Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1940 — Page 17
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5 HELBYVILLE, Ind, May 28, — diana’s golfing gadabouts came and they saw and they concurred that the “Blue River Country Club course near here was one of the ‘best looking and most. exasperating they have seen in along time. Three foursomes broke par 72 for two trips around the nine-hole Blue River course yesterday to win the first three places and the only prizes awarded in the fourth regular| §§ weekly pro-amateur tournament of | jis the season. = It took a playoff to break up a tie for first place between two teams| Bf with 69 each. Raleigh Bennett, who| } left hands his way around Pleasant Run in Indianapolis; batted in a 10foot putt for a birdie three on the first extra hole to bring victory to his foursome. The pro in Raleigh’s group was Wayne Hensley, from Gardenview Golf Club in Anderson. Wayne had about a five-footer for a three himself but he picked wp when Raleigh slapped his in. With them were Jack Taulman of Columbus and Harry Leive of Fortville. The playoff losers consoled by second money were Bob Tinder, Fortville pro; Al Hoadley of Bloomington; Charles Kohlmeyer of ShelDyville, and Russ Duke of Pleasant
Run : In third was Bob’s brother Bill, who teaches the game at Lapel; Don | Hansen of Bloomington; Harold Campbell of Anderson, and Monroe Yager of Shelbyville. Though the skies threatened to drench them all afternoon, 52 golfers ran up and down Blue River's
Miss Varin Begins Her Winning Ways
Here is Carolyn Varin of Meridian Hills teeing off in the women’s golf tournament held yesterday at Pleasant Run. Looking on (left to right) are Mrs. Carl Cutter, Mrs. W. R. Spurlock and Mrs. Peggy Stonehouse. Miss Varin tied with Elizabeth Dunn for low gross honors with an 88.
Everyone Should See the Indianapolis "500 At Least Once, Joe Williams Says
City Meet Next For the Ladies
Indianapolis ladies of the links today looked ahead to the city championship tournament after Elizabeth Dunn of Highland and Carolyn Varin of Meridian Hills tied for top honors in the opening meet of the season at Pleasant Run. Both: carded low gross 88's to show the way to the fleld of 65. In third place, with a 90, was Mrs. Freeman P. Davis of Highland, while Peggy Stonehouse of Pleasant Run took fourth with a 91. In the net division Mrs. Philip Adler, Jacqueline Wolf and Mrs. Roger Kahn, all of Broadmoor, shared top honors with 78's.
x 7 the spot. These\things can and do happen when men ride in the “500,” and where the cry is Speed, speed and more speed. It makes an ideal setting for the fates with their eccentric, unpredictable verdicts ‘on-life and death. \ And r J the “500” is not wholly a wild, irsane, pointless blur-6f speed. It is actually a proving ground for advanced mechanics and the position the motor industry of this country occupies today, foremost in the world, is attributable largely to the fact findings of the race. Whether these same positive results could be obtained under less ~ welodramatic and gory conditions is open to debate. There are some who insist they can, notably Barney *. Oldfield, a distinguished alumnus of 1the “500.” Oldfield has been a consistent and articulate anti-500’er for years. But there are others just as qualified and more numerous who
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Tie for Second in Three-I League Cedar Sy inurnenssd alongside Three-I League leaders today
by virtue of a 3 to 2 win over Moline last night while Springfield and
Clinton were kept idle by rain.
Cedar Rapids is now in a second place tie with Clinton, two full games behind Springfield. The Towans scored one in the second and two in the eighth to beat Moline. which made one run in the sixth and another in the ninth. ? Evansville staged a 13-hit onslaught to swamp Waterloo, 12 to 1, the latter helping in their downfall ; five errors. It was Waterloo’s sixteenth defeat of the séason as against three wins.
Ben Davis Hurler Blanks Plainfield
- Richard Shearer pitched one-hit ball as Ben Davis High School nine shut out Plainfield at Plainfield yesterday, 1 to 0. The Davis hurler recently tossed a no-hitter against the Silent Hoosiers. Shearer struck out 14 and issued two walks yesterday. The lone Plainfield hit was chalked in the fifth inning and it was a single.
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Indizma Central
Faces 2 Games
After traveling to Franklin today: to meet the Grizzlies, Indiana Central’s baseball team will move over to Manchester for a return game tomorrow. : The ‘Gieyhounds downed ° the Spartans, 5-2, on their home lot yesterday after snuffing a ninth-in-ning threat by the visitors.
brum of Manchester singled in two runs, but the side was retired be-
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take the opposite point. of view. Be that as it may, we are convinced the high risks are never going to be eliminated from the “500”
hills and dales with their clothes] . dampened’ only slightly and their spirits dampened not at all.
east turn watching the race, and describing it to his wife on the ground. They were on their honey-
go around in advance speculating on who is going to win the “500.” Few even know the names of the
By JOE WILLIAMS
: Times Special Writer NEW YORK, May 28.—Like the
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Derby, the 500-mile race out in Indianapolis is a sports event everyone should see at least once, if for no other reason. than the spectacle with its underiones of mass psychology.
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drivers of the cars. There is never a Jire-war Bimelech, a personality with whom ‘almost everyone is familiar. There is no great interest in the race in the East. Or in automobile racing generally. An attempt to bring the sport here several years ago—the revival of the Vanderbilt cup—was a costly failure. But out in the Middle West. the “530” is a tremendous thing. Indeed, it is claimed the “53%” outdraws the Derby. For some reason the promoters never give out actual attendance figures for either event. For the Derby, 90,000 is the popular estimate; for- the “500” it’s always “more than 100,000.”
It's a Holiday Crowd
The “500” is a holiday race and draws a holiday crowd. People ‘drive in from the surrounding towns and’ cities. Thousands arrive the night before and park their cars® (in which they sleep) alongside the interminable fences which inclose the two-and-a-half-mile course. For them it’s a gay holiday fling. * These people make up more than four-fifths of the crowd. They are holiday spenders and thriil seekers. They have no academic interest in
ances. They just: want to see a rdce, have a good time, and if somebody gets bumped off; so much the better. Messrs. Hannagan and Copps can write: all ‘they please about the “500” being a laboratory test out of which come the refinements, innovations and savety valves so vital to highway motoring, but it will leave the average spectator indifferent. It might even provoke a laugh. Because men have have ben killed in the “500”; there is no guarantee that more men won’t be killed in this mad, roaring scramble of speed, and whether the promoters and the press agents like'it or not, this morbid, macabre threat is a powerful turnstile lure.
A Hazard for Spectators
The “500” can be a grim hazard for spectators, too. In the 1938 race a car crashed. One of the front wheels wrenched loose and flew through the air 100 yards; it struck a Terre Haute man in the head and killed him instantly. He was stand-
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“It has stepped up the speed, reduced skidding hazard and that- ‘rumble shimmy’ every driver knew on the old brick surface. | truly believe that every one of the boys feel about Ken-
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there was a similar tragedy. A flying wheel from the car of Billy Arnold hurtled over the Speedway wall and struck a youngster play-
as long as humans sit back of the steering wheel. There is something about the yirge for speed in the souls of men that sneers at danger, something that all the precautionary restraints and management limita-
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