Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 May 1938 — Page 21
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Pair to to Drive Speed Mounts Of Same Type
Decide Not to Take Chance On Cars They Will Pilot In 500-Mile.
The rival backers of Wild Bill Cummings and Rex Mays today announced their driving stars will be evenly matched as far as racing cars are concerned in their match race on Sunday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Cotton Henning, representing the Mike Boyle racing team for which Cummings drives, said Cummings will push down the throttle on a four-cylinder Miller-motored car of 255-cubic inch piston displacement. This car has been entered in the 500-mile race with Chet Miller as the driver. Bill White, speaking for Rex Mays, said the Coast speedster will pilot a four-cylinder Miller of 228 cubic inch piston displacement. This car also has been entered in the 500mile race by White, but a driver for it has not yet been elected. Henning and White explained to the Speedway management that they were reluctant to permit their drivers to race their cars being groomed for the speed classic May 30 for two reasons. Henning said: “In the first place, this is a test of driving skill rather than of car performance, and we believe they will be evenly matched on four-cylinder Millers. Their power is about equal, though our car is a front drive whiie White's is a rear drive car.
Cummings Holds Edge
“The second reason why we don’t want them to race their own cars to be used May 30, is that both Cummings and Mays will shoot for the pole position on the first day of qualifying May 21, and if they should encounter serious mechanical trouble, or an accident, they would not have cars with which to battle it out for the honor position in the front row.” Mays’ 500-mile car is an Alfa Romeo, 183 cubic-inch, eight-cylin-der motor equipped with a supercharger. Cummings’ car for the big race is an eight-cylinder frontdrive car of 268 cubic inches without & supercharger. In these cars Cummings holds a slight edge on speed thus far, having turned a top lap of 128 miles an hour, while Mays has bettered 12632 miles in his Italian built car. The match race will be decided in three heats, the firstat 11 o'clock of six laps or 15 miles; the second at 1:45 of six laps, and the third at 4 p. m. of 10 laps or 25 miles.
Lap Prize Collections Exceed $3000
Lap prize subscriptions totaling more than $3000 have been received to date by the lap prize committee for the Memorial Day 500-mile race, it was announced today. The committee, a subdivision of the recently organized Indianapolis Citizens’ Speedway Committee, is soliciting contributions in Indianapolis and other cities for the annual lap prize fund which rewards drivers who lead at various stages of the race. The subscription list will close May 25. Subscriptions of $100 have been received from the following in Indianapolis: Indianapolis Athletic Club, L. Strauss & Co., Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Arthur V. Brown, Marott Hotel Co., Columbia Club, Coca Cola Bottling Co., Vonnegut Hardware Co. Allen A. WilkKinson Lumber Co., American National Bank, H. P. Wasson & Co, Hotel Lincoln, Hotel Severin and Indiana Bell Telephone Co.
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CUMMINGS, MAYS READY FOR MATCH RACE
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Track Teams Clash Today
Tech and Washington were favored today to take local sectional track and field honors as Indiana's high school cinder athletes prepared to fight it out in eliminations for the state finals here May 21. Victors in the annual city meet, the North Central Conference carnival and the Muncie Relays, Tech's thinlies enter competition with those of Shortridge, Broad Ripple, Clayton, Ben Davis, Plainfield and Warren Central at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the Butler Oval. The East Siders have entered 28 men and Shortridge, strongest contender, has nominated 26. Led by two record-breakers, Red Carter and Bob Kersey, in the pole vault and low hurdles, respectively, 29 Washington athletes have been entered in the meet at 7:30 o'clock tonight at Southport. Other entrants in this meet are from Flat Rock, Greenfield, Greenwood, Shelbyville, Manual, Southport and Waldron. First and second-place winners and the winning mile and half-mile relay teams will be eligible tor the finals next week. Kokomo is the defending champion.
11 Entered for Rich Preakness
BALTIMORE, May 13 (U. P.) — Eleven 3-year-olds were entered today for the 48th running of the $50,000 added Preakness Stakes at Pimlico tomorrow,
Contributions of $100 received| The field consists of 10 colts and from outside Indianapolis are:|One filly. Favorite was Dauber, Chrysler Corp. Detroit; Packard]|oWned by William Du Pont, Jr,
Electric Division of General Motors, Warren, O.; Timken Roller Bearing Co., Canton, O.; New Departure Division of General Motors, Bristol, Conn.; American Automobile Association, Washington, D. C.; C. PF. Kettering, Inc.,, Dayton, O.; DelcoRemy Division of General Motors, Anderson, and Perfect Circle Co., Hagerstown. The Champion Spark Plug Co. Toledo, subscribed $200, and the Ford Motor Co., Detroit, $500. Paul Q. Richey is chairman of the lap prize committee. Other members are Sam Freeman, Ray Allen, R. S. Orr, C. A. Reeve, Arthur E. Rose, W. H, Wells and C. E Whitehill.
Klein Leading in Metropolitan Open
NEW YORK, May 13 (U. P).— Willie Klein of Wheatly Hills, N. Y., a 100-to-1 shot in the betting, led a field of ranking golfers into the second round of the Metropolitan Open Championship today at the Freshmeadow Country Club, Flushing, M. Y. He posted 69 yesterday, one stroke under par, to lead by a stroke through the first 18 holes. Second, with par 70's were Ralph Guldahl, U. S. Open king; defending champion Jimmy Hines of Lakeville, N. Y., and Horton Smith of Oak Park, Ill Lawson Little, former American and British amateur king, had a 71. Sam Snead of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va,, had 74, and Harry Cooper, the favorite, had a 76.
The field plays 18 holes today and winds up with 36 tomorrow.
which was runner-up to Lawrin in last Saturday's Kentucky Derby. He was held at 8-5. Other entries were Fighting Fox,
Bull Lea, Hal Price Headley’s Menow
and Dah He; Sun Egret; Cravat; Hypocrite; Anaflame, the filly, stablemate of Fighting Fox; Can't Wait, and Bull Whip. All carry 126 pounds except Anaflame which carries 121.
Softball
St. Francis De Sales Seniors defeated the Spades, 3 to 2. Giles, the winning pitcher, held the losers to two hits. Hunper, Lunsford and McCotter led the winners’ attack.
For a game Sunday morning at
Washington Park with the Liehr's Tavern team, call Phil Liehr, 4516,
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RED SOX SELL HURLER BOSTON, May 13 (U.P.).—The Red Sox yesterday cut their squad to the 23-player limit with the sale of Pitcher Byron Humphreys to San Diego. He is a right-hander who won 16 and lost 7 for Little Rock last season.
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M'CLURE IN EXHIBITION Jimmy McClure, world’s doubles table tennis champ, is to play an exhibition match tonight at a stag party at the Hillcrest Country Club. The party is for members and prospective members.
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The Model Dairy team will practice on Riverside 2 at 1:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and will go to Austin for a game Sunday.
The Plainfield Commercials will meet the Clayton Cardinals ‘at Plainfield Sunday. For a game with the Commercials May 22, write or call H. A. Kessler, 541 S. Center St., Plainfield, telephone 3356.
The Indianapolis Cardinals are to meet at 8 o'clock tonight at the club rooms. For a game with the
Fighters Ready For Bouts Tonight
Fighters who will see action on tonight’s boxing program at the
Armory will weigh in at Roy Wal- |
lace’'s gym in the Board of Trade Building this afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Starting at 8:30 P. M. There will be five bouts offering 34 rounds of milling, the headliner matching two giant heavyweights, Elza Thompson and Ed Murray. Thompson is a former Golden Gloves champion, weli known to local fans, and Murray, who hails from Cleveland. has not been beaten in 13 starts. The complete card:
Ten Rounds—Elza Thompson, Indianapolis, vs. Ed Murray. Cleveland, heavyweights, .
Ten Rounds—Johnny Denson, Indianapolis, vs. Clarence Batsell, Louisville, light heavyweights. Six Rounds—Johnny apolis, vs. Harry Brown, middleweights. Four Rounds—Peter Bell, Indianapolis, vs. Gene Junkins, Shelbyville, heavyweights. Four Rounds—Johnny Krukemeier, Indianapolis, vs. Eddie Cooper, Muncie, lightweights. The opening bout on the card has heen set for 8:30 o'clock.
POLICE NINE TO FACE TOM DEVINE’S TEAM
Winners, 8 to 4, over the Citizens Gas team in a recent game, the Indianapolis Police nine is to meet Tom Devine's Flashes at 10 o'clock Sunday morning on Riverside 2. Red Wuertz and Frank Mueller will form the police battery.
HELEN WINS SEMIFINAL LONDON, May 13 (U. P.).—Mrs. Helen Wills Moody, former Wimbledon and U. S. tennis champion, got her best workout of the NorthLondon Hard Court Championships today when she defeated Sheila Patterson, Melbury club player, 6-2, 6-2, in a semifinal match.
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Cotton Henning, right, racing manager for Mike Boyle, gets together with Bill Cummings after Wild Bill had turned the fastest lap of the season—128 miles an hour—although he nearly encountered disaster when his speeding car struck a bird in flight. special match for a side bet on Sunday at the Speedway. Bill and Rex will use Miller cars of practically the same type and not the mounts they will pilot in the big grind, it was announced.
Independent Baseball
will race against Rex Mays in a
(Cards Sunday see R. Day, 208 S. Summit St,
The Monte Carlo All-Stars, Negro club, want a game May 29. Write O. H. Sweeney, 942 Maple St.
For a game with the Indianapolis A’s Sunday or May 22, write Earl Smith, 762 N. Sheffield Ave., or call BE-4607-R.
League competition in the Indianapolis Amateur Baseball Association is to be resumed at 3 p. m. tomorrow and Sunday with 28 teams seeing action. The schedule: TOMORROW Manufacturers’ League He C. Atkins Co. vs. U. S. Tires at Rivers de 1 . R. Mallory vs. Gartiond 3h Model Dairy vs. Ft. Harrison.
Fairbanks-Morse at Harrison at Ft.
Industrial League Rockwood Manulaciiring Co. vs. Link Belt Dodge at Brookside Lilly Varnish Co. vs. Link Belt Ewart at Rhodius 1. Hosiery Union 35 vs. Broad Ripple Park at Riverside 3. SUNDAY Municipal League Beanblossom vs. Auto City Rhodius 2. General Exterminating vs. Ajax Beer at Brookside 1. Union Printers vs. Beech Grove at Beech Grove.
Garage at
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I. 8. Ayres & Co. vs. Bowers Envelope Co. at Garfield 3. Thirtieth Street Merchants vs. Standard Nut Margarine at Riverside 1 Kroger KEMBA vs. Baird's Service Station at Riverside 4. Capitol City League Falls City vs. Athletics at Riverside 7. South Side Tigers vs. Wood's Pharmacy at Garfield 2.
Two teams in the 18-to-19-year-old class arc needed to complete the Capitol City League. Teams interested are requested to send only their managers to a league meeting at 7:30 p. m. Monday at the association’s office, 29 S. Delaware St.
IRISH SUPPORT PLEA FOR BARON VON CRAMM
DUBLIN, Ireland, May 13 (U. P.). —Ireland’s Davis Cup tennis players joined other world sportsmen today in appealing to German officials to release Baron Gottfried Von Cramm, Germany's No. 1 tennis player who is being held for trial for alleged violation of the moral code. The Irish team, eliminated last week-end from the European zone competition, dispatched a letter to the German minister of justice yesterday asking for Von Cramm's release.
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SARAZEN VISITOR IN CITY . . . . .
Here you have the tanned Gene Sarazen, speaker, writer and golfer, snapped at the Indianapolis A, C. during a Gene said he plans to enter the National He played at the Meridian Hills
brief visit here yesterday. Open at Denver, June 9, 10 and 11.
Times Photo. Connecticut farmer,
links following a talk at the Athletic Club.
Rascher Matched With Louis Thesz
The Hoosier state's top ranking
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of Cedar Lake, gets the call against | Louis Thesz, St. Louis wrestling ace, next Tuesday night at the Armory. Rascher views the tussle as a golden opportunity to prove to local fans that he can “go” in first class competition. Am, being considered a “local boy,” was not taken too seriously when he launched his pro career here a few years ago, although he had gone undefeated in three years of grappling for Indiana University and had held the Big Ten Conference light heavyweight and heavyweight titles. A year ago he headed East and | proved his ability, drawing with | such standouts as Ray Steele and | Orville Brown, and tossing such | huskies as Abe Coleman, Jim Mec- |
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