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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
BY NEW YORK'S NEW DOG RACING
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‘to do, the commission will take dog racing and like it—so will everybody i else,
* sponsibility and prestige, with the
known liberal views on sport and
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Said Ready To Sign It
Williams Believes the Act Bodes Only Evil; That Horses Are Better.
By JOE WILLIAMS
Times Special Writer
NEW YORK, April 24.—Ignoring
matters of much more vital nature, our sterling statesmen in Albany have passed a bill legalizing dog racing and all the vast civic benefits that go with it. And from a Source extremely close to the mansion I am informed Governor Lehman intends to sign it. A year ago a similar bill was passed but the Governor = vetoed it on the ground that it failed to provide for =a proper regulatory body. It was not difficult to correct this weakness. The bill was repassed ‘at the current session with the State Racing Commission named as the supervising agency. It so happens that the State Racing Commission, headed by Herbert Bayard Swope, has repeatedly gone on record as being opposed to dog racing. But if the Governor signs the new bill which he is expected
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including those who don't want it, see no need for it, and are bewildered at the statemen’s enthusiasm for it. :
Because of the comparatively low Operating cost—say, compared tol operating a horse track—dog racing has seldom attracted persons of re-
result the business is pretty gen- | eraliy looked upon as a sucker come-on and a racket. Unlike horse racing it doesn’t even have the pretense of sporting competitions to recommend it. Act Astonishing That the Governor is of a mind to inflict this tawdry imitation of racing on the citizenry is astonishing even taking into aceount his well-
society. His off the record explanation is that dog tracks already are
vy by political elements, and that if this is so they might as well be legalized and the promotional field thrown opexi to all comers. To the man in the street this explanation is something less than convincing, suggesting as it does the inability of the law to cope with illegal enterprises. There has been illegal dog racing over on Long ] and nobody, from the Governor on down, has made a move to stop it. Not a serious, organized move, anyway. The Governor's present attitude seems to be one of meek resignation. The politicians are ignoring the law and allowing the dogs to race, and the Governor, getting ready to sign the bill, apparently shrugs his shoulders and sighs, “Well what's the difference? If the boys are zo-
The racing blacksmith, Russell likes to drive Dig siston: cars special “jobs,” is shown as he put Racing Car” through the paces at
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Snowberger, who rather th the his “Poor Man's
the Indianapolis 1934.
Motor Speedway recently. semistock models have had unusual success at the annual races, finishing in the first 10 from 1930 to
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Scheduled
have their opening on May 9. Brief ceremonies, including a flagraising, were scheduled at Riverside at 2:30, with the Chevrolet Body Plant Corp., band leading the March. It's the 26th season -for the organized amateur leaguers, Leagues scheduled to get. under way today are the Manufacturers’ Co-operative Industrial, Rockwood Manufacturing and Other members are the Big Six, EmRoe Senior and Majestic. The Rockwood circuit consists of four teams made up entirely of company employees.
Rector Grocery team of .the Municipal League will practice at 1:30 tomorrow and play a game at 2:30 with the Fashion Cleaners at Brookside Park. All candidates and former players are requested to report at 1 p. m.
Bridgeport Blues have called a practice tomorrow. Last year's team members and try-outs should re-
Bridgeport.
Dady A. C.'s have scheduled a practice. tomorrow at Rhodius Park at 12. The Dadys are to play in the fast Indiana-Ohio League this season. Candidates are invited to report at tomorrow's drill, or call Basil Flint, Belmont 1530.
Industrial. |
Four Amateur Circuits
to See Action
Four leagues of the Indianapolis Amateur Baseball Association were to swing into action today on the 1937 schedules, at Riverside, Garfield and Rhodius Parks and Ft. Harrison diamonds.
Sunday leagues are to
@- { The Seven Up nine is scheduled | to meet the A. B. Cs in a practice game at 2p. m. tomorrow at Douglass Park, 25th St. and Martindale Ave. All players are requested to contact Manager Rider for uniforms. May 2 is open. State teams write Bill Rider, 921 E. 19th St.
Fashion Cleaners players and tryouts are requested to report for a workout at Brookside diamond No. 2 tomorrow at 1:30. Rector Grocery nine is to be played at 2:30.
Salvage Equipment nine is to practice tomorrow at 10 a. m. at Riverside diamond No. 1. Players of last season and candidates take notice.
The Indianapolis Senators, a team made up of experienced players, desire to book road games for the season with fast clubs out in the state. Write Robert L. Carrico, 822 State Life Building. Bloomington, | Bedford, Seymour, Kokomo, Muncie and Anderson, notice.
port. For games write Fred-Brandt, |
Indianapolis Machinery and Sup- | ply softball team defeated Kiefer- ( Stewart club in a practice tlit, 15-3. The winners desire a game for tomorrow afternoon to be played at Ellenberger P ar k. Out-of-town {games also are wanted. Write H. | Trout, 4410 E. Michigan St., or
! phone Irvington 1777.
LET'S GO FISHING
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ing to have dog racing they're going to have it.”
Meet From Wiley
The Tech High School track team won slams in the distance events and the jumping, besides breaking even in the dashes and relays, as it won a dual track meet from Wiley of Terre Haute yesterday, by a 6954 score. Aldridge of Wiley was high point man of the meet with a total of 13 points. The summaries:
100-Yard Dash—Karns (T), Darius KW! Wilson (T). Time, :10.7. Mile Run—Jarvis (W), Monroe (T), Harvey (T). Time, 4:43.9. 440-Yard Dash—Barnett (T), Delrymple . White (W). Time, :52.6. | i High Hurdles—Devine (T), . Engleking (T). Time, $16.9. Run—Dunham (W), Lyday . Time, 2:6.5. * Low Hurdles—Meloy (T),; .. Karns (T). | Time, :24.6. d Dash—Darius (W), Shaffer (T). Diamond (W). Time, :23.5. Mile Relay—Tech (Lyday, Vogler, Delrymple, Barnett); Wiley, Tech. Time, 143.5. : 8 Half Mile Relay — Wiley (Diamond. Darius. A, Howle, Brayfield); Tech, Tech, Time. 1:36.8. High Jump—Aldridge (W), Kays (T), A. Howle (W), Height, 5 feet 834 inches. Broad Jump—Aldridge (W), Adkins :T), Piamond (W). Distance. 20 feet 1 inch. Pole Vault—Spiller (T), Aldridge Bvrer (W). Height, 10 feet 6 inches. Shot Put—Adkins (T). Crawford McCormick (T). Distance, 43 feet inches.
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Sterlings to Tackle Walter Holke’s Team
Clyde Hoffa's Indianapolis Sterlings, members of the Indiana-Ohio semipro league and champion of the loop Aast year, are to play the Three-I League club at Terre Haute tomorrow at 2 p. m. Walter Holke, Terre Haute pilot, is an ex-big leaguer and a former Indianapolis first baseman. : The Sterlings will leave from 1228 Oliver Ave. at 10 a. m. The folJowing have been named for the trip: Reb Russell, Milton Mills, Jim Tobin, Roy Brann, Ray Staples, Julie Tangerman, George Seal, Norman Babcock, Ray Brann, Lefty Kertis, Babe Drissell, Fred Hosler and Joe Fornell. Russell and Holke both played on the Indianapolis A. A. pennant winners in 1928.
‘Alabama Bill Lee On Wrestling Card
Three supporting bouts, each scheduled for one fall are to be added to the Everett Marshall-Dorve Roche match at the weekly Armory wrestling show Tuesday night. Walter Podolack, Polish wrestler, js to face Babe Zaharias in the semiwindup. Juan Humberto, Mexjcan grappler, who has been making a hit with local fans, is to-be seen against Lumberjack Myslajek of
matches. Alabama Bill Lee will be pack on the card, going against
Roy Graham. The Indiana State Athletic Commission is recognizing the Marshall-
bass in Fall Creek, in the city li how to deal with them.
. M. Waller. You may remember
that he generously let us in on the fact that there are plenty of
mits and just above, if you know
“I don’t know whether my story of the good fishing in Fall
Creek was taken sericusly or not,” of my first catch of the year.
he snickers, “but here is the tale
Last Sunday I drove about 80 miles
to find a place where fish were hitting, and totaled one undersize bigmouth, though my partner took a pound and three-quarter big-
mouth from Sugar Creek. “Yesterday 1 went down to
12 inches.
stock of Fall Creek bass that he’ Go to it. E-3 = ”
most reasonable compared to Florida the resident fee is $2.25, plenty of states it is $2.00 or more
it will cost you here next year, forgotten.
censes, The 1934-5 figure was $3 a million dollars. For the fishermen who just h
April. gan, or $1.00 for 10 days. nonresident fee is $3.00.
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June 20 in Wisconsin and on The chances are that as in the| waters of the Little
use worms this trip.
or Tuesday.
Decision Goes To
Allen Mathews
For the second time within a month, Allen Mathews, slender Negro middleweight from St. Louis, and Joe Smallwood, plucky fighter from Pittsburgh, went: the full 10 rounds at the Armory boxing show, with Mathews getting the decision. Smallwood had difficulty in lasting the final round when Mathews saw the effects of his lefts, but Joe stuck it out until the bell. He was cut badly about the face during the middle rounds. In the preliminary bouts the losers were through within one round in each fight. Frankie Hughes spent very little time with Tom Mec-
before I got away and it started to rain. I but tied on a pork rind bait and after a few casts hooked a fair fish and lost it when I tried to lift it over a wall. I went to another hole and after a dozen casts I hooked and landed a largemouth of about A couple of casts produced another. ) “I waded across a small stream and cast and a smallmouth hit. A few minutes later I landed another bigmouth. Went back to the first pool and got another bigmouth, That was five, from 11 to 14 inches, in 45 minutes casting in the city limits. There you are, men. Mr. Waller is so sure you can't clean out his
the creek after work. It was 5
nearly turned back,
I was home by 6.”
is willing to tell you about them.
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HE new $1.50 fish and game license fee, beginning next year, is
charges made in some states. In in Connecticut it is $3.35, and in . One or two states expect no pay
from resident fishermen and the average is just about the $1.50
It's $1.00 now, in case you have °
Indiana is high in the list showing net revenue from fishing li
09,099. New York led with nearly
ave to do some game fishing after
the Indiana season closes next Friday, we have already pointed out the possibilities of a whirl at trout in those 14 northern counties. If you don’t believe it would be worth your while and yearn for greener pastures, try Michigan, and a little later, Wisconsin. The Michigan season opens today and in Wisconsin trout are legal on the 15th of The nonresident fee is $2.00 for the whole season in MichiThis includes all fishing. The Wisconsin
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HE season. on bass and other game fish except trout opens on
June 25 in Michigan.
28 goad this your fish reporter will be ] outh, about a mile above its junction ii ie Pere Marguette, near Baldwin, Mich., vainly ia ion I's and nymphs to alleged brown and rainbow trou i he hadn’t been so dumb as to swear he Ls ing
positively, absolutely wouldn't
Maybe if he has any luck he will brag about it here on Monday
Vey, St. Louis Negro, as did Tiger Walker with Larry Dundee in the lightweight battle.. Archie Moore, who showed well in the bouts here earlier this season, stopped Karl Martin of Indianapolis in less than a round, in the opener.
"PANTHERS WIN BALL GAME Times Special NORTH VERNON, Ind., April 24. —The North Vernon Panthers won
a baseball game from the Madison Cubs here yesterday by an 8-4 score.
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American Association
ERMAN CLIFTON, Toledo infielder, paced American Asso-
ciation regulars at bat during early games of the season with the high mark of .600. The Mud Hen collected six hits in 10 times at the plate. Minneapolis was high in club batting and Milwaukee in club fielding. The Brewers smacked out
| eight home runs in the first four
games. George Coffman, Toledo, and Dick Bass, Louisville, grabbed off two mound victories each during the first two series of the new season. The following statistics, com-
| piled by the Howe News Bureau, | Chicago, include all games played
prior to Thursday, April 22: CLUB BATTING
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The annual North Central Conference High School Track and Field Meet May 7, originally scheduled at Anderson, has been moved to Technical of Indianapolis, Fred R. Gorman, Technical . Athletic Director, said today.
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By WINTHROP LYMAN United Press Staff Correspondent
DES MOINES, Ia., April 24.—Six Drake Relays meet records faced a cinder massacre today.
The plotters and their intended prey were: * Texas and Rice Institute—University 440-yard relay; Rice Institute and Texas—University halfmile; Washington State—University
| one mile relay; Al Haller of Wiscon-
sin and Warmerdam of Fresno State—Police vault; Mel Walker of Ohio State and Ed Burke of Marquette—High jump; Alton Terry of Hardin-Simmons—Javelin throw. Only factor which might mar the plotted slaughter was a pelting rain which soaked the track last night.
Washington Close -
Washington lacked just six-tenths of . a second of equalling the one mile record of 3:15.9.
Haller and Warmerdam both have consistently beaten the pole vault mark of 13 feet 11 inches. Walker and Burke can jump six feet nine inches, whereas the Drake Relays mark is six feet six inches. The Hardin-Simmons ace and four other Olympic stars acquitted themselves with honor, but a tow=headed sophomore from Drake, who weighs only 120 pounds and can stand a lot of running, earned the hero laurels. - That was Bill Feiler, who won the two-mile race and, running as anchor man, gave Drake a victory in the university distance medley relay. : Francis Wins Discus Sam Francis of Nebraska, the best American shot putter in the Olympics last year, won the discus throw with a toss of 149.09 feet and led qualifiers in the shot put with a heave of 51 feet, 5'2 inches. Mack Robinson of Pasadena, Cal, Junior College, won the broad jump with a leap of 25 feet, 5% inches, and qualified for the 100-yard dash. Ohio State won the university sprint medley relay in 3:27.9, only four-fifths of a second over the American Collegiate record held hy Northwestern. Rice Institute was second, Iowa third and Kansas State fourth. Pittsburg, Kas. Teachers wdn the sprint medley relay race for division two colleges. Pasadena College was second, Compton Junior College third and Oklahoma Baptist fourth. The winning time was 3:30.1, only three-tenths of a second above the meet record.
Drake and Penn Relays Reach Climax Today in ‘Series of
Special Races
Indiana Captures* First in ‘Penn Half Mile With Record Mark.
By United Press FRANKLIN FIELD, Philadelphia, April 24—Second day events of the 43d annual Penn Relay Carnival opened beneath a bright sun today, brightening hopes of a score of competing world Olympic champions that old records would topple on a dry track. Indiana, whose athletes cracked two carnival records on a soggy track during the first day, qualified with Occidental College, Los Angeles, North Texas Teachers, and Georgia for the half-mile college relay championship finals. Indiana won the finals in 1:27.2 when North Texas Teachers fouled twice in the baton exchange.
North Texas, although disqualified,
covered the distance in three-tenths of a second under the carnival record of 1:26.6. North Texas took a lead at the gun when Ken Gunning, first man for the Hoosiers, made a late start enabling Elmer Brown of Texas to hand the baton to Al Chrisman with a five-yard lead. The Texans led all the way although Indiana’s anchor man, Bob Collier, cut the advantage to less than three yards on the last leg. Occidental College, third in the actual race, was awarded second place and Georgia, with hurdle champion Forrest (Spec) Towns running the third leg, was third. Luigi Beccali, little Italian with the big chest, ace of the mile runners, and Eulace Peacock, Temple University Negro flash, are favored to win the climactic events of the relay carnival—the invitational mile and the special 100-yard dash. University of Pittsburgh, paced by the long-legged Johnny Woodruff, whose 11-foot strikes carried Pitt to its first Penn Relay victory since 1918 in the sprint medley, will shoot at the half mile and mile relay championships. Indiana University captured the college distance medley relay title with a 4:13.8 mile by Olympian Don Lash. The Indiana time of 10:4.7 tied the American mark for the event and bettered the carnival record by nearly 10 seconds. Tommy = Deckard of Indiana topped the carnival mark in the 3000-meter steeplechase by winning in 9: The old record was 9:28. In the two field events decided yesterday, Francis Ryan of Columbia won the shot put with a heave of 50 feet 23: inches, and. Maurice Greene of Georgia won the discus throw with a fling of 148 feet 2%: inches.
Indiana's Don
Don Lash . . . baton conductor.
Ben Davis First In Five-Way Meet
Ben Davis High School trackmen scored a total of 6912 points to
walk off with a five-way track meet at the Warren Central High School field yesterday afternoon. Manual High School was second with 30 points. Warren Central placed 29% points and Broad Ripple was fourth with 29. New Bethel scored eight points. Kemp, Ben Davis’ flashy dash man, was high point winner of the afternoon with 17% points. - He took first place in the 100, 220 and 440-yard dashes, besides being a member of the winning half-mile relay team. The summaries:
100-Yard Dash—Kemp (BD), Kelly (WC), Hoopengardner (BD), Long (WC). Time, :10.5. : Mile Run—Smith (BD), Dunwoody (BR), Poor (BD), Meko (BD). Time, 5:10. Half-Mile—Hammer (BD), Parks (M), Dunwoody (BR). Low Hurdles—Wilkinson (M), Spreckelmeyer (BD), Time, :25.4. 220-Yard Dash — Kemp (WC), Kelly. (WC), O’Neil (M).
123.3. 440-Yard Dash — Jones (BD), {OE Deputy (BD), Stuckey (M).
Half-Mile Relay—Ben Davis (Wathon, Buis, Williams, Kemp), Warren Central, Broad Ripple, Manual. Time, 1:43. ‘Mile Relay—Ben Davis (Deputy, Hammer, Hoppengardner, Jones). Broad Ripple, Manual, Warren Central. Time, 3:56. Put—Donovan (M). Smyser (M), (BD), Wathon (BD) .and Carver Distance, 39 feet 8'2 inches. Pole Vault—Stoneburner (M), . Riser (WC), Kleis (BD), Smith (M). 10_feet 8 inches. hs High Jump-—Ball (NB), Wilkinson (BR), A. Minger (WC), F. Minger (WC), Dis= tance, 5 feet 9 inches. Broad Jumn—Lewis- (WC), Ball (NB), Jones (BD), Wathon (BD). Distance, 20 feet 2 inches. : High Hurdles—Spreckelmyer (BD), Wilkinson (BR), yler (M), Minger (WC), Time, :17.6,
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Plucky Gary Girl Forced to Retire With Injury.
“Tuffy” Gene Vizena, plucky East Gary girl roller skater, and one of the main contenders in, the Roller Derby at the Fair Grounds Colie seum, was forced from the race last night on doctors’ orders. Miss Vizena received a shoulder injury in a bad spill earlier in the week’s competition, but had skated with her arm in a sling for two days before it was discovered she had fractured her shoulder blade. The doctors forbade her continuing in the race: Miss Vizena’s partner, Fuzzy Pierz, also received injuries early this week and had barely gotten back in the race when his partner was hurt. Pierz is still in the Derby, as a solo. : Last night’s activities, displayed before the largest crowd yet to ate tend the local running of the Derby, an estimated 5000, saw Wes Aronsoi and Ivy King retain their lead on the field. Aronson and Jack Cume mings, Lafayette boy, engaged in some rough tactics but, despite heavy fines, Aronson kept his team at the top. Elizabeth Gades and her Polish partner, Bill Roskopf, are in second position in the team standings. The standings are as follows:
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