Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1937 — Page 24

By Eddie Ash

FORD FRICK RULES ON HUBBELL

RIDDLE STAYS

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OME sports scribes and statisticians seem to forget that Ford Frick, president of the National League, issued an

official communique in which

he said that Carl Hubbell

must let his 1986 and 1987 pitching feats stand on their own, without consolidation for a synthetic record. .

Rube Marquard’s streak of 19

straight in 1912 still is rec-

ognized as tops, in modern-day baseball, if President Frick holds to his ruling. . . . Incidentally, Mr. Frick, a graduate of DePauw University, will manage the alumni nine which will play the Tiger varsity in Greencastle on June 10. . . . The contest-is to be held in connection with DePauw’s Cen-

tennial program.

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X-rays revealed that Johnny Riddle’s and Washington newspapermen say the Indianapolis product will be retained with the Senators. . . . However, the sum of cash included in the deal has not come through to the Indians. . .. Riddle is having a battle with Walter Millies for the first-string catching job. . .. Scouts of three major league clubs are reported trailing Ken Keltner,

Milwaukee’s young outfielder

Cream City sandlots. . . . Catcher Roy Spencer of the Dodgers was given an intentional base on balls in a recent

game at Brooklyn, but never

walked with two out and Malinosky was caught stealing third before Roy left the plate.

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= total of 138,932 paying customers saw Burleigh Grimes’ New Deal Dodgers .play their first 14 games at home. . . . ville, now the pilot of Montreal, is telling close friends he will take

over a major league job next year. .

forr Walter Berger, Boston Bee fly chaser. . . the need of another righthanded swinger. . fare three young lefthanders—Weir of the Bees, Grissom of the Reds And Wayne LaMaster of the Phillies gave . Berger batted in ©1 runs last year, more than any . Hank Leiber, a Hehihariden hitter,

and Shoun of the Cubs. .. . New York trouble. . Gjant player except Mel Ott. is on the New York disabled list. 2 8 2

( y= of the leading boosters of the semi-pro Bavehall expansion movement is George Sisler, former manager and star first sacker Sisler opened one of the first state

of the St. Louis Browns. . . . tournaments under the sanction of Congress three years ago at Lincoln,

predicted that the national semi-pro movement would increase the number of strong sandlot teams all over the United States. ... About 10,000 clubs in 1937 will participate in a series of

wa s right. 48 state tournaments, culminating in at Wichita, Kas., clrampions of $5000.

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this majors. . ..

four Delehantys in the big show, Ed,

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Baltimore Orioies of the International League. . yesterday, replacing Guy Sturdy. ... smd was widely known in Hoosier semipro circles before entering . He has neen catching for the Buffalo club, piloted by

league ball. , 1tay Schalk, the old White Sox idol.

in August for a minimum guarantee to the national

UKE UNIVERSITY has three.sons on the same big league club. . Bill Werber, third baseman; Chubby Dean, first baseman, and Ace Parker, rookie outfielder. are with the Philadelphia Athletics. . All are proteges of Coach Jack Coombs of Duke. Clizveland manager, is one of four of the same family who made good in Brothers Mike and Jack preceded him and Jimmy, a younger brother, broke in with Washington about 15 years ago, but ilk health forced him out of the game. .

UCK CROUSE, former catcher with the Indianapolis club and the Chicago White Sox, has taken over the management of the

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who was plucked off the

got to first base. . . . He

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Rabbit Maran-

. It is said Bill Terry is dickering . The Giants’ boss feels . His team has bowed be-

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the National Semi-pro Baseball Neb. . At the opening, Sisler

Sisler

the’ national championship series

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. Steve O'Neill,

. And years ago there were Frank, Jim and Joe.

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. He was appointed Crouse is a resident of Muncie

Indianapolis Times Sports

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THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1937

Difficult Routine

Sonja Henie executes 41 different types of figures during her ice skating routine, if you can call so elaborate

a program a routine.

DEACON LITZ MAY LOSE PLACE IN 500-MILE

1200 Compete

‘Here Saturday In State | Meets

Track Event tat t Butler Field

| And Golf Tourney Hold | School Spotlight. |

By United Press Afproximately 1000 track and field athletes and 200 golfers from high schools throughout the state began closing workouts today in preparation for the Indiana High School Athletic Association state tournaments. here Saturday. ‘ Fifty teams of youthful golfers will tee off at the Speedway course in the sixth state high school championship now held for the second consecutive year by Techical. Eighteen holes of medal play will decide both the four-man team championships and the individual honors. A wide-open battle looms in the finals of the 21st annual I. H. S, A. A. track and field tournaments at Butler Field. Spurred by smashing victories in sectional tournaments last week-end, a number of outstanding teams will enter the meet determined to break the stranglehold on the title held for the last 13 years by Horace Mann and Froebel of Gary and Kokomo. Tech Given Chance

Tech is outstanding among the challengers. A well-balanced squad displayed plenty of power in sectional competition with 14 other schools here last Friday. Tech rolled up 55 points to qualify both relay teams and seven individuals.

Spoils Kokomo Record

After completely outclassing the field in the Indianapolis meet in April and then later scoring a 61-10-38 victory over the Muncie Bearcats, Tech went on to defeat nine other teams and capture the North Central Conference title. This blasted Kokomo’s seven-year streak. : The state champion Horace Mann team-—a squad that disappointed followers by placing seventh in the Kokomo Relays—regained championship form in the sectionals. The Horsemen rolled up 49 points and

| GOLFING G.H.D.

I

OW many South Grove members know they have been playing for a trophy since 1931 and that nobody has won it yet?

qualified its mile and half-mile relay teams and indivdual performers in six events. After a smashing victory in the Gary invitational indoor meet in April, the Horsemen barely nosed out Kokomo, 25 to 24, in the Muncie Relays two weeks later. Re-: cently Horace Mann displayed allaround power in winning the

In that year A. S. Rowe donated a prize to go to the first member |

of the club to make any hole on the

course in one blow. The trophy is

a metal figure 1 with a hole in the middle.

In six seasons of play no one has met the conditions and lugged |

away the award. Several holes in club members. On the other hand

one have been made, but not by several club members have made

holes in one, but not at South Grove Kenneth Lemons, South Grove team manager, was telling us about it. He won money in 1931 and 1932 by betting nobody would pick off Mr. Rowe's prize, but in the last few years he has figured the law of

averages would clamp down on such wagers and he has ‘laid off.

wishes he had let ’er ride.

He

He pointed out there is no reason to poke fun at the ace-making ability of South Grovers, as there isn’t a real easy one-shotter on the card. No setups at all, he said. The shortest is No. 12 and {t's the

water hole.

No chance for a topped iron holing out there.

As for the

rdnth, it’s 216 yards, and the fifth is 193 and the 15th is 172 and that will give you an idea why the trophy still is at large.

As a matter of fact, the trophy It's lost. it has just been mislaid.

mantel last fall and somebody else said it's in

Tommy Vaughn says it will be found any minute now, Somebody remembered seeing it over the

is at large in even a larger sense. that

“those big boxes upstairs.”

Chances are it just figured nobody wanted it, developed an inferority complex, crawled down a crack and died.

7 ENNETH also APROLER that 20 men from South Grove will travel | \. to Fortville to take on the Fortville team Sunday, June 6. A date |

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for a return match will be picked later. On the two following Sundays, the 13th and the 20th, Grovers will

play 18 holes each day for the right

man team which will participate in the city public links finals,

men will be chosen from the finals, - the Indianapolis Public Links team the National on Aug. 9-14. td 2 n Watch Cliff Bush. Stonehouse, Riverside pro.

to represent the club on the fourFive one from each course, to make up that travels to San Francisco for =

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He has all sorts of promise, according to Russ Cliff has been playing only three years.

in competition with such favorites

northern diana Conference Meet

nd, Elkhart, Mishawaka, i La Porte/and Riley of South Bend.

12 jo Represent Kokomo Kokomo, last year’s runnerup to

The Wildcats for the state

jump and both hurdle events. Anderson qualified five men at Kokomo; Pendleton two, and Frankfort, Alexandria and Noblesville, one each. Wiley of Terre Haute continued its domination of Wabash Valley teams by scoring 49 points and capturing its 10th sectional championship. Earlier in the season the Red Streaks outclassed nine other teams, including five Illinois squads, in ‘a meet at Robinson, Il]. The power in southern Indiana { rests again with New Albany, an outstanding team that piled up 73 points in both hurdles, mile run, shot put, mile relay, half-mile relay and the 100-yard dash. In April New Albany won the Southern Indiana Conference meet at Vincennes and then went on to capture the Petersburg relays in

| competition with 1 other teams.

St. Joseph | Defeats

‘lon June 3.

Harry MacQuinn, Indianapolis midget racing star added his car to the list of those that will bring the qualifying average high this year when he was unofficially clocked at the motor speedway yesterday at

126.440, With him is Jim Chappell also of Indianapolis. MacQuinn 1s sitting at the wheel of the Sullivan-O'Brien Special a car owned by

Joe, Out on a Limb, Picks Schmeling To Beat Schmeling in Ghost Fight

By JOE WILLIAMS i

Times Special Writer NEW YORK, May 20.—By now everybody must be familiar with the curious situation that exists in the heavyweight division. Originally Jim Braddock signed to defend the championship against Max Schmeling under the benevolent auspices of Madison Square Garden at the Long Island Bowl

This would seem to suggest the Garden is more interested in con-

either for spiritual reasons or with a view to suing the rival promoters for civil damages, than in promoting the fight for which it contracted. And it may be that Mr. Schmeling, by going through the grim motions of training, has a similar plan in mind with the Garden as his target. The German professes confidence the tangled snarl will be neatly unraveled, the Boxing Commission will rush gallantly to his rescue and that in the end he will find himself standing toe to toe with Braddock fighting for the championship he once held. This could be high optimism, racial stubbornness or a smoke screen to conceal his Teal plans.

Some time later, motivated by one thing and another, largely the opportunity to share in a purse of more girthy dimensions, Mr. Braddock hack pedaled out of his contract and signed with rival promoters to fight Joe Louis out Chicago way. There was the inevitable rush to the courts and in the first skirmish the Garden was repulsed, The Garden appealed and was granted a rehearing of the sordid details. Meanwhile Mr. Braddock is in the Midwest indulging in mild sweating labors in preparation for the Louis fight and Mr. Schmeling is upstate in Speculator — speculating — and getting in shape to fulfill his original agreement. Now this, you must admit, is a very strange state of affairs. Obviously Mr. Braddock cannot meet the Negro and the German at one and the same time. While he trains to meet Louis, Schmeling trains to meet him. It sounds like something the old Brooklyn infields used to think up, or a plot for a Marx Bros. opera. Mr. Schmeling actually is working out against sparring partners, doing earnest roadwork and issuing bellicose statements to the press, despite the fact that every material indication points not to a Schmel-ing-Braddock fight but to a Brad-dock-Louis fight.

German Is Optimistic

More than $200,000 worth of tickets have been sold for the BraddockLouis, fight, while not one serious move has been made to promote a Schmeling-Braddock fight, not even by the Garden, which persists in continuing to press the legality of its contract.

Sanctily of Contracts

Mr. Schmeling, incidentally, speaks feelingly about the sanctity of contracts. . . “Bver since 1 was a little boy I was taught to respect that a contract is a moral pledge.” . . . This is the same gentleman, you may recall, who took an exit tablet on Jack Sharkey and skipped to Cleveland to fight Young Stribling. I mention this again just to keep the record straight. In any event, Mr. Schmeling insists he will appear at the Long Island Bowl on the night of June 3 to fight Braddock whether the champion is there or not. . . . “My contracts call for me to be there on that date and I will be there.” . . Personally I look forward to this singular episode with great glee and 1 think it should have an extraordinary appeal to all the experts. This should be one time when we will all be right. Unless, of course, Mr. Schmeling, in putting on his pantomime, should happen to hit himself on his own jaw with lethal results.

Williams

Joe Out on a Limb

Ignoring this grave possibility I am going out on a limb right now and predict that on the night of June 3 when - Schmeling meets Schmeling for the championship of the world Schmeling will win. I say this without reservations, too. Indeed, there is no need for reservations. The best seats in the arena will be free. This battle for the phantom championship is a good news story and will have to be covered. H. G. Wells who wrote .the “Invisible Man,” would probably do an ex-

firming the validity of its contract,

Grant, Parker Clash Today

FOREST HILLS, N. Y,, May 20.— The battle between Bryan Grant, Atlanta, and Frankie Parker, Spring Lake, N. J. for the No. 2 singles berth on the U. S. Davis Cup team begins today. Both were named with Don Budge and Gene Mako of California to carry Uncle Sam’s banner into the North American zone finals against Australia over the Decoration .Day week-end. Budge was a certain choice for the No. 1 singles spot, ‘and Budge and Mako were just as sure to pair in the doubles. A week of practice remains before nonplaying Capt. Walter Pate is required to name the actual playing members of the team. For Grant and Parker, everything depends upon how they look during practice. Grant is’ favored at the moment because of his international match experience. Parker, however, is playing the best tennis of his career and a whirlwind finish in training may earn the coveted berth for him.

cellent job on it. And it’s too bad that Ibsen, the tragic Norwegian dramatist isn’t around. In his epic, “Ghosts,” he showed his complete qualifications. Off hand I'd say Mr. Frank G. Menke is best equipped of the moderns to ghost the ghost fight. Mr. Menke has ghosted for so many people in his day that he now lives in the eaves of a haunted house, attends spiritual seances wrapped in white muslin and confines his remarks to such shuddery mutterings as wooooooo! and weeeeeee! freely translated they mean, “make mine the same.”

SHAW INVENTS GAME

Wilbur Shaw, noted racing driver, has invented a new game called the 500-Mjte Race. Wilbur, who holds No. 2\position in the front row for this year’s silver anniversary event, says the game is a thriller and much safer than the regular race.

His Qualifying

Speed of 116 Is Held Too Slow

Score of Cars Likely to Bet«

ter Mark in Coming Trials, Drivers Say.

Odds were even today that an average qualifying speed of at least 117 miles an hour will be necessary | to get in the starting lineup for the | 500-mile race May 31. | By that same token, odds were even that Deacon Litz who qualified °

at 116.372 miles per hour Saturday may have lost his opportunity to get in the race. A survey of opinion on possible: minimum qualifying speeds showed | that Litz may have made one of | those “racing mistakes.” ; 1 The realization that ire sitar?) 1 perhaps 33 cars at the Speedway! that have shown they are capable of turning laps at better than Deacon's” 10-lap qualifying average: seems to have dawned suddenly dur= ing the last two days. ] And the Deacon today was frankly worried and chagrined because, he said, he could have done better. He said Saturday no one doubted that a 116-mile-an-hour average

1would win a place somewhere in the

33-car lineup May 31. Mauri Rose, A. A. A. champion, spent a good part of yesterday afterncon taking bets at even odds that 116 wouldn't do it. Other drivers were telling the same story. Many admitted: that for some reason or other they had spent the night before figuring out just what cars “could do what.”

MacQuinn Tops 126

Rose, Harry MacQuinn, who him" self turned a lap better than 128 yesterday, Fred Winnai and Dave Evans stated that there were 21 cars of those who hadn't qualified that were capable of nearly 120 miles per hour. There are 21 berths to fill in the 33-car starting lineup, The new predictions also leaves in the shady zone Ronnig Householder, midget champ, whe qualified at 116464 and Chet Gardner who turned in a 10-lap average of 117.342, Evans said that drivers up to now have misjudged the capabili-’ ties of various cars whose last year's

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Track Experts | Pick Michigan

By: United Press | ANN ARBOR, Mich, May 20.— University of: Michigan track and field athletes are favored to displace Indiana as Big Ten champions tomorrow and Saturday in the annual Western Conference meet here. Preliminaries for more than 250 athletes from all conference schools will begin tomorrow afternoon. Trials in 10 events will start at 3 p. m., with finals scheduled to start Saturday at 1:45 p. m. ‘The olverine thinclads, with strong reserves to bolster probable winners in the mile relay and five of the other 14 events, appear to have the outstanding team, with the Hoosiers, Ohio State and Wisconsin almost their equal. Conference champions will be competing again in eight of the 14 events, Don Lash, Indiana's ace distance runner, is favored to retain his title in the mile and two mile. Other titlists include Chuck “Beetham, Ohio State, 880; Bush Lamb, Iowa, javelin; Bob Osgood, Michigan, high hurdles; Mel Walker and Dave Albritten, Ohio State, high jump, and Al Haller, Indiana, pole vault. Four titles have been vacated by Ohio State's Jesse Owens, who last year took four firsts, winning the dashes, broad jump and low hurdles.

HANS BIRKIE TRIUMPHS ~ OAKLAND, Cal, May 20.—Hans kie, Oakland, won a 10-round de-

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AMATEUR BOXERS TO CLASH TOMORROW!

Featuring a team of amateur boxing stars fiom Terre Haute against a picked team of local fighters the show of the season will be pre- | sented -at the Illinois Street Arena tomorrow night by the Atlas A. C. One Round Bess is matchmaker. « In the main event Russell Brock, Terre Haute Golden Glove champion, will meet Milton Bess, local state champion in the lightweight division in the recent Indiana-Ken-tucky A. A. U. tournament, It will be a four-rounder.

Hartsfeld Wins Midget Feature

Art Hartsfeld, Toledo, won his fourth feature race of the year at the Fair Grounds Coliseum last | night from one of the fastest fields

of midget drivers yet to appear on |

the local track. Ronnie, Householder, national champion, ‘was second and Wally Zale third. During qualification trials Zale broke the one-lap record in the fast time of 10.87 seconds. Other results:

Elimination Race—Wall :" Art Hartsfeld, wa Ble

second; Ton - third. Time, 5:97. y wi

1:5 Second Elimination Race—-Ton 11 first: Duke Nalon, second; onic man, holder, third. Time, 1:58:43. h Third Snination Race—Ronnie Houseolder, first arry Lewis, second; Barnes, third. Time, 1:57: Barney a Fourih Funinalion Race—Harold Shaw, rs arney Barnes, secon Bur - lace, fia) Ma Time, 1:60:47. w } Wal ~Tony Will , first

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| Raterman held Manchester to five scattered hits and chalked up 12 strikeouts yesterday as St. Joseph's

1 | defeated the Spartans, 5-to-0. Score: Manchester 3: ., 000 000 000— 0 5 4 . 110 111 00x— 5 9 3

> Eo hd Hinchman, Etnire; Raterman and Gaffney.

ANYWAY, THEY LOST By United Press . { ABERDEEN, S. D, May 20.— { Coach of the Pukwana, S. D,, High School said he didn’t know - whom to blame for the 24-to-1 defeat of his team in the state high school baseball tournament. His pitcher yielded 14 hits and 15 walks, but his fielders made 13 errors, while the catchers permitted opponents to steal bases 25 times.

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