Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1939 — Page 28

| Tests Continue Today for ‘Classic of Speed and Courage’

» JOE WILLIAMS EN Special Writer NEW YORK, May 28 —In setting at least the Kentucky Derby and! the 500-mile automobile race are pretty much alike, two unique sportNg prints in identical mid-Victo-rian frames. The Derby is something everv American sports love: should see once. So is the 300-mil¢ race Perhaps not so much for the competition itself as for the bizarre atmosphere picture, which we believe to be peculiarly American Even when the “300” is furiously hip and tuck it is difficult for the average spectator to appreciate This is because the competitive tightness is reflected mainly in timing and tabular charts. It is visual and emotional only to the experts To the others the “300” is just a continuous blur of speed. To know who's leading you must ask the informed, or listen carefully to the amplifiers Thus you get vour thrill secondhanded, if thrill is the word. We never could tell for sure who was leading in a six-day bike race. We always have the same difficulty at the “500.” And we admit it verges on blasphemy to mention the two events in the same paragraph. One is a freak eircusy thing, the other a classic of speed and courage. It always seemed to us that 300.” like a stage drama, is plaved in three separate parts, the start the in-between period and the finish. The start gives vou a genuine emotional belt. Dozens of cars getting away in groups, picking up speed, jockeving for positions. This exhibition of mass speed and human daring is a frightening, nerve-tin-gling thing But after Your nerves quiet down. your eyes become accustomed to the picture it all becomes routine, and vou find vourself wandering the grounds, looking up old friends, vis= iting hamburger stands or buving a newspaper to find out how

the

an hour or so of this

around

ng out It's during this interval begin to realize how m is like the Derby It the same crowd had body from Dounisviile for the dav. The people look alike and act alike. There is the crowd in the reserved seats who take every phase the race seriousiv, and there is the crowd on the grounds who apparently don't know or don't care whether the race going on Under the tall ageiess trees

uch the “500 almost as if moved in a

to Indianapolis

thaded from the sun, with picnic lunches spread before them. They probably waited in line] in their flivvers all night to get into the sprawling grounds. It is hard to believe thev have the slightest interest in who may win the race They just want to be there. It will

the ball! games or the horse races are com- | |

that you

sit families be something to tell the neighbors) ter their eve lids

when thev get home. Along the dusty roads that criss-

cross the grounds stroll giggly cornfed maidens in bright summer-like muslins, and if a vounhg militiaman or a citv dude gives them "Hy, Toots,” they giggle some more, flut=|

Rex Mavs, blond California comet, was determined to get his car safely in the feld when he qualified it vesterdar and he averaged

126.413 miles an hour for the four pace for him,

laps—a comparatively conservative

By Eddie Ash

HARD FIGHT TO PICK A WINNER APOSTOLI SIZES UP

BAER, NOVA

IKE the 300-mile race, the

weight battle stacks up as a As one Californian discuss

a winner. of other Native Sons, Fred anything can, and probably fellows come together next Thursday night.

in the 15-rounder

Max Baer-Lou Nova heavytough contest to pick ing a couple Apostoli feels that almost will, havpen when the big at New York

Apostoli dropped in on one of Baer's workouts a few

days

was made I felt that Nova, and

if Baer would be able to get

ago and watched the now-reformed and domesticated Great Lover go through his paces. The middleweight Shame remarked: with his vouth, ambition, would have the decided edge.

“When the match boxing skill I doubted himself into condition after

the long lavoff. He changed my mind. “He has worked hard for this bout and doesn't tire

after a few rounds, as he used to. sound physical condition and if his legs stand up it's

to be a hard night for Nova.

“From the standpoint of a neutral observer, and admires them, Nova has the speed and the

Max and Lou, s fight.

knows both that this is anybody's

skill, while Baer has the experience

He is apparently in going

| William

5%s

demurely a bit and look back invitingly. It's a holiday, a carnival day and romance is in the air There are hawkers “Get the baby a balleen’ “Howza about a pennant for a souv enir?

‘Taxi, taxi back to town?” . And

everywhere

walk onjall the while there will be 20 or 30|few

young men out on the track roaring | through space in the greatest automobile race of all time. Sometimes this in-between period of ennui is dramatically broken. A car will skid or go crashing into the wall and a siren will sound. Only a

will have seen the crash but ‘everybody in the place will know what the siren means. It is the angry voice of tragedy, and somehow it sounds venomously horrible in this setting where families eat home-made cookies under the trees (Continued on Page 29)

The goal of all race drivers is to have this flag , the late Earl DeVore who was ‘drowned in a sea wave them te victory in the Indianapolis 500-mile | disaster, is taking a good look at this flag. Billy is

race, to be run next Tuesday,

Billy

DeVore, son of | a driver in this

vear's race,

imes Sports

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RIDAY, MAY 26, 1939

Bob Feller Holt Bows in Semifinals Title Goes Of British Amateur Play To Pallatin

Just Misses

denier

Cleveland Ace Sets Red Sox Down With Lone Hit.

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Mav 26 With Killing interest in n league pennant about Hing cont in the circuit is the st for premier pitching laurels. Even the Yanks horn in on this too with the great Charles Herbert (Red) Rufling but the people's choice Robert Andrew Feller, the 20-yeal old Towa farm boy who throws them for the Cleveland Indians Feller scored his seventh triumph in ET fashion yesterday narrowly missing the hall of fame with a one-hit, no-run game. Only Robby Doerr’s single in the second inning prevented Feller from get. ting a no-hitter as the Indians crushed the Red Sox. 11.0, and helped lengthen the Yanks’ lead to games. Ken Keitner hit three

the the

ankees off

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who say

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call it even-money-take-yvour-pick.”

‘Dream Series’ at St. Louis

N Reds vs

“dream Four

season baseball Cardinals

early aA

header

league and points It's a perfect wouldn't like to be there? The Reds are living up to their upset the dope St. Louis holds four tilts

setup

the edge, A dish fit »

in CI AIN and a muady pitcher, at his best

gong toward the Assissippi,

vent to breakfast in a row boat. John Lindell, Blues’ right Santa Anita race track during t dentally, Lindy the tallest

Blues in an exhibition tilt

Baseball a

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ashington at Bost {ladeliphia at New! Rath 0 a Eames Phetuien.

being scheduled for Sunday. Roth clubs are on winning streaks with the Cards leading the runnerup Reds by for frenzied pastiming, and who

. The rivals have met five times this season and three games tn two for anvbody. |

mound ought to find Tom Reis He has had a lot of experience with wet A couple of years ago when the Ohio River was rampaging Reis looked out ¢ morning to see the flood waters lapping at

handed « he off baseball plaver and Shortstop Phil Rizzuto 1s the shortest at 5-8 The World Champion Yankees at Kansas City on June 12

Louisville

Wagner,

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series” opens games in three dave

the percentage

| a slight !

margin in

pre-season rating, the Cards have |

. Two “hot” clubs

Kansas City

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ino defeats; | Yanks behind him

iNo. ¥ | Archie McKain, [buried in Kansas vesterday, | Yanks beat, {enth | booted a double-play fup a fouwr-run rally lieved by {only four

| ing the Bees. | Bowman combined to hold Boston i to six hits as the Cards won, and Phillies finally, snapped their long losing streaks. |

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Bob Whiffs 10

fanned 10 and walked five two Red Sox reached sec ond base. Bob walked two men in third inning and then in the filth two errors permitted another runner to get past first Ruffing's record is superior to Fel. jer's; he has seven victories and but Big Red has the

Feller amd only

Luck was with Ruffing as he won vesterday from Detroit, 5-2 whose father was had the 2-1, going into the sev. one out, Red Kress ball and set McKain, ree

With

hits Longest in 40 Years With Venezuelean Alex Alexandra

| pitching a three-hitter Washington

won from the Browns, 4-1. Cincinnati won its 10th straight— longest Reds’ winning streak since 1899 when a Cmcinnati team won 14 in a row—Dby dumping the Giants, 6-1. Cards Hold Slim Lead The Cardinals held

their slim

| National League lead, again beat

Bob Weiland and Bob

T-1. The Dodgers

Brooklyn, behind Forrest Pressnell’s’ seven-hit pitching, defeated Pitts 8-2, ending a string of six straight losses. Fred Sington led the Dodgers’ attack with four hits, a double and. three singles. The Phillies battered the Cubs, 8-7.

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HOYLAKE. England, May uU P) America’s last hope of winning the British Amateur Golf championship vanished today when Bill

{ Holt Jr Svracuse, N. Y. and 1. by

of was |

veteran Scotsman,

round All other Americans aiready had fallen bv the wayside and the British Empire was certain to regain the championship which Charlie Yates of Atlanta carried across the ocean last vear

Alex Kvle, ! in the semifinal

Tomorrow, over 38 holes, a plays Anthony Duncan, a Welshman who gained the finals with a J-and-2 victory over Charlie Stowe Duncan eliminated Dick Chapman jof Greenwich, Conn, 5 and 3. morning. Chapman beat Yates in the third round earlier in the week. { Holt gained the semifinals this morning with a sparkling 3-and-2 vietory over 17-vear-old Kenneth Thom. But this afternoon his luck ran out and he was defeated after leading at the end of the first nine,

‘one up.

Qualifying Lap Times

These three drivers gamed positions in the seventh row by virtue their successful qualifying at-

tempts vesterday

REX MAYS Lap Time 1:10.2% 1:10 22 1:11.33 1:12.56 Total Time—4:44.78. Average M. P. H.-126.413.

M.P.H. 128.0%% 128.169 125.471 124.033

Thornes entry

JOE Thorne entry

THORNE 1:14.51 1:13.64 1:13.40 1:13 25 Total Time—4:54.80, Average M. P. H.<122.11%.

EMIL ANDRES

Chicago Flash 1:14.33 Special 1:14.13

4 4

120,789 122.218 122.616 122.867

121.082 . 121.408 121.179 121.179 Total Time—4:37.00, Average M PF. H.-121.212.

‘Blue Faces Big Green

Shortridge's tennis team was meet Tech this afternoon on club Courts In vious contest Tech won, 7-0,

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Silent Rattan and Thom Will Clash

Silent Rattan, popular local light heavyweight, who has been campaigning in Ohio and Michigan, has

landed a bout with Coach Billy

| Thom of Bloomington for the main- | grappling pro-|

{g0 on the outdoor gram of the Hercules A. C. next Monday night at Sports Arena. Semi-windup action will be between Warren Bockwinkle, 218, St.! Louis, and Henry Piers, 225. Holland. Both have been consistent | winners The Rattan-Thom together two of

tussle brings the best light |

heavies in the game. Thom turned |

in a victory at the expense of The Great Mephisto two weeks ago. while Rattan has been flooring some

front line performers since last ap-|

pearing here. Ordinarily the weekly mat bills are staged on Tuesday night, but {the show next week is being moved up because of Memorial Day.

Vickers Loses on Decision to South Bend Fighter.

this |

Tommy Pallatin of South Bend today was the new state weight champion. He won the title

by outpointing Chuck Vickers of In-|

dianapolis in last night's feature) fight at Sports Arena It was during the final six rounds that Paliatin scored enough points to give him the victerv., A hand mjury in the fourth round slowed { Vickers after he had given the |South Bend fighter plenty of early | opposition. The six-round windup Herb Brown of Indianapolis { Billv Burke of Cincinnati went to Burke on a decision after he had downed Brown in the first round. Results of the four-round pre-|

between |

liminaries: Claude Dixon of Indian-|

apolis outpointed Duke Matthews of Indianapolis: Indianapolis scored a third-round | knockout over Henry Mitchell (Cincinnati; anapolis defeated Gib Jones of | Richmond, Va., and Norman Hughes | of Chrisman, Ill, decisioned James | Shipley of Ci of Cincinnati.

‘Culver Crew Host To Wisconsin Frosh

Times Special CULVER, May 26.-—Culver Mili- | tary Academy's varsity crew will {meet the University of Wiscon-| sin freshmen in their annual ace here tomorrow. Culver (holds victories over Aurora and | Lane Tec!

| He decided to put a new

welter- |

and |

| track

Hard Rock Stone of |

of | Wesley Kemp of Indi-|

| already |

Motors of

Rex Mays, Joe Thorne and Lineup; Zeke Meyer 100-Mile-an-

Their | monosyllables, but | qualify for next Tuesday's { care on the motors of these entries. They still have this afternoon

Mechanicians Nurse

Cars Still

To Qualify for ‘500’

Emil Andres Win Places in Elected President of Hour Club.

By TOM OCHILTREE

language may consist now of a few hardy the mechanicians on teams

old Anglo-Saxon which still have cars to

300-mile race today were lavishing a mother's

tomorrow and Sunday to qualify

| these cars, but the three that ran fast enough yesterday to get safely into

| the field reduced to 12 the number of But the race 1s

for the 33 fastest cars,

vacant starting positions.

and if some of these tardy

| qualifiers can show faster time than those which already have made four-lap test runs, the slower machines, already listed as qualifiers, will

be bumped out of the field

All well and good, but it isn't doing anything for the tempers of crews | with cars still on the outside to note that no one yet has qualified at a speed of less than 120 miles an hour.

| The low car and the one Nhish | will be the first to be bumped off, 1 | case there is any bumping going ny | is Bill White's Offenhauser powered | entry which George Barringer qual-| ified last Saturday at an everage| speed of 120.935 miles an hour { There are more than 12 entries | seeking positions in the race, but] | whether there are more than 12 that | can run better than Barringer's tune lis extremely doubtful, and this explains the robust language. | Included in this grease-stained, harried group is Floyd Roberts, winner of last vear's race, and his partner, Lou Moore, a retired driving star who has entered the car the national champion is to pilot this time. Both of these men are members of the Champion 100 Mile-An-Houl Club, but they were too busy to attend the organization's banquet at the Indianapolis Athletic Club last night. Several davs ago Roberts broke a crank case in this car and a new one was flown here from the West Coast. If thev can get the engine back together in time, Roberts may | make a qualification attempt some- | time between 1 and 7 p. m. today. ” on ”n The scoffers who laughed when | Merril (Doc) Williams, the Frank- | fin red hot, sat down and decided | | |

to be a speed king, are as subdued as a group of baby chickens in the rain. Williams has tried for the last | few years to get some place in the race here, but usually the | animated waste baskets he had to drive failed him at the critical moment.

job together and with the help of Frankcollected enough

[lin friends he He then hit

money to get started. | upon the idea of selling a. picture] of himself in racing togs posed beside his car as a means of raising the additional money needed Now even if you would see Williams in a dim light, you would recognize that he had little in common with Robert Tavlor, so this picture buying proposition was sort of | donation from other race drivers and mechanics, newspapermen and | track officials. Imagine the surprise yesterday then when Williams brought his | Quillen Refrigerator Special, a beautifully formed car, out to the and sent it on a few warmup laps. It is one of the prettiest cars at the track and if it has enough scamper, Williams' mental picture of himself as a tired, vice torious speed king grandly acknowledging the cheers of the crowd, may become an actuality. = ” 5 In addition to Roberts and Williams, other drivers who may at-|] tempt to qualify tomorrow after-| noon are Bob Swanson in the Samp- | son Comet Special, Lou Webb in the { Woestman-McDowell Special, Kelly Petillo in the Kay Jewelers’ Special] and Harry MacQuinn in the Mar-| chese Special. | Lengthy fuel tests have been run) {on the Sampson Comet, the only car | in the race powered by a 16-cylinder engine,

” n ” The 92-degree temperature kept | the boys off the track until sun- | down yesterday, but three success-

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ful qualifications were made at twilight. Playing safe to make sure of a starting position, Rex Mays, the blond California comet, qualified at a speed of 126.413 miles an hour, while his best lap, his second one, was clocked at 128.169 miles an hour. Rex already had one unsuccessful chalked against leak forced him to Several new parts

him ready for his second trial, and he was making sure that he wouldn't get another mechanical failure. The car he qualified is one of the new alcohol-burning sixes in the Joe team and is identical with the ene in which Jimmy Snyder set a new lap record of 130.757 miles an hour and a new four-lap qualifying mark of 130.138 miles an hour in

jwinning the pole position Saturday,

It took Joe Thorne a long time to convince the rest of the boys that he wasn't just a wealthy dilettante who raced cars just to escape boree dom He scotched most of that idea last vear when he finished a car, and he further buried it when he qualified car yesterday at an average

{speed of 122.117 miles an hour.

Art Sparks, who designs the cars in Thorne's team, was very proud of him and so were all the rest of the people there. His first lap was at 120.789 miles an hour, but he got progressively faster until on his last trip arovmd the two-and-a-half mile oval he did 122.867 miles an hour, Third qualifier vesterday Emil Andres, who brought the Chicago Flash Special, a car owned by Jimmy Snyder, home at an average of 121.212 miles an hour. Snyder, the pole position holde: in a Thorne-entered car, cheered Andres on every lap around and géte ting the checkered flag, Jimmy wags dancing on his toes and shaking (€C Continued on Page 29)

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