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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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The Orchard School Mothers’ Association is sponsoring the Indians-St. Paul ga night and so the boys and girls of the school took time off from their studies to show the mothers just -how the grand old game should be played. Above, at bat, John Ewing Sinclair, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ewing Sinclair gets ready to tear the cover off the ball. The catcher is John W. Kern III, son of Mayor and Mrs. Kern.

Rivals Taking

A’s Seriously

Mackmen Again Come From Behind, Trip Tigers.

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK. May 19.—The Phila-

delphia Athletics have ceased to be The team that lost 100 |

a joke. ‘gaines last season and finished in the cellar, hangs on to the Amer-

ican League lead with grim serious- |

ness.

Yesterday, eighth

they inning

staged uprising from Detroit. It

Tigers. Bengals Flounder

One of 74-year-old Connie Mack's | rookies yelled at Manager Mickey |

Cochrane from the dugout: ‘Hey, ‘Mickey, don’t you wish you were back catching for Philadelphia?”

That crack seems to have sized up !

the situation from all angles. The A’s are clicking on all cylinders and making the most of their opportunities. ing badly, playing only at a .500 gait.

Detroit led, 7-5, when the A's |

came to bat in the eighth. |Eldon Auker walked Marty Peters, hit Wally Moses with a pitched ball and

then he fanned Bob Johnson. But |

Alfred Lovill (Chubby) Dean (no relation to Dizzy) hit a home run ~ over the right field fence, and that punch decided the game. Frank Hayes, A’s catcher, hit a homer with one man on in the fourth.

Harry Kelley went the route, win- |

ning his third game. White Sox Blanked Spurgeon Chandler, former University of Georgia grid star. kept the Yankees at the A's heels—half a game separating them—by blanking | the Chicago White Sox, 4-0. It was! the sixth shutout of the American | League season, the others being | pitched by Stratton (2), Gill, Pear- | son, and Andrews. Lou Gehrig hit his second homer of the season. Ted Lyons pitched seven innings for the White Sox, allowing seven hits and being charged with the defeat. Errors by Domenie Dallesandro, midget rookie outfielder, and Eric McNair in; the ninth started a fourrun radly enabling Cleveland to trim the Baston dians Us our pitchers in“ the ninth to head off a Red Sox rally. Bob Feller made his first appearance since he injured his arm, as a relief man, but was yanked after walking a man. Lyn Lary had a perfect day at bat, getting “5 for 5.” Jimmy Foxx hit a homer with one man on. Senators Quit Cellar

Washington climbed from the cellar to sixth place by nosing out ine St. Louis Browns, 7-6. After scoring the tying run in the eighth, Stone opened the ninth with a single, was sacrificed to second by Al Simmons and tallied the winner on Millies’ one-base blow. The Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals remained ‘three and a half games apart when both won yesterday in the only two National League games not rained out. The leading Buccaneers trounced the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1, behind Cy Blanton's six-hit pitching. It was Blanton's fourth win, and Lon Warneke scored his fifth victory of the season by scattering eight hits to defeat the New York Giants, 4-3. :

esterday’s Hero: Lovill (Chubby) Dean, who hit a home run with two

men aboard in the eighth to give il

the Athletics an 8-7 victory over the

Tigers and retain their American |§

League lead

The Tigers are flounder- |

Calendar

i St. Paul Columbus Louisville Kansas City Indianapolis

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| Phildlpha 7 | New York | Cleveland | Detroit. .

.632 Bostan .. .591 Washigtn .556 Chicago .500 St.

| | AMERICAN LEAGUE | |

12 13° 9 10 8 5 nu Louis

NATIONAL LEAGUE . Pct, I, 5 .733. Chicago . .609 Cincnnati .500 Boston .500'Philadlpia

| Pitshurgh 1 St. Louis 8 New York 1 8 { Brooklyn 1 9

Games Today

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Kansas City at INDIANAPOLIS. (night). Milwaukee at Louisville (night). St. Paul at Toledo (night). Minneapolis at Columbus (night).

AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago .at New York: postponed; rain. Detroit at Philadelphia. St. Louis at Washington. : Cleveland at Boston: postpcned; rain. NATIONAL LEAGUE New York at St. Louis. Brooklyn at Chicago. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh. Boston at Cincinnati (night).

Yesterday's Results

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION All games postponed; rain and | grounds.

AMERICAN LEAGUE . 000 000 000— 0 6 1 020 001 Olx— 4 8 0

Lyons, Rigney and Sewell; Chandler and | Dickey.

Chicago | New York

| Detroit rad am 001 010— 7 12 1 | Philadelphia 010 202 03x— 8 10 3 Gill, Auker. Russell and Cochrane; Kel- | ley and Hayes. z 100 011 004— 7 12 2 000 000 400— 4 10 3 Hudlin. Feller, Brown, Walberg, Wilson

Cleveland |-Boston . | Harder, Heving. | Galehouse and Pytlak; | and Desautels.

| st. Louls 101 310 000— 6 11 3

| Washington 050 000 011— 7 13 4

Tietje, Caldwell, Knott and Hemsley; | Fischer, Appleton and Riddle, Millies.

NATIONAL LEAGUE 100.000 000— 1 6 2 200 000 00x— 2 & 0 Passeau and Wilsons

| Philadelphia | Pittsburgh | Mulcahy. Jorgens, | Blanton and Todd.

| New York 200 000 001— 3 8 1 [| St. Louis .....:..... 020 000 20x— 4 9 0

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Castleman and Mancuso; Warneke and wen.

Boston at Cincinnati, rain

Brooklyn at Chicago, rain.

Sox, .7-4. The In-|

Major Leaders

| Batting | AB | Bell, Browns 82 | Medwick, Cardinals .95 { Cronin, Red Sox....71

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Avg. 476 453 437 430 396

| Lary, Indians Walker, Tigers

Home Runs

Bartell, Giants Kampouris, Reds ... Medwick, Cardinals Johnson, Athletics Walker, Tigers Selkirk, Yankees Runs Batted in Medwick, Cardinals Demaree, Cubs .... Walker, Tigers... tices Bonura, White Sox........ Greenberg, Tigers ............. i

MANUAL BurS FETED

The Manual High School track and golf squads were guests of the; Roines Club today at a luncheon in the school lunchroom. E. H. Kemper McComb, principal; Harold G. Boese, track coach; Russell H. Clunie, athletic director, and Oral Bridgford, golf instructor, also attended.

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To Face Blues

Soldiers to Be Guests at Ball Park Tonight.

Vance Page, who has been on the sick list and has missed a couple of turns on the mound, is scheduled

'to occupy the rubber tonight when

the Indians swing back into action against the Kansas City Blues under the lights at Perry Stadium at 8:15. It will be a ladies’ night attraction. The series opener was rained out vesterday, as were other American Association games. The first battalion of the 19th Field Artillery, Ft. Harrison, will be guests of the Tribe management tonight. The Blues are booked here through Friday and will be followed by the St. Paul Saints on Saturday. The Blues and Indians have clashed just once this season, in Kansas City, when. Southpaw Phil Page of the Kawtown nine defeated the Tribe's Vance Page, mainstay righthander. And it may he a second battle of Pages here tonight. American Association clubs are required to reduce their rosters to 20

| players tomorrow, with the deadline t | at’ midnight.

The Indians are one over the official limit.

Butler Teams - Seek Titles

Butler University's track and tennis teams will enter state championship meets week-end. The Bulldog tennis “1 is scheduled to enter the ; .onnis matches which start tom +v at Richmond. The track team will compete in the Indiana Intercollegiate conference at DePauw Saturday. The Blue and White racquet wielders hold victories over Indiana State, Earlham, University of Louisville and Loyola University Their only defeat was at the hands-of the Purdue team. Carl Shade, Bulldog number one man, ranks high in state competition and should go far in the tournament play. Hermon Phillips’ track team will go to the little state track meet with full hopes of revenging last year's defeat, The Butler thinlies are undefeated in Indiana competition, holding victories over Earlham, Ball State, Central Normal and DePauw, An outstanding performance is expected from Butler's Lawrence Holmes, who has been defeated only once this season in dual competition.

CAPTURE LINKS TITLE FRANKLIN, Ind, May 19.—Martinsville High School today held the South Central Conference golf championship after the Artesians marked up, a team score of 336 for 18 holes to’ defeat six other teams.

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E.R.P.S me at Perry Stadium Saturday

Even the young ladies at Orchard Schoel like baseball. Here we see Gordon Thompson, Orchard teacher, showing Nancy Sewell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Sewell, just how to hold the bat in order to get the best results when

the time comes for actual competition.

— Times Photo.

You

fielders get WAY back!

gers on the Orchard team.

—Times Phata,

Fred Lesh, son of Mrs. Perry Lesh, school asso. ciation president, and Mr. Lesh is up there and he's ready {o demonstrate how Babe Ruth used to slam the ball over the fence.

Fred is one of the heavy sluge-

Semipros—Amateurs

The Sterling Beers would like to book a game for May 31 with a strong state club. Address Clyde Hoffa, 1228 Oliver Ave. The Sterlings will play the Armcos at Middletown, O., Sunday in an IndianaOhio League game. Other league games Sunday are Dady at Lafayette; White Sox at Richmond; Monarchs at Muncie.

The Big Four Legion team will practice this afternoon at 4 o'clock

at Riverside.

Teams in the 16-20-year-old class desiring to enter a new league call Belmont 1591 between 7 and 8 p.m, and ask for George. will this

The Tuxedo Theater team practice at Ellenberger Park

Softball

The Habich Sunday School Softball League, under direction of C. J. Leppert, president; R. M. Best, | vice president, and H. W. McDaniel, secretary-treasurer, opens its season tomorrow night. The following teams will meet: Woodruff U. P. vs. North Baptist at Washington 1. Fletcher M. E. vs. Broadway Bap- | tist at Spades 2. Brookside U. B.

vs. Second Re-

| formed at Garfield 1.

Softhall teams desiring to play in | a Sunday morning “league call ®Mr. McDaniel, Riley 3973, at the Gus Habich Co. :

The Good Will Juniors, last year's WPA champions, will play ‘the Strand Theater team May 26. The following players are to see McLinn before Saturday: Ryan; Boarman, Labar, Zappia, VanPel, Max, Cherry, Kattau, Starkie and Oster.

Six teams composing an Industrial Softball League sponsored by the Y. M. C. A, will open play Friday afternoon. All games will be started at 5:30 on diamonds in city parks. The opening round of play will see the Pitman-Moore Co. nine opposing the Roberts Milk Co. at the Rhodius Park diamond. The KieferStewart team will meet the William H. Block team at Riverside. The Indianapolis Water Co. and the Indianapolis Street Railway nines also are scheduled for play at Riverside, Keith Pegg, associate director of physical education at the Central “Y,”.is league secretary.

The St. Anthony's K. of C. Softball team won its opening game from Holy Trinity, 11-8. Toth and Stonich got homers for Hely Trinity. Neeley hit for the circuit with .the bases loaded for the winners. John Roach also hit hard for St. Anthony’s. The St. Anthony’s will have batting practice tomorrow night at

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afternoon at 4 o'clock. The club is anxious to secure a left-handed hurler. © A meeting will be held tomorrow night.

The Muncie Indians would like to book a road game for May 30. Games also are desired affer June i3. | There are several former Ball | State players in the Muncie lineup. | For games write Verlin Malott, 501 S. Walnut St., Muncie.

The Seven Ups lost their first game of the season to Summitville, 5-4. They will travel to Zionsville

The Kempler Radio team will play the Polk's nine at Garfield 3 Saturday and on Sunday will play Noblesville there. The Kemplers won from Bower's Envelope and lost to Frankfort over the week-end.

Fields Tavern is to practice at Garfield Park tonight. Players are requested to be present. The Taverns won over Norton Beer last Sunday and are scheduled to clash with the Christamores next Sunday.

Field of 20 in Midget Races

A field of twenty drivers is ex-

events to be held at the Fair Grounds Coliseum tonight under the sponsorship of the Central States Midget Racing Association. The first event will start at 8:30 o'clock with qualification trials getting under way at 7 o'clock. Some of the outstanding drivers of the small car racers will compete; also several drivers slated to drive in the 500 Mile. : Most of the drivers who will race in the 500 are expected to attend. Art Hartsfeld, Toledo, and Harry MacQuinn, local pilot, head the list of speedsters.

MAT SHOW POSTPONED

The amateur wrestling show scheduled for tonight in the Illinois Street arena has been postponed until next week, Prcmoter Jay Gardner announced today.

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Decathlon Champion Signs Movie Contract.

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, May 19.—Glenn Morris, world's decathlon champion; today joined the select group of former amateur athletes who have found their greater reward in the

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turning professional to make Tarzan pictures which will bring him $250,000 in the next five years. That completed the formalities. He signed the contract with Principal Pictures several weeks ago and already has made advertising scenes posing with apes. Dan Ferris, head of the A. A. U., gave him permission to take film tests without jeopardizing his amateur standing. Officially, Ferris has just

his new job. Several athletes were tested, including Lou Gehrig of | baseball fame, who was not so con- | vincing as a three-swinger. He is | to replace Johnny Weismuller, the! original Tarzan of the movies; is | scheduled to make two ape-man | pictures a year and will begin work next month on “Tarzan’'s Revenge.” | Morris won this title at the. Olympic games in erlin. . He went to | Colorado .State College from Ft. | Collins, and was convinced by his sweetheart, who is now his wife, | that the track team offered greater | possibilities than auto salesmanship. |

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In Women’s Tourney

ATLANTA, Ga. May 19. — The fleld was narrowed to 16 players to- | day for the second round of championship play in the Southern | Women's Golf Tournament. | Mrs. Dan Chandler, Dallas, med- | alist, tees off with Miss Aillene Hoover, Greenville, S. C. Mis | Hoover eliminated Jane Cothran in|

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By United Press PHILADELPHIA, May 19.—Villae nova College has added an intersectional game with Loyola Univer

i sity of Los Angeles to its football i-schedule for next fall.

Contracts, for one game to be played at Olympic Stadium in Los Angeles Nov. 28 were approved by the college athletic board under the Rey. Charles J. Melchoir, chairman,

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