Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1939 — Page 28
FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1939
Urges State Cut Be Low In Mutuels
Williams Believes New York Would Benefit From Machine Betting.
By JOE WILLIAMS
Times Special Writer NEW YORK, May 19.—It's up to the voters now. They must say
Sacred Heart Nabs Casey Sliding In
whether they want the machine bet-
ting at New York race tracks. are almost certain to say they do. Whether they are interested in horses or not isn't important; they certainly are interested in lightening their tax burdens and the machines promise to do that Just to what extent the State will profit in revenue 1s speculative Some venture $10,000,000, others think $5.000.000 will be closer to it. In anv event, evervbody agrees the sum will be considerable. We don't see how the voters can fail to support the machines. They
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Large Field # Ready for 8 Open Trials
1172 Golfers to Vie Monday
For 141 Places in Links
Title Chase.
NEW YORK, May 18 'U. The fourth largest field in the history of the National Open Golf Championship will attempt to qualifv in 32 sectional rounds Monday the championship matches at the Philadelphia Country Club, June 8 9 and 10, the U. 8. G. A. announced today. There were 1201 entrants and 1172
in an attempt to win one of the 141
t available places in the field of 170
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© Montague of : started a comeback. The
| Twenty-nine,
including the 1937-38 titleholder, Ralph Guldahl, were exempted. Among was John who has “mystery man of golf’ will try to win one of the 12 available places at Chicago where the entrants total 112.
the entrants Hollywood,
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Up and Over for Manual
Field Balanced in Big Six Meet
AMES, Iowa, May 19 (U. P) =~ Almost any one of the member schools may win the annual Big Six Conference track and field meet which opens todav with qualifying trials. The six teams are that even= ly matched Preliminaries were scheduled day in nine evenis—the shot put, discus, javelin, broad jump, high (hurdles, 100-yard, 220-vard, 440-vard dashes and the 880-vard run. Finals in all events will be run tomorrow, New record possibilities are limited | to field events [ The field of 170 contestants was [considered one of the best in cone | ference history
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Although the 30 low E1038 were exempt, four did not enter and three of these places were given . to Ed Dudley, home pro at the PhilTimes Pho adelphia C. C.. and two foreigners, game in Sacred Heart's favor, 4 to 3. Faust came in Norman Von Nida and Eric Cremin from third to assist in the play. Fhe victory clinched of Australia the title for Sacred Heart in the western division of Other exempted plavers were Dick the league. John Wertz slammed a homer with the | \jeiz Harry Cooper, Toney Penna VanStan put the ball an him for an out, ending the | bases loaded in the second inning. Biron Nelson. Frank Moore. Henrt
College Tennis Speed of 130 Expected |." Ni Champ Upset In Tomorrow's Trials
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| Hunter, Olin Dutra, Jug McSpaden, Johnny Revolta, Jim Foulis, Horton Lindsay of DePauw Beaten By Notre Dame Player.
Warren Galley, Manual high jumper, a point getter in the sectional meet at Southport last week, is going after more important honors in the state high school track and field carnival at Tech Field tomorrow. Ur high and over, Galley says as he tops the har.
serve to legalize a business—a tremendously big business, too—which has been tax free for generations. If the machines aren't voted in the business will continue as in the past/| with vast daily turnovers and no revenue for the State, Obviousiy this doesn't make sense in a practical age What Will State Take? Let's assume the machines wii] be voted in at” the next election, and even the bookmakers, natural and logical oppositionists, concede as much. What form is the Gambling Act going to take? How much shall the State be permitted to take out of the kitty? Likewise the tracks? This is an important consideration We suppose you know in a general wav how the machines operate with respect to the distribution of money. Out of each dollar bet a specified amount is split between State and track. This amount can be anything the lawmakers happen to agree on
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the correct position at the top of the swing with improper gripping. A fault in the grip results in re-| leasing the club to complete the backswing, or in serious strain at [this point The advantage of the overlapping [grip is reduced gripping space, The hands are closer together.
Joe Casey (obscured by dust) attempted to steal home for St. John's against Sacred Heart in a C, Y. O. Parochial League softhall game at Garfield Park vesterday. He made a dive for it but Catcher
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Smith, Charles Lacey, Tommy Armour, Al Huske, John Rogers, Joe { Belfore, Alvin Kreuger and Ra) | Mangruti The four who passed up It would be impossible to attain (Continued from Page 28) the free tickets into the champion- : great clubhead speed if the hands = pi — eee ———— | ship Were Emery Zimmerman, Al \ ’ were two or three inches apart. plenty, the firemen squirted chem- | o\\0rman, Charles Sheppard and With the overlapping grip conicals all over the car and Mays, | Stanley Kertes. trol of the club is retained throughand the handsome Rex looked like As usual the heaviest firing will out the swing a gent who had just combed his | ye ace in the “home” district at NEXT:
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of 268 cubic inches while the othe: mount has four cylinders and 233 cubic inch piston displacement If he cares to extend his car, Lou Mever, only three-time winner of the race, can take a front row position, since his auto is rated as fast enough. Mever has turned laps in practice at between 127 and 128
{mes Special The straight left arm,
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The fire was quickly brought un- pjarston, Joe Kirkwood, Jimmy der control, and the other owners Thomson and Leo Diegel, will be
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Paradoxically, m vate is high, the low and racing unsatisfactory This is politics play too big a part setup and the sport is poorly regulated The such cases has been that (1) the take was veduced or (2) the sport perished
Should Be Improved
revenue return Is conditions are because in the
story of
racing in New York State high class Nothing should be to weaken its position. If it can be improved all the better. The tracks deserve a fair return. After all, it takes big money to operate a first class track. and while vou or vour neighbor mav not care about horse racing. a great number of other people do The greatest
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authority on racing in this country on the machine betting scale is Col Matt Winn, the Kentucky Derby man He mtroduced the machines i this country. Speaking as a neutral. he thinks the tracks should be permitted to keep 6 cents out of every dollar bet. and the State 3 cents, a total of 9 th that kind of a setup,” the colonel told us some davs ago. 'nobody would get hurt and evervboay would prosper This would be a comparatively small take both for the State and track but the volume of betting makes such an arrangement advisable.”
Keeps Figures Low
we reported prea too elaborate
The colonel, as viously. discouraged estimate of revenue ‘The State won't get anvthing like 10 million dollars.” he said. “for the simple reason there isn't that much money in racing. As a matter of fact, estimates of the amount of money bet on horse racing in this country 18 greatly exaggerated. For the most part the bets are of small dimensions, and that's as it should be The Colonel pointed out that the backbone of the tacks is the small bettor, the two-dollar bettor “You hear it said that this 1s bad that people who can't afford to bet shouldn't be encouraged to bet, and I agree with that. There are some people who bet who can't afford it But how can vou stop them? They'll find a wav if it's in their blood. “The small bettor is not always the poor fellow. Not bv a long shot. More often than not he is the fellow who gets a Kick out of backing his judgment. he likes to have a small bet down on a race.” Opponents of machine have a stock argument; they contend that sooner or later the machines will bankrupt any communitv. All we know about that is this Kentucky, Marviand. Louisiana and other states that have had machines for vears are still in action We don't profess to know what may happen mn some of the other cities 1 this state. when and if the machines come, but we can't see where they can possibly hurt the big town Pro-Amateur Play A pro-amateur tournament is to be held at Pleasant Run Golf Course Sunday, Tommy Vaughn, pro, anrounced today All golfers in tie City are invited to participate. The event is to start at 1 p. m. Vaughn said that low handicap amateur players will be designated as pros in some of the foursomes
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Wins Lions Tourney
The Lions Club's weekly blind par golf tournament yesterday at the Pleasant Run Course was won bv, Ross Quackenbush. He shot a gross of 81. O. C. Mosman Jr. took low gross honors with an 81 Tard
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Irish Win on Links limes Npecial NOTRE DAME, Mav 19.-—Notre Dame's golf team downed Detroit, 141; to 915, In a dual meet here yesterdayv.
Purdue | Netmen Bow Fimes Special ANN ARBOR. Mich. May Michigan University's tennis defeated Purdue, 6 to 1 here yesterday.
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‘York in his prize vears. [1937
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singles champion already eliminated DePauw's Ed Lindsay, 1938 titleholder, bowed out in the third round of play vesterday to Johnny Jovee of Notre Dame, 8-6. 1-6, 6-0. The Irish courtman, who has seen little action this season because of an injured hand, used a series of accurate backhand drives te down Lindsay. The other favorite, Bill Fay of Notre Dame, who was runnerup last vear. coasted through the first three rounds and now is favored to clash with Jovee in the finals The quarterfinal pairings: Joyce «Notre Dame) vs. Churchill (Indiana State), Mans (Earlham) vs. Gregory (Notre Dame), Kindon (Indiana) vs. Barnard (Earlham) Maple (Ball State) vs. Fay (Notre Dame). Today's quarterfinal pairings in the doubles: Fayv-Walsh (Notre Dame vs. winner of AlspaughEicher (Tavlor) = Churchill-Kigin (Indiana State) match; MarchHanna (DePauw) vs. Havnie-King-don (Indiana) Gregory-Simon Notre Dame) vs. Wahl-Elliott (Wabash). Heavens-Maple (Rall State) vs. Lindsav-Souder (DePauw) The finals are scheduled for morrow
Terry Smiles Over Ex-Cubs
Giant Fans Are Pleased With Jurges and Demaree.
By STEVE SNIDER United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Mav 19.-—-Col. Bill Terry, in the role of the city slicke: came to town todav all smiles aver his winter deal which landed silent Bill Jurges and Frank Demaree on the roster of the New York Giants It takes a lot to make Terry smile with his ball club going no place in particular but he has his reasons. Manhattan 1s wild about Jurges Even in the choicest jeering sections of the Polo Grounds thry're calling him the greatest defensive shortstop ever to wear the Giants’ in-
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signia. Those brilliant fielding plays:
the Chicago Cubs began to take for grantcd after seven vears caught their fancy from the star.
They Go for Demaree
slow starter, but friends. Handia training camp injury, the stocky rightfielder was offstride for two weeks before he hit 1t and began to hammer the ball as he did everv vear but his last one with the Cubs Today's game will be the first in which the home folks have seen either one in anvthing but a Cub uniform. It may not be a pleasant sight, for the three obtained from the Giants for Jurges. Demaree and
Demaree was a he, 100, is winning capped by
troubles getting started Compared at bat: Glants—Demaree. rf $8, 300; O'Dea, ¢, .333 Cubs—Hank Leiber, cf Bartell, ss, 222: Gus 143
323; Jurges 298; Dick Mancuso, ¢,
Bartell Is Erratic
Aside from hit production, Terry has further grounds for elation over the fact that Bartell so far has been as erratic afield as at the plate. Bartell was included in the winter deal at the Cubs’ insistence, to the apparent surprise of the Giants. Then, confined to his bed by an ankle injury before the season opened, the field little shortstop missed much of the training routine and still hasn't reached peak fielding form Dick probably will make it in time. but some of his current actions have amazed Cub fans who recalled his great shortstopping feats with New 1836 and
It may be a different story the next time the Giants roll to town But "Sweet Wilyum™ Terry wins the first round by a mile
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miles an hour, but he declared he had no particular desire to get the inside starting spot in the front row Roberts himself, who won last vear's race in the record time of 117.2 miles an hour, will be among
the faster and earlier qualifiers,
and while he is not of the flashy type, he has a steamdiness in the turns, a characteristic also of Shaw and Meyer, which stamps him as an expert. Mystery car in the qualification trials is the 16-cviinder racer which Riley Britt has built up for Alden Sampson and which Bob Swanson is to drive. This job contains part of the motor used bv the late Frank Lockhart in an ill-fated attempt to establish a world straightaway speed record. The car arrived at the track within the last few days but is said to be ready for its test Most of those cars among the 26 which do not attempt to qualify tomorrow will run against time for their starting positions in the field between 1 and 7 p. m. Sunday. Starting field for the race is 33 cars, and the qualification will sift out this number from the entry list of 48 Those that don't try this week-end will be allowed to qualify at later dates. Commenting on the speed the boys have shown in practice, William (Shorty) Cantion. a veteran driver who is entered again this year, said “A man can come out here now and turn a lap at 128 miles an how and not even excite anvbodyv. I guess {0 get the boys over at Tom Bealls lunch stand to look up. you would have to come down the straightsideways.”
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All drivers and relief drivers were given physical examinations today by Dr. E. Rogers Smith. Their vision, heart, blood pressure and general condition of health was checked. This is done as a safely precaution for the individual himself and for the other drivers on the track.
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The practice session yesterday the busiest one thus far, was marked by numerous minor freak mishaps which could have developed into tragedies, One of the new sixes in the Thorne team, which Rex Mays is to | drive, caught fire in the gerage | where it was parked with its motor joff. Mechanicians were washing parts of the engine with gasoline when the fuel became ighited by heat generated by an electric heater used by the team to warm up oil
In the excitement, and there was |
with high priced buggies in neighboring garages breathed easier, The car wasn't damaged and Rex Mays took it out a little later and ran a lap at 129 miles an hour.
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Coming out of the south turn, Frank McGurk, Los Angeles, driving Bill White's four-cylinder Offenhauser the car for a moment skidded 130 feet before he righted it. Neither he nor the car, which is expected to be piloted by Billy DeVore, St. John, Kas, were any the worse for the experience.
Because he had cut
gere, Hollywood stunt man, probably was saved from a bad skid. Somewhere in the south turn he tore the tread off his right front tire, but he already had slowed down The car he was driving, the Lewis Welch entry, is a four-cyl-inder front drive. It was taken to Michigan after it had run here several davs age, and it has shown a lot more power upon its return to the track. Bergere said he was keeping his foot on it most of the wav around, a sign that it still hasn't the straightaway speed of some of the rest of the cars in the field. While turning a lap at 129.70 miles an hour in the new Maserati in the Bovie team. Shaw was hit in the face by a June bug. It startled him and made a small mark on his upper lip ” N » Once around the track. . . . H. (Snappy) Ford and B. I. Smith, Indianapolis electrical engineer, have installed the timing device for the qualification runs. George Robson, Huntington Park, Cal. started his driving tests in the W. A Rotary Valve Special, but after he had turned 10 laps at 80 and 10 at 90 miles an hour he had te quit because the car had sprung an oil leak... . They have painted an Irish shamrock and a clay pipe on the three entries of Mike Boyle, Chicago. . . . When Mauri Rose drives the Wheeler Special, entered by Wilbur Shaw, he sits down in the driver's seat so far you can hardly see his head. . . , Shaw has gotten himself a little toy race car like the one Lou Meyer has been running on a string. . . . The Ed Walsh entry, a four-cylinder rear drive, is to be raced under the name of “Kennedy Tank Special” . , . Floyd Davis, Springfield, Il. is the driver. . The boys whe still haven't landed driving jobs are beginning (0 wonder about passage money home May 31.
Pastor and Toles Mix This Evening
) —-BOb Roscoe in a the winner Heavyweight
DETROIT. May 19 (U.P of New York and
10-round battle with promised a shot at Champion Joe Louis
Pastor, second ranking challenger on the Nathional Boxing Association's list, will be giving away height and reach when he
est in the bout with a view toward possible hometown title here by Louis. Pastor, who survived 10 with Joe Louis two years ago, must win to stay ahead of Lou Nova, No. 3 challenger, fighting Max Baer June 1, if he hopes to fall heir to the top rating when and if Tony Galento vacates it. Toles, on the other hand, is currently rated eighth, but a knockout over Pastor would move him far [enough up the ladder so that he could demand a shot at Louis.
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Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Mav 198 -—Indiana University's baseball team closes its Big Ten season here this weekend in a two-game series against Ohio State. The first was (0 be played this afternoon with the second scheduled for tomorrow. Dale Gentil, Don Hundle, Carel Cox and Seward Wilshere were expected to share the pitching duties
for the Hoosiers during the Stand. '
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gunning for 19 places is the metropolitan New York area where 119 will try for 168 places These include Willie Klein, Willie Turnesa, national amateur champion; Jesse Sweeiser, Johnny Farrell. Craig Wood, Mangrum and Leo Mallory Thirteen former open winners are entered, Guldahl, Olin Dutra, Sarazen and Armour being exempt,
Irish Fans to See Bargain Progra
NOTRE DAME, Mav 19 -—<A bargain bill will be offered Notre Dame fans tomorrow with the Irish baseball and track teams in action on the same program Michigan will oppose the under= dog Notre Dame nine while Marquette’s track team will clash with Coach John Nicholson's squad Michigan won a 9-1 decision in an earlier meeting with the Irish. Notre Dame's track team has won its three previous stars from Marquette,
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