Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1939 — Page 10
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Lou's Job
Indianapolis Times Sports
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Ah ENE
Lou Gehrig
speak them.
His job at first base Is waiting for him, but many a base hit probably will streak through the sunshine before Gehrig tells Manager Joe McCarthy he is ready. For Gehrig is not ready now and nobody knows it better than himself. &
He knew it three days ago, but
yesterday in a hotel high above the center of Detroit that Gehrig announced he had decided to end his streak of 2130 consecutive games—a streak that
is a record today and one likely century.
Gehrig and McCarthy were alone in the hotel
room.
To Post Saturday in
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May slightly but noticeably today
Kentucky Derby on Saturday.
By Eddie Ash
IMPRESS RAY SCHALK
MILLERS HE FEARS FOR HIS TRIBESTERS
The thin triumph, after a head and head contest through the stretch, established Viscounty as a certain
contender in the Race of the
Roses and dumped a large pail of cold salt water on the West's hope
OW that sufficient games have been played to get a fair line on the strength of the league, Ray Schalk, leader of the Indianapolis Indians, likes Minneapolis best of all American Association teams he has seen. . . . He stood for an interview in Kansas City recently and said: “Minneapolis is going to be tough in its park this year. 1 wouldn't be surprised if Phil Weintraub didn’t hit at least 40 home runs. And it’s going to be tough getting Ab Wright out. : «I don’t know whether those fellows can keep it up all season but for a while they ought to stay in the lead. As for Milwaukee, I'm one of the few, I guess, who believes that club will be a factor in the race. The Brewers, like the Millers, will be hard to beat in their own park. I like the Milwaukee pitching staff.” Asked what he thought of his own club, the Tribe chieftain replied: “So far we haven't shown much punch. I'm hoping we improve but unless we do we're going to have a struggle.” n tJ 1.25 and state Kentucky Derby
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fans are responding to this departments invitation to mail or bring in selections on the big horse classic at Louisville Saturday. . . . As one fan stated: “That's one load off my chest—proof in ink that I knew it all the time.” Latest amateur experts to take a shot at calling em right follow: Phil Johnson, Franklin: Yale O'Nine, Johnstown, Xalapa Clown, Technician. . . . Oh, boy, does he go for the long shots! Al Farb, Indianapolis: El Chico, Johnstown, American Byrd, Technician. . . . A boxing expert switches to the ponies. Walter Long, Indianapolis: Johnstown, Technician, T. M. Dorsett, Challedon. . . . He's sticking with Hasty Hoof Johnny. Mrs. Thomas F. Kelley, Indianapolis: Zalapa Clown, American Byrd, Technician, Third Degree. . . . Another supporter of the mischievous fellow. Clarence McIntire, Indianapolis: Xalapa Clown, Johnstown, Challedon, Technician. . . . The mischief maker gains support. Howard Shearon, Indianapolis: Johnstown, Challedon, Technician, Zalapa Clown. . . . Stringing with the favorites and a fast track.
Get In the Free-For-All
HERE'S only a short time left to join The Times’ Derby free-for-all. . . . It’s a wide open crossword horse puzzle, this business of picking em. . .. Yesterday's Derby Trial was another example of how the animals upset the form sheet. .. . Long Shot Viscounty came down in front and knocked the railbirds for a row of splinters. Fill out a Kentucky Derby coupon and mail or bring to The Derby Editor, Indianapolis Times, before sundown Friday. . . . Pick four, if you wish, or more as insurance against withdrawals and scratches.
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that Technician is the horse with the strongest chance of besting Johnstown, ace of the East and the even-money favorite. Only three of the other seven are expected to be entered when the field is drawn Friday—Junius W. Bell's Steel Heels, W. E. Boeing's Porter’s Mite, and Mrs. Tom Taggert’s Yale O’'Nine, who finished third, fourth, and fifth. Lostagal, American Byrd Timeful, and Fern Creek loped in in that order and were considered out of the Derby. The fans shaped up the probable field like this: 1. Johnstown, first, last, and all the way the class of the race. An even money-favorite whose only fear is rain. 2. Challedon, Maryland's bid for Kentucky's prize. Breezed 2 mile
flat for a fine move. 3. Technician—down but not out. Worked an extra eighth after the mile trial for an aggregate 1.52 1-5. 4. El Chico, beaten twice in asi many starts but still draws support, by those wha won't believe he is strictly a sprinter. 5. T. M. Dorsett, best at sprint distance but is sure to be sent along. 6. Heather Broom, Earl Sande’s Blue Grass Stakes winner. 7. Viscounty, the exclamation point in the Derby Trial. 8. Porter's Mite, the sprint champion who will carry W, E. Boeing's red and white silks, no matter what the conditions. The other four were expected to be drawn from Steel Heels, Yale O’Nine, On Location, which worked a mile and % handily in 1:57; Challenge, stablemate of Johnstown; and Our Mat, mate of El Chico.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1939
Waiting for Hi By JOHN B. MILLIS United Press Staff Correspondent | § ag May 3.—Three little words—"“I'm ready, Joe’—will send Lou Gehrig back into
the Wew York Yankees’ lineup any time the Iron Man decides in his own heart that he is ready to
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Technician’s Stock Sags After Viscounty’s Nose Victory in Derby Trial
Turf Fans Expect Fewer Than Dozen 3-Year-Olds to Go
Race of Roses; Cold
Water Dumped on West's Hopes.
By JACK GUENTHER United Press Racing Editor
3.— Technician stock declined as turf fans raked over the
ashes of the Derby Trial and predicted that fewer than a dozen horses would start down the glory road of the 65th
The second running of the mile test ended in the biggest upset of the week. The Valdina Farm’s Viscounty, a 30-1 shot, conceded only the barest chance, defeated the odds-on Technician by a nose in a fine show of stubbornness in the final panel and left seven other eligibles far behind.
Bulldog Nine Nips Franklin
Victory Gives Blue Stronger Hold on Second Place.
Butler University’s baseball team today had a firmer grasp on second place in the Indiana College Conference by virtue of yesterday's 15-to-5 victory over Franklin at the latter’s diamond. The Bulldogs got to Ned Whitson, Franklin pitcher, for 18 hits. They jumped to an early three-run lead in the first frame and were never in danger. Jerry Steiner and Bill Hamilton connected for homers for the victors. Lyle Neat, sophomore, pitched all the way for Butler. It was his first triumph of the season. Summary:
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Neat and Wilson; Whitson and Grefe. Butler was scheduled to meet its second loop foe in as many days this afternoon by journeying to Greencastle and battling DePauw. Tomorrow the Bulldogs will play at home against St. Joseph.
Vinoff to Show Movies to Club
Sam Vinoff, an assistant football coach at Purdue University, will show and discuss pictures of the 1938 Ohio State-Purdue football game at the last meeting of the year for the Cathedral High School Boosters Club tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the-school auditorium. Pictures on sports including baseball, horse racing, boating and others will also be shown. Officers for next year will be elected and a report of the activities of the Club will be read at the close of the
team edged out Hanover College, 6 to 5.
By HENRY M'LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 3.—Like a mother over a cradle, the little fellow in the gabardine suit and floppy hat was bent over the stable
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door, half singing, half talking, a lullaby. “Take it easy, fellow—rest your big self—ain’t nothing gonna bother you—quiet yourself, you're home now—that’s right, that’s right, take it slow.”
It was Sande—Earl Sande—who not so long ago was whacking thoroughbreds with a leather bat to make them move along, soothing his 3-year-old Derby baby, Heather Broom, in a stable beyond the backstrefch of Churchill Downs. Frightened by a trip from Lexington, hungry, and suspicious of his new surroundings, Heather Broom acted much as a human 3-year-l old would under the circumstances. He made little crying noises, walked round and round his stable, kicked up his heels, and threw his head 1} wildly about.
Remember Last Year
“I guess you think I spend all my time nursing horses,” Sande laughed. “Remember the last time I saw you, about this time last year?” I remembered. It was two days before the Derby, around midnight, in a barn close to the one I found
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him in today. He was sitting up|;
meeting.
had taken three times!—Stagehand came down with a raging fever, Sande knew there wasn’t a chance that his horse wolud be ready, and he was a sad little fellow as he sat there talking of how lady luck had thrown the dice against him. This year he’s back with Heather Broom, and while he doesn't think his colt can travel with the likes of Johnstown, Challedon, and Technician, he has his hopes. Some Have Ambition “Horses are funny things,” he said, sitting there in the sunshine after Heather Broom had calmed down, “just as funny and unpredictable as humans. You never can tell what they are going to do. Some of them, with all the talent in the world, just won't use it. Then you'll get a horse without any too much talent and hell be driven by ambition just like a man, and he'll do everything he can and more. Every once in a while you get the perfect horse—one with stuff and sense to go with it. Then you really have something to ride. Take a horse lik Osmand that I used to ride. He had more sense than a judge. Billy Kelly was the same sort. I swear those two could pace themselves better than I could.” We got the talk around to the Derby. Earl thinks that Johnstown is going to be mighty hard to beat. les a firecracker, I guess,” he said.
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“The team isn’t going so good and I’m not going so good,” Gehrig said. for me to get out of there for a while.” “Is that the way you really feel about it, Lou?” McCarthy asked. “Yes, that's what I've decided.” “Okay,” McCarthy said.
UT the final act of this drama that began on a June day in 1925 was played an hour or so later at Briggs Stadium. McCarthy made it clear before the game with the Detroit Tigers started that Gehrig had benched himself and added: “Lou will
he’s ready to play again. His place is there for him when he wants it.” But those words were spoken to a small knot of people in front of the Yankees’ bench and none of (Continued on Page 11) .
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lineup when he himself decides
Roche Throws Towa Matman,
Thom Victor
Dorve Roche, Decatur, Ill, heavyweight wrestler, could lay some sort of claim today for winning one of the shortest wrestling falls in local mat history. It would hardly be possible to win one in a shorter length of time than Dorve took the deciding fall from Johnny Plummer, 228-pound former Iowa blacksmith, in the main bout of the Armory wrestling show last night. After Roche had “got Johnny's goat” in the second fall of their two out of three match, the enraged Plummer rushed across the ring at top speed “with blood in his eye,” literally, and met Roache’s elbow and 220 pounds head-on. It was merely a matter of falling on the prone Mr. Plummer and the bout was over. It lasted something like 15 seconds or less. Roche took the second fall and gave Plummer a bloodied eye in the bargain after 12 minutes. Plummer won the first fall in 23 minutes with a leg breaker. Coach Billy Thom, Indiana University, whipped Frankie Hart, Toronto light heavyweight, in the other half of the feature by taking two straight falls. Thom won the first one in 30 minutes with a step-over toe hold and the second with a reverse leg breaker in six minutes. Young Joe Stecher, 226, Nebraska, won the first bout from Tom Zaharias, 221, Pueblo, Col, with a hook scissors in 16 minutes.
Tech Nine Wins 20th Straight Tilt
Tech High School's Dagwellcoached baseball men captured their 20th straight game, downing the Deaf School 12 to 2, yesterday afternoon. The Big Green has won seven this season. Shut out for six innings by the masterful pitching of Charlie Shipman, the visiting diamondmen collected two runs in the seventh on a long drive to right field by Hanzewiski. The Green and White diamond team got 12 walks from Pitcher Smiley and stole 15 bases. Tech will play a return game with Plainfield Friday afternoon at the East Side field.
Decathlon Winners At Manual Named
Five: members of the Manual senior high school will be awarded medals and 10 freshmen will receive ribbons; as a result of a Decathlon contest held in the Manual gymnasium, Alvin Romeiser, Manual physical education teacher, said today. The boys who will receive medals are Carl Campbell, Arnold Deer, Ralph McFall, John Ritter and Wilbur Schmedel. Joe Covert, Scott McClellan, Salvatore Mulinaro, Roy Raia, Granville Sweares, Maurice Zweisler, John Lex, Edward Ott, Charles Porter. and Harry Weiss will receive
ribbons.
Horses, Like People, Are Ambitious, Smart or Lazy, Sande Informs Mac
“He has a lot of early ‘lick’ as he showed by staying right up there with T. M. Dorsett, a sprinter, in the early part of the Wood, and he
can go a distance. That's about all a horse needs to win. He's no cinch, though. Challedon is a great big powerful horse, and can really go in the mud. Then there’s Technician and—well, all of the field, really, because as I said, horses are funny things, and there’s no guessing them.” I took to heart his counsel from one of the smartest of all horsemen. So much to heart, in fact, that it was fully half an hour before I started trying to guess em in the first race. (Copyright, 1939)
ON CREDIT...
Your eves can't wait , . . but we can Get an SW F
Times Telephoto.
Viscounty (No. 8) is shown nosing out Technician, odds on favorite, to win the Derby Trial stakes at Churchill Downs. Nine Kentucky Derby entries ran in the one-mile event, their last trial before the
classic next Saturday.
More Than $5000 in
Lap Prizes
Subscribed
Already for 500-Mile
City-Wide Welcome for Speedway Visitors Scheduled; Two Firms Pledge $500 for Drivers’ Rewards; List Will Close on May 25.
Advance lap prize subscriptions totaling more than $5000 for the 27th annual 500-mile race have been received by the lap prize committee to date, Paul Richey, chairman,
announced today.
Another month remains before the race for the raising of money in Indianapolis and other cities for the re-
warding of drivers who lead race.
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at the various stages of the
The committee started work earlier this year than last
and has met with greater interest and enthusiasm, Mr. Richey said. Several firms pledged contribution «at the 1938 “victory dinner.” The subscription list will close May 25, it was announced. Plan Big Welcome
The Citizens’ Speedway Committee was organized by the Chamber of Commerce to help promote the «world’s greatest sporting event.” Another subcommittee is planning a city-wide welcome for the race visitors, and a third subcommittee will be in charge of plans for the annual “victory dinner” which follows the race. Other members of the lap prize committee are Sam Freeman, Wallace O. Lee, R. S. Orr, Arthur E. Rose, W. H. Wells, Harold B. West and Russell S. Williams. Subscriptions received to date include $500 from the Ford Motor Co., Detroit, and $500 from the Chevrolet Co., Detroit, The Ethyl Gasoline Corp., New York: the Champion Spark Plug Co., Toledo, O., and the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Los Angeles, each contributed $200.
$100 Contributors
Subscriptions of $100 were received from the following firms outside Indianapolis: New Departure (General Motors), Bristol, Conn.; Delco Products (General Motors), Dayton, O.; Perfect Circle Co, Hagerstown, Ind.; Timken Roller Bearing Co., Canton, O. Delco-Remy Division (General Motors), Anderson; Norge Division
Taylor U. Nine Wins
Times Special UPLAND, May 3.—Taylor University put over five runs in the third inning and went on to win from Manchester, 10 to 3, in a haseball game here yesterday afternoon.
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Indianapolis Donors
The following Indianapolis firms, organizations and individuals made $100 contributions: C. H. Wallerich Co., Hotel Severin; Arthur V. Brown, Marott Hotel; William H. Block Co, L. Strauss & Co., Claypool Hotel and Indianapolis Athletic Club. The Columbia, Hotel Lincoln, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Vonnegut Hardware Co., L. S. Ayres & Co. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. the Gibson Co., American National Bank, Allen A. Wilkinson Lumber Co. and
City League ‘Bowlers Top List of Stars
Two members of the City Bowling . League at the Pritchett’ Alleys head
the Shooting Star list today with only one pin separating them. Ed Stark added games of 237, 210 and 210 for 657 while Oscar Buses registered 656 on games of 224, 215 and 217. 3 The Log Cabin quintet for which the two pinmen rolled, totaled 2966 on games of 1007, 969 and 990. Their opponents, American United Life, was close behind with 2947. They rolled games of 931, 966 and 1050.
The Shooting Stars
Ken Koelling, City .. John Kiesel, St. Philip’s No. 1 ....... Omer Vogelsong, St. Philip's No. 1.... Bill Dugdale, Cit ve 78 George Zix, St. P Oakley, Community Burello, Ft. Square Dick Hurley, St. Philip’ Vince Concannon St. Ph Charles Power, City Pug Leppert, Community Marien, St. Philip's R. Arbaugh, City
The Uptown Alleys management announced today that there are only three days left for teams to get in their entries for the 1020 Scratch Classic. The late Sunday squads are filled and there are only a few openings left in the afternoon shifts.
Members of the McCarty Furniture team of Fortville, pennant win= ner in the Indianapolis Washington League, will surround the festive board at the Claypool tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock for their annual banquet. Earl Bright, team captain, and R. K. Stafford, team sponsor, will be on hand to give the champions the “go” sign. The McCarty keglers won their league title by a 10-game margin,
Casters in Session
The Hoosier Casting Club is to hold its weekly meeting tonight at Pennsy Gym at 7:30 o'clock. The public is invited to attend the ses-
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