Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1941 — Page 25
SPORTS...
By Eddie Ash
A CHIP OFF of a fast block will have his best opportunity to carry on for his father this year in the annual Five-Century motor not-so-merry-go-round out at the Speedway May 30, point out the boys who stir the dope
for the 500-mile press bureau.
Rilly DeVore, son of the late Earl DeVore, veteran race driver who was lost in the sinking of the S. S. Vestris in 1928, will leave his Bench in the Allison motor plant for the day to drive the fastest car he has ever had in a Memorial Day race in an attemp to “win one for dad.” If there is anything in a name, young DeVore will pick up another piece of luck because his car, owned by F. K. Surber of Tipton, Ind. is called the “Payday Special.” . . . The car has a brand new Offenhouser 270-cubjc-inch motor in it and is a serious challenger for top honors. DeVore, who hails from California, Colorado, Kansas and other points, is currently working in Indianapolis at the Allison airplane engine factory, one of the many automobile racing men engaged in defense work. Billy's entrance into racing had all the elements of a movie drama. . . . His father, Earl DeVore, was a great driver whose best race at Indianapolis was in 1927 when he finished second to George Souders, but ahead of such stars as Frank Lockhart, Pete DePaolo and Leon Duray. ... And there was a fresh newcomer in that race, too. . . . His name was Wilbur Shaw, who is now the champ. “After the race,” Billy says, “dad walked back to the pit and said, ‘Billy, I wanted to win more than anything eise in the world. If I never have this chance again, I want you to take it up and keep driving until you win the 500 here.’ ”
Entered Racing as a Mechanic
THE FOLLOWING YEAR Ear! DeVore went down with the liner Vestris Billy, who was living in Kansas, left home the next year ie age of 17 to become a race driver. . . . He was first a riding me- ¢ at the local Speedway and then he began driving on dirt
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1938 he injured his back in Atlanta but, hardy fellow that he is, the following year he made his driving debut at Indianapolis when he placed seventh. . .. He was eighth in 1938 and 10th in 1939... . Billy says he’s got the car this year to make a real ride of it.
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THE AUTO SPEED PROGRAM at Frank Funk's Dayton, O, gpeedway Sunday calls for nine events, with eight of these being actual competitive events, making in all a total of 91 laps of racing. Five of these heat races will be over the distance of 10 laps, two will be for eight laps, and the feature event of the day is scheduled to go the route of 25 laps Time trials will get under way at noon, Eastern Standard Time, end with the first competitive event starting at 2:15, Eastern Standard Time. . . . The race meet is sanctioned by the Contest Board of the American Automobile Association.
Toledo Commands Darkhorse Rating
LOOK WHO'S GETTING TOUGH in the American Association + « « None other than the Toledo Mud Hens. . . . Taking the swing through the West in stride, the Hens pulled out of the second division and today were riding along with the league's elite, sharing fourth place with Columbus. Manager Zach Taylor has come up with some power swatters this season and the club now looks the part of the circuit's darkhorse. . . . Toledo has only won one pennant down through the years and while not boasting of its flag chances this year, the Mud Hen pastimers promise to make it warm for all contenders. The team was seventh in 1940 but on its 1941 record to date it commands a higher rating than the league experts predicted before the race got under way. Indianapolis fans will get their first glimpse of the rejuvenated Flock in a three-game series at Perry Stadium May 19, 20 and 21.
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BECAUSE HE IS NOT YET a full-fledged American citizen, Ttalian-born Rugger Ardizoia was unable to accompany the Newark International League club to Canada for games in Montreal and Toronto The New York Yankee chain solved the problem by transferring the pitcher to Kansas City, which club shipped Pitcher John Lindell to Newark as replacement. Ardizoia was a winner for the Hollywood Stars in the Pacific Coast League last season. . . . He is a young fast-ball hurler.
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Eddie Joost Sets Fielding Record
By GEORGE KIRKSEY
United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, May 8. — Those elevators the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cleveland Indians have been riding operate two ways. They are now coming down,
The Cards went to the 10th floor before catching the down car and the Indians didn’t get the red light until the 11th floor. With their winning streaks snapped, the two major league pacemakers each have dropped two in a row. The Brooklyn Dodgers handed the Cardinals a defeat that hurt yesterday, scoring two runs in the ninth to win, 4-3. The New York Yankees, who've been floundering around the West, suddenly found their batting eyes and smacked out 15 hits to trim the Indian, 7-5. The Cards, who were being acclaimed as the team without a | weakness, suddenly found out their masterful pitching isn't that at all. After having five straight pitchers go the route and win, Manager Billy Southworth has been forced to use nine pitchers in the last two games against the Braves and Dodgers. Slovenly relief pitching cost the Cards a game they should have won yesterday. Use Four Piichers With a 3-1 lead in the eighth, the Cards called on four pitchers, Shoun, Hutchinson, Lanier and McGee, to halt the Dodgers and could not find the right man. Walks in the ninth really beat St. Louis. Hutchinson walked the first man up with St. Louis leading, 3-2. Then Lanier came in and walked the next man. Dixie Walker bunted and Lanier threw to the wrong base, loading the bags. Pinch-hitter Paul Waner lined to Terry Moore and the Card center fielder nailed Camilli at the plate with a perfect strike. The Cards’ fifth pitcher, McGee, almost got out of it but the next batter, Pee Wee Reese. singled to left, breaking up the game. The Yanks snapped a three-game losing streak to thump the Indians and climb from fourth to second
against spear Hal Trosky’s long drive and end the game with the tying runs on base. Buddy Rosar and Frenchy Bordagaray led the Yanks’ attack with three hits each.
out of a losing streak by pitching the world’s champs to a 1-0 triumph over the Giants. Ernie Lombardi’s homer was the deciding run. Walters’ low ball pitching enabled
Baseball At a Glance
Shortstop Joost to set a modern fielding record by accepting 19 chances successfully. The. Reds made four double plays, with Wal-
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ters at his best in the pinches. He allowed seven hits for his fourth victory in a row. Hal Schumacher 1 gave up five. Lee Hits Two Homers Max West's single in the ninth {with two out and the bases loaded ? drove in two runs and gave the
? Ger- Braves a 7-6 victory over the Pi-
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cold Stengel, were ejected for protesting
decisions. ~ Big Biil Lee pitched a S5-hitter and smacked two homers to lead the Cubs to a 11-2 triumph over the | Phillies. The victory enabled the
rr. ute! Lanier; Cubs to desert last place, with the |QeGee and W. Cooper: Higbe, Brown and phils and Pirates going in the cellar.
| The Williams hit two homers— 1 his second in the eleventh—to lead
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{the White Sox. Charlie Wagner 1 bested John Rigney in a pitcher's 9 duel, stopping the White Sox in the “|tenth with the bases loaded. 1 Sid Hudson pitched Washington 2 to a 4-2 victory over Detroit, breakthe Tigers’ string of five [Straight and spoiling the A. L. champions’ flag-raising ceremonies. 0 Ned Harris took Hank Greenberg's ! place in left field and went hitless. | Roy Cullenbine’s single with the » bases loaded in the 14th inning gave 1 the St. Louis Browns a 6 to 5 deci-
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Porky Oliver Really Becoming “The Biggest Thing in Golf’
By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor NEW YORK, May 8—Wise old Walter Hagen knew what he was talking about when he walked into the locker room, slapped a chunky youngster on the shoulder and said, “Listen, kid, this may look like a
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tragedy to you but youll find out that it's made you the biggest thing in golf.” It happened at the Canterbury Country Club near Cleveland. Forky Oliver, an almost unknown Kid, just
place. Marius Russo went the route [had shot a 69 in the last round | to score his fourth victory but was of the National Open Championin trouble in the ninth as a result of ship to tie Lawson Little and Gene three singles and a wild throw by Sarazen for the title. He was making | Jerry Priddy. Joe DiMaggio jumped {plans for the play-off next day the center field wall to when
the tournament committee told him he had been disqualified
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utes ahead of schedule. To Porky Olver it seemed like
nother Chance
Thompson and Harry Cooper. They were tied at the end of the match {and they went out to play an extra hole. Oliver won it for his side by |sinking a 40-foot putt. While he still was receiving congratulations he got a message to report to the Army immediately. He has been in the Army 10 {weeks now and any spare time {he has he uses to practice golf {shots in a pasture near the camp. {There doesn’t seem to be any danger that Army life has thrown him off his game, for not long ago he shot a 65 in an exhibition match {against the Navy. So the story that started out as {a tragedy at Canterbury is going ito wind up with a happy ending lat Ft. Worth, whether Corp. Oliver |wins or loses there. For Hagen
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New York City
Officials Believe Drivers Are With the Cars
By J. E. O'BRIEN
The two French cars entered in the 500-mile Memorial Day race arrived safely in New York today aboard an American Export liner from Vichy, according to word received here at the
Speedway office. Although there was no word of the drivers—Rene LeBegue and Jean Trevaux—it was presumed they were accompanying the cars. Speedway officials explained that the drivers would have been unable to radio from sea, while they would have informed the office here had they not been able to leave France. The cars, completed just before the war, are Talbot Specials with eight-cylinder, 270 -cubic-inch motors. LeBegue will be remembered as a member of the LeBegueDreyfus team that raced here last year, ”
Now vou’'ll begin to see mechanicians and garage crews at the Speedway hunting down engine “bugs” in earnest. Only nine days remain before beginning of qualifications, and balky motors can’t be tolerated. After the installation of signal lights, three cars were put on the track yesterday for conditioning runs, with the most interest centering around the performance of the rear-motored, four-wheel-drive Gulf car to be piloted by Al Miller. Pesky valves in the six-cylinder Miller engine have been troubling Head Man Eddie Offutt and crew, and Miller was assigred to turn a few laps and then report on the car's performance. When he came back with news of a “dead” spot in acceleration, Offutt himself climbed into the driver's seat for a ride. Then one of the six cylinders became temperamental, and the shiny blue buggy was rolled back into Gasoline Alley for a more thorough diagnosis. The car is a mate of that to be driven by George Barringer, and the motor in its tail is considered among the most powerful in the world. The engine turns over at 7000-7200 revolutions a minute, by more than 1000 rp.m.'s the highest of any racing car ‘n competition in America. What's more, it can be driven at 8000 r.p.m.’s.
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Incidentally, the gadget on the side of the car is a magnesium
the end of the world. Great golfers [since he was disqualified, and the cooling unit, to chill the gasoline have practiced weary hours and corporal will be leading an army so that the difference between the
shot their hearts out for years without coming as close to the National Open title as Oliver did that day at Canterbury. But «dt wasn't the end of the world. The world is very much with Oliver these days; in fact, he's sitting on top of it. It was announced today that Corp. Ed Oliver (that’s what they
(call him at Fort Dix, N. J, where
he is serving in the remount division) would get time off to play in the Goodall Round Robin Golf tournament later this month. But, more important, the United States Golf Association has opened the door for Oliver to get another shot at the National Open title. If he files an application and sends along a letter from his commanding officer, he will be allowed te play in the Open at Fort Worth, Tex., next month. And this time he will be careful not to tee off ahead of schedule. Things never happen to Porky Oliver in a drab, routine way. Nor is he a drab, routine feilow. Up until the time he was drafted, he played golf in brilliant, candystriped shirts and trousers that were not exactly on the conservative side. He's a roly-poly guy with a great shock of black hair, and it’s a sight to see when he waddles up the fairway to a ball and smacks it hole-high to the green. He really can smack ’em, too, and seemed to be on his way. to be-
coming one of the top 10 pros in| the country when the Army call]
came. As usual with Oliver, it came in dramatic fashion. He was playing in the Miami-Biltmore four-ball tournament with Clayton Heafner
as his partner against Jimmy
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CAMP SHELBY, Miss, May 8— ‘ohnny Murphy, American Bowling | Jureee New York...
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NEW YORK, May 8.—National League clubs show a personnel turn-
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Bob Blue and Jimmy Tudor, promising middleweight scrappers, will be matched in a four-round preliminary battle at the Armory tomorrow night. Tudor fought a draw with Tiger Kigans in his last local appearance while Blue soundly thumped Jerry Murphy of Louisville last Friday night. Leroy Dycus and Robert Sime mons, Indianapolis lightweights will meet in another four-round prelim. Willie Cutsinger of Mt. Washington, O., has been matched with Joe Murphy of Louisville, in an eight-round battle of light heavies. Gib Jones of Cincinnati and Larry Kauffman of Lexington, Ky., will fight the semi-windup. Johnny Durso of Louisville and Frankie Gilmore of Cincinnati, welter-
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The job at hand in the Marks garage is to adjust the springing and steering in the Offenhauserpowered car to be piloted by Tony Willman of Milwaukee. Willman returned from a ride of several laps to report that the car wasn’t taking the bumps as it should and that there was too much play in the steering. Minor adjustments are to be made in the cockpit, too, so that Tony can move his arms and legs more freely.
” o Mel Hansen, who piloted the Miller-Hartz-powered Hartz Special last year, returned yesterday with his 1941 mount. A brand-new chassis houses the four-cylinder Offenhauser motor that was under the hood of Ralph Hepburn’'s Bowes Seal Fast Special last year. Almost in disguise behind a heavy growth of whiskers, Hansen reported he was still driving in tough luck—off the track, that is. Last year in coming to the track from the West Coast, Hansen was in a
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FORT CUSTER, Mich., May 8 (U. P.) —Private Hank Greenberg rose to a bugles call at 6 a. m. today for a busy day at headquarters of the Army's Fifth Division. Gone were the corset factory workers, school children, and other Detroit Tigers fans wanting his autograph, the endless questions of reporters and the incessant light of photographers’ flash bulbs, as Greenberg received a uniform and underwent intelligence and classification tests. The routine was another step in making a $55,000-a-year Tigers outfielder into a $21-a-month buck private. He was inducted at Detroit yesterday. He arrived here at 6:30 p. m. with 69 other recruits to find about 5000 soldiers of the Fifth Division on hand to welcome him. He was one of five Detroit draftees assigned temporariiy to Company C, at the recruit reception center, under Top Sergeant Vernon Ferrell, a veteran who told questioners asking about Greenberg's sleeping quarters: “I'm not running a kindergarten.” At the request of Fort fans, Greenberg led the march to the mess hall for a huge dinner of pork chops, mashed potatoes, cream peas, fruit salad and milk.
fore going to bed at 9 p. m.,, confined to barracks until he could be in uniform. “They're treating me fine.”
Capture No. 9
Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind, May 8— DePauw University’s tennis team kept its season's slate clean yesterday by defeating Ball State, 6 to 1, for its ninth straight victory.
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“I'm glad to be here,” he said be-
in May
Joe Louis stopped off for a moment yesterday in Union Station before leaving for Washington, D, C., where he will meet Buddy Baer as the May selection for the bum-of-the-month club. Bomber came up from West Baden where he has)been training.
Big Hank Likes the Army With Its 6 A. M. Bugle and All
The Brown
Greenberg was expected to receive a permanent assignment to a cOme
pany tomorrow or Saturday. He probably will go to Camp Livingston, La., if he does not stay here,
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