Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1939 — Page 25

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/ Five Colts and Little Filly to Run Against Johnstown

Continentals Tuned for Speedy

Washington athletes were reported in top shape for fast competition today in the high school state sectional track and field meet at Southport. Bill

Roberts, left, and Bill Petranoff, been running one-two in most of the Continentals’ meets this spring. Roberts is a senior,

low hurdlers, have

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FRIDAY, MAY 12,

1939

Eddie Ash

ST ANCIENT HISTORY RACE NOW

DERBY JUS

IT'S THE PREAKNESS

Preakness Stakes was inaugurated in 1873 and stake named after a horse. , . . Pimlico will be the 49th renewal, discontinued over a span of

HE is the only major Tomorrow's event at the having years. For five endowed approximately that the winner again. Alfred G.

classic been vear it was worth only $1500 but in 1922 for 250.000. The 1934 value fell to 825,000 and it was not until last spring collected a net of more than $50,000

was

Vanderbilt stepped into the Pimlico picture and publicized the fixture in a big way and it has taken on important glamour in recent runnings . Tomorrow's Preakness will have a gross value of more than $70,000 and within the next half dozen years may surpass the Santa Anita Handicap in money.

A ~N . ~ - > A Gal in Fast Company HE Kentucky history to the horse folk as they year-old feature at 1 3-16 miles his column picks the race Johnstown, Gilded Knight and ChalleThe are coupled as the Belair-Wheatley enin picking ‘em we're separating the horses Ciencia which Kissed the boys good bye in provide some surprising competition for " This filly is full of run The Kentucky Oaks is it is reported a fine 3-yvear-old fillies

Derby, run only last Saturday, is viewed as ancient

concentrate on tomorrow's 3-

and

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jon first two named the Santa may the colts. at Churchill Downs tomorrow go postward This is the event usually furnishes quite a

to be run field will and the

“wa ana aerby for

battle Ex-Tribe Chuckers Hook Up

peas for the Cabs: Vance Page: for the Bees: Jim Turner. Old mates on the Indianapolis staff clashed at Boston vesterday and the friendly rivaly resulted in a victory for Vance. who graduated from the Hoosiers last season. a vear and half after Jim left the Perry Stadium premises for the big time Yesterday's free-hitting contest with Page receiving the better eld. . . . It was Vance's second victory for the Cubs

WaL a support in the fi year

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ligers respose ybably gets the 38-year-old pitching ‘igers plenty of dough back in 1922 in his younger vears Carl Hubbell is slated to open on the Giants’ mound against the Phillies Sunday The veteran reported no twinges in his salary wing after out in the relief role against the Cubs on Monday The baseball world will be watching King Carl's 1939 official

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unveili Evans Learns About Baseball

ED EVANS, Brooklyn's veteran rookie pitcher. has lost three games in different ways, two by “unusual” methods A home run sock him the fist time, a balk was responsible for his second setback and the theft of home by Old Man Pepper Martin took him for a ride the third time out George Scharein’s improved throwing this vear may be due to the fact that last December he took up bowling for the first time as his major winter recreation Indianapolis Chuck Klein is still the alley champ of the Phillies, but the shortstop’s progress at the pinlong. ame indicates Chuck may get some real competition before ong

deep in the second division, Mickey last laugh after all. Svlivester coach of the Phillies, cost the but he's doing better work than

trying it

beat

Baseball at a Glance

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TODAY'S GAMES AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Columbus at INDIANAPOLIS Toledo at Louisville (night). Kansas City at Minneapolis, Milwaukee at St. Paul. NATIONAL

LEAGUE Brooklyn at Boston, Philadelphia at New York St. Louis at Cincinnati Only games scheduled. AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland at Chicago. Detroit at St. Louis. Only games scheduled.

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS

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| last night,

ladies’

| hits while dishing out {egrs and | victory

‘hide all over the park and included | three

| fattened their | garnering

night | Hader and Rill

Indians Still On Warpath

Massacre Columbus, 10-0; Niggeling Wins No. 4.

the Indians apparently on the war path now that they have won three in a row at home, it is a bit too early for some wag to shout: "Break up the Hoosiers before they ruin the league”! The about-face the Redskins] achieved since returning from that Union Pacific jaunt in the wild, wild West is something to boast about They collected 14 blows while thumping the Columbus Red Birds 10 to 0, and hope to con-| tinue the massacre in the second] of the series tonight. It will be! night at Perry Stadium and with suitable weather the team deserves a large turnout of fans It was cold weather baseball last night but the frigid atmosphere failed to cool off John Niggeling wiio held the Birds to five scattered | nine goose his fourth |

With definitely

chalking up of the season

Chalks Up Nine Strikeouts Knuckleball John struck out nine, issued but one walk and participated in the Tribe attack with a single! and a double The Indians slammed the horse-| triples and two doubles in their total of base knocks. Myron! McCormick and Nolen Richardson batting averages by | three apiece. The Redskins leaped off to a flying start and forced the Birds to use up three huriers before the! was out. Ear! Cook. George | Curlee took turns at suffering a beating at the hantls of the Tribesters and the first

named was the losing chucker.

Lang Goes For Three McCormick set off the fireworks

|by rapping a single as first up for| {the Tribe and Lang scored him with

a triple. A sacrifice fly by Newman tallied Lang. It was easy after that start and the Redskins scored in the second, third, sixth, seventh and eighth. Authors of the Tribe triples. in addition to Lang, were Latshaw and Newman. All Columbus safeties were held 10 one base and Niggeling seldom had to turn on

the pressure.

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Tomorrow's booked under the lights, has been switched to daylight and will get under way at 2:30 o'clock. It will end the series and the Indians will open an Eastern swing in Louisville Sunday, playing a twin bill,

game, originally

Elmer Riddle, young righthander. has been optioned to the Chattanooga Lookouts of the Southern Association. If he ever gains control. the Indians will lose no time in him back.

ADDITIONAL SPORTS. PAGES 26 AND 27

Inine hits

Fishing Lessons

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| Niggeling, bp

| Cormick, Baker,

{Struck out - {3, Curlee 2 { nings:

Competition

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Vernon Irwin, Washington, won first place in the City meet pole

vault at 11 feet 3 inches and later

events in the South Central Conference meet

new Conference records in both,

annexed the hroad jump and vault at Seymour, setting

jou ists Thrown s Blues Win Si Cop Lead

By United Press The Kansas City Blues, Yankee farm club which won the Little World Series last year, was at the top of the American Association today. The Blues advanced to the] top with yesterday's 6-4 victory over Minneapolis. The game featured a 10-minute fist fight, participated in by every player on the field and begun when the Blues’ Ernie Bonham struck patter Ab Wright with a pitched | ball. Wright retaliated by throwing his bat at Bonham. No one was seri-

| |

[ously hurt but Wright was banished

from the game, Freddie Hutchinson, rookie farmed to Toledo by Detroit, won his first game in the Association by holding the last-place Louisville Celonels to while his teammates staged a 10th-inning rally. The score was 8-4 The St. Paul Saints beat the Milwaukee Brewers, 9-5, behind the seven-hit pitching of Babe Phelps

{and the hitting of right fielder Pete

Fleming, who hit two home runs and a double and drove in four runs

West Feels Yank Sting

Champs on Way Home After Taking 8 of 10.

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, May 12.—The New | York Yankees’ own production of “death in the afternoon” returned today from a successful 10-day road tour through the west They left a trail of

Read ‘em and weep, American

| League pennant contenders:

Eight victories in 91 runs, or over game, 124 game. 69 bases on balls, or per game. 29 pitchers faced them, or three per game. That's why the Yanks rolled home from St. Louis today with a game and a half lead in the American League

And That Without Di Mag

And, mind you, the Yanks were minus Joe DiMaggio, left in New

10 games, nine runs per

hits, or over 12 hits per

nearly seven

nearly

| York with a pulled leg muscle, and

At Broad Ripple

Ross A. Smith will conduct a free bait and fly casting school at the Broad Ripple pool each Sunday 30a. m. to 1 p. m,, the hours the pool is closed. Any person wishing to receive instructions need only to report and instructors will be assigned. Rods and reels for beginners will be available. Targets are being set for those wishing to use them,

Tech Golfers Win Tech High School's golf team won from the Washington links squad, 423 to 444. at the South Grove course yesterday. Gaston of Wash-| ington won medal honors with an 80. |

wr TRIBE BOX SCORE COLUMBUS AB R 2 PO A Sturgeon, ss 0 Bucher, 3b Morgan, If E._ Browne, Adams, cf Mack, 1b L. Brown Bremer, ¢ Shultz.e Cook, p . Hader, p xMacon Curlee, p

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Totals COMMMBUS. corso ivaiins Indianapolis Senta . 211 003 21x—10 Runs batied in—La Newman, Niggeling. Baker 2 McCormick 4, Vaughn. Twobase hits~ RY McCormick. Threebase hits—Lang. Newman, Latshaw. Stolen bases—Lewis, Sacrifices Newman, Me- | Left on bases-—Columbus 6, Indianapolis 10 Bases on balls of | Cook 2, Hader 3 Curlee 1, Nigpeling -By Cook 3. Niggeling 9. Hader Hits—- Off Cook, 6 in 2'; inoff Hade» 5, 423 'nnings: off Curlee, 2 in ' inning. Losing pitcher -Cook Umpires: Juthrie, MecLarry and Harvin,

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who broke his consecu2130 on the first game of the trip. The St. Louis Browns slug with the Yanks vesterday, and took a 10-8 shellacking. Each team made 15 hits, but the Yanks made theirs count. Charlie Keller hit a triple with the bases loaded. Two southpaws, Ewald Pyle and Russ Van Atta, were rudely treated by the Yanks Ted Lyons, for any other Sox, outhurled Woody year-old rookie, as Chicago nosed out Boston, 3-2. The defeat cost the Red Sox the lead. It was Rich's first loss. Al Milnar, Cleveland southpaw, pitched a 7-0 victory over the Athletics. allowing only five hits. Roy Weatherly had “five for five.”

Myer Leads Senators

tried to

38, team but

who never pitched the White Rich, 22-

Scoring three in the ninth, Washrallied to trim Detroit, 4-2. Rookie Joe Havnes held the Tigers to seven hits, The Cardinals gained the National League lead without playing. Brooklyn knocked Cincinnati out of first place, defeating them, 4-3. The Giants scrambled out of the cellar, breaking their three-game losing streak with a 4-1 triumph over the Pirates The Cubs rapped Jim Turner for 14 hits and beat the Bees, 6-2. Vance Page gave up 13 blows but kept them scatter ed.

desolation.

| Freddie Lewis in a four-round bout.

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Boris Dimancheff, junior, has been a consistent point or in the broad jump and is a member of Washington's half-mile relay team,

in Southport Sectional

T'imes "Photos.

His best mark in the leap is 20 feet 11 inches, made last year,

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| By JACK GUENTHER

Conn Bros., Inc., Set to Do Some Business in Garden

(U. P.).— bet to be the next light heavyweight | dealers in feints | champion of the world. All he has| io <oring by taking

to do is go through the formality Santa Anita Derby, present | considerable backing.

NEW YORK, May 12 Conn Bros. Inc, | and socks, wili do busines tonight |

at the same old stand—Madison

Square Garden, where they hope Of getting Melio Bettina, the luck of the Irish will carry them | light heavyweight champion in New | into the ring. Conn’s home in the Derby,

| left will take care of the rest of the |backed | business on the agenda.

to a double victory inside the crim- | son ropes. Billy Conn, senior member of the

York State,

Field of 7

Entered in ~ Preakness

Ciencia, With Advantage in Weight, Gets Support | From Bettors.

United Press Racing Editor

BALTIMORE, Md, May 12 (U. P.).—Only five colts and a brave lit= |tle filly were entered today to run against the mighty Johnstown when the Kentucky Derby victor goes after {the second leg of America's triple crown in the 49th running of the Preakness Stakes tomorrow, Those named for the mile and three-sixteenths classic at old Pime | Weo course were: (a) William Woodward's Johnstown, J. Stout. (a)William Wood~ ward's Challenge, H. Dabson, (a) Wheatley Stable's Gilded Knight, R. Donoso, King Ranch's Ciencia, C. Bierman. A. G. Vanderbilt's Impound, L. Fallon. Saratoga Stable’'s Volitant, D. Meade. W. L. Brann's Challedon, G. Seabo. (a) Woodward-Wheatley entry, A bright sun and clear, cool | weather greeted horsemen when they arrived at the racing shed to draw the field and a fast, dry track appeared certain, Volitant was first named through the box and Ciencia, the filly, came second. The three= {way Woodward-Wheatley combina tion was next. | Challenge Doubtful Starter

3 Although Challenge is a doubtful

starter on the fast track, the entry was quoted a favorite at 1-4. The |odds were higher than predicted, but [track officials said they expected a | heavier flow of wagers to place and

1 | show than to win. Only straight bets

[establish the odds. No matter how {low the price may go, the track must, pay off 5 cents on the dollar. Prospects of perfect weather | prompted officials to predict a ca= [pacity attendance of 40,000 and a mutuel play in excess of $1,000,000, A Solid Choice

Only possibility of rain can soften Johnstown's firm position as favorite, and thousands of custo= | mers at the mile and 3-16th race to= morrow will lay their bankrolls that

{the son of Jamestown will run away

with the second leg of America's triple crown and most of the $75,000 {added money, King Ranch's Ciencia, who defied the adage that fillies can't win in the $50,000 has received

Challedon, who chased Johnstown still is strongly he was

despite the way

beaten,

firm, was 2!'; to 1 favorite to win | a 12-round bout from Solly Krieger, | who is middleweight champion of | the world every place except here in his home town of New York. Jackie Conn, a growing young man and junior member of the firm, goes against middleweight

He is grumbling a bit about it be- | cause he thinks he ought to be in there whaling away at his big | brother in the main event. { No title is at stake in the Conn- | Krieger thing, but the customers] are likely to be packed all the way | up to the ceiling for this is the rubber match between Solly, the] slugger, and Billy, owner of the] flashiest left hand seen in this| hamlet since the horse cars stopped | running. Krieger nailed Conn on the head with a right in their first match and won the decision. Conn | came back in their second fight and stabbed Krieger out of the decision with that lean, clean left. Conn will come in around 169 pounds, which will give him seven | pounds advantage over Krieger. Those 169 pounds also will put him over the middleweight limit, and so Krieger cannot possible lose his title | las middleweight champion of the] National Boxing Association. Most of the interest in Billy Conn | centers around the chance that he| may put away enough steak and po-| tatoes to grow up into a heavy-| weight and meet Joe (Boo!) Louis. Whether he ever becomes a heavy-| weight or not, Conn is an Ridgeon

Callahan pa 562

Callahan led bowlers in the Alpha | League at Fountain Square drives last night with 562. He opened with | a brilliant 229 and then faded to 158 and 175 in his last two games. |

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