Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1938 — Page 21

Page PDF (9.59 MB)

Back to issue view

"FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1938

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

PAGE 21°

DEMPSEY PREDICTS VICTORY FOR SCHMELING OVER LOUIS

WB sac:

Bess Helps U.S. Win Tourney

May Alter His Opinion Later,

Mauler Says

Right Now, Though, He Thinks German Is Likely To Repeat Victory. CHICAGO, Mar PP) Jacek

Dempsey hit inte the end of a big black cigar after

W (Ul

hort today and between pulls said that Max Schmeling from the heavy-

right now he prexs to topple Joe Louis weight throne next month He emphasized the "right now.” “1 may change my opinion after | in training | before the

couple weeks fight,” he sparred, “but I've got to give the Schmeling.” This from the man who made two | unsuccessful attempts to disprove | the ancient ring axiom “they never | come back.” The Manassa Mauler, vou will recall, very nearly did re- | capture the heavyweight crown the second fime only to be stvmied by one of the most debatable incidents in sports history-—<the famed “long count.” Rut Jacek stuek by his guns in his “right now" apinion of the Schme-ling-Louis battle, |

1 see camp a

edge to |

Citex Max's Experience

“Max might well be the man to prove that they ean come back, He's a crafty fighter and he's got exp2. rience on his The big thing of course ix that he will go in there with the confidence that comea from knowing Louis ean he knocked | out, hecause he turned the triek | himself The very knowledge he facing the anly man who ever kavoed him will be Louis’ biggest handicap, according io Dempsey Yoe's likely ta be a little gunshy on account of that. The thought of that knockout will worry him, and ! partner, vou can't afford to worry when the championship is at stake

side

that he will |

Not a Great Champion ‘Of course since Max kavoed gained a lot of then, Bul that serves to prove great champion wrong, partner, Knock him To be a great champion a fights or has got to have a fighting heart and a love for the game and he's got to he able to take it as well as dish it out, Max proved that Joe couldn't take a hard punch around the! head. But if Joe ever learns how to take & punch the wav he can give one, he will be a great cham- | pion, one of the areatest of them all Which hronght

two vears have passed Joe and Louis has experience since same knockout that Louis isn't a Don't get me

I'm not trying to

Dempsey to ane ather point-<that's wrong with the heavyweight fight game? He ane swered his oan question simply, Not enough good fighters

Looks for Knockout

In my travels around the couns try ras 8 liquor company executive) I'm always looking for a good pros- | pect,” he said Last week T found | 8 big Kid working on my ranch near Salt Lake City who wants to be a! fighter, Name's Robert BE Lee. | Plenty big and strong. Weighs 210. | | I turned him over to Pinkie George | in Des Moires who'll try to develop him. The kid may have what it takes, I don't know." Getting back to the Louis-Schmel- | ing fight, Dempsey looks for “a great | battle with the outcome depending | upon conditioning.” And will the fight, scheduled 15 rounds, go the limit? [ ean give vou a definite answer right now I'm saving it will end in & knockout, And the longer it goes, the better Schmeling's chances of winning. Excuse me, partner, but I've got to catch a train for Mil-waukee-—right now.”

for |

Challenge A ccepted By Fencing Corps

The Indianapolis has accepted a challege from the Ft Warne Fencing Club and the ! two teams will meet in a tournament o'clock Sundav afters noon, Ringer, president of organization,

Fencing Corps

Rt 32

George M the Indianapolis mounced today Weather permitting, the bouts | will be held at German Park on 8. Meridian St. Otherwise, the meet | will be held at the corps’ olub | rooms, 117! N. Illinois St Exhibitions featuring both foils and saber will be staged in addition to the bouts to decide the winning team

vo @ ORGANIZE NOW FOR NEXT SEASON!

See vour howling proprietor now for time and allevs for nexi Season, Rowling is growing hv leaps and hounds, Play safe hy getting the date vour league wants for next fall, SE ANTLERS, 550 N. Meridian St, CENTRAL, 40 West Ohio St. FOUNTAIN SQUARE, 1106 Prospect. TULINOIS, 161 N. Illinois St. INDIANA. 12% W. Washincton St. PARKWAY, 3368 N. Tlinois St. PENNSYLVANIA, S8% N. Penn. St. PRITCHETT'S, 87 E. Marviand St. ST. PHILIP'S, 535 Eastern Ave. UPTOWN, 4189 College Ave.

-USE COUPONThis coupon entitles s&ny white person to roll three praerice games for §0 cents Good snv time of dRYy or evenint fexeent tor league plav: until Max 28th Bach person limited ne coupon each (Fill in be low )

Name

Address

breakfast |

| taxes, | the track because a heavy

Action in the Golden Gloves team mateh tourney Milton Bexs,

Furope's best amateur ringmen is shown here,

ix dodping a left was the winner

Indianapolis, many. Bess tourney, dividlon

Manager Denies Rumors Henry Has Gone Stale

POMPTON LAKES N J of featherweight champion Henry nied reports that weight title fizht with Barney Ross “These reports are absurd,” condition of his career to keep him there until next Thursday night.” Armstrong said he better.” The reports Armstrong started working out lightly, He won't box again until tomorrow and will complete heavy

Mav

“never felt | started when

| training on Monday

GROSSINGER'S LAKE, N.Y, May 20 {&. PJ Welterweight Champion Barney Ross resumes heavy (raining tomorrow for his] title defense next Thursday in New York against Henry Armstrong Barnev will box tomorrcw, Sune.

Caliente Closed Tor Indefinite Period |

| | AGUA CALIENTE, Mexico May | MM (U.P) ~The gates of Agur Cali- | ante racetrack were elnpsed today an ‘indefinite’ pertod which fast until next fall { The suspension the current two-day racing week was announced | by General Manager Gene Normile, who revived the historic playground a vear ago after it had been empty [by order of the Mexican Government since 19833. It was reported that the closing | order was effected because the Gov- | ernment was about to impose new but Normile said he closed exodus | of horses to Seattle, Wash, Ingle- | wood, Cal, and Eastern tracks made [it “impossible to offer proper caliber races to the public.” | Although no date was set for the

tor | will |

| reopening, Normile said he hoped | to resume activities for the fall and |

DEPAUW RETAINS STATE LOOP LEAD

Mav 20!

winter SOASONS )

GRFENCASTULE, Ind. (U. P).—Inmon Blackaby, Butler University hurler, weakened for only a moment in the third inning

| vesterdav and DePauw remained mn

top the state baseball conference by defeating the Bulldogs, 2 to 1 Blackaby issued a base on balls to Bavasi, DePauw catcher, who ad{vanced on two infield 6uts and | scored on a wild pitch. Score: Rutile 010 00D 0OD-— 1 8 1 DePauw 101 000 0OX-- 2 3 1 Riackaby Kuba and | Bavas)

and Randells

thrown bv of this taking five out of eight bouts

hout,

sald Meade

TOURNEY IN SEMIFINAL MEMPHIS, Tenn. Semifinal matches were played to- | day in the Memphis Women's InviGyolt and pitted D>

| tational I medalist

Miley

Chandler,

— talking about cigars.

One man said:

“Gentlemen—I've smoked Cigars for Many Yearse from 10 to 15 & dav. I've smoked all kinds of cigars ~ from S cents up. But believe me, this PHILLIES cigar==for S cents— gives me more pleasure than

any of them.

“PHILLIES has everything i + « mildness — fragrance satisfying flavor. And it suits my taste to a ‘T"."

That, men, is why PHILLIES is America’s largest-selling cigar. Ithas the mildness—the smooth ness—the rich, enjoyable flavor you want in a cigar. Makethis great PHILLIES

your next smoke.

You'll ind PHILLIES on

your dealer's counter . .

the box with the big, blue PHILLIES band across

the lid.

PHILLIES

Herbert The Americans won Bess fought in the 135<pound

“Armstrong's He's vight at fighting edge and we're going | the fight ,day and Monday for New York to complete training | V5 a gymnasium. rounds yesterday [be in excellent condition.

Eddie Meade Armstrong of Los Angeles Armstrong has gone stale, a week before his welter-

Lively’ Ball Causing Some

style. | if Armstrong did nothing but lead

Lively Debates, It Seems

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Npecinl Weiter NEW YORK, May 20 up, but a good way to lege friends and infuriate people ix to mention the lively ball, Or the dead ball, Or both, But mavhe vou haan't been told that as of today the national League ix actually out-belting the American League and if vou are familiar with | customs, traditions and past per | formances, you will know this is {about az normal as a heat wave in December, By way of adding substance to the | piquant subject we have stooped to statigtics, which 18 a low, scurvy | trick, utterly ind=zfensible even in | mixed company, and the statistics | show that as of today--=don’t vou like that?=<the Nationals are hit. ting 274 as against 271 for the Americans, having picked up three points while the other side dropped 10 points over a corfesponding | period, which is not to be confused | become discouraged and finally | with a corresponding semicolon or a | succumb to Ross’ experience, Maybe corresponding comma, (Very un- so. But if and when Armstrong befunny, | comes fatigued, how do you know

williams.) The Reds have shown the most (I should

| Ross will still be around? marked advance in hitting vitality. | be telling you all I know, Mr. Jones.) As of today--that's kind of cute at “The longest route we in the Bast that, isn’t it?-<the Reds are hitting |

have seen Armstrong go was the 10- | 34 points better than on this same | round distance against Aldo Spoldi | date a year ago, or as of the same |

Thiz brings up. as it always does I ig | hg the question of the lively ball, the | wasn't a Ross but he was a fai { dend ball and the dull bali, Are the boxer, & hard puncher, an ex | Nationals using a livel ih 11s | perienced workman and was in the - Farge hid ati violence? midsh oi a long winning streak Ditto the Americans? You wrestle Armstrong rained him " with it t Mh Jones thinks it A idle Yo SAN One of the more expert of the that Armstrong ix just the type of cauliflower erities, Mr. Jersey Jones, wha as his handle suggests 1s 1ndigenous to the Hague and Hague Belt, finds himself in disagreement with this department's opinion that Barney Ross will heat Henry Armstrong when they meet next week | Mr. Jones thinks the Negro will stiffen the welterweight champion before the 12th round “You seem to believe” Mr. Jones wrote, “that Armstrong is an overs night sensation. The fact is in | actual ARE, he isn’t “much vounger

than Ross. Refore he crashed the big time two years ago he waz well grounded in the fundamentals of boxing. Long before we in the Kast | had ever heard of him he had been campaigning up and down the Pacific Coast in tough fight: with fellaws like Babe Arizmendi, Midget | Wolgast, Baby Manuel and Joe Conde

stamina Armstrong can't go on for- | ever, that in time hiz arms must be | come heavy and weary,

Times=Acme Photo with a team of

right, of Nurnberg of Gers the

~ Tpnight = WOoWwWO oLEN LEE

vs. sory KREIGER A onsoved H

manage today de

in the best |

AN ny HAT N. Meridian Street

Then he leaves |

He boxed four | and appeared to | |

May 20 (U. P)

with Marion Dan

Tournament titleholder Mrs,

WILSON TENNIS RACKET 5 3 95 Regular $1 69¢ | Tennis THE SPORTSMAN'S STORE |

CO -— | Leather Grip, Complete with Tennis Shirts Shorts $1 49 ®/ 126 N. PENN, ST.TENNIS HEADQUARTERS-L1. 4224

SPECIALS IN TENNIS EQUIPMENT Cover. Regular $5. Sat. Only I Pennsy'van'a wm Wright & Ditson w Wilson Ba'ls |

against

" -—

WELL... PHILLIES MUST 8 GOOD ORIT WOULDN'T BE THE BIGGEST -SELLER IN AMERICA!

Enjoy the same

great cigar for 5¢ that sold by the billion at 0¢ straight

Professor Carnegie neglected to bring the point |

| nghter to make Ross look good on |

| account of his eternally rushing This could be so, he admits,

with his chin,

| Maroon-Wildeat N etters in Lead

EVANSTON, 1. May 0 (U.P). | ~Ohteago and Northwestern led the way into the semifinals of the six singles divisions of the Big Ten Tennis Tournament on the Northwestern courts today, All xix members of the Marsan 's powerful team and five of the Northwestern agquad survived the second round John Shostrom, Chicago. =eeded No. 1, scored a 6-1, 8-1 victory over William MeCoy, and Marvin Wachman, Northwestern, seeded No. 2, de-

| feated Mel Hershey, Ohio State, 6-1,

“You say that despite his amazing |

6-3 Herbert Muente, Purdue, and Capt

Charles Fleming, Towa, had greater |

that he will | __

slow | he was moving |

Tam m—-— - -——_-—_—-—

Fuente defeated Earl

diffeulty.

[ Petrich, Minnesota, 6-3, 11-0, and

| Fleming beat Neil Levinson, Mich« |

igan, 6-2, 8-10, 6-4, Robert Sandler,

victory over Willlam Rhodes, Minnesota.

ARRANGE FIRST CLASH

AUBURN, Ala, May 20 (U.P) Auburn and Southern University football teams will play for the firet time in 1040, Auburn Coach Jack Meagher has ane notinced, Meagher said the schools had signed a contract oalling for a game in Dallas, Tex, on Oct 10 1040. and th Birmingham. Ala, Oct 18, 1041

TIL

RA WRIT! ARS

FROYMSON'S |

Towa's one-armed | sophomore, entered the semifinals in | the No. 2 division with an 8-6, 6-3

Methodist |

i ——

HELEN REACHES FINAL LONDON, May 20 (U, P.) =Mrs, | Helen Wills Moody of Oalifornia was carried to an extra set today but went on to defeat Peggy Scriven

of England and reached the finals | of the Surrey Tennis Champlonshi | at Surbiton. Scores were 6-2, 5-1,

| 8-3,

The only whirkey of’ Wi lo? wn Wo world!

WILLIAM JAMESON

IRISH AMERICAN

149 WHISKEY $ 4 * Contain 25% leh whiskey, PINT 757, Amearwan steaight whiskey PROOF. Whiten Jamessn & On, Ine N.Y 0,

TWO COMPLETE MEN'S STORES

-| Don’t Miss This

9 A M to 8 P. M. SATURDAY

595 Newest Spring Suits Bought at a Great Sacrifice Go On Sale Saturday at 9 A. M.

AT 23 NORTH PENN.

Save $5 to $8 on

You

r Spring Suit

383—s21.50

Sports

styles—single and double breasted. Plaids, checks and stripes. All wool worsteds and serges includ-

ed. All

On Sale in Both Stores

212—s217.50

All wool

in the season's newest styles and

shades. single or All sizes.

On Sale in Both Stores

UITS

backs and conservative

sizes.

UITS

gabardines and worsteds

Belted or plain backs in double breasted models.

GABARDINE WASH SUITS

Latest Sport Models

Double or Single Breasted

SALE PRICE

$5.95

EFROYMSON'S