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SPORTS...

By Eddie Ash

Look who's in town! . .

. Our old friend Bananas

Zeke Bonura, who is playing the first sack for the Minneapolis Millers. . . . The hometown Indians had

him on their roster at one

time and sent him away

without a thorough trial . . . so he upped and become

famous. Since leaving Indianapolis, the

big slugger from New Orleans

dipped into the Texas League where he knocked down the fences

with his huge bat . . . The White

Sox grabbed him and he went

on from there, through the majors, in the American and in the

National. Bonura always will remember

Perry Stadium as the park in

which he belted a triple and another player received credit for the

extra-base wallop. . . .

The Indians had two first sackers at the

time ant the other one got a three-bagger in his record without

hitting it. Zeke has lost none of his good

fit into the Mauling Miller picture. .

nature and is doing his ‘best to . . He didn't relish a trip back

to the minors but got over his peeve in time and joined Tom

Sheehan's forces as a late starter. . . .

Kelley has promised to sell Zeke ba opportunity.

It is seid President Mike ck to the majors at the earliest

Also here with the Millers is last year's American Association

ion hitter, champion home run ry . re name is Ab Wright, outfielder, who really

batter-inner, , . swings that stick.

Other well-known pastimers with Sheehan's gang a

walloper and champion run-

re Hub

Walker, Fabian Gaffke, Lin Storti, Frank Trechock, Huck Geary,

Otto Denning, Russ Rolandson, Bill Kelley, Chief Hogsett, B Mickey Haefner and Mike Kash

Barnacle, Buck Fausett, Harry

Relve Bean, Walter Tauscher, Harry Smythe,

Pilot Thorne Comes Up the Hard Way JOE THORNE, lanky millionaire race-driver who has been im-

proving his p

500-mile race last vear, has found

osition in every race to finish fifth in the annual

that there is no short cut in

automobile ‘racing even for an earnest young man with money,

Thorne came up « « « He was entered in both the 1 qualify to start, although he was t

to the top ranks at Indianapolis the hard way. . ¥ 936 and the 1937 race but did not

he first alternate in the latter

contest. . . . In 1938 he finished barely in the money in ninth posi-

ion and worked up to seventh spot in the 1839 race. pg improved two more positions in 1940 and he

this May 30 fighting for the top posi

in prize money which even 8 wealthy young man

vestments can use to advantage

CLIFF BERGE

one—how to win the five-century grin

ing Way

Cliff has come close a number of times

1 las nder the wire a winner. . es lose as third place n 1939.

de a winner, Bergere would be in the game trains more faithfully

¢ than Bergere.

money seven times, and came as C If physical condition alone ma almost a sure thing. ... Nobody

will be back

tion and a share of the $100,000 with many in-

RE. movie stunt ace, knows all the tricks except

d at the Indianapolis Roar-

but he has never been He has finished in the

; classi for the annual Memorial Day class for that tantalizing first place in

This year Bergere will try again the “500.” _ Winning it is the o like to accomplish.

ne trick above all others he'd

Horses Take Over Next Saturday

A WEEK FROM TODAY population will be in Louisville w

' tate contributes to it in a huge W ; the So ate r to become horse crazy for a day.

hard to match in frenay, although

the trek from Indana every yea Derby Day at the Downs Is thousands of the fans event Just a peek for At this time yours truly i

the bulk

Boots and King Cole, in that order when it's

Looieville,

on hana get very

a large section of Hoosierland’s atching the Kentucky Derby.

ay as thousands make

little view of the big of the throng.

s stringing with Porter's Cap, Our

all over down in

Baseball At a Glance

AMERICAN AS SOCIATION : Vv Lost

uisville absentee pTANAPOLIS Columbus St. Paul Minneapolis Kansas City Toledo . ilwaukee NATIONAL LEAGUE Lost

New York ......en rooklyn St. Louis Cincinnati Chicago Pittsbureh eis . : Philadelphia ... coven AMERICAN LEAGUE |

Pct Won Last PN 600

500!

New York ..... Cleveland Boston Chicago roi Philadelphia St. Louis caasace Washington .

GAMES TODAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

Minneapolis at INDIANAPOLIS,

3 aukee at Toledo. Ransas City at Columbus, St. Paul at Louisville.

.333 .300

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Pittsburgh at Cincinnati. t Brooklyn. Rew Yokr at Philadelphia. §t. Louis at Chicago.

AMERICAN LEAGUE t Cleveland Rashingion at New a Rhiladelohs st. Louis. RESULTS YESTERDAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

,! Milwaukee 8 Columbus

3 Louisville

s | Louisville

+ | landson; 3 Brookivn : New

Ye Chicago

(Eleven Innings) 000 00—4 11 1] I 000 a1—S 10 1 and Hayworth; BrechPoland. (First Game) 202 001 010—6 11 sang 210—3 10 Kline and Denning: Hodkey,

Sullivan, een and

Minneapolis

Hogsett,

Sheetz and Gleen,

ings: reement) (Seeoitd Jame 7 inn ints 25 i—3 11

os + sais ss TOO OLR Kash, Kelley, Kline and RoPowell and Lacy.

Minnea Nesseth,

NATIONAL LEAGUE CC ii......000 200 000-0 & 1 CII 000 028 00x—S YT 0 alvo, Lamanna, Johnson and Berres; Highe and Owen,

Boston

York “as oe 010 015—3 9% ©

Philadelphia .. ......211 : and Danning: BlanSchumacher, BO hasten.

ton, Tamulis and ..102 100 004-8 9 1 302 200 000—

i Eh 111 0 Pittsburgh LL ™ . fensberger. Pressnell, ooty, Pan, RA can: Bowman, Heintzelman, Lanning and Davis,

100 002 100—4 9 3 " 220 om 00x—8 13 x . Riddle, utchings an West: Warneke, Hutchinson and Cooper,

Cincinnati St. L

AMERICAN LEAGUE eo 1 100 000 40 Shas 18 1 Feller and Hemsley: Ly-

Cleveland Chobe, Hevine: aghy, . ons ind Tresh.

St. Louis 241 200 00211 1 3

DEOMI. . « ui +:50250 L320 500 012-12 i use, Kramer, Ostermueller, Jlartis, Galehe Grube; Gorsica, MeKain, enton and Tebbetts.

8 ....000 000-0 Noa hioarT 0 0 411 000 00x—6 11 © “Leonard. Anderson and Ferrell, Early; Bonham and Dickey.

ansas Ci'y . 2 al 001 i Waiter ani Kearse: Biscan, Sorelle tig] Harshany, Spindel

Travis and Hac

i noo 001-1 5 1 Juiiadelohia 100 110 00x38 1 1 Knott, R. \ohnson and Hayes: Newsome and Pytivk.

k Are Big Boys

With the Bats in Majors

NEW YORK, April 26 (U. P)— Two infielders, Cecil Travis of Washington and Stanley Hack of the Chicago Cubs, have grabbed the | major league batting leads after the first 10 days of play, according to the averages released today and including Thursday's games. Travis. Senators’ shortstop who is slated to be inducted into the army in mid-May, is showing the way to American League hitters with a 588 average in eight games. His nearest rival is Jeff Heath, Cleve- | land outfielder, who is hitting .450 in six games. | Hack, Cubs’ third baseman, is getting the pace in the National| League with a 478 mark for seven es followed by Nick Etten, Phillies’ rookie first baseman, with

385. Other major league leaders fol-

Special Golf Events Start

A “pro-amateur” tomorrow is the! first of a series of special Sunday, golfing events scheduled this] month and next at the Pleasant] Run course. In tomorrow's tourney, scheduled | to begin at 12:30 p. m,, players will be divided into Classes A, B, and C with low handicap players acting as ‘‘pros.” Entries must be in pro; Tommy Vaughn's hands by noon. On May 4 a bankers’ handicap 1s scheduled at Pleasant Run, followed by another “pro-am” on May 11. A “pro-am” is scheduled May 18, and a mixed two-ball foursome on May, 25. A flag day tourney is to ve, hald on Megorial Day,

| Walker, Tigers, 4;

{ Kreevich, White Sox {McCosky, Tige

| Handley, Pirates

Trade G. Brack For Southpaw

To Top Saints, 3 to 2

today came up with a new pitcher—the second this week —and the team’s weakest department now takes on a bet-

ter glow.

Italo Chelini, seasoned southpaw, who is no stranger to the American Association, is to report to the Tribe tomorrow. General Manager Leo T. Miller landed the lefthander in a trade with the Baltimore Orioles, and departing the Indians in the deal is Outfielder Gilbert Brack. The . Redskins opened the season with seven fly chasers and they are not hurting the club by disposing of one for a pitcher. Brack was obtained from St. Paul last year in a deal that sent First Baseman Jess Newman and Pitcher Llovd Johnson to the Saints. He batted .276 in 1940. Southpaw Chelini won. 14 games and lost 12 for the fourth-place Baltimore club last year and also did some fancy pitching in the International League playoff series. Formerly With St. Paul He appeared in 37 regular season games, worked 174 innings, gave up 184 hits, and 80 runs, struck out 68 and walked 40. The Italian-Ameri-can pitched for St. Paul in 1937 and part of 1938. Chelini’'s coming is welcomed in more ways than one, Jake Wade was

the lone lefthander on the staff and now it at least

in balance. Mike Naymick, the giant righthander, who joined the Hoosjers Thursday on cption from the Cleveland Americans, is slated to make his Indianapolis debut in OE the second half gr tomorrow's double Italo Chelini -header at Perry Stadium against the Minneapolis! Millers. In tomorrow's first game, starting at 2 p. m, Steel Arm Ray Starr will gun for his fifth victory of the new season. He won four games in eight days and this achievement is the main topic in fanning bees around the league. He used to pitch for the Millers and will take keen delight in extending his amazing winning streak at their expense. New Series Opens

The Miller series was to open this afternoon and George Gill, veteran righthander, was nominated to toe the rubber for the Indians. The Millers came up from Louisville where they split a twin bill with the Colonels yesterday. Adding to the cheerful atmosphere at the Tribe park, was the fact that one more hurler made the nineinning grade yesterday when Bill Cox defeated the Saints, 3 to 2,.in the series finale. The “win” gave the second-place Indians two out of three in the series and kept them on the heels of first-place Louisville. Had Minneapolis swept that double header at Louisville the Indians would have tied for the lead. Milton Galatzer was back in the Tribe lineup yesterday as an outfielder and he delivered a sizzling single in the sixth frame that batted in two runs and won the close battle. It was Milton's 13th time at bat this season and his first hit. Legrant Scott was given a rest and Galatzer played the right garden, and played in style. First Run In Fifth

Cox and Vedie Himsl waged a scoreless fracas before the Redskins broke the spell in the fifth. Lakeman rammed a single to left, Cox sacrificed and Wayne Blackburn poked a single to left, scoring Lakeman. It was in this inning that the

3 {home boys snoozed in broad daylight.

Blackburn was caught napping off first on a throw by Catcher Herman Bauer, and Bennie Zientara, whe singled after Blackburn was caught dozing, promptly wert to sleep himself and was rubbed out on a seccond quick throw by Bauer to Jess Newman. In the sixth canto Joe Mack led off with a double and Hunt got a double—his second of the game— when Outfielder Frank Kalin lost

his fly in the sun. Mack was held

|low: Hits—(A) Joe DiMaggio, Yan- at third on Hunt's blow and Galat-

kees, 19; (N) G. Moore, Bees, 17. ser stepped up in the clutch and lin-

Doubles—(A) Rosar, Yankees, and |

Dom DiMaggio, Red Sox, each 5; (N) Mize, Cards, Owen, Dodgers, Pirates, and Dallessandro, each 4. Triples— (A) G. (N) G. Moore, Bees, 4 Home Runs—(A) Joe DiMaggio, Yankees, and Doerr, Red Sox, 4 each; (N) Ott, Giants, Camilli, Dodgers, 4 each. Runs Batted In—(A) Joe DiMaggio, Yankees, and Doerr, Red Sox, 15 each; (N) Camilli, Dodgers, 14. Stolen Bases—(A) D. DiMaggio and P. Fox, Red Sox, 3 each; (N) six players tied with one each. The 10 leading hitters in each league follow:

AMERICAN LEAGUE

AB R 1

Cubs,

a B z

Travis, Senators Heath, Cleveland J. DiMaggio, Yankees. Siebert, Athletics ..... Cronin, Red Sox 3 Radcliff, Browns ax D DiMaggio, Red Sox

55%

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S NATIONAL LEAGUE

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Hack, Cubs Etten, Phillies . G. Moore, Bees ....... 44 Slaughter, Cardinals . 3 Lavagetto, Dodgers ...

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+. 4 T. Moore, Cardinals... 37 Crall, Red§. ...c..vv.c 93 Goodman, Reds ...... 24 Jurges, Giants The league based on two victories and no defeats: AMERICAN LEAGUE G Ww

Auker, Browns | 3 Dietrich, White Sox... 2 NATIONAL LEAGUE

Casey. Dodgers i i i y

po PION BRO NT

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Bridges, Tigers G B

amliy, Dodgers ..... wim, Giants. ee. Both coscasein

leading pitchers in each Flete

ed a hit to center, scoring both runners. Cox Pulls Through The Saints got their first hitter on five times but Cox weathered the

and eighth. A double by Kress and a single by Bauer got the Saints a run in the seventh. and in the eighth a double by English and two infield outs accounted for their second and last run. The fact that Cox pitched six innings of shutout ball, allowing four hits over that stretch, put Manager Killefer in high glee. The Sainte’ final hit total was seven and the Tribe's ten. Zientara had a perfect day with one walk and three singles in four plate appearances. (E. A). i ———————————————

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PITTSBURGH, April 26 (NEA) — Lloyd Waner is the only Pittsburgh Pirate who was a member of the

pennant- p crew of 1027.

From Baltimore, :

Bill Cox Goes 9 Innings |

The Indianapolis Indians|

will be improved |

storm threats except in the seventh |®

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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‘Hitch Your Wagon to a Starr’: Emerson and Killefer

Taking his cue from the poet Emerson, Wade Killefer has hitched his Indians’ pennant wagon to a Starr and here is the evidence. That's Steel Arm Starr “hitched” while a bunch of his buddies look pleasant seated on and in an old phaeton that is only partially there, The vehicle probably was a humdinger in its time. At any rate, Ray Starr is the hero of the season in this area, what with four victories and no defeats chalked up in eight days. And he'll be out there again tomorrow in the first game of the double-header against the Millers.

Eastern Teams

Lead the A. A.

By UNITED PRESS

on the top three positions in

ville, the league leader, holding its|

lumbus, the second and third place occupants picking up a game each. Minneapolis handed Louisville its second defeat of the season, 6 to 3, in the first game, but couldn't make it a slam, losing the second, 7 to 3.! The veteran left-hander, Elon Hogsett pitched six scoreless innings before the Colonels got to him for all of their runs in the seventh and eighth. Ab Wright, Minneapolis home run expert, got a four baser in the eighth inning. In the second game, Louisville got off to a four run lead in the first inning and held it. Larry Powell made it a good day for southpaws by going the route to win the nightcap. George Barley, Kansas City rookie, got a 5 to 0 shut out over Toledo, spacing nine hits so that he seldom was in trouble. A pair of quick double plays helped him out of bad spots in the third and eighth innings. Columbus went 11 innings for a 5 to 4 triumph over Milwaukee. Harry Brecheen went the route, holding Milwaukee scoreless after the fourth inning. Brecheen was the third left-hander of the day to turn in a victory.

Michigan, Towa

Top Big 10 Nines

Iowa and Michigan, two late starters, shared the lead in the Big Ten baseball race today with records of one victory and no losses. Indiana, one of the front runners early in the week, dropped a 9-3 game to the Hawkeyes and sagged to sixth place, while Purdue lost its third straight at Illinois, 10-5 Bob Stastny of Iowa limited the Hoosiers to six hits, and although one of these was a home run by Danielson with two on, the Hawks clubbed Don Dunker for 11 hits. Iowa combined four hits with an

Eastern teams took a firmer hold | the —New York University, with two |P.) —Track and field athletes drew

error to score five runs in the fourth inning. { Although the Illini were limited | to eight hits by Pitchers Leifheit | and Janisch, they obtained enough walks for their 10 runs. Purdue's! attack was featured by a three-run! splurge in the third. In other games Michigan defeated Chicago, 10 to 1; Wisconsin bumped Ohio State, 10 to 7, and Minnesota trimmed Northwestern, 9 to 3. The teams were to meet the same foes this afternoon. The standings:

- ~ —-

Towa Michigan Illinois Northwestern Ohio State Indiana .... Wisconsin ...

or 3%

DD DH Ey

3453:

Minnesota .., Purdue Chicago

The Indianapolis District Golf Association's board of directors, an ultra efficient body, was in session for less than two hours yesterday and when adjournment was called, the following had been accomplished. 1. This year's District tournament was set for June 16, 17 and 18, to be played at Highland, Ulen Country Club of Lebanon and Speedway. This marks the first time a round of the 54-hole medal play tournament has been awarded to an out-of-town course. 2. It was agreed that the District Association, along with the Indiana Golf Association, would sponsor the 1942 Tri-State tournament, to be held here in 1942. An invitation will be

presented at the annual Tri-State meeting in Augusk

Golf Group Sets June 16,17,18 As District Tourney Dates

In Relays; I. U.

PHILADELPHIA, April 26 (U. P.).|

American Association today: Louis-|major titles under its belt, sought

a grand slam in the 47th annual

own by splitting a Friday double-| cn0 Relay carnival today by send-

header, and Indianapolis and Co-|

ing its violet-clag runners out on! Franklin Field's fast track after) four more major championships. Chief competition for the New| Yorkers at the end of this two-day meet came from Indiana's Big Ten squad, already bested twice by the Easterners, in a pair of stirring stretch duels. It was Leslie MacMitchell, N. Y. U.’s IC4A mile champion, against Campbell Kane, the Hoosiers’ mile king, with the relay carnival championship in the balance. MaecMitchell, slight, dark-haired frontrunner, matches strides again today with the tall, lanky Kane in the two-mile and four-mile events. Violets, I. U. Battle The violets meet their chief opposition from North Texas Teachers in the 880-yard relay, with Indiana out of the event. N. Y. U. and Indiana meet in the one-mile event but neither MacMitchell nor Kane participate on these teams. The two-mile and‘ the four-mile, favorite events for the distance-running Mid-Westerners, again bring the two men tegether. What practically amounts to a feud started yesterday when MacMitchell twice nosed out Kane to give N. Y. U. its championships in the distance and sprint medleys. In the final mile of distance medley, Kane challenged in the stretch but MacMitchell accepted and ran to a three-foot victory. Wilt, Harris Set Records The sprint medley was run in two heats and Indiana, with Kane running anchor, won the first heat in 3:287. New York University, in the second heat, beat that time by three-tenths of a second with MacMitchell again carrying the mail on the final half-mile leg. Archie Harris, the Hoosiers Western Conference weight champion, came back after being nosed out in the shot put to break the meet's two-year-old discus mark. He lost to Jim Delany of Notre Dame by one-eighth of an inch in the shot. Harris tossed the discuss 167 feet 10'%¢ inches for his record, shattering the 1939 mark of 163 feet 4 inches, held by Bill Faymonville of Notre Dame. Fred Wilt of Indiana, Big Ten indoor two-mile champion, broke the old carnival mark in winning the two-mile run in 9:17.86. The former 9:25.9 record was set by Roy Buker of Bates in 1921.

College Baseball

Indiana Central, 15; Huntington, 0. Central Normal, 21; Hanover, 8. ndiana, 3. . 4: Louisville, 1. Illinois, 10; Purdue, §.

ago, 1, 9; West Yirginia, 2 Wisconsin. 10: Ohio State, 7. Minnesota. 9; Northwestern, 8. Missouri, 17; Nebraska, 1 Amherst, 12; Colgate, 2. garolina, 1.

Clemson, 3; : Idaho, 5. ; Colorado State, 5. Towa State, 7.

Georgetown

Denver, 20 Kansas, 8;

3. A cash balance of $786.51 was noted. 4. The association voted to continue its appropriation for the upkeep of an experimental green and the support of green clinics. The directors will notify the

33 member clubs of the Empire Day a

tournaments for Canada's Maple Leaf Fund. Scheduled for May 24,

the tournaments would carry a $1|Ambl

entry fee, all to be turned over to the Fund. Medals would go to the winners. 4 6. They are: E. IL. Lennox, president; Wallace O. Lee, first vice president; Bernie Lehman, second vice president; Don Kennedy, Martins

ville, third vice president; Leland|p

Crawford, fourth vice president; Neal Grideg, treasurer, and Clifford B Wi secretary,

All officers were re-elected.

New Record Books Are Needed

2d at Penn

DES MOINES, Ia. April 26 (U.

a bead on the rest of the Drake relays records today. More than 15,000 spectators looked to college and university athletes to maintain a standard of performance which already has shattered one world mark, bettered six meet records and tied another. In today’s events new high hurdles records were considered highly probable. Oklahoma A. & M. was regarded as a cinch to smash the university shuttle hurdle mark; the high jump record was tottering under yesterday’s assaults, and both sections of the college mile relay record were within easy distance. Given the same good weather and track conditions, a virtually all-new record book may be needed by tonight. Clyde Littlefleld’s Texas speeddemons, going after a world’s mark in the 440-yard relay—they have already lowered the meet record—and aiming to win the 880yard relay, took most of the attention in the university relay field by winning yesterday's sprint medley in 3:23.2, bettering their own world’s fastest time of 3:24 for the distance. The Texans will send their two fastest men after a new 100-yard mark. Fred Ramsdell, one of four who set the spring medley record, and Carleton Terry, of the 440-yard quartet, will match strides with Louisiana State's Billy Brown and Leo Tarrant, Alabama State College Negro. All have equalleq the meet record of 9.5, and Brown and Terry have done 9.4. Confidence of tournament officials that A] Blozis of Georgetown would shatter the world’s mark of 57 feet, 1% inches in the shot was shown by their action in painting a new market reading 60 feet.

Vogel Team Look Like A.B.C. Kings

ST. PAUL, Minn, April 26 (U. P.). —Barring the possibility of a dark horse, it appeared today that the Vogel Brothers of Forest Park, Ill, would win the 1941 team championship at the annual American Bowling Congress. Three teams staged the wildest scoring spree of the tournament last night by rolling better than 3000 each, but none was able to top the 3065 total made by the Vogels March 30. The Joseph L. Gill Insurance Company team of Chicago came closest, making 3034 to reach third place in the five-man standings, largely through the efforts of Adolph (Swede) Carlson who rolled a 678 series. Two Kansas City teams, the Budweisers and the Dean Rubbers, scored 3027 and 3022, respectively, to win tying honors for sixth and Sign places in the team competin.

Box Score

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Cox 2

Derby Cast Goes Today

By JACK GUENTHER United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, April 26 (U. P).— Young King Cole set out today to stretch his dazzling early speed over the mile and one-sixteenth routes of the $20,000 Wood Memorial and prove that the East isn't out of the Kentucky Derby yet. The Son of Pharamond II, now the stand-out choice of the Eastern plungers, went against eight rivals of assorted ability and reputations before 35,000 spectators at Jamaica in the race which long has served as New York's derby preview, and on all sides he was a solid if not overwhelming favorite. The King faced two very tough rivals in Cold Stream Stud’s Curious Coin, one of the two top horses of the Florida season, and Brookmeade Stable’'s Mettlesome, only horse in the Wood field not named for the Derby. Winner of the Paumonok Handicap in his only 1941 start, and now 6-to-1 in the Derby future books, King Cole has worked excellently for this test. The King has proved already that he has plenty of speed, but never before has he been asked to run farther than a sprint and nobody was certain how he would react. Trainer Jim Fitzsimmons, who has won the Wood six times before, pronounced him fit and full of frisk, but offered no predictions. The Wood, run 16 times before, is regarded on all sides as the race to determine the size of the Derby field. A victory for King Cole or Curious Coin would tend to hold the number down, while an upset for one of the dark horses would throw things wide open. The chances of the lesser knowns — Gun Bearer, Master Henry and the others— shipping to Louisville for a try at the roses rested squarely on their showing today.

Five Auto Races At Greenfield

Five races are scheduled on tomorrow’s automobile speed program at the Greenfield Fair Grounds. Three elimination races, an Australian pursuit event and a 25-lap feature are listed. Among the drivers entered are Slim Rutherford of Whiting, K. I. R. A. champion of 1940; Chick Smith of Frankfort, Ky. and Charles Szekendy of South Bend. Time trials will begin at 1 p. m. with the first elimination event scheduled for 2 o'clock.

It's as plain as the glove in a loser’s face that before many moons pass Lou Thomas and Johnny Denson, the city's two chief heavyweight fighters, will have to be put in the same ring. Both already have established themselves with local fight fans, and many of the fellows who push lettuce through the Armory boxoffice window every Friday night are itching for the engagement. Thomas added another victory to his growing string last night when he polished off rangy Johnny McCarthy of Chicago in four rounds of a scheduled 10-rounder. Although the coup de grace was a hard right, most everybody present thought Mr. McCarthy would be back on his feet in the allotted 10 counts. But the blond Irishman got to his knees and that was all. Previously he had handed Thomas some punishing face blows, and the Times’ score sheet showed one round for the winner, one for the loser and one all even. Thomas came into the ring at 197 pounds and McCarthy at 199%. Bud Cottey continued to assert

. his featherweight superiority, Jagh

night over one Herbie Gilmore Cincinnati. After driving Gilmore eight counts in the

in in. | tO the canvas for yosing | second round,

for nine in the third. Gilmore

SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1941

—

Managers Sing Blues After Tragic Losses

Dykes, Prothro, Haney And Frisch in Chorus

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, April 26 (U, P.) .—The leading occupants of baseball’s mourners’ bench today were Frankie Frisch, Doc Prothro, Jimmy Dykes and Fred Haney. Every ona of those managers thought his club had a game won yes terday but they found out the ninth inning still counts.

It's doubtful if they make ga straitjacket strong enough to hold Frankie Frisch after he loses a tough one. Imagine what he did last night after the Pirates blew yesterday's game to the Cubs, 8-7. With two out*in the ninth the Cubs scored four runs with Augie Galan's single driving it the winning run. Boy, bring the chloroform for poor old Frankie. As if things weren't tough enough for Doc Prothro, the Phillies tossed a game right into the lost column yesterday. They had the Giants licked, 4-2, going into the ninth but fell apart and lost, 7-4. That makes nine out of the last 10 the Phils have lost. Everything happens to the good Doc and it’s all bad.

And Feller Did It

Jimmy Dykes is one of ihe orige inal haters of the Cleveland Ine dians following their mutiny last June, but his wrath must have been unbounded after the Tribe scored three runs in the ninth to steal a 5-3 triumph from the White Sox, To make it hurt doubly the Indians staged their rally with two down and against Ted Lyons. Pinch-hite ter Beau Bell's double that scored the two winning runs was a pop fly. Bob Feller was called on to retire the White Sox in the last of the ninth and rub salt in Dykes’ bleed« ing wounds. He did that by retiring the side one-two-three. But perhaps the fellow who feels worst of all is Fred Haney, the lite tle red-faced pilot of the Browns. He saw his team lead the Tigers 2-0, 6-2, 7-4, 9-4, and 11-10 and then lose in the ninth, 12-11. The Browns staged a ninth-inning uprising themselves to score two runs but Rudy York's single off Johnny Allen with the bases loaded drove in two runs to sink St. Louis.

Bonham Hurls 3-Hitter

The other two American League pilots, Joe McCarthy and Joe Cronin, had a pleasant afternoon. Ernie Bonham twirled a three-hit-ter (two of them scratch hits) as the Yanks beat Washington, 6-0. The Yanks again beat their old nemesis, Dutch Leonard, making it three times already this season. Joe Cronin benched himself because of a sore arm and watched the Red Sox come through with a 3-1 victory over Philadelphia and snap their four-game losing streak. Rookie Dick Newsome allowed only five hits, and had the A's shut out with two hits until the ninth. Kirby Higbe, wearing No. 13 on his shirt (he discarded No. 15 after losing his first two games), hurled his first triumph for Brooklyn, a 5-0 shutout over the Bees. The Cardie nals beat the Reds, 8-4, making their fourth triumph in five games over the World Champs. Southe worth's big reason to cheer was the fact double plays, with Slats Marion and Creepy Crespi, St. Louis’ new key stone combination, figuring in four of them.

Bulldog Nine Loses No. 4

The Butler Bulldogs lost their fourth baseball game in a row yess terday afternoon at Muncie. Ball State of Muncie was the nut which the Blue Sox couldn't crack— 12t0 5. * Laverne Hartley went all the way for the Cardinals against Bob Fletcher and Bud Tex, keeping the Bulldogs’ nine bingles well scattered. Fletcher was pounded for 11 hits and 12 runs during his six and two-thirds-inning stay on the hill before Tex relieved him in the seventh. Tex gave up only one hit the rest of the way. It was the third consecutive Ine diana Conference defeat for the Hinklemen who travel to Craw fordsville Monday for another loop

tilt with the Wabash Little Giants.

A Denson vs. Thomas Fight Is Coming—Mark Our Words

was game for more, but when Cote tey’s next flurry of blows battered him down again, the referee called a stop to it. Gilmore, who weighed 123 pounds, gave two pounds to his conqueror. A bounding ball of energy that went by the name of Marty Fields looked considerably better when he was shadow boxing in the corner than when he was absorbing the punches of Leroy Dycus in midring. The four-round match went to Dycus on a decision after 12 minutes of almost steady waltzing and clinching. Fields, a Louisville boxer, still could skip and dance after the fight, but such was hardly enough to convince the judges. Ace Reed of Indianapolis substie tuted for Brooks Hayes of Louise ville in a four-round featherweight preliminary and was given the vere dict over Marshall Edwards of Cine cinnati, Fuzzy Morganette, another Louisville lad, dropped a four-round heavyweight decision to Al Sheridan of Indianapolis, who was called in to replace Jerry Bennish of Belle ville, Ill.

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