Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1940 — Page 10

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SPORTS...

By Eddie Ash

CHET MILLER, a veteran of the Roaring Road and one of the most popular of the 500-mile dare devils, declares that, despite the dangers of the sport, automobile racing is one of the cleanest competitively. Chatting with railbirds at the five-century track yesterday, Miller aired his 500-mile views in this manner:

“I have finished in the money in the Speedway classic and I have wrecked here, and the bad breaks come with the good. The work we're doing out here, and the kick we derive from it, makes the risk seem negligibe, to a certain extent. “Fortunately, a bad accident doesn't happen very often, but when it does everyone talks about it. Why, when I went over the wall in 1034, I hardly got my name in the papers. At 90 miles, someone Just ahead had kicked out a rod and left a streak of oil on the track. “I hit {t and spun up on the ramp. The outside wall in those days served as a catapult—that's corrected now. Anyway, ag I took off I nudged my mechanic to get down in the cellar. ‘We're going over,’ I yelled. And we did, going about 20 yards through the air and landing on the other side of the wall.

Drives Back to Garages to Report “BUT THE strangest thing was this—the car landed on all four wheels, We were just a bit shaken up and I kicked the motor over and drove around the back to the garages. When I got there, a couple of fellows asked: ‘Where've you been, Chet?’ I said: ‘Just went over the wall; and they wouldn't believe me. “So I went out to the pits and watched the race continue and saw the late Wild Bill Cummings nose out Mauri Rose for first place in a thrill-packed finish.” 8 » » AS MID-MAY approaches activity at the 500-mile oval presents the same feverish picture as usual and every day the crowd of railbirds increases in number and in curiosity. Rain ruined track practice yesterday afternoon, but work in the garages went on as mechanics and pilots delved into the intricate mechanism of the race chariots to correct flaws, replace parts and smooth out the “babies” or tune-up runs prior to the qualifications when Hoosier sport goers really become speed conscious.

Dizzv 30 Seconds In Ciney Game BIG LEAGUE ball isn't always what it's cracked up to be. . . . The majors, like the minors, have their balloon ascensions. . . . In the seventh inning at Cincinnati Sunday, Mike McCormick singled, Eddie Joost fanned and Bucky Walters forced Mike. . Walters stole second, and this upset Hal Schumacher, Giants’ pitcher, so much he walked Billy Werber even though he once had Werber two strikes and no balls. JUNIE FREY next grounded to Mickey Witek and the inning appeared ended. . . . Babe Young, Giants’ first baseman, took Witek's throw on Frey, juggled and muffed the ball. . . . Billy Jurges, playing short, saw Umpire Pinelli first motion that Frey was out and at this signal threw his glove back of the shortfield position. . . . Things then happened so swiftly that Jurges made a play barehanded.

AS YOUNG scrambled after the ball Walters tore toward home from second, sliding in under Catcher Danning as the latter caught Young's throw. . , . Danning then saw Frey nearing second and threw toward that bag, where Jurges took the throw barehanded and fired the ball back to the plate. Danning tagged Werber before Bill reached the plate, but as he tagged him the ball popped out of his glove and Werber was safe. Frey, meanwhile, hadn't stopped running, so Danning, recovering the ball, tried to head him off at third. . . His throw was wide and seemed headed for left field, when the ball struck Umpire Larry Goetz and scooted toward second base. . . . Burgess Whitehead, playthird, recovered the ball, threw it back to Danning, and Frey was out at home by a narrow margin. It provided a dizzy 30 seconds for umpires, players and crowd . . . and Shortstop Jurges resolved never to throw his glove away until after a second look. » s »

THE ATHLETICS have been drawing better than any club in the big leagues, day in and day out, according to the sharps who deal in major loop statistics. However, the other teams have seen large individual crowds at widely spaced intervals. Connie Mack's boys also outdrew all other major clubs in the exhibition season—or maybe it was Connie Mack himself plus Golden Boy Bennie McCoy, who pulled them in during the training season.

As Far as Baltimore Cares,

The Derby Never Was

By JACK GUENTHER United Press Racing Editor BALTIMORE, Md, May 7.—It may be a bit difficult to believe— considering the usual effectiveness of the press, the radio and the telephone—but apparently the news of what happened in Kentucky on Saturday still hasn't reached Maryland. For here, on the rim of Chesapeake Bay, Bimelech is regarded as the horse to beat in the Preakness, The publie thinks so. The trainers think so.

Those who are practically certain

The jockeys think so. And—bewildered, baffled boys— the handicappers think so, too. So far as Baltimore is concerned, the Derby never was run, Bimelech never was whipped, and Gallahadfon is simply somebody whose strength is the strength of 10 because his heart is pure. That was obvious at Pimlico, where both horses arrived to renew their rivalry in the second of the turf’s three big races. Bimelech was greeted with cheers—the Milky Way colt with the quiet tolerance usually accorded an obscure relative. The only visable evidence that there has been any change in the 3.year-old division was to be found on the track early in the morning. There almost every colt with a tail and a mane went to work as optimistic owners proceeded on the theory that what happened once

of going in the mile and 3-16th feature are Galiahadion, Bimelech, Dit,

Pictor, Mioland, Roy al Man, Straight Lead, Woof Woof, Your Chance, Sun Pharos, Merry Knight, Asp, and Snow Ridge. The W. L. Ranch even shipped the two irrepressible Californians, Gallant Dream and Sky Dog. Your Chance, Sun Pharos, Merry Knight, Asp and Snow Ridge, met today in the $2500 Survivor purse —a mile and 1-16th race patterned along lines of the Derby trial—for a final test of their fitness. Your Chance, a G. D. Widener colt wellliked as a dark-horse, was the slight favorite although he was starting for the first time this season. , But despite the general scramble among the owners, the sentiment was all for Bimelech. Instead of admitting he had been beaten on

could happen again. So instead of merit, the public talked instead of the six-horse field and the crowd a bad track, a bad ride, bad condi-

of 25.000 originally expected for the | state's biggest turf party, Pimlico |

officials prepared for as many as 15 starters and 50,000 customers.

tion and bad racing luck. The Bradley handlers said nothing, but regarded the hot sun and fast Pimlico strip favorably.

Baseball at a Glance

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They've Lost Fighting Edge, Says Kirksey

But You Can't Count Them Out Yet

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, May 7.—To state the case plainly, the Yankees definitely aren't what they used to be. Overnight, a fighter, a ball club or a race horse can go sour. The Yanks have lost that keen fighting edge, that extra something that made them champions. And with it went their psychological edge over the other American

League ball clubs.

The Yanks are too good a ball club to be counted out of the 1940 pennant race for keeps at this early date but they are going to face a harrowing fight to battle their way back up the ladder. Today finds them in sixth place, only one game out of the cellar and 4! games behind the league-leading Red Sox. And what's more important they face their toughtest opposition during the next six days. They have one more game with the Tigers, two

Red Sox. Yanks Bow to Tigers

The Yanks lost their third straight yesterday, bowing to the Tigers, 6-4. The champs had this game won, 4-1, going into the eighth with Red Ruffing, their ace, breezing along. They were 20-1 shots to win behind Ruffing but Tiger power blew Ruffing's triumph into the ash can. Hank Greenberg homered, Higgins doubled, pinch-hitter Billy Sullivan homered and the score was tied. Then the Tigers went en to win off Johnny Murphy and Lee Grissom in the ninth on two walks and Hank Greenberg's second double, Southpaws continued to plague the Yanks. Tom Seats, a veteran rookie from the Pacific Coast League, relieved Tommy Bridges and stopped the Yanks cold in the last three innings. He was the seventh left hander to beat the Yanks. In the ninth he slammed a third strike past one-time Bad Bill Dickey, who looked at it with his bat on his shoulder. Verily, times have changed when a rookie can slam a third strike past Dickey. Look at the southpaws who've been making the Yanks eat crow— Chubby Dean (twice), Emil Bildilli, Ken Chase, Archie McKain, Thomton Lee and Tom Seats. Not exactly the elite of the American League.

Yanks Have G. W.—Di Mag

For further proof of the Yanks’ impotency, look at how they made their four runs yesterday. The first run was forced in on a walk, the second tallied on an outfield fly, the third on a single and the fourth on an outfield fly. Yankee power has G. W. T. W. or maybe Joe DiMaggio, still laid up with a troublesome knee, is the heart and soul of the world's champs’ attack. The Red Sox forged back into the van by smashing out an 8-5 triumph over Cleveland. Jimmy Foxx touched off a six-run rally by hitting homer No. 6. Ted Williams hit two doubles, driving in two runs. Emerson Dickman, with some brilliant relief aid from Jack Wilson, was the winner.

Brooklyn Charges On

In the other two American League games Nelson Potter outdueled John Rigney to give the Athletics a 3-2 win over the White Sox and the Browns slugged out a 11-89 victory over the Senators. It was Washington's fifth straight loss. Brooklyn continued its rampage by blasting the Cardinals, 6-2, behind Luke Hamlin. Dolf Camilli homered with one on. Cincinnati won its fourth straight, trampling the Giants, 9-1. Harry Craft hit a homer with two on. Billy Herman's homer in the 11th gave the Cubs a 5-4 win over the Phils and Larry French his fourth victory. The Bees won a strange game from the Pirates, 10-7, in 12 innings. The two clubs used 40 players, breaking the record of 37 set Sunday by the Dodgers-Cards. It was Pittsburgh's sixth straight defeat, and left the Pirates in a triple tie with the Bees and Cards for last place.

Blues Take Over Second in A. A.

By UNITED PRESS Kansas City, instead of Indianapolis, was holding second position in the American Association today by virtue of a 4 to 3, 12-inning victory yesterday over Toledo. Minneapolis, although suffering a 4 to 3 defeat yesterday at the hands of the Louisville Colonels, was still

Second Baseman Johnny Lucadello hit a homer for Toledo in the ninth, binding up the game. Catcher Tony Dephillips banked out a single in the 12th that scored the deciding run for the Blues. Ernie Bonham went the route fce Kansas City, while Toledo worked four pitchers—Wirkkala, Kimberlin, Wagner and Cole. Right fielder Fred Sington knocked out a homer in the sixth for Louisville to tie the score with Minneapolis. The Colonels cinched the game in the eighth with two! more runs. Wes Flowers pitched | the game for Louisville. Mickey Haefner started for Minneapolis, but was relieved by Tauscher in! the eighth.

McLaughlin Sent To Toronto

PHILADELPHIA, May 7 (U. P)). —Pitcher Pat McLaughlin, signed by the Philadelphia Athletics last | winter after he and other players) owned by the Detroit Tigers were declared free agents, goes to Toron3 of the International League toay. President-Manager Connie Mack vesterday optioned McLaughlin to

with Cleveland and three with the|}

THY INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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By J. E. O'BRIEN GEORGE SOUTAR, Broadmoor Country Club professional, regards accurate approach shots as some of the best stroke-savers in the game of golf. And he needs only a No. 7 iron and a handful of balls to prove his point. At least, he gave a convincing demonstration for your writer on the No. 2 hole of the Broadmoor layout. He dropped eight balls a couple of yards off the green and proceeded to chip them toward the hole, Two shots went straight for the cup, and the other six came within two club-lengths of the payoff cavity. “The stance,” Soutar explained

Help Your Golf Game—No. 8

Soutar Tells

Mr. Soutar , . . right foot “in,” a choke grip.

between shots, “is slightly open, That is, the right foot is closer to the intended line of flight than the left. The ball is played toward the center of the body.” The Broadmoor professional uses the popular overlapping grip, grasping the shaft in a “choke” fashion. He suggests that your knees be slightly bent, with most of the weight on the left foot. On chip shots from just off the green, Soutar uses a short swing, keeping his head down and left arm straight. “Don’t consciously attempt to get wrist action into the shot,” he warned. “If you put too much stress on breaking the wrists, you'll likely get the

Tobin to Join Bees Thursday

PITTSBURGH, May 7 (U. P)— Jim Tobin, Boston Bees pitcher who since April 28 has been receiving treatment in Philadelphia for

a leg injury, will join his teammates in Boston on Thursday, it was announced here today. Tobin, former Pittsburgh Pirates hurler, was injured April 11 in an exhibition game at Washington when he slipped while fielding a bunt,

P. G. A. Is Waiting

For the Sunshine

Seventy-four golfers today held “rain-checks” on the second proamateur scramble of the Indiana P. G. A. tournament season, which was to have been played at South Grove yesterday afternoon. Cane cellation of the tourney was forced when a storm drenched the course

while about half the field waited to tee off. Anticipating days like yesterday, P. G. A. officials had left several openings in the tournament schedule, so they will attempt to play again at South Grove next Monday. Of the T4 entrants yesterday, 24 were pros, the most pros ever to register for a regular weekly proamateur staged by the southern section of the Indiana P. G. A.

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club out of its natural are and either top the ball or hit below it.” Soutar first has his pupils swing the club at an imaginary ball, advising them to swing through. His aim here is to keep the pupil relaxed. When the ball is placed, his advice runs something like this: “Keep your head down, Have the left arm straight, but don't stiffen it. Bend your knees as though you were beginning to sit down. Don't tighten up—relax.” In chipping, Soutar advises the average golfer not to lengthen his swing for longer shots but to speed the swing of the club. By practice alone the golfer will learn how fast to swing for various distances. On longer approach shots from 50 to 75 yards off the green, the swing is more extended, and the wrists break more at the top of the backswing — although again this could come automatically. After sending up eight balls from this distance, Soutar moved back anqther 50 yards for some pitch shots. “You use more body

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action on shots from this distance,” he explained, “turning the hips and shoulders much as you do on long iron and wood shots. There is a slight pivot, but the left arm remains straight and the head stays down.” The Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 irons are used for various approach shots, with the golfer deciding for himself which he prefers for certain situations. In his demonstra= tion, Soutar confined himself to the No. 7 iron. He explained, however, that the more lofted clubs (No. 8 or 9) are used for pitch shots over an obstruction. “These give a higher trajectory,” he said, “and have enough backspin to stop where they hit on the green. Clubs with less loft are preferred for pitch-and-run shots. Here the backspin is not so great, and the ball will roll farther when it hits. “It’s hard to prescribe the exact club for any situation, though,” Soutar pointed out. “The golfer has to decide this for himself,

But Joe Says He Hasn't Given Em Up

Maybe They're Just in a Slump

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, May 7.—The battered and bewildered exe perts, fresh from the Louis« ville shambles, turned timidly today to a consideration. of the baseball team that could not be beaten, more specifically identified as the Yane kees. True, the race has little more than just begun and one of the vital performers is on the sidelines nursing a sensi« tive knee but the glaring fact remains the athletes as a group have shown only a mine imum of the brilliance, brawn and blooey that was expected of the four straight flag wine ners.

They have had to struggle la boriously to keep anywhere close to the .500 mark. They have been making enemy pitching look like a combination of Johnson and Mathe ewson. Some of the young men can't even bunt a base hit. Their team average is .206, lowest in base= ball at the moment. Their old power is gone with the wind.

Selkirk Has the Only .300 )

Selkirk is the only regular hitting 300. Passing Selkirk, your eyes travel almost half way down the agate batting lines before they fall on the name of another Yankee hitter. This would be Rolfe or Kel« ler at .250 or thereabouts. Actuale ly Dickey at .189 isn’t hitting his weight, and Gordon at .159 is far below his normal poundage. Could all this be dissension? That's a word that hasn't been used in reference to any Yankee club since Joe McCarthy took over the management. He's a strong apostle of the pull-together spirit and moves swiftly and energetically when team disunity threatens to rear its ugly head. We think you can ignore this possibility completely. Would it be ennui engendered by too many successive victories? But the Yankees aren't an old ball club, and satiety is something that generally comes with senility. No, that can’t be the whole ane swer, either. What probably has happened is that the Yankees

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