them to ninth place in the team standing. i Michaelis teamed with Bud Argus, 1936 all events champion, in the doubles and the pair totaled 1178 to take 12th place. In the singles, Michaelis’ 657 was good for thir place. j Argus and Bill Brunot also passed the 600 mark in their singles ap-

pearances, the former getting a 610:

and Brunot a 606. The Ayres booster team entry failed to land among the leaders. Women Set Record A new all-time record was posted by a pair of local feminine pastimers, rolling in the Chicago American annual tournament over the week-end. Race Johns and Maizie Lathrop. mowed 501 pins from thea alleys in one of their. doubles games. Mrs. Johns had a 269 and Mrs. Lathrop 235. The pair totaled 1149

other Parker on the roster is Charlie, also an infielder, of Tulsa, Okla. Salty hails from Granite City, Ill Ox Hartley, right-handed rookie

hurler and a product of Evansville,

is showing great improvement this spring It's his third tryout with the Indians. He is of the desired size for league pitching. Jimmy Crandall, last year’s No. 2 cateher, is looking better at the plate and is trotting right along with the sluggers. His father, Otis Crandall, was a famous big league pitcher who learned the game on the sandlots of the Hoosier state.

Six Indienapolis Quintets on Week’s American Bowling Congress Schedule

in their three games, taking third: Hunt enjoyed another week of 600 |

place in the doubles standings.

Hotel Brevort, a local entry in the Class A team event, is in second place as a result of its 2757 series. | J. L. Hahn Wholesale Meats and Security Benefit Association took fiftn | and sixth positions in the Class B team events, the former totaling 2488 and the latter 2472.

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{ibrcath has just returned from a

bisiness trip to Chicago, where he | visited some of the Windy City’s bowling establishments. Some real i layouts, reports Barney. . . . Frank | Milli was nosed out by one pin in his weekly battle with Wilbur Roesner, but he finished far ahead of his other rival, Earl Huber. . . . Jack

McClure, Partner ~ Lose in Doubles

By United Press NEWARK, N. J, April 5—Ruth Aarons, blond New Yorker, occupied the national women's singles table tennis ‘throne tcday for the second ‘consecutive year. Miss Aarons was the only one

of seven champions to retain any of their 1936 laurels in the seventh annual tourney concluded here last night, . With a 21-19, 21-11, 21-16 victory over Emily Fuller, Bethlehem, Pa., Miss Aarons held her singles crown. Miss Fuller, paired with Mrs. Dolores Kuenz of St. Louis took the doubles title with a 29-27, 21-19, 21-15 victory over Miss Aarons and Anne Sigman of New York. Laslo Bellak of Hungary won the undefended men’s title by beating another foreign entrant, Standa Kolar, Czechoslovakia, 21-17, 12-21, 21-16, 21-6 in the finals. Victor Barna of Hungary, 1936 champion, was not entered. Bellak and Kolar dethroned Bud Blatter of St. Louis and Jimmy McClure of Indianapolis as doubles champions with a 21-17, 21-18, 21-16 triumph. > Charleton Drake of Chicago fdiled to defend his “veteran’s’ singles title which Morris Bernstein of New York took by licking Sidney Rose, Philadelphia, 21-19, 21-12, 15-21, 21-8. Al Race, Elizabeth, N. J, celebrated his 13th birthday by winning the boy’s title, 17-21, 21-11, 2118, 21-14, over William Palacio, Chicago.

ENTERED IN MILE RUN

Times Special PHILADELPHIA, Pa. April 5.— Don Lash of Indiana University has been entered in the special invitational mile race at the 43d annual University of Pennsylvania relay carnival to be held here April 23-24.

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imes Puo.o and Joe Fulton, twice city champions, are carrying huge averages in local loops and should give the tournament spectators a real exhibition of maple spilling. Fred Mounts and Ray Roberson and Charley Cray and Clarence Mack will form the other doubles combinations. Members of the team are shcwn above just before joining a cordon of automobiles that escoried them to the edge of the city: They are left to right, Mounts, Roberson, Fulton, Hardin, Cray and Mack.

LU. Nine to Open. Card Tomorrow

| Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind. April 5— shooting. Missed out in the Hoosier | Indiana University is to open its A. C. league, but passed the honor | 30-game baseball schedule here tomark in four other appearances. [morrow in a game with Carleton What the two Bricklayer’s teams College of Minneapolis. The next of the Central League lack in scor-|day the Hoosiers will tangle with ing ability, they more than make up | DePauw before departing on a fourin - enthusiasm. Members of the|game spring vacation trip. quintets are working on a new build- | - Cocapt. Willis Hosler and Robing project in Marion and drive 100 | miles each ‘Friday night to get in| for mound duty tomorrow, and Louis their three games. . . . Paul Moore | Grieger, junior, and Bill Smith and

ert Adler, both seniors, are slated [

had a- nice week. “Just ordinary 600s,” Paul s2id, “but enough to get that top spet in two leagues.” . . . The Seal brothers put on a little act of their own in the Eli Lilly loop, but George demanded the most attention with that string of strikes that counted 277 in his middle game.

Cress Visits City

Walter Cress, former member of the City Market and other local teams, was ia visitor in the city last week. Wal, now connected with a railroad in’Urbana, Ill, exchanged greetings with | some of his old friends during a stopover en route home from the A. B. C. tournament. . . . francis Raftery gave the East Side ®&ocial boys a nice exhibition in {hat middle game. . . Red Haugh, the bowling cop, is back on the job again. Red has been on the sidelines because of illness, but has fully recovered and ready to get his share of the maples. . .. Ted Seiner was fecling fine after that opener in the Patrick Henry.

| But how did he feel after that sec-

ond game? . Bob Boyle topped his rivals in the Cathedral loop with a big 233 start. « « » Clelll Dodd turned in a nice opener in the Big Four. But what happened after that? ... That Insurance League races is a real nip and tuck affair, with New Amsterdam, Connecticut General and Equitable (Life battling for the top spot. . . . There is no truth in the report that Bennie Schuck is Eastward bound. Much to his regret he won’t be able to see Carl Hardin perform in the A. B. C.

GREENSBURG WINS VOLLEYBALL TITLE

By United Press ANDERSON, April 5.—Greensburg held the state Y. M. C. A. iyolleyball: championship for the third conszcutive year today after defeating the Ft. Wayne Veterans in the finals, 15-12, 12-15, 15-18. Other teams competing in the tourney included Vincennes, Huntington, Newcastle, the Ft. Wayne Turners, and Eli Lillys of Indianapolis, Anderson, Evansville and South Bend.

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| Carol Cox, sophomores, are to pitch against DePauw. Steve Kubic, senior, will be behind the bat in | both games. In the infield, Coach Everett Dean probably will use Pat Littell at first, Ralph Thompson at second, Ellis Abernathy at shortstop, and Herb Queisser or Ernie Andres at third:

Bitsy Grant Is Defending Title

By United Press HOUSTON, Tex., April 5.—Bryan Grant, the small, but mighty tennis player from Atlanta, Ga., opened his defense today of the River Oaks tournament championship which he has won for the last two years. Fifty-nine other players were out to contend for the title in the seventh annual meet at the River Oaks Country Club. Leading them was Wilmer Allison of Austin, former national champon and Davis Cup captain who lost to Grant in the finals last year and the year before. Grant, the champion, was seeded No. 1 in the meet, and Allison No. 2.. Bobby Riggs of California was No. 3. Other seeded players were Joe Hunt of Los Angeles, Arthur Hendrix of Lakeland Fla. Wayne Sabin and Walter Senior of California, and Hal Surface of Kansas City. Grant was expected to team with Sabin in the doubles. Allison, who has been out of tournament play since the Davis Cup matches last year, will team with his business partner and former coholder of the national doubles title, John Van Ryn of Philadelphia. Miss Eunice Dean of San Antonio is defending her women’s singles championship. Ranking at the top among her competitors . are Miss Gracyn ‘Wheeler of Santa Monica, Cal, Mrs. John Van Ryn, and Mrs. Anna Mae Whitehurst of Corpus Christi. The tournament will run through next Sunday.

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Byron Nelson

Scores Upset In Golf Meet

Blond Texan Gets Thrill Out Of Winning but He Does Not Celebrate.

By STUART CAMERON United Press Sports Editor AUGUSTA, Ga. April 5.—Byron Nelson, who started life as a railroad accountant’s assistant, was the Augusta National Golf Champion

today, the first surprise winner in the 4Qur-year history of the tourney. Thg smiling blond outscored a brilliant field to register a stunning

strcke away from the record. The tourney of the nation’s ace professionals and amateurs was set- | tled on just four holes, the first four | of the back gine of the final round. | It was here that Nelson clipped {four strokes off par with a scoring included two birdies and an eagle three. A 30-to-1 shot in the betting, Nelson had led at the end of the first and second rounds. He trailed Ralph Guldahl of St. Louis by three strokes when the third round was complete, but held his shots in line in the final to win by two strokes while Guldahl, along with the home pro Dudley and Chicago's Harry Cooper were missing par. : Guldahl had a final 76 for 285, while Dudley’s 74 was giving him a 286. Harry Cooper had 74 for 287. Nelson, attached to the Reading (Pa.) Country Club, is an affable gent. He doesn’t have much to say unless the conversation is about golf. At such times he has a word or two. If the conversation turns to Nelson's own particular round, he really becomes voluble.

Doesn’t Drink

He went to high school in Ft, Worth, Tex., but had to quit and go to work. “I don’t drink and I don’t smoke. I don’t quarrel with any one who does, ‘but I don't care for them. Drinking especially is repulsive and I actually haven't ever touched a drop in my life. Maybe it's a good thing right now, because I sure feel like celebrating,” he said. Nelson thinks his Augusta tional ‘championship is his golfing achievement.

Moreland Wins Title At French Lick

By United Press FRENCH LICK, April 5—Gus Moreland, 25-year-old printing sup=ply salesman from Peoria, Ill., today hd replaced Chick Evans, Chicago, three-time winnér, as the titleholder in| the Midwest Amateur Golf tours nament. : : Moreland overcame handicaps of a late entry, rain and semidarkness during the sixth annual tourney at the French Lick Springs Hotel course to post a 54-hole score of 228 for first-place honors. ‘Evans finished in sixth place with a card of 233. Don Armstrong, runnerup to Evans last year, again had to be

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