Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1937 — Page 16

ou GEHRIG, the Iron Horse of the Yankees, got a couple of blows yesterday and batted in a run as his team was ousted from the American League lead by the hard-fighting Athletics . . . Perhaps Lou is out of his spring slump... He lost the clean-up position in the batting order to Joe Di Maggio last ‘Thursday and it was the first time he hit as low as fifth in 10 years. In 1925 when Gehrig replaced Wallie Pipp as first baseman of the New York Americans, and in 1926 he was shifted around in the batting order, but in the next decade, until last week, he never fell below the clean-up spot... In 1935 Lou was moved to No. 3-and Tony Lazzeri took over the No. 4 duties, but after a short time thé big fellow was returned to clean-up.

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EHRIG hit .354 last year, collected 49 horffe runs, seven

triples, 37 doubles and batted in 152 runs... It’s un- ,

likely he has lost that eye and power permanently and the guess is that Lou will be advanced to his favorite position. shortly . . . Luther Thomas, who is doing fair enough on the mound for Connie Mack, is the same Thomas who belonged to Washington, was sent to Youngstown and Chattanooga, and then was cast off by Clark Griffith . .. With Atlanta Thomas won 20 games in 1935 and 18 in 1936... So Manager Mack, who had had great success with Harry Kelley, another Atlanta graduate, bought Thomas, along with Pitcher Almon Williams.

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HE new backstop net installed at Wrigley Field, Chicago, as a “proptection for the fans from foul balls,” has an area of 15,000 square feet, weighs one-half a ton, and 1s made from nearly 45 miles of “thread.” ... It is 110 feet high, 180 feet long and 201 feet wide. . .. Incidentally, the Cubs used 9124 balls in 1936, which figures more than 55 balls a game. . . . Too many horsehides were confiscated by the fans . « . Frank Demaree, who led the Bruins in driving in runs last year, is again at the top of the club in this department with 27 runs batted in putting him off to a better start than in the ’36 campaign. 7 n 3 » " 2

TT golf pros are going to have a $500 driving contest in conjunction with the P. G. A. tournament at Pittsburgh next week. .. . Jimmy Thomson, who smites the longest ball of any golfer in the game, 1s expected to pocket the extra meal money. ... But he may not be at his best on that particular day and an “unknown” may win, or a long shot, as.it were... . Sam Snead, the new sensation from Virginia, puts a lot of ‘heft into his drive and he’ll be there trying for the coconuts.

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BErozE leaving Indianapolis for Louisville today the Milwaukee Brewers obtained Pitcher Pete Sivess from the Phillies on option

and returned Utility Infielder Jim cans. ,

big league clubs were ready to bid services.

And Cleveland won't be out much

sizable amount on Feller during gxnibiiion games.

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Following the close of the Aurora horse race meeting Saturday, racing in the Chicago district shifts to. Washington Park, at Home-

wood. . . . The American Derby will

ceding the James Braddock-Joe Louis heavyweight title fight on Tues-

day, June 22, and track officials will

crowd. . . . The Illinois Derby will close the Aurora meeting this Saturday.... From one Derby to ancther for the equine aristocrats. ... War Admiral is entered in the Washington Park classic.

. . Had Judge. Landis ruled Bob Feller a free agent when the boy wonder’s case was being argued before baseball's court a few

. . . If Bob's ar injury happens to be of the permanent type, certain club owners will be around shaking hands with the judge. . .

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in cash. . . . The club ecarned a 3

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OY Byrd, pro at Muncie, and his amateur| helpers, Ben Roberts and William O'Neal], played dependable golf in the pro-amateur yester= day at Hillcrest, moving steadily along with many pars and now and then a birdie so that when their best ball was figured at the end of 18 holes

they were a couple under perfection.

But in the meantime the fourth member of their crew, your correspondent, was overcome with a sort of fit or trance, during . which he So great was his heat that reliable witnesses swore that on several occasions the cup moved or stretched a few inches out of line in order to snap up his. pellet. <r

made six birdies.

Golfers all appreciate that when the cups crawl one way or another to get in line with a person's putts, there is little or no chance to keep him and his partners from -pocketing the day's dough. This was the case yesterday. Your correspondent’s foursome wound up with a best ball of 64, seven under par. _ But while the cups were expanding and jumping hither and yon to favor some shooters, they were contrarily shrinking and evading the putts of others. Possibly the foulest example of this unhealthy behavior occured to Neal McIntyre on the third hole of the playoff. ¢ Neal was assisted to a best ball of 67 by Bill Binder, Ed Urich and Phil Renforth.” They were away to a slow start and were one over par on the first nine, but cdme back with a 30 to tie two other teams.

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HE 12 men played the first, and eighth holes in the playoff and

on the ninth it seemed that Neal |

would break the tie, as his drive was nearly on the green and his chip about four feet from the cup. But Bob Simmons, pro at Connersville, came galloping in for his bird from some fifteen feet away and when Neal tried for the tie the hole shrank to about one-half its normal four and one-quarter inches, as well as moving slightly to the left, so that the ball stayed in plain sight.

Bob’s putt gained second a Miles Standish, Bedford, Bob Fair\ naments will be held next Monday

and R. K. Brown. Neal's team split third and _fourth with Johnny Vaughn and his amateurs, Ray Roberson, Harold Cork and John McGuire. It was the largest Monday tournament of the . season. . -Sixty-four players showed tp. Next week’s play will be at Kokomo, where -the State amateur will be held this sum-

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This happens to be 71 at Hillcrest.

ILLCREST’S women golfers kept score for the foursomes. This arrangement was: looked on with favor except by one or two sturdy souls who were missing shots and were afraid to let themselves ‘go in expressing their sorrow and disgust about it. In a way the event was a dress rehearsal for the district tournament, which opens at Hillcrest four weeks hence. The scores seem to indicate that Hillcrest is a shot or so easier than Highland, where the pro-ama-teur was held last week. The best ball there was 67, three under par. But there are plenty of Hillcrest holes where a shot that strays from

hob with medal scores, and tHg big, fast greens, though perfectly true, are full of tricky rolls. Such factors show up more clearly in indi-

vidual scoring than in a best ball foursome, where one or more play- | ers Is almost certain to be on Ithe green in the proper number of strokes. | zn n » { The Pleasant Run team of six | women golfers, defending the city { championship they won last year, defeated a team from Meridian Hills yesterday morning at Hillcrest in an interclub match sponsored by the Indianapolis Women's Golf Association. The point score was 10-8. The Highland team won from Broadmoor, 12! to 5!4, and the combined Woodstock-Country Club team defeated Hillchest, 11-7. The first of a series of city tour-

at Broadmoor.

FIGHT RESULTS NEW YORK—George Zéngaras, | 135, New York, outpointed Al Casimini, 137, New York (8): Pete De Ruzza, 13712, Mamaroneck, N. Y., outpointed Bobby Britton, 137%, Yonkers (6); Freddie Miller, 128, Cincinnati, decisioned Max Fisher, 134%, Newark, N. J. @

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Snyder Gives Drivers Mark To Shoot At

Turns In Unofficial Record Of 128.57 Miles an Hour In Thorne Car.

Speedway drivers had a/new mark to shoot at today—a record-shat-tering performance of 128.57 miles an hour turned in by Jimmy Snyder, Chicago. : Snyder established the new unofficial track record during a practice run in preparation for resumption of qualifying trials next Saturday for the 500-mile race May 31, His performance was 5.125 miles

an hour faster than the 123.445 miles an hour with which Wild Bill Cummings, Indianapolis, won pole position for the 25th annual classic on the opening day of the test runs last Saturday. Snyder was driving a car entered by Joe Thorne, wealthy New York sportsman, and built by Art Sparks, Los Angeles. It is powered by a six-cylinder motor. Twelve drivers have qualified for the race thus far, leaving 21 of the 33 starting positions still open. During the rest of the week, the drivers will make numerous practice runs, tuning their motors and shaping their cars for resumption of the speed tests.

TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1937

Zeke Myers, veteran driver from Philadelphia, is shown with his son Charles Myers in a 255-Mil-guide at the Indianapolis Speedway May 31. The forthcoming race will be

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the second in which Charles will. ride with his faZeke pulled a trick out of the bag Sunday to thrill spectators when he drove around the track twice blindfolded.

By JOE WILLIAMS

Times Special Writer NEW YORK, May 18.—Those usually tender, sympathetic souls, the baseball magnates, seem to be on a diet of iron and granite this season. There were the stern instances earnest factory hands as Gomez, Ruffing; Camilli and the elder of the Waner brothers. And now comes word that Lyn-

Rowe, who has been known as the Schoolboy for the last five years, has .been sus- ~ pended without pay by the Detroit Tigers, who / open their first eastern invasion of the year today. Mr. Rowe has been told he will not be restored to pay check standing until he gets in condition to throw his high fast one. It develops there is a “no pitch, no pay” clause in the gentleman’s contract and sO far he has done very little pitching. Mr. Rowe says he doesn’t know what ails him precisely but that he feels terrible all over. This practically amounts to an epidemic in his case because he is 6 feet 432 inches tall and weighs 210 pounds in his stylish corn plasters.

Joe Takes a Guess

The day Mr. Rowe was notified his pay was stopped he went out to the ball park, pitched for half an hour, galloped around the outfield and took himself some vigorous squatting exercises. Apparently this was to prove he was on the verge of a complefe collapse. There is nothing excessively penurious about the Detroit management and Mr. Rowe is too valuable a baseball property to treat with scorn, so there is probably more to the situation than meets the Gypsy Rose Lee orb. My guess is the management is weary of coddling him. Mr. Rowe happens to be one of those unfortunates who are always coming down with quaint, uncharted miseries. If it isn’t his arm, it’s his back and if it isn’t his back it’s a peculiar buzzing in his head, like the rustling of partridges suddenly flushed’ in the field.

Mickey Too Thoughtful

Several years ago when Mr. Rowe first came up he had one of his strange spells and, Mickey Cochrane, the Tigers’ manager, was so moved to sympathy he ordered the young man to pack his wicker suit case and go back to the bushes where the clear fresh air and the simple victuals were calculated to restore his waning vitality. This action was very thoughtful on the part of the manager but for some reason Mr. Rowe was reluctant to accept it. Instead he proceeded to bear his heavy cross with great fortitude and before the year was over he had won 24 games and helped pitch the Tigers into a world championship, although at no time was he much more than a doddering invalid. The ball player performs all his labors under God’s blue canopy and these are labors of a nature designed to build bone and muscle and

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By ART KRENZ NEA Service Golf Writer “YIMMY THOMSON hit a tee shot 390 yards ox the eighth hole of the Ingleside Golf Course while playing in this year’s San Francisco Match Play Open. To get distance many leading professionals have developed a hook to ‘their tee shots. This makes the ball run after hitting the ground. Some of the stars produce this desired hook by a slight roll of the wrists at impact, while others have adopted a distinctly closed: stance,

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which has the right foot drawn away from the line of play. Tommy Armour has been a strong exponent of the closed stance for many years and persuaded many players to make the change with a noticeable improvement in their

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Shortridge Set For State Meet

Five members of the Shortridge track squad have qualified for the state track and field meet to be held Saturday. Don R. Knight, Blue Devil coach, is preparing his entrants with daily drills at the Butler oval. The Blue and White entrants in the State meet are: Jack Dawson, who qualified by placing second in the 220-yard dash at the sectional meet Friday; Harvey Hunter, who won the broad jump; Dave Crockett, who placed first in the 120-yard high hurdles and ran second in the 200-yard low hurdles; °~ William Strong, who ran second in the Mile Run; and Dick Rehm, shotputter, who placed second in that event,

Major Leaders

Batting G ABR H Avg. Medwick, Cardinals 22 91 22 43 473 Bell, Browns 19 78 14 35 .462 Cronin, Red Sox ... 17 71 12 31 437 Walker, Tigers .... 21 86 21 35 .407 Todd, Pirates 21 82 9 33 402 Home Runs Bartell, Giants Medwick, Cardinals Jonson, Athletics .............. Kampouris, Reds .... Selkirk, Yankees Walker, Tigers

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Tigers Probably Tired of ‘Coddling’ Schoolboy Rowe, Joe Williams Believes

Tris Speaker to impose so much drudgery on the big 6-foot Georgian who never enjoyed a moment’s surcease from his muscular torments, but in:retrospect I .can see Mr. Speaker was nothing less than a man of deep, warm charity. Always at the end of the game Mr. Bagby was miracuously relieved, his philosophy, I suspect, being akin to that of the gentleman who liked to be bashed on the skull with a hammer because it felt so good when it was over. The poignant tragedy in Mr. Baghy’s life, however, was that the torture - invariably came back the day he was due to pitch again. Incidentally, it was 11 years before another major league pitcher succeeded in winning more than 30 games in one season. In 1931 Lefty Grove won 31 and lost four for a percentage of .886, . the best ever made in the American League. That year Grove was just about as close to perfection on the mound as anybody ever saw.

Two Share Lead In Big 10 Golf

By United Press EVANSTON, Ill, May 18.—Bill Ploetz, Wisconsin, and Sid Richardson, Northwestern, shared the lead with 148 strokes apiece, as the Big Ten goif tournament entered the second half of competition today. Ploetz carded 73 in the morning and 75 in the afternoon, and Richardson turned in a pair of 74’s. J. K. David, Purdue, held third place with 151. A dozen others, including three from Northwestern and five from Michigan, which is seeking its sixth consecutve team championship, were within 11 strokes of the leaders. Northwestern appeared to have the best chance to dislodge Michigan from the title. It led in team scores with 612, Michigan was second with 622. Wisconsin had 639, Illinois 642, Indiana 650, Purdue 651, Iowa 653, Ohio State 660, Minnesota 669, Chicago 687.

AKRON BOXER WINS

MIAMI, Fla. May 18—Ray Lyle, |

157, Akron, O., knocked out Percy Watson, 152, Miami, in. fifth round of a scheduled eight-rounder here last night.

Expands Race Park William H. Cane,

tonian trotting stakes, is building an

addition to the grandstand at the Goshen, N. Y. track.

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New Lee Oldfield Creation Holds Center of Interest During Brief Trial Run

Opinion Sharply Divided as

to Merits of Vehicle; Brings

Traction to Rear Where It Is Needed, Chief Argument of Backers.

It was low and sort of flat and a truck was towing it across the

track toward the garages.

Yes, there was a man in it but either he was on the wrong end

or it was being towed backwards. pits and said, “Have you seen it?”

Some one came running out of the

Mechanics slowly got up off the bricks where they had been kneel

ing over their motors; drivers took

off their helmets and looked in the

direction where people were beginning to gather. Someone else said it was that car with the engine in the back end,

A few moments later the beautiful

ing the track were left with their:

hoods open, motors exposed and no one even to look at them. ‘All pit crews, drivers and railbirds and even lunchstand operatars were crowded around the new experimental rear-engine creation. Lee Oldfield, its designer, was sitting at the wheel. ?

Questions Are Asked

[So intent with taking in each part: of the radically designed race car. the spectators at first had nothing to say except “Hi- Lee.” hen the less informed began askg their neighbors, “I should think it would be more dangerous to ride in the front don’t you? I wonder hy it’s supposed to be faster with thie motor in the back?” [Photographers were taking pictures by the scores, worrying little ahout what they were taking except they were sure it was different. Joe Thorne, who helped finance the car for the 500-mile race was not around. A tow car was called and the weird looking brain child of a man who was an aviation engineer during the World War, was taken on the track while the eager and expectant crowd followed to the pits. : Insist Theory Soun

The appearance of this car had been expected for some time. Some said that it had been pronounced a failure and others insisted that the theory behind it was sound. Oldfield, who was a race driver himseif as far back as 1911 donned a crash helmet and took the car around the track several times until it sprung an oil leak. It was the first time it had ever been run and he didn’t attempt any speed. Track guards were forced to close the track and wave Oldfield off

when it was noticed that the streak

of oil from the leak was getting plainer. £ A tow car pulled the new experiment off the track and back to its garage in town. Some bystanders

sort of snickered. Others said, “If Oldfield gets that car in shape it

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has possibilities of being a winner.” A few of the mechanics and racs ing motor builders were keenly ine terested. They pointed out that the car’s design closely followed that of a German car known as the AutoUnion. They said that the German car for years had far outstripped other racing mounts on European tracks. Each. wheel is independently sprung. It is powered with a Mar= mon 16-cylinder engine and combines features of the successful Ger-man-made car and Mr. Oldfield’s own ideas.. The advantages of plac~ ing the power in the rear is that if provides more traction.

Charles Merz, track steward, ex plained that at the instant of ace celeration in such a car the weight is transferred to the rear, furnishing the greatest amount of traction to the rear wheels where it is needed most. Designed Delivery Car

The rear engine car is striving for the same thing held to be an advantage in the front-drive design— the shortest route for delivery of power. ~ Less slippage is experienced when the engine is situated close ta the wheels which are powered. Mr. Oldfield did not indicate whether he would have his pet creation ready for the race. Known widely as an engineering consultant, Mr. Oldfield is the designer of the Stutz Pack-Age car and what was known at one time as Wable Plate engines. He has been on the Speedway technical committee for years and at one time was chairman of {the Indiana section of the Society of Automotive Engineers. Both he and Mr? Merz served with the American Air Corps during the World War as consulting engineers.

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