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FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1937 _

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

PAGE 37

~ YANKEES SHARE FIRST PLACE WITH RED SOX AND TIGERS

‘Hub Team Downs Browns And Moves Up to Top Rung

As Detroit

Mickey - Cochrane’s Homer

Mungo Stars on Hill and With Bat in | Trouncing the Pirates.

By United Press NEW YORK. May can League today. Deadlocked with

were the Detroit Tigers and the Boston Red Sox.

Detroit created the three-way tie by knocking off New Yorlg yesterday, 12-6, after losing the first two games of the series. Nobody had

‘place last season. But the Red Sox starts the St. Manager [Mickey Cochrane was With the score tied, 6-6, in the sixth he hit:a home run which proved the winning run. The Tigers, however, went on to|score five more runs in the eighth.

The Philadelphia Athletics stayed in fourth place by downing the ChiRoy Weath-

the eighth inning proved the deciding hit in Cleveland's 4-2 victory

Brilliantly pitched | games tured the three National games,

feaLeague Van Mungo, Brooklyn fire-

ball hurler, held the Pirates to seven | : :

hits and beat the league leaders, 9-5. Lee Grissom, Cincinnati rookie southpaw, let the Giants down with five hits, blanking them. 4-0. Bill Lee. Cubs’ ace, gave the Phillies only one hit as Chicago won-a fiveinning game halted by rain, 1-0.

Yesterday's Hero—Van Mungo,

7—The Yankees had company atop the Ameri-

Beats Champs

Big Factor in Victory;

the world champions for first place

Hi Yu John

Brooklyn's ace and fastest pitcher | in the National League, who s topped | the league-leading Pirates with a | seven-hit game and drove in two | runs with a double and single to aid his own cause.

THE SINGING CARDINALS ‘ST. LOUIS, May 7.—The St. Louis Cardinals now have an official club] song—"The | March of the Cardinals.” It was composed by George M. Cohan, hoted American stage figure. ;

The chance every minor leaguer longs for came suddenly to Johnny Riddle (above), -after seven long vears of waiting when the Washington Senators signed the popular Indianapolis man to do their backstopping. John is shown in his new uniform.

Final Matches of Tenpin Loops Scheduled Tonight

By BERNARD HARMON Tonight's schedule of the Beam Recreation circuit is to be its last of the seascn. Practically every other loop in the city that does its bowling on Friday night will also end its 1936-37 activities.

The Beam circuit’ is rounding out ¢ its initial season, which brought out | some top notch scoring feats in! its weekly sessions. The loop, | which rolls at|the Pennsylvania Alleys, rivaled the veteran Indianapolis League for popularity and practically the same teams rolled in both circuits. Several loops wound up their regular schedules last night with ye classy scores featuring. John Johnson and Joe Argus Jr. of the Inter-

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“DIZZY” DISMUKES DAY

Opening of Negro American League

INDIANAPOLIS A’s ST. LOUIS STARS PERRY STADIUM May 8-9-10--2 P. M. Double-Header Sunday

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mediate League, rolling at the Uptown Alleys, presented the outstanding performances, the former get-

Johnson was in action with the E. Johnson Coal Co. which was op-: posed by Rogers’ Hudepohl Beers. The Beermen nabbed two victories in the three games. Johnson assembled his top count through 227, 211 and 222, while Argus used 228, 210 and 212 for his 650. Beaver's 624 for! United Taxi, which shut out Scherer Electric,

the session. Three 600s in Link Belt

Three pastimers of the Link Belt League, in action at the Pennsylvania Alleys, passed the 600 mark. | Switzer topped the trio with a 644, | Casserly had 613 and Kruwell 609. Sales Department was the only team to gain a triple victory in the team matches. Order Department took the shellacking. John Fehr and Jack Hunt turned in the lone 600s of the Printcraft League's final session at the Pritchett Alleys. The former had a 643 and Hunt 613. Rolles Printing Co. finished at the top of the team standings, while Fehr outdistanced all rivals in the individual average race. Williams, - Trennepohl and - E. Menges were the leading scorers o the Industrial League gathering a the Indiana Alleys. The former se the pace with a 622, Trennepohl had 614 and Menges 603. Universal Gear and Inland Containers were the only teams| to escape defeat in They shut out L. Strauss & Lo. and Indianapolis News.

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A 242 opener gave Grammel a 607 that proved the top series of the E. C. Atkins matches at the Pennsylvania Alleys. Todd Wilbur was the runnerup with a 601. Advertising and Narrow Band won shutout: victories while other matches were decided over the two-to-one route. Henry Bunch led Elks League pastimers in their matches at the Antlers Alleys with a 603. His Mobilgas five was the lone three-game winner in the team clashes. The L. S. Ayres & Co. loop wound up its season's activities at the Pritchett Alleys with Kuppenheimer Clothes copping first place in the final team standings. Maurice Price set the pace in the individual average standings. Stonecipher was the leading shooter of last night's session, a 594 gaining him the honors. A 594 was also. the top solo count of the East Side Social matches at the Central

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| once equaled the par 70 but it has © never been broken, says Pete Hendrie, the pro—and then Abe played from some of the short tees. Gene Pulliam Jr. again won the low gross—a 79—and Johnny Simpson and Calvin Lenox outdrew two other 80s for second and third— Kentucky's Governor Happy Chandler is a sticky shooter—our Governor Townsend said he hasn't had much time to give to golf—has been too busy fishing—before we forget it the subject of these incoherencies is the annual Governor's day beefsteak dinner at the Ulen Country Club—that accounts for all the Governors—and there was an ex-Gov-

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It was a fine party—a perfect party—but those long par four holes {on the Ulen Country Club course at Lebanon—somebody got out a tape measure and with dirty glee set the distances a foot

or so under the par 400 yards—take your

longer than J : d shots—Abe Espinosa

Hemme - ernor — Harry G. Leslie — he was

present at the first of these shindigs 13 years ago and hasn ’t missed since. That course—we can't get over it —not without more strokes than usual, anyhow—the third hole is 600 yards with an out- of-bounds for a slice all the way—and there’s a 235yard par three—and plenty of mean doglegs. n But at this Blewots golf is just the appetizer—it makes you want to drag the beefsteak under the porch and snarl over it—then the sport begins, with Toastmaster Al Wyncoop, of press and radio, putting the

verbal slug on each unfortunate speaker in turn. And here's a tip from Happy Chandler—he likes War Admiral for the Derby—and Governor Townsend agrees—Happy’'s escort of smartly uniformed Kentucky State Police were divided—one strings with Happy—the others prefer Reaping Re-

Chris Zaharias and Podolack to Return

Matchmaker Lloyd Carter plans a pair. of all-star supporting matches to round out his heavyweight mat card at the Armory next Tuesday where the feature

limit. The Baba-Shikuma tussle will be for two falls out of three.

Defeats Taylor, 11 -6

| | UPLAND, Ind. May 7. — Elmer BIKE RACE ARRANGED REYNOLDS, Ind. May T7.—The

fastest cyclists in White County are 1 polishing their wheels for the bicycle Central baseball team defeated Taye

Kirts, Greyhound pitcher, allowed only six hits and struck out nine batters yesterday as the Indiana

in a bout calling for an hour time Indiana Central Nine i. :

ward and Billionaire, derby to be staged May 15 in the | lor, 11 to 6. Sharpe led the Grey.

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attraction pits Schinichi (Killer) Shikuma, 202, Japanese, against Ali Baba, 205, rugged Turkish grappler. Carter has rematched Chris Zaharias, 224, Pueblo, Colo.,, and Walter Podolack, 225, Polish mat- | man, for one of the bouts. Dorve Roche, 220, former Illinois coal miner, will see action in the other against an opponent to be named. Zaharias and Podolack will meet

” 2 8 Even news of the Hindenburg disaster couldn't subdue the merriment tor long—Pleas Greenlee had reason

to be tickled—he just had word that his appointment to the National Coal Board was confirmed—speakers included Harry Leslie, Mayor Kern Rabbi Jacob Tarshish, the Lamplighter; Lenox R. Lohr, . president of the National Broadcasting Co.; C. Walter McCarty, and, of course, the two Governors. It's Derby, not Darby, says, Governor Chandler—it was Derby before they ever heard of England in Kentucky, he said. And the person responsible for all this—Henry C.—Uncle Hank— Ulen. What a host!

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