Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1940 — Page 22

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Kelly Petillo takes off his helmet and puts on a smile after clipping off 10 miles at an average speed of 125.331 miles an hour for first place in the fifth row. You may remember that Kelly said on May 10 that he would “be satisfied with something between 124 and 128 miles an

hour.” Yesterday he kept his word good.

And the performance evidently was very pleasing to Jimmy Theyiac, genial mechanic in the Petillo crew. He's shown at right in the

wide smiles and tropical helmet,

SPORTS...

By Eddie Ash

BRANCH RICKEY is touring with the St. Louis Cardinals . . . making it easier for Ray Blades to change hurlers. . . . The Rickey theory allows for everything but the pitchers’ arms. . . . Last year’s lesson in wearing out their moundsmen did not convince the Card bosses and

it’s the same old story this season. Maybe the Yankees have turned out into that center lane . . . used for “passing only.” . . . Joe DiMaggio isn't chasing fly balls with his old assurance. . . . His right knee still is in tape. . . . Sound cameras and microphones are kept away from Frankie Frisch and the Pirate dugout these days. . . . It's too much of a gamble. . Ernie Lombardi, the World Series goat, is now the toast of Cincinnati. . . . The big boy proved he could take it. . . . Ken Sears, not yet 22, is belting the ball at a swift clip for the Newark Bears, Yankee farm. . . . He swings lefthanded. Young Sears made the American League connection because his father, Ziggy, is a National League umpire. . . . Yankee scouts believe the Alabama product will receive a trial with the parent club next

spring. Cobb Weaves and Bobs at Games

VARIOUS REASONS have been advanced because Ty Cobb rarely goes to a ball game, but Bob Considine of the New York Daily Mirror declares they are all wrong—and that the fact is the Georgia Peach is too nervous to watch the game! “We accidentally discovered the other day why Ty Cobb rarely goes to a ball game any more,” reveals Considine. “And it is not his Jove of golf, nor the fact that the caliber of baseball around San Francisco is slightly dull. He stays away for the sake of his nerves. The worst punishment one could devise for Tyrus Raymond Cobb would be to chain him in a grandstand seat and make him watch a full schedule.

“FOR TY is the country’s No. 1 weaving and bobbing baseball fan. In case that confuses you, the weavers and bobbers are those veteran fans who twitch or jerk on every throw the pitcher makes, who have trouble keeping from falling off their chairs when a base hit is made, and trouble keeping their teeth from becoming castanets when the count is three-and-two on the batter in a crucial moment of the game. “Cobb, the fan, has the same intense concentration that Cobb, the

player, had.” Charleston Brings Crawfords Here

BASEBALL as played in the Negro American League will be on display in Perry Stadium this season with Indianapolis being represented in the league for the first time in a number of years. A combine which includes Jesse Owens, Olympic sprinter, Oscar Charleston, manager, and Stapley Cowell, has purchased the famous Pittsburgh Crawford team and moved it to this city. The opening games will be played in Perry Stadium, Sunday afternoon, when the Chicago Americar. Giants come here for a twin bill, the first game starting at 1:30. . . . Opening e ceremonies with Jesse Owens acting as master of ceremonies will get under way at 1

o'clock.

MANAGER CHARLESTON will be remembered here as the star center fielder and hitter for the old Indianapolis A. B. Cs piloted by the late C. I. Taylor. His new team is outfitted in new uniforms, major league type, with jackets to match. . . . The Crawfords trained at Ft. Benning, Ga., this year and between March 31 and May 19, inclusive, played 54 games against strong competition, winning 42 and losing 12.

Umpire Guthrie Had a Word for It

EVER SEEKING to improve the prestige and standing of the American Association, President George Trautman arranged this year for entree to the athletic clubs of the various cities for his umpires. .. . His idea was that they could mingle with business and civic leaders and spread the gospel of the game among them, instead of going unrecognized with the transient guests at hotels. The plan is working out well, although a solicitous waiter at the St. Paul Athletic Club hasn't quite recovered from his first encounter with Bill Guthrie. The waiter approached bull-necked Bill after dinner ard inquired, «Is everything all right, Mr. Guthrie?” “Sure, kid,” Bill rasped. “Y’got swell mush in dis joint.” » » " # ” »

AL WEILL will tell you of the vagaries of professional boxing. . . . Two weeks ago Weill had Arturo Godoy, challenger of Joe Louis and something of a hero for having stuck around with the Negro for 15 rounds: Lou Ambers, the lightweight leader, and Joey Archibald, whom he could bill as world feather champion. Weill still has all three, but Ambers and Archibald have been shorn of their titles, Ambers stopped unexpectedly by Lew Jenkins and Archibald outpointed by Harry Jeffra of Baltimore. And you know what Louis does to a bloke in a second edition. . . June 20 is the date.

State Tennis Meet Opens at Purdue

LAFAYETTE, Ind, May 23 (U.

Jersey City Regains Second Place

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May Whip

championship of the world. His opponent will be Ceflerino from the Philippines who is recog-! nized by the New York Boxing Commission as middleweight champio. Garcia is one of those mossbacked old conservatives who clings to the idea that the way to train for a fight is to spend hours shadow boxing, doing road work and gulping fresh air. Betting men, skeptical of the new training doctrines expounded by Mr. Overlin, have made Garcia an 11-to-5 favorite to retain his title.

Mr. Overlin Just Sneers

Mr. Overlin dismisses the odds with a sneer, hinting that some of the bettors who think fresh air is] good for boxers were among the] smell knot of jeering persons who | advised Henry Ford to get a horse when the first auto rolled down the road. Only once in a lifetime do you

"|get a gent like Mr. Overlin. He is|

cut from the same gaudy cloth as| was the late Harry Greb, a great] fighter who did his training in night | ciubs, inhaled all the cigar smoke) available, delivered orations on the, superiority of champagne over water as a daily beverage—and knocked the ears off of almost everybody he | fought. Overlin may not be the deadly | little piece of machinery that Greb| was, but he is the same style fighter | —a cunning boxer, an agile man | with his feet and a guy who never gets worried no mater how fast the punches fly.

A Night Club Champ? The distance is 15 rounds, or 45]

minutes of fighting if it goes the | limit. That much action holds no terror for Mr. Overlin, who is ac-| customed to spending as long as 90 minutes in a conga line and then entering the waltz contest with only a brief pause for liquid refreshments. Mr. Overlin appeared hurt] yesterday when someone suggested that Harry Greb and Maxie Rosenbloom, another top flight nontrainer, had a better record than he |

If Cocktails Will Help, Overlin Garcia Tonight

y HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor NEW YORK, May 23.—The issue of whether a boxer can develop a punch by spending endless tiresome hours in the spartan exercise of lifting glasses in cocktail lounges will be settled for all time tonight when Ken (Primrose Path) Overlin fights for the middleweight

Garcia, the deadly bolo puncher

NEW YORK, May 23 (U. P.).— Ken Overlin will have a four and one-half pound advantage over Champion Ceferino Garcia tonight when they meet for the world middleweight championship. At the official weigh-in at noon Overlin scaled 159; Garcia, 15414. The fight will be broadcast by WENR-NBC, starting at 8 o'clock (Indianapolis Time).

had for elapsed time on the primrose path. “They were pretty good in their day,” Overlin admitted grudgingly. “But they were strictly night men. I get a running start in the cocktail lounges in the afternoon, move on to the night clubs at night and leave just in time to meet my trainer for roadwork.” In between night clubs Overlin has had 173 fights in all parts of the country. He says he lost only seven of them, which is about par for the course and never has heard the count of 10 tolled over him.

Coast Schools To ‘Reform’

LOS ANGELES, May 23 (U. P).— Faced with four alternatives, one of which was to “abolish or curtail football,” the Pacific Coast Collegiate Athletic Conference has decided to adopt remedies for “evil practices” Commissioner Edwin N. Atherton disclosed today. Atherton, former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who conducted a two-year inquiry into Pacific Coast athletics, said the other choices were to adopt “hush hush” methods or a “hands off” policy. He said the conference agreed it best to correct “admitted evil practices.”

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By J. E. O'BRIEN

THE BOYS who name their price with heavy feet instead of raised hands will have another chance to bid for the 17 unspokeénfor places in the Memorial Day race lineup when qualifying trials are resumed at the Speedway tomorrow afternoon. At least 10 should be ready for this test, with enough eligibles out to fill the 33-car field when future examination dates are set by Ted Doescher, the 3-A professor in charge. And if the sun is out and the wind low in the six-hour period between 1 and 7 p. m. tomorrow, business should be brisk for Starter Seth Klein. Yesterday Mr. Klein waved four away and as many home and he probably would have had more customers if rain hadn't spoiled things early in the afternoon. Typical washday luck beset Mr. Klein right after he had hung his flags out on the starting line,

Colonels Still

Have ‘It’

Johnson Will See What He Can Do Tonight

Apparently the Louisville Colonels still have what it takes to slay the Indianapolis Indians, blows in the clutch plus the breaks of the game. At any rate, the Redskins are not crestfallen despite last night's defeat and will be out there again under the lights tonight battling to even the series. Lanky Lloyd Johnson is slated to try his slow stuff against the invaders with Earl Caldwell and Jimmy Sharp in reserve. Caldwell, recently of Toronto, worked out with, the Tribesters yesterday. Games tonight and tomorrow

night will conclude the Indians’ current home stand and they will

remain away from home until after the 500-mile race. Louisville won the series opener, 10 to 5, on 12 hits, including a home run and three triples. The Redskins collected 13 safeties but were shy in the extra-base department with just a pair of doubles showing. Logan Out in Seventh The Colonels sent Lefty Bob Logan, the Indian ace, to the showers in the seventh and completed their job of mopping up in the ninth at the expense of Art Jacobs and Mike Balas. Big Jim Weaver was battered off the mound by the Redskins in the eighth when they really rallied and cut the Louisville lead to 6 to §, but when the Colonels countered with four markers in the ninth the home fans decided that the Derbytown jinx still had the Indians by the throat. And said Indians probably will have to face an individual jinx tonight in Lefty Wes Flowers who pinned their ears back in last fall's American Association playoff finals.

Over the Wall

George Lacy biffed a homer off Logan in the second frame last night to break the scoring ice. In the third Paul Campbell, who is “poison” to the Redskins, both in the field and at bat, “beat out a triple” to right center. It was a fly ball which Scott and .Galatzer let drop between them. Vince Sherlock’s single tallied Campbell. In the Tribe third the Indians got a run but muffed a grand opportunity to take the lead when Jess Newman grounded into a double play with the bases loaded. The Indians also had the sacks populated in the second but failed to score when Logan fanned and Ernest Andres flagged Milt Galatzer’s line drive. In the sixth Fred Sington blasted a triple over Galatzer and scampered home on Lacy's long fly. Logan fell apart in the eighth after one out by giving free transportation to Woody Williams and Sington. Lacy’s single filled the bases, Williams tallied on Andres’ long fly and Art Parks belted a triple. That was all for Lefty Bob and John Wilson came in and fanned Weaver for the third out. Incidentally, Weaver struck out four straight times. The Indians got down to business in their half of the eighth and accumulated five hits and four runs. A circus catch by Sington on Joe Mack's line drive cut into the Tribe splurge. Weaver was derricked after two down in the eighth and Charlie Hughson took up the Louisville mound toil. He proved a good finisher. In the Louisville ninth Jacobs, veteran Tribe lefty, was “greeted” by Campbell who tripled. After one away Newman messed up Morgan’s grounder and two singles (Continued on Page 23)

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It took 14 innings and a single by Pitcher Johnny Wittig to bring the Jersey City Giants a 3-2 win over the Syracuse Chiefs yesterday.

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and it was four o’clock before the bricks and asphalt were dry. But the hardier fans were repaid for their waiting. First to the starting line was colorful Kelly Petillo, his pit crew and nearly a score of volunteers who would have used lung pressure to inflate the tires if Kelly had asked or I aeciod 11 th ell; triple- all the parts he =a reach without tearing down the motor on the apron, ‘filled the fuel tank, informed the contest board of his strategy and took off. He wound up the four-cylinder Indiana Fur Special on the backstretch and made no secret of the fact that he was out to turn a quick one. This circuit, just a practice lap, was done at a 125.746-mile-an-hour clip. When Mr. Petillo waved that he was" ready, he scooted down the homestretch driving hard into the southwest curve before easing off. It was the same way on the run

KELLY PETILLO Indiana Fur Special Time

veveee 171324 Third - lap ....... 13.89 Fourth lap ...... 1:11.69

Speed 126.547 124.585 124.671 125.541

125.331

SEORGE BARRINGER Hollywood Payday Special : Time Speed First lap ........ 1:12.84 123.558 Second lap ...... 1:13.24 122.884 THird 18D. ..c.ee. 1:14.07 121.507 Fourth lap ...... 1:15.20 119.681

DRIVER First Rex Mays

Wilbur Shaw Mauri Rose

Ted Horm Mel Hansen Cliff Bergere

Frank Wearne Frank Brisko Tommy Hinnershitz

Joe Thorne Russell Snowberger Shorty Cantlon

Kelly Petillo Sam Hanks Harry McQuinn

George Barringer

the trimmings.

and their relief pilot, Luigi Chinetti, arrived in New York this morning aboard the Conte de Savoia. They were given leaves from the.army by the French Government. Paul Richey is in charge of a citizens’ committee to do the greeting at the Airport and several driv-

Poughkeepsie Race Set June 18

NEW YORK, May 23 (U. P). = Eight crews will compete in the Poughkeepsie Regatta varsity race on the Hudson River June 18, with California’s defending crew in the No. 8 lane, according to an announcement by the Intercollegiate Rowing Association. The draw, made late yesterday, allotted California the lane farthest out from the Hudson's west shore while Washington, the other Pacific Coast entrant, drew the No. 7 for the four-mile classic.

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up the backside, and he finished the first lap in a minute 11.12 seconds, which translates into 126.547 miles an hour. That, incidentally was Petillo’s best lap. On the second he was clocked at 124.585 miles an hour, and he turned the third at 124.671. It looked for a while like he was going to pour on more coal for the final turn, but he was timed at 125.541 miles an hour. To use baseball jargon, this experience of hitting the first ball pitched was something rather new to Kelly. Usually the 1935 winner has had to take all three qualifying opportunities that are granted. .He was all smiles as his car coasted back to. the pits. “I'm really happy,” he announced, “and it was easy, too.” Apparently it took someone to start the parade. For George Barringer was on the apron immediately with his four-cylinder Hollywood Pay Day Special.

Time and Speed, Lap by Lap

HARRY M’QUINN Hollywood Payday Special Time First lap ........ 1:12,57 Second lap ...... 1:13.60 Third lap ....... 1:13.86 Fourth lap ...... 1:13.88

Average speed SAM HANKS Leon Duray Special

S 124.018 122.283 121.852 121.819

122.486

Speed 122.733 122.532 123.525 123.474

First lap .. Second 1ap ...... Third 1p .vseeee Fourth lap ......

Average speed .....

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QUALIFYING , SPEED

Row 121.850 127.065 125.624

125.545 124.753 123.673

123.216 122.716 122.624

122.432 121.564 123.376

125.331 123.064 122.486

121.889

Two French Drivers to Arrive

In City at 7:30 Tonight

A public reception for the two 500-mile French drivers and their party, who are scheduled to arrive at Municipal Airport at 7:30 o'clock tonight, was in the making out at the Speedway this afternoon. They're counting on flashing cameras, crowds, handshaking and all

The French party, including Drivers Rene Dreyfus and Rene LeBegue

ers already at the track, among them Wilbur Shaw, Ralph Hepburn and Rex Mays, will turn out, too. The two Schell Specials which the Frenchmen will drive arrived

He cut the first lap for his best speed of 123.558, and on the second time around signalled to his crew that all was not well up front on the port side. His speed dropped off for each successive lap, which was explained when he rolled back to the apron. His early driving had worn the left front tire badly, and George had been wary ‘of risking any unusually quick laps. At that, his qualifye ing speed of 121.889 earned him a place in the sixth row. Young Sam Hanks, who has been as anxious to get going as a two-year-old in a starting gate, got the chance later in the afternoon and whipped the black four= cylinder supercharged Leon Du ray Special four times around the track at a clip of 123,064. Sam's best lap was his third, when he zipped the 21; miles in 1:12.86 for a speed of 123.528 Altogether it was a sparkling per(Continued on Page 23)

Gunn Hired at

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Butler Star to Coach Basketball Teams

Byron (Ben) Gunn, senior Butler University basketball star, has been appointed head basketball coach of Jamestown, Ind. schools, C. R. Maxam, Butler placement director, announced today. He succeeds William Johnson, former Indiana University player. Gunn, who did not land a varsity berth until his junior year, finished third in team scoring this year after he had been handicapped by an injured knee. He is the boy who sank the last-minute field goal to defeat Notre Dame, 39 to 38, in the season’s finale. Gunn, a graduate of Centerville High School, was in charge of spring basketball practice this year. He will assume his new position next September.

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By UNITED PRESS The Kansas City Blues today celebrated the 3000th victory in their 39-year history, a milestone they turned by defeating Milwaukee, 10 to 5. In more pertinent figures, they extended their consecutive vice tories to eight this season—a total of 21 victories and 7 defeats, against 16 victories and 10 defeats for Min= neapolis, occupying second place in the American Association. In other games yesterday, Mine neapolis defeated St. Paul, 12 to 5, snd Columbus defeated Toledo, 3

Three runs behind in the fourth inning, the Blues scored four in the sixth, three in the seventh and three in the eighth. They lammed the pitching of Marrow, Blaeholder, Dickson and Herring for 13 hits, while Milwaukee was getting eight off Gill and Hendrickson. Russell Evans limited St. Paul to eight hits, while the Millers were working on the pitching of Himsl, Fisher and Taylor for 17 hits. Catcher Otto Denning hit two home runs for Minneapolis. Home runs by Brack, Reis and English were

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