Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1939 — Page 14

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Places Left in

Drivers Bid Today for 17 n Speedway Lineup

TT ~ Petillo Is Expected | A To Turn in Best Time For Four-Lap Tests

Cars of Rex Mays and Floyd Roberts Still Are Being Si Repaired; Mechanicians Have Jitters; Sampson Special Lacks Pep.

By TOM OCHILTREE

About 15 cars, give or take a few one way or another, were scheduled to be given fast four-lap trips around the Speedway track this afternoon in attempts to qualify them for the Memorial Day 500-mile race. There is no way definitely to determine exactly how many will fun because race motors, like the old prerepeal home brew, sometimes go flat very suddenly and for no apparent reason. That is why the drivers were running so many practice laps this

morning and why their mechanicians were about as composed as Sa 3 i ; a ; the gentlemen you meet in the waiting rooms of maternity hospitals, 0 oa a ; sane A . A None of the cars, which will run teday are in the “early bird ” pry * gets the best breakfast” classification, since 16 machines already have been qualified for the race and there are now only 17 more starting positions available, It is small comfort for those on the outside to note that the slowest average speed made by any of the drivers who are already over the grade was 120.935 miles an hour, turned in by George Barringer in the Offenhauser-powered entry of Bill White. With several conspicuous exceptions, the newer and faster cars are among the 16 qualified. One of these exceptions is the Kay Jeweler's Special driven by Kelly Petillo, The talkative Petillo is expected fo turn in the fastest time today and may break Jimmy Snyder's four-lap qualification mark of 130.138 miles an hour and official one-lap record of 130.757 miles an hour, both of which were set Saturday. With the car Rex Mays is to drive and Flovd Roberts’ mount still being repaired, the chances are that the other qualifiers today will give Kelly little competition in the way of rubber burning, But to return to the discussion of flat motors, the 16-cylinder Sampson Comet Special is a good case in point. Bob Swanson, a fast, hard driver. had this entry out yesterday, but even when he was staying on the throttle through the turns the best he could get was 117!'s miles an hour, an ox-cart pace when compared with the way the other have heen running. Riley Brett, one of the great put-em-together men in the business, is the head mechanic for this car, and because its motor is known to (Continued on Page 15)

‘Blues Extend Lead in A. A.; Hutch Is Loser

This is the husky four-cylinder car entered by , expected to qualify today.

! Webb is shown above Walt Woestman, which Lou Webb, Knoxville, is sending the car through a turn.

Times Sports

WEDNESDAY, MAY

24, 1939

| PAGE 14 Hens Open On Marks at the Speedway Following is the list of the cars which reportedly are ready to maka

| Louis Tomei, Portland, Ore. Fhil Schafer Indiana Fur Special

J. Thorne, New Rochelle, N. Y. Joe Thorne, Inc. Unnamed Floyd Davis, Springfield, Ill. Ed Walsh Unnamed Logan Is Likely Starter on Hill for Ladies’ Night

Zeke Meyer, Philadelphia Harry Miller Miller Special Tony Willman, Milwaukee Frieda Burren Elgin Piston Pin Spl. Encounter.

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Shaw, winner of the 1937 teammates in the

1 the noise of the motors, 300-mile race, and Miller are Boyle organization,

Red Hot Reds Riding Neck-and-Neck With | Yanks in Homer Derby

Sophomore Frank McCormick Shows Way for Cincinnati Mates; Champs Pound Out Four Circuit Blows to Score Twelfth Straight Triumph.

No, Wilbur Shaw isn't trying te powder Chet Miller's cheeks even if it does look like that, They place the powder puffs over their ears to shut out

By Eddie Ash

” = n CITY IS A FRENZY

Emil Andres, Chicago Jimmy Snyder Unnamed T. Hinnershitz, Reading, Pa. Louis Kimmel Kimmel Special H. Banks, Royal Oaks, Mich, H. A, Cheeseman Unnamed Ira Hall, Terre Haute Magnee-Nowiak Greenfield Serv. Spl. Al Miller, Detroit Paul Weirick Kennedy Tank Spl. Louis Webb, Knoxville Walt Woestman Wstmn-McDowll Spl, | Bob Swanson, Los Angeles Sampson Mot, Inc. Sampson Comet Spl. Deacon Litz, DuBois, Pa. Deacon Litz Unnamed F. Wearne, Pasadena, Cal, Moore-Roberis Unnamed

GOLD MINE CONTINUES

Having defeated the Mud twice, and on the Flock's By United Press |grounds, the Indians see no The Kansas City Blues had Son why they can’t keep the thing

ete Aer American, Asie: esti to Miles Thomas’ mine Chapman Ousts Yates ® ® In English Links Play

They spotted the Minneapolis from the banks of the Maumee.

Hens home rea-

JERSEY BASEBALL

ERSEY CITY is a baseball madhouse and the fans rate their Sunday double-headers much in the way that horse followers worship the Kentucky Derby and auto speed fans “go” for the 500-mile race. It was a perfect setup for a sellout in Jersey last Sunday with the home team meeting rival Newark and the clubs tied for the International League lead. . . . Reserved seats were sold out well in advance of the bargain attraction. Candidates for the 12.000 bleacher seats arrived at davbreak, and two hours before game time the stands were loaded. . Emergency police worked overtime maintaining order as free-for-all fights broke out between

Millers six rung in the first inning| At any rate, the Redskins will last night, thereafter held them |SWing back into action at Perry Sta|scoreless and won, 10-6. John Ba- dium tonight and the Hens will |bich was the Kansas City pitcher Supply the opposition. It's Lefty (who faced the Millers in that first|Bob Logan's turn to pitch for the| HOYLAKE, England, May 24 (U., |frame. Tom Reis, who went to the home guard, |P) —Charlie Yates’ bid for a second mound in the fourth, allowed the! ‘Toledo Is scheduled here three consecutive victory in the British Syracuse gained the fourth round Millers only three hits in five in-/Dnighls and will be supplanted by| Amateur Golf Championship was|with a 3-and-2 victory over D. S. nings. the Columbus Red Birds on Satur- plasted today by a fellow American, Coates and Ellsworth Vines. the proFreddie Hutchinson, the expen- day. The Birds and Tribesters are pick Chapman of Greenwich, Conn. fessional tennis player, went into sive rookie farmed by Detroit to the to play a double-header Sunday. Chapman eliminated the Atlanta the third round with a 4-and-3 vicToledo Mud Hens, lost a pitching| It will be ladies’ night at the pank clerk with a 4 and 3 victory in tory over E. N. Ratcliffe. duel to Al Fisher of the Columbus ball park at the opener of the a third-round match. Vines, however, teed off again Red Birds last night, 3-2. Hutchin- Toledo series this evening. Action| Chapman, playing almost fautless against John Baillieu fo decide son allowed only seven hits to Fish- is scheduled to start 8:15 golf, had a 2-up lead over the 25-|which of them moves into the fourth er's eight, but an error by second o'clock. [year-old champion at the turn and round. baseman Ben McCoy cost Toledo! The Indians had an open date then increased it as they came in| Chapman immediately became the the game. vesterday and the athletes tried on the back nine. Yates’ putter, favorite to reach the 36-hole finald The Milwaukee Brewers beat the their hands at other sports just tolusually ene of his most reliable on Saturday from the lower section

Chapman was one of three Amer= icans to advance, Bill Holt Jr. of By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK. May 24 —“Might makes right’ has long been the slogan of the Yankees. And now the Cincinnati Reds come along with a home run punch to equal the Yanks on a comparative basis and the eves of all National League followers, downtrodden these many years. are beginning to twinkle again. | With 30 home runs in 29 games and a winning streak of eight straight, Cincinnati was the hottest thing in the majors todav-—barrineg. of course, the Yanks. Like the Yanks, evervhody on the Reds is a home run threat. But big Frank McCormick, the rookie sensation of 1938. is showing the way for his mates. He hit home No, 7 yesterday when the Reds rolled on to their eighth in a row.

the frenzied rooters from the two cities. It was announced the paid attendance was 29,742, which makes the Skeeter City a baseball gold mine.

Catcher Forgets to Look Up

classic baseball boner was pulled by Johnny Atwood, Jersey City A catcher. in that madeap twin bill. . . . Newark won the first tilt and the second was also close, putting the Jersey rooters in a daze. In the fifth inning Holmes of Newark sent up a high foul. an easy chance. . . . But Atwood didn't even look up. . . , He turned to the umpire and extended his hand for a new ball. . . . He had just grasped it when shrieks of the fans and his mates told him something was wrong. Atwood threw away the new ball and made a frantic but futile effort to catch the fouled one, which almost landed on his skull. . . . Jersey City finally pulled the game out and split the bill, otherwise Atwood probably would have taken it on the lam out of town.

As Hubbell Took the Long Walk

ARL HUBBELL'S three-inning performance last Sunday was his A first road appearance of the season and Pittsburgh fans gave him a great ovation as he walked to the showers after being knocked out of the box The veteran was taken out at the end of the third, but remained the Giants’ dugout until it came time to start New York's haif of the fifth before starting the long trek to the right field clubhouse Forbes Field . Evervbody in the park sensed the tragedy of King Carl's vanishing kill and even the Pirate bullpen players gave him a friendly wave ~ ~ n » ~ »

RCH now it looks as if Manager Harinett of the Cubs has solved his first base problem with Rip Russell. 23-year-old Los Angeles native . His given names are Glen David, and, more important, he stepped out last year and made more hits than anv other Pacific Coast League batter while at the same time fielding a fine game of first base. Rips 218 hits were 71 more than were made by the Coast League batting champion, Smead Jolle) . Rip hit 21 homers. too. and ranked third in run-driving with 114 He started his pro baseball career as Ponca City second baseman in 1835, then was promoted to Los Angeles, switching from the keystone to the first base job in 1937.

» » » » » ” Ever zince the Red Sox flew chartered planes some of the bovs make the entire circuit bv air

Baseball at a Glance

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from St. Louis to Chicago in three have been after Tom Yawkeyv to

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Brooklyn

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ih Bien hee 1 " 5 Chicage GAMES TODAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Toledo at Indianapolis, night, Columbus at Louisville. Milwankee at St. Paul Kansas City at Minneapolis.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

New York at Cincinnati, Philadelphia at Chicago. Brooklyn at Pittsburgh. Boston at St. Louis.

AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit at New York, Cleveland at Boston.

St. Lownit at Washington, Chicago at Philadelphia.

pez: Masi: Highe, Root and Mancuso. AMERICAN LEAGUE

Detroit . 100 Bostan . Ma Newsom and Tebbetts: Wade and Peacock

21% in 100 p0— 2 11

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Indianapolis and Louisville, open date,

Bronko Bests

Sexton on Mat

Former Football Star Wins On Straight Falls. | |

Some 1500 wrestling fans today were convinced that Bronko Nagur- | ski, heavyweight grappier and former professional football player, is still as tough in the ring as he was when he appeared here three years ago. They saw the International Falls, Minn, wrestler take two straight | falls from Frank Sexton, 236, Akron. | O., in the feature bout of last night's |outdoor show at Sports Arena. Using a body slam and press Bronko won the first fall after 26 iminutes. It took him but another six minutes to bring Sexton to the mat again with the same tactics. | With a double wrist lock and {body press, Joe Campbell, 206, St Paul. floored Abe Yourist, 220, California, in nine minutes. Warren | Bockwinkle, 218, St. Louis, employed 'a body press to defeat Joe Stecher,

225, Oklahoma. It took him 16 min-|

utes. Next week's mat program will be held on Monday night. Matchmaker !Llovd Carter announced.

‘Burrowes Breaks. Tigers’ 440 Mark

| PRINCETON, May 24 (NEA) — Ed Burrowes ran a :478 quarter{mile to break the Princeton mark lof :48.6, held jointly by H. H. | Derby, '32, and this year's captain, | Phil Goold. His time at the 220 was He finished 20 yards ahead of

» ye R 122.5.

Babich. Piechota. Reis and MeCullogh, the field. | anda Penn freshmen won the meet, Browns, 7-3, behind the effective | 7imes Special who! | blanked St. Louis in every frame College scored a 10':-71: golf victory

70-56. Burrowes set 'a Tiger record of

® 1.517 in the half two weeks ago.

Hutchinson and

8» . B00 320 Rx —i3 15 0 Melton, Castleman, W. Brown and O'Dea:

Mungo and Hayworth: Vandermeer and

Outspoken Boxing Commissioner Calls Disgrace to Ring Game

|bad sort if left alone by chiselers, !markable by the fact that his arm

Tony Galento a

n By HENRY McLEMORE

United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, May 24 —Putting

2 the sports shot here and there: Bill

| Brown, two-fisted, outspoken New

ener and Millies. york Boxing Commissioner, thinks

that Tony Galento, with his beer

3 drinking, cigar smoking, scorn of

1 o

er mR Ko BRT Wee

MacFavden. Pesedel. Lanning 2nd Le. !F2INING, and bombastic boasts, is a

(disgrace to the boxing game and it { will be much better off if Joe Louis

June 28. . . . “Galento.” Brown savs.

Rich. Dickman. is one of the few boxers I ever

knew who lowering

apparently works at the standards of a fine

and Pyttak: ticularly distressing to Brown, be-|

|cause he has always stoutly maintained that promoters and managers

«+ + It is {his theory that a fellow who keeps

| McCormick is knocking at the (door in all departments. He's tied {with Camilli, Ott and Mize for the home run lead, each with seven; {second in runs batted in, 26; second in runs scored with 40, fifth in batting with an average of .345. Four Yanks Bang 'Em Out With McCormick, Lombardi Goodman rattling off homers, the Reds are giving the Yanks some{thing to think about as far as their {circuit clout laurels are concerned. {The world champions have hit 29 (homers in 27 games, making four (vesterday to crawl ahead of Cincinnati on a percentage basis. { Henrich, Dickey, Rolfe and Gor{don all hit homers yesterday as the

| Yanks scored their 12th straight tri- |

fumph by bowling over Cleveland, {7-3. The victory gave the Yanks a {4'; game lead in the American {League over the Red Sox, who bowed [to Buck Newsom and the Tigers. The Reds still are chasing the St Louis Cardinals, who copped their fifth straight by tumbling Phillies, 6-1. The Reds’ triumph.saw Johnny Vander Meer score his third straight win with a seven-hitter over Brooklyn, 3-2. Vander Meer fanned Ernie Koy for the final out with the bases loaded, besting Van Mungo in a pitchers’ duel. Cubs on Spree | Bill McGee's five-hit featured the Cardinals’ triumph over the Phillies. The Cubs slugged out 14 hits to down the Bees. 15-8, {and Rip Sewell, aided by a 14-hit {attack, pitched Pittsburgh to a 13-4 | Win over the Giants A | Hank Greenberg hit homer No. 8 {to take the major league lead as the Tigers belted rookie Woody out of the box and beat the Red Sox, 7-2. Newsom. in winning his first game for the Tigers, allowed 11 hits but kept them scattered. { A two-run rally in the ninth enabled the White Sox to come from behind and beat Washington, 5-4.

| With the bases loaded sacrifices by!

| Bejma and Kuhel accounted for the two important runs. { The Athletics cut

down the

| pitching of Lynn Nelson,

except the eighth.

{fakers, and the like. Whinny Whimsy: Malicious, the 12-year-old thoroughbred retired to

green pastures at the close of the nearly as fast as he was last year. winter racing season at Santa Anita, | is “writing” letters inviting folk to! Wayne Sabin, chosen by the U. S. a horse show (at which he will ap- I. T. A. to accompany Bobby Riggs pear) next month. His stationery 0 the all-England tournament at bears his name and address and he Wimbledon? . | signs his name in a flowing hand. Know, just curious. knocks him quiet on the night of .

the | 'terweight

pitching |

Rich |

. « The idol of California racing !Wo-fight parlay? Okay, here it is— | fans when he was winning two-mile Lou Nova to stop Max Baer and |'S @

St. Paul Saints in a free-hitting be doing something.

‘weapons. deserted him all the wayv.lof the draw,

game, 9-6. The victory pulled the| Brewers into third place ahead of St. Paul and 2': games behind Minneapolis.

... Outdoor Ring

Card Filled

State Welterweight Title Go Tops Program.

The Hercules Athletic Club boxing program scheduled at the outdoor Sports Arena tomorrow night was completed with the signing of Claude Dixon and Duke Mathews. Indianapolis welterweights, to meet in one of the four four-round preJims. The feature of the show is a welbattle between Chuck Vickers, Indianapolis, and Tommy Pallatin, South Bend, for the Indiana championship in that division. Herb Brown, local lightweight, is paired with Billy Burke, Cincinnati, in the six-round semiwindup. Other bouts on the card: Norman Hughes, Chrisman, Ill. vs, James Shipley, Cincinnati, middleweights. Wesley Kemp. Indianapolis, vs. | Aaron Porter, Cincinnati, middleweights. Hard Rock Stone, vs. Fred Hammond, heavyweights.

College Baseball

Purdue, RB: Butler, 4, Wahash, 16: Franklin, 3. Ball State, 6: Indiana State, 3. Wisconsin, 6: Michigan. 2. Oklahoma, R: Missouri, 1. Western (Mich.) Teachers, 6; Northwest-

Indianapolis, Cincinnati,

~ Franklin Triumphs

FRANKLIN, May 24 —Franklin

(over Wabash here yesterday.

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races with great stretch runs, Mali- [ou Ambers to do the same thing cious revealed that he has received '0 Armstrong when they meet for ‘ I ( 75,000 fan letters and made a motion the 1 Sport.” . . . Galento’s antics are par- picture since retiring.

How much would you like to bet that Ernie Roderick, British cham|pion, won't grab his middle, wail

vas, claiming foul, before he fin-

lishes one round with Henry Arm-

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row night? , , . Charlie Ruffing's six

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