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If You Like Johnstown, This Williams Article ‘May Give You the Blues

-There’s No Such Thing as a Sure Thing, He Declares, = And Proceeds to List Accidents That Might Befall Any Favorite in Kentucky Derby.

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer

2 FLYING TO KENTUCKY, May 2.—Practically everybody is saying Johnstown is a sure thing to win the Derby

this week, but any horse player will tell you there is no such

thing as a sure thing in racing.

We are not saying that Johnstown will be beaten, but

we do say he can be beaten. in the field and still be beaten. : We once heard Tim Mara, the bookmaker, say that even When you are betting on a 1 to

5 shot in a race the odds are “still about 5 to 1 against you. At first reading this doesn’t make sense,

but when you consider all the things that can happen to a horse in a race it is easiir to understand. Most thoroughbreds are edgy, temperamental things and all of them are heir to common ailments. Some days they feel like running and other days they don’t. Right now Johnstown is fit and razor | sharp, but there is no guarantee he| will be in the pink on Derby Day. Think What Could Happen {

All right, let’s agree he will come |

up to the race full of run. He still] must get a good start out of the | gate, he must get a good ride from the jockey and he must have racing luck. Suppose he is kicked at the] start, jostled at the turn, pinched in| the stretch, or throws a shoe? | Stagehand was the surest sort of] thing to win the Widener Cup down in Florida last winter. He was] characteristically slow in getting] started but presently he was in a good challenging position. “This is| where he starts to roll,” the stands] cried. But he didn’t, and in the end | was badly beaten.

Stagehand Had Sore Foot

gr | “After the race it was discovered | Stagehand had been stepped on at| the start. It had happened so| quickly nobody had noticed the accident. Of course this explained everything. Stagehand had run the race with a sore foot. Some of the boys seem to think Johnstown will be one of the shortest priced favorites ever to go to the post in the history of the Derby, and maybe he will. Derby crowds have a way of stringing along with the favorite. . Once in a while a rank outsider wins the Derby. Donerail is a| classic example. The son ¢f McGee |

He can be pounds the best colt

won in 1913 and paid $183.90 on a|¥

$2 ticket, record pay off price for the event. Sir Barton in 1919, and

Brokers Tip in 1933, had never won | §

a race before they scored in the Derby, but both were well thought of and paid short prices.

Where Was the Fox?

The impression seems to prevail that the Derby is a mad, free-for-all in which anything can happen. This is true only to the extent that anything can happen in any big race. Generally speaking Derby runs closer to form than most big races. It has been run 64 times. Thirty times the favorite won, and 18 times the favorite ran second. In recent years, however, favorites have not done so well. Only two have scored in the past seven races, Cavalcade in 1934 and War Admiral in 1937. Fighting Fox, as you may recall, was the favorite last year and ran unplaced. The running of the 1936 Derby was an excellent illustration of how racing luck can turn.things upside

down. Brevity, sharpened by winter

racing, was the horse to beat. Two nights before the race we sat with Max Hirsch, the trainer who had Bold Venture in the race. We told him we were just getting ready to make our selections for the race. Colt Underrated “Well, you've gotta pick Brevity,” he said. “I've got a real good colt but he’s not good enough to win.” So what happened? Brevity was knocked to his knees at the start, lost three lengths in the early running and still finished a bang up second. In the same race Granville,

{another highly regarded Eastern

starter, threw his rider at the start and of course was never in it thereafter. As it turned out Mr. Hirsch underrated his colt somewhat because a week later Bold Venture came back and scored a double by taking the Preakness. Brevity wasn’t in the race but Granville was; he put on a head-and-head duel with Bold Venture down the stretch but was nipped at the wire.

Redskins Open At Twin Cities

Niggeling Expected to Start | Against St. Paul.

Times Special . ST. PAUL, May 2.—Invading the Twin City stronghold for seven] games—three with the Saints and] four with the Millers—the fifth- | place Indianapolis Indians were to] tackle the second-place Apostles at| Lexington Park this afternoon. i "The St. Paul American Associa- | tion defending champions eased into the runnerup spot ahead of Kansas City by knocking off Toledo yester-| day while the Blues were idle. | The Redskins are scheduled here] through Thursday, after which they will barge across the river and meet up with the league leading Minnegpolis outfit in single tilts Friday and Saturday and in a double-head-er Sunday. A week from tonight the Indians will play their night ball opener at Indianapolis and the Toledo Mud Hens will supply the opposition. - The Hoosiers got an even break with St. Paul in an early series at Indianapolis and Manager Schalk] hoped the boys would get going to-| day. John Niggeling was expected td receive the Tribe mound assigngent. He won his first two starts and was knocked out in the first/ ifning the third time out. | ¢St. Paul observers say that Min-| apolis, the eight-in-a-row winner, | 1§oks all-powerful as its record in-| Yeates and is the “team to beat”| is year. The rejuvenated Millers] —+sixth last season—have yet to lose! : game on their home grounds, | collet Park, the bandbox “horror” té visiting teams. t

Plummer Tackles

. : Iron Man Roche ; | The aggressive Johnny Plummer, | 288, former Iowa blacksmith, meets | Dorve (Iron Man) Roche, 220, De- | catur, Ill, in the final match on| tenight’s wrestling card at the! Armory. ‘It serves as half of a double main go arranged by Promoter Lloyd Carter. “The other feature finds two light] heavies in action, Coach Billy Thom | of Bloomington and Frankie Hart| of Toronto. Both bouts are for two, f8lls out of three, or 90 minutes. | “Roche, a consistent winner in In-| lis, will be up against a| rough-and-tumble matman when! hg grips with Plummer. The lat-| ter téssed Joe Corbett on last Tuesday's program. Tonight's prelim is hetween Tom Zaharias, 221, Pueblo, | Colo., and Young Joe Stecher, 225, ! Gklahoma.

Manual Tracksters ‘In Triangular Meet

Manuals triangular track meet with Seymour and New Albany, | scheduled at Seymour Friday, is to bé held tomorrow instead, Track Mentor Raymond Van Arsdale, said today. y

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SOFTBALL

The WPA Little Six League has opened play, and the Frozen Product team was to meet the Bel-Mor A. Cs this afternoon at the Standard Oil diamond.

The Illinois Street Merchants defeated the Huddle Club, 9 to 2. The Merchants will play the Broadway Triangles tomorrow at Washington Park. For games write : Harry Brooks, 2922 Highland Place or call HA-4560-J after 4 p. m.

The Indiana Avenue Market has open dates for practice games next week. Call the Indiana Avenue Market or write John Montgomery, 824 W. Ninth St.

The Blasengym Funeral Home won its third and fourth games by beating Power & Light, 8-4, and American Gas, 5-3. For out-of-town games write Ed Sherman, 1329 Comar Ave.

In the C. Y. O. Parochial League yesterday St. Catherine defeated St. Francis, 8 to 5, behind Callahan’s pitching. It was his second victory in two starts. >

In the high school division, St. Catherine swamped St. Francis, 17 to 3. The winners scored six runs in the first inning, six in the second and five in the third.

The Broadway Triangles and the Illinois Street Merchants will meet in a game at Washington Park tomorrow at 5:30 p. m. The Triangles are seeking a practice game for 2 . m. Saturday. Call HA-4456 between 4 and 7 p. m.

The Associated Service downed the Y-B Painters. 4 to 2, and the Pittman Moore team. 10-2. The Service team is seeking Saturday and Sunday practice games. Call Roy at BE. 1144.

The United Automobile Workers’ softball team were practice at 4:30 p. m. today at Rhodius Park.

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BASEBALL

The Model Dairy nine is seeking a game for next Sunday with a state club. Write or wire Bill Rider, 856 Massachusetts Ave or phone LI-4201 during the day.

Heckman High in Local Pin Circles

Walt Heckman stood at the top of the local league bowlers today as the result of his 687 last night in the Fraternal circuit at the Illinois Alleys. He built his total on games of 226, 237 and 224. In second place was Farr, with a 671 in the North Side Businessmen’s loop at the Parkway plant, while O. E. Hudler registered a 660 in the Little Flower League at the Indiana Alleys. Other leaders included George Pieper, 647, Spring, Pritchett’s; Tommy Tompkins, 631, Wheeler's Lunch, Central; Bill Faust Jr., 625,

Courthouse, Fox-Hunt; Brandt, 623,3

Church, Fountain Square; Miles 621, South Side Businessmen, Fountain Square, and Joe Moorman, 619 Holy Cross, Fox-Hunt.

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No. 3—Tips for the Golfer—

Lists Aids for Wood Play Errors

Chuck Garringer, Speedway golf course pro, explains the proper use of wood clubs in fairway play in this article, the third in a series of interviews with Indianapolis teachers of the game. By TOM OCHILTREE If your wood shots from the fairway have a tendency to skitter along the grass like frightened rabbits you may be afflicted with a common fault of hitting down on the ball, Chuck Garringer, Speedway Golf Course professional,

been a teacher for the last

10 years at this course which calls for a good long game, speaks with authority on this subject. In past years when driving tournaments were being held here he was a consistent winner, and he is recognized as being proficient

at all departments of wood play.

Were it possible for anyone to “power a ball” into the air, Mr. Garringer, who has strong hands and arms, should be that person. Like all pros,

however, he warns against this tendency, and his own shots show that rhythm, timing and proper swing are the elements which account for his distances. It has been his experience that 90 per cent of the wood shots which players say are topped actually are hit a descending blow. This means that the club head has made contact with the ball before it has reached the lowest point of its arc. “From the behavior of the ball,” he said, “it is hard for a player to tell whether his shot has been hit in this manner or whether he actually has topped. If tournament balls are used, a slash on the cover will indicate a true top.” Mr. Garringer explained that a

player can have‘a good swing and

still be subject to an occasional top, but striking a ball with a descending blow always indicates a swing defect. “It may be caused by the player becoming too anxious on a shot and turning too quickly. The chances are he is getting his body through ahead of the swing, or his swing may be such that his club head doesn’t travel in a true arc.” To eliminate any or all of these errors, Mr. Garringer demonstrates, by means of composite pictures of experts, that the well grooved shot is one in which the club head is never more than two inches off the ground when it has arrived at a point about® two feet back of the ball. \ “This can’t be overemphasized,” he declared. “A player must visualize the club head sweeping low along the ground as it approaches the ball.” Pointing out that the old designation. of driver, brassie and spoon, now has given way to the rumbering of wood clubs, Mr. Garringer said that the average player prob-

ably gets better results with fairway shots if he uses either a No. 3 or 4 wood. “This matter, of course, depends on the lie,” he said. “If the lie is particularly favorable a player may get good results with a No. 2 wood. For the experts these clubs ail produce different carrying distances. The good tournament player can get around 260 yards with a No. 1, 245 with a No. 2, 230 with a No. 3 and 215 with a No. 4. Average golfers who can make consistently around 200 yards are considered as hitting very well.” Mr. Garringer classifies the uphill fairway lie as one of the easiest shots in the game since the left foot is above the ball and it is very difficult to throw your weight uphill. This reduces the chance of bringing the body through too fast. “More difficult is the downhill lie, where the tendency is for the body to fall ahead of the shot,” he said. “Sometimes a player with this fault can still get a good shot by playing the ball a little in advance of its ordinary position opposite the left heel. “For lies in which the feet are on a higher level than the ball, the player usually is required to shift his position. I prefer to bend my knees slightly, remembering to keep my head anchored. “In cases where the ball is higher than my feet, I shorten my grip on the club rather than to change my swing.” In this connection, Mr. Garringer pointed out that he never grips a club back to the end of the shaft. He contends that this doesn’t sacrifice power, although such a grip is unorthodox. “Reggie Whitcomb, the English star, proves this point pretty well,” he said. He is over six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds, and although he uses a 40-inch club he still grips down toward the middle of the shaft. He has, of course, terrific hand power.

Tomorrow—Dick Nelson on long

irons.

Members of the Indiana Professional Golfers’ Association completed plans today for the 1939 State Open championship to be held Aug. 18, 19 and 20 at the Beechwood Golf Club, La Porte. Announcement of selection of the La Porte course was made by John Vaughn, Anderson, association president. It will be a 72-hole tourney and Bob Hamilton, Evansville, will be the defending titleholder. . Hamilton won the crown last vear at Lake Wawasee when he fired a three-under-par 69 to defeat Bill Heinlein in a playoff after they had tied at 278 for the regular distance. The host pro for this year’s event, Herman Uebele, was a former professional here at the Pleasant Run municipal links. ‘Qualifying trials for the National P. G. A. tourney are to be held June 19 at Highland Country Club. The national meet itself is to be at Flushing, L. I., July 9 to 15.

Tech Golfers Win

Tech High School golfers defeated Southport and Warren Central in ‘a triangular meet yesterday at the Lake Shore course. The

Warren Central, 381.

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State Open Tournament To Be Held at La Porte

The state association has separated its state match piay tourna‘ment from these national trials and is to hold the former event on a date to be selected within the next few weeks. First pro-amateur meet of the season sponsored by the Indiana P. G. A. is to be held next Monday at Woodstock Country Club. Association members competed in an 18-hole sweepstakes at Highland yesterday. The event was taken hy Wayne Timberman, Terre Haute, who turned in a one-under-par 69. Massie Miller, Richmond, placed second with a 70.

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Log of Trip

TOWNS PROTEST MOVE TO DROP ‘TRACTION LINE

Balk on Plan to Substitute Busses From Terre Haute To indianapolis.

“A Stranger,” self-styled, “borrowed” the car of Robert Middenburg, 43 N. Jefferson St., early today and then abandoned it, leaving a log of the trip. Police found the car in the 1600 block W. Morris St., and it contained a note which said: “Dear Friend: “I just borrowed your car to get home in. I did not want it for mine. It gave out of gas right here, seven and a half blocks from home. So I fix it so nobody could get in it. The keys are in the motor.

A delegation from three Indiana towns protested the proposed abandonment of the Indianapolis-Terre Haute traction line of the Indiana Railroad at a hearing before the Indiana Public Service Commission today. The hearing was on the petition

RIG NWR Times Photos. 1. Chuck Garringer, Speedway Golf Course pro, is beginning his back swing in this picture. See how the position of his hands is kept low and the club head started back by the left leg beginning the pivot. His left arm is straight but not tense. 2. Here he is at the top of his backswing. Note that his hips have completed almost a 90 degree turn from the address position. His wrists are cocked without any rolling of the forearms. It is in his wrists that he will secure the power to his shot. 3. The shot has been made and the clubhead brought around in the follow-through. At the conclusion of his shot Mr. Garringer has maintained balance. The momentum of the swing carries the club Head well around in an easy motion, and there is no tendency to stop it. -

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of Bowman Elder, railroad receiver, to abandon the line because it was losing money, according to Louis

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road. He testified that the line and similar losses for each of the last five years.

Hearing May 17

The railroad’s petition to substitute a bus line for the traction line will be heard May 17. The delegations protesting the change were from Greencastle, Clayton and Coatesville. They said abandonment of the traction line would inconvenience them. The railroad proposes to substitute trucks for freight service to Jeffersonville but does not plan any passenger service to that city. The railroad company, under its petition, would turn over part of the old traction line to the Public Service Co.

‘41 DUE IN STATE

Edgar Blake Is One of Five Scheduled to Retire in Methodist Chureh.

KANSAS CITY, May 2 (U, P.). Indiana Methodism will be presided over by a new bishop by 1941 as a result of action taken by the Meth= odist Uniting Conference here. Conference committees and sube committees today were mapping boundaries for annual conferences in various states, but no decision had been reached as to whether any of the four Methodist conferences in Indiana would be merged. The conference yesterday called the first general conference of the united church for April, 1940. Before then five bishops, including Bishop Edgar Blake, Detroit, whose area includes Indiana, will have reached the retirement age of 70, Their successors will be elected at regional jurisdiction conferences within a year after the general conference. Other bishops to be retired then are John L. Nuelson, Geneva, Switzerland, senior bishop of the church; Edwin Holt Hughes, Wash= ington, former DePauw University president and acting senior bishop when Bishop Nuelson is in Europe; Charles L. Mead, Kansas City, and Wallace E. Brown, Chattanooga. Indiana may have a new bishop before 1941, for its jurisdictional area is to have two new bishops after the uniting conference and Indianapolis delegates seek to obe iy an Episcopal residence for that city.

NYA GIVES AID TO 961 IN INDIANA COLLEGES

NOTRE DAME, May 2.—Out-ofe State students in Indiana universities and colleges receiving aid through the National Youth Admine istration totaled 961, a report of the Administration showed today.

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If the petitions are granted, the railroad would have only one line left—between Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne. At one time the traction system in Indiana embraced seven interurban lines in and out of Indianapolis to all corners of the State. The Indiana Railroad has been in receivership for several years with Bowman Elder operating the lines under jurisdiction of Superior Court Judge Herbert E. Wilson. The old Richmond line was abandoned under court orders more than a year ago.

TREASURER CHECKS SPRING TAX INCOME

Employees in the County Treasurer’s office today began opening thousands of envelopes containing tax duplicates and checks mailed before the spring installment deadline last midnight. Treasurer Frank E. McKinney estimated that collections will approximate nearly 100 per cent of the amount due. Long lines of taxpayers swelled the Court House corridors yesterday waiting to pay their taxes before the deadline. Several still were waiting when the office doors were closed at 5:30 p. m. Mr. McKinney said all payments sent by mail and postmarked before midnight will be accepted without imposing penalties. More than three million dollars was collected in taxes through last Saturday, Mr. McKinney said.

HAS NEW TOOTH AT 85 OTTERVILLE, Ont, May 2 (U. P). — Harry Hill, 85-year-old local resident, today proudly displayed a

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