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INDIANAPOLIS hag achieved a fancy job in developing speed pilots to win its own 500-mile race despite the tough competition from other parts of the country and in some years from other countries. tay Harroun, Indianapolis, drove to victory in an Indianapolis-built car, a
Marmon, in the inaugural five-century in 1911.
In 1912 Indianapolis again supplied the winning driver and ear when Joe Dawson finished in front in a National whiz chariot ‘ The first foreigner to win was Jules Goux of France, driving a French Peugeot, in the third race, 1913. Local dare devils were shut out the next three years. . . . Rene Thomas, France, won in 1914; Ralph DePalma got home first in 1915, and Dario Resta. prevailed in 1916, the year the event was cut to 300 miles. On account of the World War (No, 1), the speed classic was suspended in 1917 and 1918 and the first vear after the conflict, in 1919, Howard Wilcox (the original Howdy) put Indianapolis down in front again in a Peugeot.
Howdy Collects On Seventh Effort
WILCOX collected top prize in his seventh race He was out of the money but running at the finish in 1911: finished ninth in 1912, sixth in 1913, was eliminated after 67 laps in 1914, took seventh in 1915, seventh again in 1916, and then first in the next one, 1919 Gaston Chevrolet, Indianapolis, won in an Indianapolis-built Monroe in 1920, and in 1924, ©. L. Corum. Indianapolis, shared victory with Joe Boyer in an Indianapolis Duesenberg Special
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MORE THAN one argument developed over this race among the gambling fraternity, particularly in the “pool” racket. Corum started in car 135, a Duesenberg Special, and Boyer took off on the bricks in another Duesenberg Special. Boyer's car was eliminated after 177 laps and he then relieved Corum and got the checkered flag in No. 1 spot. Purchasers on pool tickets on Corum demanded top payoff and purchasers of tickets on Boyer also screamed for op money, Yealy, it was a tough situation for the “operators” and blackened eyes were a dime a dozen as blows were exchanged all over town.
Nine Firsts for Hometown Pilots
HOMETOWN PILOTS were shut out again from 1024 until 1931, when Louis Schneider in a Bowes Seal Fast Special won in a spectacular finish by edging Fred Frame In 1934 Indianapolis repeated as Bill Cummings thrilled the huge crowd by beating Mauri Rose to the wire for the grand prize after a stirring struggle. Wilbur Shaw put the Hoosier metropolis in the 500-mile headlines again in 1937 and repeated the trivmph in 1939 All told the five-century has been won nine times by Indianapolis pilots, ecounting the Corum-Boyer co-victory. a No mean average down through the years And Wilbur Shaw probably will be the favorite to knock cl the next one, come May 30
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LIGHTS, PLEASE! The Indianapolis Indians will do a little blinking tonight They have been called out for a practice under the arcs prior to their night opener against the Columbus Red Birds tomorrow No more day games at the Tribe park except on Sundays this seafon and the players will have to adjust their bed and board accordingly. Can't tackle a big steak at the customary hour,
Cleveland and Brooklyn 20 Years Ago
BROOKLYN FANS are World Series crazy already 20 vears since t
. M's been he Dodgers were in the fall classic and it was Cleveland that knocked em off Incidentally, it was Cleveland's last pennant, too This information is free to huneh players, The 1920 Series lasted seven games and Stanley Coveleskie pitched three winners for Cleveland In the fifth game Wamby Wambsganss, Cleveland second sacker, made an unassisted triple play and Outfielder Elmer Smith belted a home run with the bases loaded.
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SPRING before last the Dodgers sent Pete Coscarart to Nashe ville on option because in 32 National League games he had a thin 152, where his batting average ought to be. Heres how the system pays off: This year he was the leading hit-makey April winning streak with 13 safe blows On May 1 he hit hig third homer in three successive games, mly one less than he made in the | entire 1939 season. |
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Mize Trosky Foxy e plify the stroke. The best ads vice I can give is to pay attention to the hands and forearms Personally, I know whether I Will play well the instant I pick up a club. The feel of the club gives me the enswer, Now, if the hands are that sensitive, there must be merit in the contention : the hands ‘and gimme Demaret forearms are the ’ most important the swing It is my belief that if the hands and forearms are properly eo-or-dinated, the hips, shoulders and pivot will fellow, If the hands and forearms do their work properly, timing must be correct.
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Greyhound Runners Hosts Tomorrow
The mdiana Central College track team will Be host to a quadrangular meet tomorrow afternoon on the University Heights oval, The power of a stroke generates Visiting squads will come from at the feet. Taylor University, Anderson College It passes on through the body and Kokomo Junior College. to Ye hands,
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And It's Only Three Days Until the Trials Open
By J. E. O'BRIEN Racing cars unforunately
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place in a high wind as a football team that's lost the toss. That's the reason—or at least one reason—why the boys are keeping their pas buggies off the ‘track although qualifications are only three days away. | It's been the same procedure nearly every day this week. As long as those flags ‘flap merrily atop Tom Beall's sandwich stand, the drivers order another lemonade or try ‘a couple more innings of coinpitching. Blond Rex Mays could describe [the effect of the breeze yesterday |afternoon after he had wheeled the
[eream-and-black Bowes Seal Fast [Special once around the oval.
| “All Over the Track” “In one lap,” he said, “vou get
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(tions. At times you think it's going {to vank the car right off the track [And then when you come down the [homestretch along the line of grandstands, you catch the gusts between each section of stands. The [car goes all over the track.” | Cliff Bergere, who had to fight ‘the wind earlier this week, affirmed Mr. Mays. “On that No. 2 turn, you think the front wheels are never [going to respond to the pressure on [the steering wheel.” One lap in the wind was enough for Rex. Later in the afternoon he [tested the job again and informed his pit aids it had much more zip than it showed during Monday's runs. He made the eireuit in a minute and 13 seconds and reported (he was just “feathering” the motor (in the stretches. Another reason for the seeming [lack of activity around the track was offered by Ted Horn, who reported
(for duty in the Boyle team yester-|
aay. Jobs Are Searce Speed work is scarce these days, and drivers have to squeeze in all [the attempts for gold they can, Horn said. And you can be assured Mr. Horn hasn't been wasting his (time. Last Sunday he picked up first-place chips in the 50-mile fea(ture race at the Langhorne Pa. track, driving one of cars he owns himself. Horn also feels that there's little [use for a driver to get here early if he has a good mechanician nursing his mount. “The car I'm going to drive—in fact, the whole Boyle team-—was ready to go in mid<Janfuary. We don't have to spend two {or three weeks hastily tearing ‘em apart and rebuilding em.” | His statement was taken to mean that the three Boyle cars, decorated with the shamiocks and elavpipes, would roll Saturday during the opening day of qualifying trials. And to that Horn didn't say "ne."
No Predictions, Personally After predicting that the pole would go for a speed equal to last year's and that the winhing 500mile average would be about 121 or 122 ‘on his own times. | But in ease you've forgotten, his qualifying performance of 127.723 miles an hour last year put him on
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starters. Moreover he guhned the eight-ecylinder job to fourth place in the Memorial Day race to be way up in the money for the fourth straight year. Making his first start here in 1935, Horn was forced out after 360 (miles. But in 1936 he placed seeond, wound up third in 193% and was in fourth spot a year later. ! " ” "
Enthusiastic as ever, lanky Joe Thorne wheeled his sleek blue machine to the track as soon as the assembling process wag complered. (Continue an Page 11)
Watch Your Hands and Forearms, Says Demaret, Simplifying Golf Swing
Therefore the stance ic vital Tall plavers can spread their feet far apart. They have a higher ecenter of gravity. Short players cannot de this because in that position they lock themselves, lose footpower and virtually muffle their stroke. Many sturdy players under five feet eight inches in height fail to obtain the distance to which they are entitled because their stance is too wide. On the other hand, a tall player Who does not spread his feet, loses power because there is too mueh body sway and not the proper bale ance, I have spoken of the advantages of an early start. Most great shotmakers, especially among the professionals, came from the ranks of the caddies. It was while toting bags they pe the mental foundation for golf. I started as a caddy at the age of 7. Andy Anderson, veteran sports editor of the Houston Press who used to own a Jittle nine-hole course With sand greens, gave me my first job. He still watches me . . gives me sound advice The natural trait of all kids to mimic helped me. Walter Hagen and Chick Evans were in the headlines when 1 was a boy. I read everything they wrote and was written about them.
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‘Ball Never Touched Me,’ Says Ump=So Dodgers Lead
By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, May 15.—Deacon Bill MeRechnie Cincinnati's venerable pilot, hunched over and shouted up at Umpire Bill Kiem: “How can you let the runner go to third? Section Six, Rule 48, says positively that no base runner can advance when a batted ball hits an umpire unless necessitated by the batsman becoming a base runner.” It was the seventh inning of yesterday's blood-curdling battle for place between the Reds and
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natics making the place ring with the Giants’ six-game winning streak their shouts, and plenty was of with a 7-2 triumph. Bibie Fleteher's stake. The score was tied 2:2 and homer with the bases loaded fea undefeated Bucky Walters was tured Pittsburgh's vietory, The Boss locked in a pitching duel with no=hit ton Red Sox increased their Amer Tex Caritton. ican League lead to 2's games by Umpire Kiem. drawing himself up beating the White Sox. 7-8 in 10 to his fill stature, looked down at ihnings. Jimmy Foxx's 4925 - foot the Cincinnati pilot and said con- homer off John Rigney won the descendingly “The ball never game. It was Foxx's eighth homer touched me. In all my career I was and his second of the day. never hit by a batted ball.” The Athletics knocked Bob Feller ‘ . out of the box in beating Cleveland, Only the Umpire in Step 0:7. Cleveland tied the score after Everybody in the ball park except Hy departure 80 it was not his . . > . ¢e defeat, A! Simmon's single with the Kiem ROey elariic | ine ® bases loaded in the ninth drove in grounder hit the umpire who was the two winnings runs off Harry standing back of the mound on the Eisenstat, Wally Moses hit a three grass between first and second. pun homer off Feller in the second. That play changed the complexion | in, whieh the A's made five runs off of the game in a flash, and Brooks Bullet Bob. Hal Troskv hit homer lyn had runners on first and third Nb. 8. | instead of first and second, with| Gerald Walker's homer, one out. Walters walked Coscorart ‘mate on base enabled the to set the stage for a double play, to trim the Tigers. but lost eontrol
with a Senators 4-2, as Duteh and threw four peonard outpitehed Rookie Hal Newstraight balls to Dixie Walker, house. forcing in a run. Then Gilbert] RR scored on Catcher Franks’ outfield | : Al fiy to put the Dodgers ahead 4<2. ‘Wolverine Ek lier the count, with] ANN ARBOR, Mich, May 15 runs in the eighth and ninth, and | (NEA) Jim Rae. Michigan basketforged ahead on Mike MeCormick’'s ball captain, is an accomplished | homer in the 10th. 5-4. but eventus'aviater and spends most of his ally lost, 6-5, in the 13th. That's spare time in the air why the Dodgers held command in — 8 the National League today by half a game as the two league leaders! went back at it hammer and tongs in the second game of the series, ‘with Whit Wyatt of Brooklyn op= posing Junior Thompson of Cine ecinnati, Later, Umpire Klem was hit by another ball. This one was thrown by Leo Durocher who was trying to | complete a double play in the ninth | on Ival Goodman. Tot Presnell, who had pitched only | one inhing this year, turned out to (be the pitching hero after Carleton | was relieved for a pinch hitter in! the ninth. Walters also gave way to a pinch hitter in the same frame. Walter's five-game winning Stramie was kept intact, as was his record of beating the Dodgers eight straight | times. Presnell blanked the Reds| with no hits in the last three ine nings. | A walk to Gene Moore, Durocher's| daring single—most managers would | have bunted—-to right, and Pineh | Hitter Gus Mancuso’s fly to center scored the winning run | In the other two National League) pames Hugh Mulcahy pitched the! Phillies to a 4-0 shutout over the
wag natural te sneak of a patron's bag and clip blades of grass. There were idle hours at the course, and we always managed to have a elub or two. though they probably were obsolete weapons, There were always balls to be found, and we praeticed. I fell inte a fairly good without being conscious of it But everybody who plays golf does | not obtain an early start, Many | take up the game rather late in life. It is for them that the stroke should be made as simple as pos« | sible. Old masters have stressed factors | in the stroke which I have net mentioned. One noted teacher Ne | sisted there were 14 factors in it. | There are many elements to the swing, but the average player has/ many things on his mind. He may | be wondering about the note on the | car, the next payment on the house | and whatnot. 80, I believe that when we pros | fessionals relieve him nf some of | the worries of the swing he gets! more out of golf. |
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Logan Looks in| “The Pink’ for Night Opener
Tomorrow Night to Be a Redskin Home-coming
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The Indianapolis Indiang are all (ready to go in the night baseball | opener tomorrow night and ad{vance reservations received at [Perry Stadium indicate a large erowd of rooters will be on deck to the give the boys the glad hand. The occasion will be in the na= ture of a homescoming for the Redsking and rousing cheers for (Lefty Bob Logan, winner of five games, and little Bennie Zentara, [the boy wonder at second base who has played 22 errorless games, | The agile kevstoner has yet to |miscue this season and his fielding is the talk of the American Asso= ciation. Moreover, the 20-year-old [lad hag picked up in batting and | lis knocking at that .300 door with fa mark of .200.
S. H, S. Star May Miss State Meet
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Shortridge’s hopes in the state high school track meet at the Tech
Three in 300 Class three Tribe
Only regulars are the Blue Devils’ high jumper, Don
field Saturday were trimmed somewhat today when it was learned that
King, may not be able to partici
clicking in the 300 class and the | pate. King (shown here clearing the bar at 5 feet 8!'; inches for first rookie threatens to challenge for| in the recent sectional) is suffering from a charley horse.
base hit glory as well as defensive |
He was one of three North Siders qualified to compete.
Others are
honors. | Capt. Fred Maynard, high hurdler, and Billy Compton, shot put.
| Winner of the home day opener and the day road opener, Lefty Logan looks in the “pink” to ze G Wh a third opener to his string by or d uy {) vietimizing the Columbus Red Birds under the lights tomorrow, Action is to begin at 8:15. Bob's| last time out wag at Kansas City (last Saturday when he beat the league leading Blues. Reporting to the Indians here today will be Lon Lang, last year's| third sacker. He will be assigned | the infield utility role and prob=| ably will replace Johnny Hill at lowliest bush league to the majors, the hot corner against southpaw pitehing. | spun loom, Here is a sterling silver, Many New Red Birds | Frisch, 1 mean. Columbus, as usual, has many| ADYtime any of us behave queerly new pastimers on its roster this|We have only to think of Frankie year and Manager Burt Shotton is| Frisch to be consoled by the knowlslowly getting the Red Birds into edge that nothing we could ever do winning stride, His team is strug- | would mateh his voluntary accept-| gling to escape the cellar and is ance of the job as manager of the just about readv to make it, | Pittsburgh Pirates. The Birds are only two and a| Look back a year ago. In 1939 half games behind the third-place at this time Frisch, after many | Redsking and the three-game series arduous years in baseball, both as opening tomorrow night promises a player and a manager, was settled | some red hot fireworks. [down in a soft broadcasting job. | It is reported that Don French, All he had to do was to report at| the righthander, will be available |the Boston ball park when the Bees for the Indians’ second home Were in town and describe the stand. He did not accompany the | Rame over the air. For this he was|
team (hrough the West because of Pald a handsome salary. Some | A sore arm, ‘ [guesses fixed his income at as much |
- . i las $25,000 a year. Pirates Cut Roster
When the day's] [game was over his worries ended. | Down to 25 PITTSBURGH, May 15 (U, P) =
By HENRY
NEW YORK, May 15
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Here is a genuine old master of a zany
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-Like misery, idiocy loves company Which, perhaps, is why of all the managers in baseball, from the
Frankie Frisch is my favorite, Here is an authentic home= 24-karat, guaranteed not to run oaf,
have a chance to do any good in the National League this season, and one packed with more probe lem children than an unfashione able reform school. Since Frisch took charge, the Pirates have won only six games while losing 13. And Frisch has suffered. They say that while the Pirajes were losing nine straight games in the West only loving hands prevented Frisch from doing a swan dive from his bedroom window or swinging on himself with a fungo bat. Today, at the Polo friends from Frankie's ho
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him with a presentation at home plate. The nature of the presentation has been kept secret but from the grape vine comes word that they will present Frankie with: 1. A hound’s tooth straight jacket
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He could get up and go home with | The Pittsburgh Pirates today re-
out a thought as to tomorrow's | leased Pitcher Oadis Swigart to Syracuse of the International
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Then Frisch made a decision! that must have made every psy-| chiatrist in the country prick up| his ears and make a note to add his name to their mailing list. Frisch accepted an offer to manage the Pittsburgh Pirates, For | much less pay he agreed to take |eharge of a baseball club that didn't]
The six foot righthander played with Knoxville last year and won 17 while losing 10. He has been used only as a relief pitcher this year. Swigart’s release brings the elub down to 25, the limit that goes into effect at midnight tonight,
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ang carefres life. head and possibly find out the reason why he quit his broadcasting job to run the Pirates. 3. A lefthanded pitcher capable of giving up no more than three earned runs per inning. 4. A Pinkerton detective to aid him in keeping track of his players once night falls.
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