Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1941 — Page 10

SPORTS... By Eddie Ash

THE UNITED STATES

naval air corps is going to

cut £=xt by a year Campbell Kane's collegiate running

career, but before the Indiana

University middle-distance

star reports he has some “unfinished business” to take

care of in the Big Ten outdoor meet. Indiana University runners have taken a liking to the Western

Conference mile championship, and

Hoosier family for the ninth time in 11 years. .

it is Kane's job to keep it in the . . But winning the

mile to uphold Indiana tradition isn’t Campbell's only objective in the annual Conference classic, to be held at Minneapolis, May 16

and 17.

Last year Wisconsin's Ed Buxton outran Kane in the indoor and

outdoor half-mile, even though the I to win the 1940 National Collegiate ised himself both events before the c

ndiana University racer went on half-mile title. . . . Kane promurrent racing season opened. . ..

He was successful at the indoor meet in February, and hopes to duplicate the double win at Minneapolis. Coach E. C. Hayes’ Hoosiers have had a toe-hold on the Big Ten mile title since 1931. . .. Only in 1938 and 1939, when the two Wisconsin runners, Charles Fenske and Walter Mehl, won, did an Indiana entrant fail to run away with the championship. Kane returned the mile championship to Indiana last year as a

sophomore.

. . . Had he not entered the service, Kane undoubtedly

would have matched Don Lash’s feat of winning it for the Hoosiers

three times. .

A Thrill and a Chill for Wilbu

THE SOUTHEAST TURN at th still is the southeast turn . . . and

. . Lash’s years were 1935, 36, "37.

r Shaw

e Indianapolis Motor Speedway Wilbur Shaw will vouch for it

after his speed chariot got out of control there yesterday. . . . The 500-mile champ had his gleaming Maserati out for a practice spin

when the thing happened. . . . It was

a near-calamity for both driver

and car and Shaw thanks his lucky stars for coming out unscratched. The percentage of race-day accidents on the southeast turn is unusually high and that explains why hundreds of racegoers make a

beeline to park in that area after

they reach the infield. . . . It

couldnt be, of course, that they “hope” to see a crack-up, but try

and keep ‘em away. » ” ”

THE SPEEDWAY'S official repor terday, in part:

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t on Shaw's terrifying spin ves-

“Wilbur Shaw went into a spin while turning the fastest lap he'd ever recorded at the Speedway. Out for his first practice this season,

he was burning up the track at an

unofficial pace of 131 miles an

hour when the car went out of control on No. 2 turn. The car skidded and spun for 350 yards before Shaw brought it to a stop on the safety

apron. “Shaw said he was just going too behind the wheel of a race car for a

speed he'd ever driven at Indianapolis.

fast for a man who hadn’t been year. He said it was the fastest ‘I guess I need more than

five laps under my belt before I try to juice it up,’ said Shaw ruefully, ‘Just chalk it up to a young colt feeling his oats on a bright spring

day.’

Cotton Henning Recovers From Shock

“NO ONE, including Shaw himse ton Henning, the ace mechanic, when

1f, was more relieved than Cothe drove to the scene and found

Wilbur unhurt and the car undamaged. “The chunky blgad, who is an institution in big-time racing, has

a great deal at stake in Shaw and the car.

many long hours tuning the Maserat makes a winner. He tuned it into fir he had given it added speed for this ” » EARLY 500-mile railbirds got a stroyver vesterday when Rex Mays, the Bowes Seal Fast Special out for a ru very fast, winter lay-off and easing it into the

”

For Cotton has spent i to just the perfect pitch that st place for Shaw last year and year’s race.”

»

glimpse of another space deCalifornia Cannonball, took his n. ... Mays did not step it up

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seeming content to get the feel of his car after the long

“groove.”

Other pilots on the track were George Barringer and Al Miller

in their two rear-engined Eddie Off sages of Detroit look on as threats,

utt entries which some racing and Bud Winfield in his new-

fangled engine which Ralph Hepburn, the veteran driver, will pilot. . . . Hepburn is expected in town in a couple of days.

Calls It Race

Between Just

Two Favorites

Selects Robert Morris To Finish Third

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer

LOUISVILLE, May 3.—By

upon your Derby winner. We hope you have been intelligent about it and name Port-

er’s Cap, Our Boots and Robh-

bert Morris in that order. There could be a slight change in the ultimate result with Our Boots taking the nod. It's hard to split them out. We don’t think you're going to get rich on the race whether it turns out to be the Cap or Boots. They're going to be short priced horses, around 2 to 1 at best, we'd say. This adds up with our statement it is hard to separate them. Personally we think the Cap will go to the post the favorite, due to the esteem in which the Pacific Coast bettors hold him. And when these fellows get high on a horse they send it in.

Our Experts

1. Eddie Ash (Times), Porter’s Cap, Our Boots, Dispose.

2. Steve Snider (United Press), Porter's Cap, Little Beans, Whirlaway.

3. Jack Guenther (United Press), Porter's Cap, Our Boots, Little Beans.

4 Joe Williams (Special Writer), Porter's Cap, Our Boots, Robert Morris.

If you are a Boots man you may be interested in a bet Roy Martin, who owns him, made the other day with Chicago's leading bookie. H=2 bet him a sizable chunk at even money that Boots would beat the Cap. Both horses have to be in the money or it is no bet. At least that's the way we understand the transaction. You want to keep in mind, though, that the bookie rates the Cap over Boots, or else hed never lay even money. No Long Shet We wish we could give you a nice fat long shot that has a solid chance but we cant; not and feel that we were doing anything but

now you have no doubt settled!

Washington's Harold Rickenba vault, and the leap was worth five city track meet. Rickenback cam

Big 10 Nines

Michigan. unbeaten in three games, took over undisputed possession of first place in the Big Ten baseball standings today as both Indiana and Purdue figured how to get out of the second division. Although the Hoosiers administered a 10-1 shellacking to the Boilermakers yesterday, they remained in sixth place, and the loss did nothing to improve Purdue's hold on ninth place. The two state rivals were to meet again today at Lafayette. Don Dunker’s four-hit pitching held the Boilermakers helpless yesterday as Indiana capitalized on costly Purdue errors and blasted two pitchers for the top-heavy victory. Mike Kosman led the Hoosier attack with a home run, doubie and

stabbing. We've spent a week around the barns looking the horses | over, talking with their trainers and | old time hangers-on, the kind of people who know horses and Der- | bies, and we got no where in our

It's an old Hoosier Custom—

Tribe Is Losing

Times Special

KANSAS CITY. Mo, May 3. —|

one by one in the West.

are following the pattern of Indian-| apolis teams before them.

Killefer boys have lost two straight to the Blues. |

Out West

| choice would be Lefty Gerheauser. Due to injuries in their ranks, the Following an old Hoosier custom, the Indians put a makeshift lineup on Indianapolis Indians are losing 'em|the field yesterday. A twisted ankle | sidelined Wayne Blackburn, outfieldMaybe it's because they are in the er, and Wayne Ambler, home of the league champs, or may- also was be it’s just tradition, but the fact bruises rece remains that the Tribesters of 1941 day with Jim Nicholson of the Blues. Chuck Aleno, still nursing a lame arm, had to return to third base For several years Western trips and Joe Bestudik, rookie, played have been “poison” to the Indians/Ambler’s position. Milton Galatzer and on the current journey the received another starting chance in the outfield and finally emerged from his spring batting slump by

Yesterday the score was 11 to ¢ collecting two singles and triple.

and the Blues zoomed into a tie with |

fourth straight setback.

|

The Redskins are now even with mound toil in the fifth and Milo the board with seven won and seven |Candini relieved Reis in the ninth. lost, and are in a three-way tie with| The Indians really splurged in Columbus and Minneapolis for third the final stanza but it was too late place, a game and a half behind the and the Blues’ lead too huge to overcome. The Tribesters notched five Louisville and Indianapolis have runs in that canto and it was one vet to achieve a triumph in the West|of their best one-inniag rallies of

league leaders.

ilthough they hac the best of it in| the early season games on their] home grounds.

ternoon and

with the rejuvenated Brewers to-| morrow.

Meyer of the Blues indicated his

Bill

the season.

The Blues massacred Cox in the early innings. Two runs vere chalked The Tribesters were to battle the in the first, one In the ;econd, one champs in the series finale this af-|in the third two in the fourth and then head for Mil- four in the fifth. The home team’s waukee to ‘begin a three-game set|11th and last run was marked up

in the eighth.

The Indians outbatted the Blues, Pilot Killefer was expected to as- 12 to 11, but committed three errors sign Pete Sivess to the Tribe rubber to one, and, of course, except in the here this afternoon and Chief Bill) first and ninth, they failed to bunch

hits like the champs.

shortstop, | fore Gallahadion dropped out of

out of action nursing the skies to win and pay a hat full. ived in a collision Thurs-

Cox opened on the Tribe Louisville for the American Associa- mound against Tommy Reis of the tion lead. It was the Blues’ fifth Blues and both were absent from the consecutive victory and the Indians Premises before the game ended. (Mike Naymick took up the Tribe

search for another Gallahadion. We'd mention this possibility and that possibility and all we'd get was a firm brush off. One trainer even told us his horse didn't belong in the Derby. “I've got to get an carly train cut of here tonight,” he said, “and I'll be waiting until] darkness for him to finish.” We, know he wouldn't like for us to identify him but that's what he said. Of course, everybody said something like that last year, too, be-

Roy Waldron, his trainer, is an old friend of ours but when we tried to get some encouragement out of him all he'd say was, “We'll give 'em a run for it anyway.” When a trainer tells you that you can put it down he doesn’t think much of his horse. Thus it was that Mr, Waldron was as surprised as everybody else when the horse won. The truth is Gallahadion wasn’t much horse. His Derby time was more than three seconds off the record and as it turned out there wasn’t much class behind him in the race. Many Things Can Happen Now let's agree that Porter’s Cap and Our Boots are the best horses in the race and that if one doesn’t win today the other will. Even then we cennot guarantee either will win. because so many things can happen in a race to upset form. The winner must get a good start, he must get a good ride, he must have racing luck, a term that covers a wide variety of hazards. Your horse might be pounds and pounds the best; he might figure to win by 10 lengths, yet it might turn out that you have lost your bet before the horse has taken one stride. Still we think this is one derby that isn’t going to be tough. We'll

two walks. He accounted for four runs. Purdue's only score came in the second inning on a home rua by pitcher Don Blanken. In other Big Ten games yesterday, Michigan conquered Ohio State, 135; Minnesota knocked Iowa into a third-place tie with a 4-3 victory, and Illinois all but murdered Chicago, 22-4, In non-conference games Northwestern scored a 6-5 victory over Notre Dame and Wisconsin lost to Michigan State, 2-1.

S. H. S. Netters

Shortridge High School's racquetmen bowled over the Burris of Muncie netmen Friday afternoon in the Model City, 7 to 0.

Cathedral Nine

{hurdles, racked up nine for Short-

ck goes over the bar in the pole points to the Continentals in the e back and picked up four more

points by finishnig second to Kraeger in the shot put. He was second | high scorer for the day.

Wolves Lead

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Balance is still the chief asset of a track team, as any Tech High School competitor or backer will be glad to tell you today. It was balance that won for the Greenclads in the city meet yesterday and it’s balance they're depending on to win themselves more glory n the approaching sectional tourney.

Nevertheless, it was the closest score in the eight-year history of city meets. Tech came from behind to eke out a 54-52 decision over the Blue Devils ef Shortridge. Howe won third place with 43; Washington had 38% and Manual 37. Broad Ripple failed to score. Power in the relays was the deciding factor in the Greenclad’'s triumph. Trailing Shortridge by eight points at the inception of the relays, Tech scored a first in the mile and a second in the half-mile, while Shortridge placed fourth in both. Although Tech was the big winner, the individual stars came from other schools. Ralph Toney, Howe’s light-ning-like competition, chalked up 10 points on victories In the dashes. The brilliant sophomore also anchored the winning Hornet halfmile relay team. Harold Rickenback, with a first in the pole vault and a second in the shot put, registered nine points for

Washington, and Bill Swaim, who took a first and second in the

Marks Broken

Loses to Lebanon

Cathedral High School's baseball team sought to steady itself today

after a 5-2 loss to Lebanon for |

games this afternoon with the Si-| lent Hoosiers and with Broad Rip-| ple Monday. Cathedral was leading the Tigers yesterday until a flurry of hits following an error plated four Lebanon runs. Vic Mueller, Cathedral catcher, banged out three of the five Irish hits. Male High School of Louisville put together seven hits of its own with eignt errors by Park (o score a 12-2 triumph over the Panthers. It was the second victory this seasor. for Male over Park, and this time Schoening and Staucer, the

two Kentucky pitchers, gave out only three hits.

Angott Captures

be surprised if it isn’t Porter's Cap,

Baseball At

a Glance

Our Boots and Robert Morris. But did we remind to tell you we are easily surprised?

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RESULTS YESTERDAY

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

Toledo St. Paul

Wirkkala, Marcum and Spindel; Herring,

Sloat and Fernandes.

Louisville

3 5 Milwaukee 000 030 10x— 4 11

Rich, Harris and Glenn; Blacholder and

Just,

114 020 101-10 13 . 131 501 01x—11 13

Columbus Minneapolis

| _Brecheen, Barrett, Winford and Poland; 800 Hatten, Smythe, Kline, Kash and Denning.

: Bud Cottey Wins Again but Takes a Lesson In Boxing From San Francisco Lad

UE 000 000— 3 4

Brooklyn 000 030 13x— 7 11

Lee, Page and McCullough; Wyatt and

Owen.

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Krist and Ma

| Tamulis and Warren.

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Cincinnati at Beston, rain,

AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia 000 001— 1 3 Detroit 140 012 07x—15 1%

Potter, Harris, Rowe and Sullivan.

New York Joo

Chieage 000 Ruffing, Stancen and Dickey; Tresh.

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incinnati at on. Pitaburth at New York.

AMERICAN LEAGUE J York a joago, Pr adeiphia at Detroit. ston at Cleveland. ashington at St. Louis.

ing and Desautels. | (Twelve innings) | JRashington ..... 010 100 010 oe | St. Louis _. ... 000 002 001 Hudson and Ferrell; Auker, Swift, Grube

024 000 141-32 12 © 000 00% 010— 5 7

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Johnson and Hayes; Lyons and

Hev-

Purdue Squads Take Contests

Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind, May 3.—Purdue’s golf and tennis teams won

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o/program that has nearly every

Boilermaker athlete busy. The tennis squad scored a 7-0 shutout over Ball State while the golfers edged Ohio State's team, 14-13.

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The Derby Fight

LOUISVILLE, Ky. May 3 (U.P). —Sammy Angott of Louisville came back into action after a fivemonth layoff last night and pounded out a one-sided decision over Canadian Lightweight Champion Dave Castilloux in a 12-round, non-title

here yesterday on the gala sports

iy before a Derby eve crowd of Angott, the National Boxing Association’s - lightweight champion, won all but one round from Castilloux. Angott scored the ony knock= down in the first and the Canadian

In Swim Meet

LAFAYETTE, Ind, May 3 (U.P). —The national junior individual medley 150-yard record was shattered last night by James Councilman, swimming for the St. Louis, Mo. Y. M. C. A. in Purdue University’s annual Galacade meet. Councilman churned th: distance in the Purdue pool in 1:38.7, bettering the old mark by :2.1. Three Indiana A. A. U. records fell as 100 entries competed in the event, part of Purdue's gala sport week. Betty Bemis of the Indianapolis Riviera Club clipped a second off the women's 100-yard backstroke mark and shattered an old ma.k

in the 100-yard free style at 1:33.

Right now you're face to face

whe does powerful things with the shot put.

with Shortridge’s George Kraeger, Yesterday in the city

meet he heaved it 49 feet, 7V3{ inches for a new city record. This victory helped the Blue Devils to capture second place with a 52-

point total.

Balance Carries Tech Team

To City Track Championship

ridge. Manual’s Mike Mascari, of the long-winded and stout-hearted Mascaris, and Howe's Arthur Graham each totaled eight. The only new meet record of the day was credited to George Kraeger of Shortridge. The all-city football tackle tossed the iron ball 49 feet 73% inches to improve the old mark by more than 13 inches. As it was predicted, Manual all but ran away with the distance events, Mike and John Mascari ran one-two in the mile, with Fred Emmelmann taking fourth. Raleigh Warrenburg won the half-mile run, and Mike Mascari and Emmelmann took third and fourth places, respectively. So Manual scored 21 of its 3712 points in these two events. Don King of Washington pulled a mild upset when he outsprinted Tech's Dick Lowish in the 440-yard dash. This was thc first defeat of the season for the Tech star. Incidentally, King recorded a commendable :52.7 in the event. Other good times were turned in by Swaim, who skimmed over the 200-yard low hurdles in 23.9; by Warrenburg, who ran the 880 in 2:04.8, and by Mike Mascari, whose mile performance was done in the time of 4:41.0. Also deserving of mention was the 1:35.4 performance of Howe's half-mile relay team. A parade led by the Washington R. O. T. C. band and a flag-raising

{ceremony opened the meet.

Miss Laughlin

Heads Golfers

The South Grove women's golf club, reorganized after seven years of inactivity, will be headed this season by Evelyan Laughlin. She was elected president at a meeting last night. Other officers named were Betty Jenkins, vice president; Gertrude Winlehaus, secretary; Ann Crouch, treasurer; Mrs. Ken Loucks, handicap chairman; Mrs. Robert Butler, publicity chairman, and Phyllis Johnson, membership chairman. Brooks Secrest was named tournament chairman of the men's club and Lawrence, Laughlin Yas appointed prize committee chairman.

Amateurs

SOFTBALL

There are still a few openings in the Em-Roe Softball Association. Games will be played at Stout Stadium. For further information call Joe Kelly at Li. 3446. ;

The New York Central softball team desires an opposing team for a game tomorrow at the Beech Grove Park. Call Dr. 2868 after § p. m.

Brosnan’s Tavern will practice Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock at Rhodius. Uniforms will be issued.

St. Roch’s C. Y. O. team will play Cathedral C. Y. O. at 10 a. m. tomorrow at Garfield Park.

Goldsmith’s Secos will practice at 10 a. m. tomorrow at Riverside 1.

was unable to make a fight of it until the 11th.

Tryouts are asked to report. For

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Bud Cottey, local featherweight » favorite whose boxing philosophy is based on a give-two-punches-to-trade last night and although he maintained his unbeaten record he took a memorable lesson in boxing which may make a few changes in his future style. It was the best fight of Business Men's cauliflower cernivals to date although the fans and the Times’ card alike thought Jue Yee Kong of San Francisco should have had at least a araw. The two fighters were swinging from the first beil with the local featherweight always the aggressor and the West Coast lad fighting in spurts to confuse the young slugger. {Kong was always rolling on Cottey’s

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killer punch which had never failed Bud before but which he could not get across last night. It was the first time Cottey has been scheduled for more than four rounds but he stood up all the way and although marred considerably at the final gong was still moving in all the time. Joey Palmo, another featherweight from Cincinnati, won a 10round decision from Carlos Manzano of Mexico City in the other main go. It was the fiasco of the evening with both fighters failing to land solidly throughout. With Poppa Bess in mumbling “The easy way is the best way,” Milton Bess, local welterweight, gave Paul Bunten of Coatesville Lesson One in boxing—style.

"his corner | sio

dancing Bess, Young Bunten bore in all evening and took a world of punishment for his trouble. One of the items they are producing at Allison’s which is not for sale to foreign governments is the top notch boxers who are geting the evening off to do a little defense and offensive work at the Armory. Bob Blue, the latest, chopped Jerry Murphy, a young Louisville Irishman with a good right and a barrel of courage, to ribbons in the first two rounds and then carried his middleweight opponent through the remaining sesns

Jethro Jeffers of Indianapolis did not look too impressive in his initial professional appearance as he took a four round decision from

Unable to lay a glove on the Jack Grant of Louisville. (R. L. F.)

games with the Secos, write 535 S. Illinois St. or call LI. 1612.

Labor Temple will play tomorrow at Noblesville. Players are to meet at 1 p. m. at the English Avenue Boys’ Club.

Gem Coal, which will play Weak’s Market at 3 p. m. tomorrow at Brookside Park, would like to schedule Sunday night out-of-town games. Write W. F. Clem, 511 N. Bradley, or Call IR-6067. Ace Motors’ newly organized team wants Tuesday afternoon games at Spades Park. Call LI-5551. Zenite Metal will play Leon Tailoring at Willard Park, diamond No. 1, at 2 p. m. Sunday. For games call Marion Gatlin, BELmont 5025.

BASEBALL Sacks Auto Parts team will play the West Side Merchants Sunday afternoon at Grande Park. Players will meet at 2314 W. Michigan St. at 1 o'clock.

The Indianapolis Kautskys of the Indiana-Ohio League open their season Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with the Lebanon Merchants at Memorial Park, Lebanon. The players will meet at the Em-Roe Sporting Goods store at 11:30 o'clock Sunday morning

Local Skaters Hold Roller Derby Lead

The Indianapolis team held a slim 183-182 lead today as the Roller Derby competitors prepared for their final two evenings of skating on the Coliseum saucer. The Hoosiers won a 14-12 decision in a rough contest last nigit. Tonights program also will include finals in the girls’ Australian pursuit race and a special party for

the public, proceeds to go to the Derby’s hospitalization fund.

Local Bowlers

On ABC Alleys

ST. PAUL, Minn., May 3 (U. P.). —The Bowes Seal Fast team of Indianapolis, recent winner of the $1200 Ray Schalk sweepstakes at Chicago, appears tonight at the American Bowling Congress. Also scheduled to appear were two former Chicago baseball players, Jimmy Archer of the Cubs and Schalk, one-time White Sox catcher. Altogether 80 teams from 28 cities were on the pr gram. The 55-day tournament ends Tuesday but after tonight only 200 of the 5798 teams entered will remain to challenge the 3065 score which leads the five-man competition to date. It was rolled by the Vogel Brothers of Forest Park, Ill. Three top notch teams, New Proc-

Schlitzes of Milwaukee and Falcaro’s Schlits of New York, failed last night to bring about any changes in top standings. They rcored 2736, 2733 and 2731, respectively.

B. U. Golfers Win

Jim Hauss’s Butler University golf team came through with its fourth consecutive Indiana Conference triumph of the season yesterday afternoon, defeating the DePauw Tigers 15-to-3 over the Highland Country Club course. The Bulldogs play a return match against Earlham at Richmond today.

But A. L. Won'

NEW YORK, May 3 (U. P).— Before Cecil Travis, Washington shortstop, doffs his baseball uniform in exchange for Uncle Sam's khaki he's going to give the boys something to remember him by. Due to be inducted into the Army in a couple of weeks, Travis is leading the American League in hitting with an average of .571, according to the figures released today and including games of Thurs-

day. Travis had a .168 point lead over Dom DiMaggio, Red Sox, who is batting at the terrific clip of .403. Lee Handley, Pirates’ third kase-

Champs Compete In Auto Races

Times Special FRANKLIN, Ind, May 3.-Two recognized champions will be competing against each other for the first time and several near-champs will be in the thick of it at the

afternoon. Five regular events and a 25 lap feature will be staged by the MidWest Auto Racing Association. Slim Rutherford, the Whiting, Ind., star who captured first at Greenfield last Sunday and who is

tucky-Indiana Racing Association, will be battling George Fabian, stock car champion of Michigan, the two speedsters being placed in competition for the first time in their careers. More than 20 cars have entered. George Popp, Detroit; Roy Turner, Cincinnati; Carl Ott, Louisville; Bob Bower, Chicago, and Eddie Wagner, Aberdeen, South Dakota, being among the headliners. Harold Shaw, crack Indianapolis driver, will head a delegation of well known pilots from his city, the list including Tailspin Tommy Boggs, Paul Howe, Roy Williams and George Schwimmer.

Friday, May 30, 1941

Indianapolis Motor Speedway

SEATS NOW SELLING 444 N. CAPITOL AVE.

ess Gears of Syracuse, N. Y. the"

opening of the “big time” dirt track | §,.2 auto racing season here Sunday grou

the 1940 champion of the Ken- ¥

They Cannot Halt Cleveland And Brooklyn

St. Louis Continues To Win; Giants Tie

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, May 3.— Brooklyn isn’t the only place where they're getting ready to play the World Series next October. Cleveland-on-Lake Erie has the same idea in a milder, saner form. Both the Indians and the Dodgers belong to the same lodge—the “we= can-do-no-wrong” club. Everything the Indians try turns out right, They are like a hot craps shooter who can throw nothing but nate urals. The Indians ran off their eighth straight victory yesterday by slugging the powerful Red Sox, 7-3. Pitching alone isn’t doing the trick for the Tribe. In five of their string

| their starting pitcher hasn't fin-

ished. But the relief pitcher, Joe Heving, Harry Eisenstat, or Cling | Brown, was more than adequale. Yesterday it was Heving, cast over- | board by Boston, who came to Mel Harder's rescue and plagued his old mates. He struck out Jimmy Foxx to end a threatening sixth-inning rally and then hurled three hitless innings. White Sox Climb

The Chicago White Sox sneaked back into second place in the Amer= ican League by thumping the Yanks,

8-1. For five innings it was a pitching duel between Red Ruffing and Ted Lyons, but the Yankee veteran blew in the sixth. Lyons scored his 235th major league victory, allowing only five hits. The Tigers, who gradually are finding their batting eyes, slugged out 17 hits and crushed the Athletics, 15-1. Charlie Gehringer had his first good day at bat this season, getting four singles. Schoolboy Rowe held the A’s to seven hits, winning his first game. Washington staged a four-run {rally in the 12th to beat the Browns, |7-4, Sid Hudson went the route for his first triumph, allowing 10 hits.

Cards Keep Coming

The St. Louis Cardinals continued their blazing drive by scoring their seventh straight, a 4-2 win over the Phillies. Rookie Howard Krist held the Phils to five hits and blanked them until the ninth. Whit Wyatt pitched the Dodgers to a 7-3 triumph over the Cubs, notching his fourth victory. He gave up only four hits and fanned eight, Dolf Camilli hit homer No. 7 with Medwick on base. The Pirates and Giants battled to a 7-7 tie, called by darkness at the end of 13 innings and 3 hours and 21 minutes of play. The Gianis blew a four-run lead in the eighth despite homers by Jurges and Ott.

Yesterday's Hero—Ted Lyons, White Sox veteran who muffed the Yanks’ big guns and pitched a five-hitter to beat them, 8-1,

Travis Is Going to the Army

t Forget Him

man who's been in and out of the lineup, is leading the National League with an average of .438, followed by Billy Jurges, Giants’ shortstop, who is batting .420. The other leaders follow: Hits—(A) D. DiMaggio, Red Sox, and Gordon, Yanks, 25 each; (N) Lavagetto, Dodgers, 27. Runs—(A) J. DiMaggio, Yanks, 22; (N) Lavagetto, Dodgers, 18. Doubles— (A) J, DiMaggio, Yanks, Travis, Senators, seven each; (N), Lavagetto, Dodgers, seven. Triples—(A) G. Walker, Cleve= land, four; (N) G. Moore, Braves, four, Home Runs--(A) J. DiMaggio, Yanks, five; (N) Camilli, Dodgers, six. Stolen Bases—(A) D. DiMaggio, Red Sox, four; (N) Frey, Reds, five. Runs Batted in—(A) Doerr, Red Sox, 22; (N) Camilli, Dodgers, 17. The 10 leading hitters in each major league follow:

AMERICAN LEAGUE

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