Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1941 — Page 11

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By Eddie Ash

"UNTIL THE order of events reached the heavy- - weight main go,. the Busines¢men’s Sports Club had an interesting. professional fight card under way at the Armory last night . . . but the fistic finale was a bust and took some of the edge off what had gone before.

In the top event Johnny Denson, Spencer, Nashville, Tenn., for a punching bag. . .

. Spencer,

local heavyweight, used Murray

a washed-

up veteran, was fat around the midsection, slow and deadly in fear of stopping a stiff one with his chin.

The visitor got through. but constant body punching by ~ and the affair was stopped. . at the start of the second heat-. .

stopped. Referee George Grammell didn

the first roun

. . Spencer

dropped for the

d by grabbing and holding, Denson hurt the old-timer no end

nine-count

. and Denson’s punch had little behind it. . .. At 2:50 in the second, Spencer again kissed the canvas and Ray Hahn, Businessmen’s Sports Club treasurer, ordered the bout

the second knockdown but disqualified Spencer pronto... . ville veteran was no match for the youthful Denson. It was announced from the ringside that Spencer’s share of the purse would be retained by the Sports Club and donated to charity. Next week’s professional card will be held outdoors at Sports

‘Arena on Thursday night, on the eve of the 500-mile race. . . dianapolis| featherweight, and boxer. ». . Efforts will pe

will be headlined by Bud Cottey,

In Jules Goudray, New Orleans, a seasoned

made to line up an attractve supporting menu.

Simmons Racks Up Another Victory

RESULTS OF last night preliminaries: Tiger Kigans, Indianapolis middleweight, decisioned Bob Blue, Indianapolis, four rounds;

Curly Denton, Cincinnati middleweight, d dianapolis, four rounds; Robert Simmons,

't pick up the timer’s count on The Nash-

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ecisioned Al Sheridan, InIndianapolis lightweight,

decisioned Dick Beasley, Cincinnati, -six "rounds: Charles Eshman, Cincinnati lightweight, decisioned Billy Born, Granite City, Ill, eight

rounds. Kigans “left-handed”

Blue to body and head and won with points

"to spare; Denton had too much speed for Sheridan, who was off in Simmons overwhelmed Beasley with lefts and an occasional right, but was given a real battle in the last round when his opponent finally got a hard left working; Eshman got the official verdict over Born, but The Times scored it a

timing and missed many punches;

shade for the Granite City boy. v8 » s

NO KNOCKDOWNS occurred until the sour main event. . .'..

The Eshman-Born bout was the most interesting. . .

. Born carries

a potent punch and Eshman took no liberties with him. . . . Charlie stood off and boxed, but his blows carried low steam because he was

retreating most of the distance.

Robert Simmons, the former local Golden Glover, started out to make short work of Beasley only to find a game bird facing him. . .. ‘Beasley stayed in there and pitched against heavy odds while absorb-

ing a lot of punishment.

Speedway Lap Fund Hits $6700

LIKE THE DRIVERS and cars tuning up for next Friday's 500miler out at the Roaring Road, members of the lap prize fund also are exhibiting plenty of speed. . . . The fund has reached a total of $6700, Carl H. Wallerich reported today. He is chairman of the . Indianapolis Citizens’ Speedway Committee. Approximately half of this sum was contributed by Indianapolis business firms and individuals, and the remainder by automotive concerns and representatives of motor and allied industries throughout the country. . . . Each $100 subscription provides one lap prize and the

$6700 embraces 67 of the race’s 200 laps.

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SUBSCRIPTIONS OF $100 each, not previously reported, to the 1941 speed pilots’ “pot of gold” have been received from the following Indianapolis contributors: American National Bank, L. S. Ayres & Co., Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, A. W. Herrington, Marmon-Herrington Co., Inc.; Bert Dingley, Marmon-Herrington Co., Inc.; D. I. Glossbrenner, Marmon-Herring- | ton Co., Inc.; Seth Klein, G. H. (Snappy) Ford, C. O. Warnock Co., National Malleable & Steel Castings Co., Robert M. Bowes, Bowes Seal Fast Corp., and Charles E. Bowes, Bowes Seal Fast Corp. ! THE Chevrolet Division of General Motors Corp., Detroit, contributed: $500 to the fund. . . . Other subscriptions from outside Indianapolis, each for $100, were received from the following: C. F. Kettering, Dayton, O.; Houde Engineering Co., Buffalo; Plymouth ‘Motor Corp., Detroit; Bendix Aviation Corp., South Bend; Ball Bros., Muncie; Fuller Manufacturing Co., Kalamazoo, Mich. and “Young

Radiator Co., Racine, Wis.

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Baseball At a Glance

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NATIONAL LEAGUE hiladelphia at Brooklyn. t Boston.

AMERICAN LEAGUE . Boston at New York. + Washington at Philadelphia (two). Chicago at Detroit. St. Louis at Cleveland.

College Baseball

Indiana Central, 11; Earlham, 2. Michigan, 7; Purdue, 5. . Central Normal, 8; Manchester, 5. . Butler, 3; DePauw, 0. igan State, 3; Western State, 2. consin, 6; Northwestern, 8. Missouri, 5; Iowa State, 4. Kansas State, 8; Kansas, 4. Ball State, 3; Franklin, 1.

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Cullenbine Finds His Batting Eye—No Fooling-He's at .397

. NEW YORK, May 2¢ (U. P)— ; ‘Roy Cullenbine finally has found the. batting eye that caused Larry MacPhail to shell out $25,000 for his services in January, 140, after commissioner K. M, Landis decla him a free agent and is now—ho fooling—leading the American

League in hitting with an average |Reiser

of .397, according to the weekly figures released today and including games of Thursday. _ Cullenbine hit a measly .180 for “© the Dodgers last spring before they ~ traded him even up to the Browns for Joe Gallagher, now in the Army. In 86 games with the Browns last season Cullenbine hit only .230, but American League pitchers are finding him no soft touch this year. Arky Vaughan, Pittsburgh shortstop, continues to lead the Na- © tional League with an average of 383, followed by Don Padgett, Cardinal outfielder, with .362. Denny‘ Galehouse, Brown's righthander, led the American League pitchers with three victories and no . defeats and Lon Warneke, Cardi‘nals’ veteran, tops the National ‘League moundsmen with five victories and no, losses, AMERICAN LEAGUE . G AB BR ienbine, Browns 27 78 Yankees .. 26 100

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Millers’ Men Are Terrific

By UNITED PRESS Today's nominations for the two most dangerous hitters in the Amerfcan © Association: outfielder Ab Wright and rightfielder Fabian Gaffke of Minneapolis. Wright accounted for nine runs last night in the Millers 13 to: 7 victory over Milwaukee, and broke

scored another on a single, and four more in the seventh with a homer while the bases were loaded. Thursday night Gaffke accounted for seven runs with a homer and two triples. The winner, the loser and the score were identical with last night’s. Art Herring's six-hit pitching broke a seven-game winning Streak for the Kansas City Blues and also brought St. Paul its first victory— 3 to 2—of the season over the Blues. Toledo beat Louisville, 10 to 8, in a long drawn out game, after tying the score at 6-all in the seventh.

Runyan Rallies

In Golf Play

BULLETIN NEW YORK, May 24 (U. P.) Vic Ghezzi, swarthy veteran from Deal, N. J., took the lead in the fourth annual Goodall golf tournament at the 72d hole today when he toured the Fresh Meadow Course in par 70 for a total medal score of 280 and a plus 19 ranking in the race towards the top prize of $1000.

By JACK GUENTHER United —* - Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, May 24—One of the oldest maxims in golf is that it isn’t so much how hard you hit the ball as how straight. One of the stoutest advocates of this theory is diminutive Paul Runyan of White Plains, N. Y. and today it had carried him within striking distance of the $5000

ment. Runyan wasn’t the leader as the 15 contenders took up their clubs at Fresh Meadow Course and headed out for the fourth and fifth rounds of the 216 -hole tournament, but he was awfully close. Horton Smith, the putting genius from

Paul Runyan

points. Yet there was Runyan, tied with Vic Ghezzi of Deal, N. J,, just a point behind. The 140-pound former P. G. A. champ didn’t hit the ball very hard yesterday, but—true to the maxim— he hit plenty straight. When the third round of the four-day competition ended he had picked up 14 points toward the $1000 first prize for the greatest single day exhibition of the comtest, and it isn't beyond belief that he may win it.

Course Will Open

The Sarah Shank golf course will have its official opening tomorrow morning at 9:30. o'clock. Nine new holes have been added to the course, making a full 18." Four foursomes will start the play for the new season. The first is composed of J. W. Joseph, president of the Park Board; Paul E. Rather,

Barley, Garnett and Robinson; Herring|Park Board member; Kenneth Hoy,

president of Public Links Association and J. N. McDaniel, president of Sarah Shank golf course. The second will be made up of

bardi; | Judge Henry 'Goett, Judge Louis

Weiland, Tony Hinkle and Wally Middlesworth. The third is to be composed of city professionals: Wally Nelson, South Grove; Kenneth Miles, Sarah Shank; Russell Stonehouse, Riverside, and Tommy Vaughn, Speedway. Lee Nelson of Coffin will be referee for this 18hole match. The fourth group will be George Bender, Sarah Shank champion; M.

tain; Paul Wagner and Lee Kuntz.

an Associated record. He hit two .| doubles, which scored two runs each,

Goodall tourna=|

Chicopee, Mass., led with 13 plus |ambi

Sarah Shank Golf:

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Starr Chalks Up Another Tribe Victory

Red Birds Beaten, 7 to 4;-Logan Today

L Times Special COLUMBUS, O., May 24.—Chalk up another victory for Ray Starr, the .. Indianapolis Indians’ ace moundsman. He defeated the Red Birds last night, 7 to 4, and it was

setbacks. . Lefty Bob Logan was slated to face the Birds this afternoon in the series finals. in his first start last. Sunday, shortly ' after returning from the Cincinnati Reds.

and Mahager Wade Killefer is anxious to gét the southpaw back in stride.

invade Toledo for a ‘double-header tomorrow afternoon and single games Monday and Tuesday nights. Thrid series on the current road trip will be at Louisville through Memorial Day. The Tribesters will be home again next Saturdey night. . Two games were scheduled at Red Bird Stadium last night but the second was “nc contest.” It was stopped after two innings by the 11:50 p. m. baseball curfew law. Columbus was ahead, 2 to 1, with Fletcher on the mound for the Indians chucking for the Birds. Wissman started the first game for the Birds and was derricked in the third stanza. The Indians handed Ray Starr a three-run lead by sending three men over the plate during a spirited rally in the first frame. But Starr got careless in the fourth inning and Ray Sanders belted a home run with one on. The Birds got three markers in that stanza and deadlocked the game af 3-all. Starr settled down and in the eighth the Indians again went on the warpath and ruined the night for the Red Birds by staging a big inning for four runs, boosting their total to seven. Columbus got one marker in its half of the eighth. Hits were nine apiece and there was one error, by the Tribe. The Birds made frantic efforts to win and called on five hurlers, Wissman, Barrett, Roe, Hader and Creel. But the Indians were in a rallying mood and they made the grade in that eighth and put the contest beyond the home club’s reach. INDIANAPOLIS

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Totals Bucher batted for Gillenwater in eighth. Jongs batted for Hader in eighth. Indianapolis 300 000 040—7 Columbus 000 300.010—4

Runs batted in—Lewis, Pasek 2, Starr, Blackburn, Sanders 2, Repass. Two-base hits—Ambler, Zientara, Sanders, Lewis Blackburn, Repass. Home run—Sanders. Stolen bases—Ambler, Zientara 2, Bestudik 2. Blackburn, Myatt. Sacrifices—Starr 2. Double play—Repass to Myatt to Sanders. Left .on bases—-Indianapolis 6, Columbus 12. Base on balls—Off Starr 7, Wissman 3, Barrett 3. Strikeouts—By Starr 2, Barrett 3. Hits—Off Wissman 4 in 2 innings (pitched to two batters in third), Barrett 3 in 5 (pitched to three batters in eighth), Creel 1 in 1, Hader 0 in ¥%, e 2 in 23. Wild pitch—Barrett. Losing pitcher—Barrett. Umpires—Weafer and Austin, Time—2:56. }

Wolverines Near Big Ten Title LAFAYETTE, Ind, May 24 (U. P.)—Michigan today had the Big Ten baseball title in sight as it engaged Purdue in the second of a two-game series. The Wolverines moved a step nearer last night with a 7 to 5 victory inthe first night game of conference history.

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Brown Bomber Busted

Wise and Harms; Blanken and Young.

Joe Louis successfully defended his title against Buddy Baer last

his seventh. triumph against four} He was knocked out} The. veteran won|’

18 games for the Redskins last year| $

After today’s tilt the Indians will|’

and Wissman doing the|’

|their third"

Tony Hinkle’s Butler University

baseball squad scored its fourth victory of the season yesterday afternoon on the Fairview diamond by defeating the DePauw Tigers,

3-0, behind Bob Fleicher’s fourhit pitching, : x

night when the challenger was unable to answer the bell for the seventh round at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D. C. The battle was reminescent of the old Firpe-Dempsey brawls for action, Here Referee Arthur Donovan and Baer stand over the Brown Bomber as’ the champ was knocked through the ropes for the count of four in the first round. : : : :

to have plenty of the hood. :

Pro-Ams Play At Frankfort

Frankfort’s Country Club will be the destination Monday of some 100 golfers gathering to compete in the fifth pro-amateur tournament in the 1941 scries arranged by . the southern section of the Indiana Professional Golfers’ Association. There has been a change in the usual starting time, from 1 p. m. to 12:15 p. m., necessitated by the expansion of pro-am fields and especially desirable this week, since the boys will do their birdie-stalking over a nine-hole course. Old Man Par was chased clear off the premises the last time the pro-am wanderers stopped at Tom Roan’s Frankfort place, last August. It was then that Bill Heinlein shot the lowest individual round of the tourney season, a 65, which also became the new course record. Then, too, several other pros and amateurs were at or under par. Because birdies came so. easily last season, those who play in these almost-weekly events expect to maintain the low level of scoring struck in this season’s four previous tourneys. In each of these, it took: at least six under par to win.

Amateurs

Zenite Metal will play South Side Merchants a doyble-header at Garfield No. 2 tomorrow at 2 p. m. Zenite has a permit for Willard. No. 1 next Thursday, 5:30 p. m. period. For game call Belmont 5025.

. Louie’s Market softball team will meet Sunday at 227 S. Arsenal St. for their out of town game. Want Sunday night games. Write J. Priola, 1456 Bates St.

Games at Forest Park, Noblesville,

‘| tomorrow:

2 p. m., Louie’s Market vs. Modern Woodman. 3 p. m.,, Kay Jewelry vs. Nables-

- | ville Merchants.

Games at Memorial Park, Lebanon, tomorrow: | r 7:30 p. m., Labor Temple vs. Ladoga Canning. 8:30 p. m., Dee Jewelry vs. Winkler Stoker.

Hoosier A. C. Girls play Delco Remy Girls at Anderson Monday night at 7:30 p. m. in the Em-Roe State League.

The Savings Jewelry. and Loan Girls. team from Cincinnati, six times Ohio champions, will meet the Hoosier A. C. Girls tomorrow night at Speedway Stadium. The Commercial Solvents will meet Richardson’s Market at 8 p. m. and the Goodwin Funeral Home will clash with Wayne Park Garage at 9 p. m.

SOFT BALL

Results of last night's Em-Roe Merchantile Softball games at Stout Stadium: Railr en’s Savings & Loan, 6; George J. Mayer Co., 5. . Beveridge Paper Co., 12; Citizens Gas

0.3 Oe Hall Neal Furnace Co., 6; Fi y TL NY TS, orate (Bg, Gi ESHER

C. Y. 0. SENIOR SOFTBALL SCHEDULE , Sunday, May 25—10:30 A. M. - 8t. Catherine vs. St. Roch at Garfield. Shamrocks vs. Holy Trinity at Willard. {rusaders vs. Jouraes at suokside. ds a IL VS. 0 lo St. Philip a ey a vey ' Glenns Valley wishes a game for Sunday. Call MA. 8961.

Pepsi-Cola Boosters will be after consecutive victory when they meet the unbeaten Elwood Eagles at Softball Stadium tomorrow night. In the preliminary game Indianapolis Machinery and Supply plays: Hamilton. O. Jim Stewart is booking games for the stadium and managers seeking games should write to him, 326 In-

{surance Building, Indianapolis.

All Labor Temple players meet

at’ English Avenue Boys’ Club at 5:30.p, m, for the ip to Lebanon,

The Duke Steps

The Speedway railbirds crowded in a little closer as Duke Nalon rolled the Elgin Piston Pir’ Special to the track for the first time. Powered by a rebuilt Maserati motor, this eight-cylinder car is supposed get-up. That's Duke in the driver's seat and mechanician Roscoe Dunning peering under ?

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BULLETIN WASHINGTON, May 24 (U. P.). —The District of Columbia Boxing Commission announced today that a hearing on the disputed Joe Louis-Buddy Baer fight for the heavyweight championship would be held at 11 a. m, Monday.

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 24.— All was not quiet along the Potomac today. They were still jabbering furiously about the confused and chaotic aftermath. of one of the most dramatic heavyweight fights

ever seen—a throw back to the Dempsey-Firpo days. Joe Louis is still the champion, successful in his 17th defense of the title. How he won 1t and almost lost it is the story. Buddy Baer is no longer an awkward, clownish caf. He knocked Louis through the ropes and clear out of the ring in the first round. He was finally beaten in the seventh on a disqualification, a rare thing in a heavyweight championship fight.

Here's what happened: Louis had come back from his astonishing and frightening flight through the ropes, the consequence of a tremendous left-hand punch, and fighting cautiously, was gradually reestablishing himself as the man in charge of the ring—not completely in charge because the younger of the Baers had demonstrated he could punch just as hard if not harder than the champion. The second, third and fourth rounds went into ring history without spectacular incident or episode. Then came the fifth.

The Fifth

For more than a full minute Baer gave Louis a vigorous and vicious cuffing around. To those who had watched Baers clumsy, lunging performances in the past and Louis’ sharp, staccato savagery this was an incredibie picture. It couldn’t happen and yet it was. Baer had again taken command and was giving Louis a thorough thrashing. They were in close and when Louis backed away his left eye was bleeding. : : Louis put his gloved hand to the wounded region. A . momentarily flash showed him he he was bleed-

‘ling—and from then an he saw red

literally. ° Instantly the character of the fighting changed. Louis tore into Baer with rights and lefts to the head and sweeping swings to the body and had him staggering and almost out at the bell. For sheer primitive ‘fury and force this round surpassed even the melodramatic opener which had seen the challenger knock the champion out of the ring, just as another challenger, Firpo, another supposedly clumsy, awkard oaf, had done to Dempsey, the Louis of his day, years ago. At this stage Louis had survived two hurricanes of leather, two of the most stormy rounds he had ever lived through as champion. As he sat in his corner you could see a reptilian glint in his eye. He rolled a nervous tongue over dry, parched lips. His handlers wiped away the blood and administered first aid. He

-|set his feet in a position as if to

spring. It was a manifestation of that quality known loosely to the ring as the killer instinct. At the bell he was swarming all over Baer, who had begun to fade. The punches came too fast for any human to count. They came in a steady stream, rights and lefts, that had the younger Baer’s head turning first this way and then that way. “How much more can he stand?” you found yourself gasping, because by now your own breath was coming and going in short takes

snd the exciiemezt of the brutal

Out

Baer Busted Louis Through Ropes, Joe Came Back a Killer

Pilots Await

Good Track

For Trial Run

Interest Shown in.

Duke Nalon’s Car

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excitement was due with the expected arrival of the French team,

1Rene LeBegue and Jean Trewvoux,

and its Talbot racers. The cars were taken off the boat at New York Thursday, and the two driveps began the overland journey at once. Although it was reported that they might make their first runs on the bricks this afternoon, it was held doubtful that either would qualify this week-end. Any car arriving at the track usually re-

‘| quires a day’s running to condition

drama was such that you felt a strange tightening in your stomach. Then it came. Baer went down under a two fisted attack and there was a loud exultant roar from the big crowd which -thronged the. ball park—a crowd which included thousands of Louis’ racial brothers and sisters. But Baer was up and at four, still full of fight and Louis, as savage and determined and as desperate as he’s ever been in the ring, stormed after him. Presently Baer was down again. This time visibly hurt and plainly on the ‘way out. Down here, as elsewhere, they have a knockout timer who sits outside the ring. "It is his job to look at his watch and count the seconds. Meanwhile the referee inside the ropes picks up the count. This timer sat directly in front of your correspondent. As he counted we listened. At the same time we watched Baer. The count went to eight, to nine and then to ten. At ten Baer’s gloves had not left the floor. Thus as the timer saw it Baer was knocked out. But Donovan ruled otherwise. Baer had gotten up and was reeling backward, easy prey for a killing punch. Louis who had gone to a neutral corner leaped back to. the attack and nailed Baer with a right hander, probably as hard a punch as he ever threw. Baer went down with a crash that shook the ring—and then the bell rang. Or did it ring before the punch was landed? That's the question that has destroyed the traditional placidity of the Potomac today. It also explains the disqualification. Protesting that the final punch had been landed after the bell Baer’s manager, Ancil Hoffman, no dope, refused to let the young California giant come out for the ‘seventh. He couldn’t have come out anyway; he was too far gone. But Hoffman’s talking point was, and still is, that the final punch, illegal as he sees it, ruined his man. So that’s how the fight ended with Baer sitting in his corner, his huge-head swaying in pain from Sne side to the other, both eyes closed as if in a coma.

Amateurs to Play At French Lick

FRENCH LICK, .Ind, May 24 U. P) Th Golf Association officials announced today the 1941 state amateur golf tournament will be held on French Lick’s tricky hill course beginning July 21. More than 150 entries were expected to compete in seven flights during two days of medal competition, according to G. A. Young of Lafayette, - Association president. Thirty-two survivors will engage in

it,"and Trevoux still must take the beginner's driving test: since he nasn’t handled a car on the Speedway. Other cars and drivers likely to attempt tests were Joie Chitwood in the Blue Crown Spark Plug Special, Sam Hanks in the Seven Up Special, Mel Hansen in the Fageol Special, Louis Tomei in the H-3 Special, Frank Brisko in the Zollner Piston Pin Special and Tony Willman in the Lyons Special. Tomorrow’s time trials are set for the same hours as today’s—between 1 and 7 p. m. To qualify, a driver must run the four-lap, 10-mile test at a speed better than 115 miles an hour. Each driver is allowed three chances to gain a position in the starting field.

B® » The Elgin Piston Pin Special to be driven by Duke Nalon had been out of the garage only once before it came to the Speedway.

Last Thursday morning, escorted by a police car, the machine was given a trial run on the Elgin, Ill, track. But it had to be piloted slowly so that it wouldn‘t run away from the cops. Roscoe Dunning, who virtually rebuilt the Maserati motor, expects to overdo the chassis and body next year. mi...

THE EIGHT-CYLINDER Phillips Special still must have another three miles an. hour before it is qualified. Overton Phillips, owner and driver, gunned it for several ‘laps yesterday and could produce only a 112-mile-an-hour pace.

The mystery of the Ted Horn car still baffles Art Sparks. When the car failed to come up to expectations, Sparks started from scratch, concocted a brand-new fuel mixture and made major carburetor changes. Still no go. Yesterday Horn worked the car again and said he was doing swell on the front stretch with the wind at his back but that it was different story on the back straightaway. Sparks then decided it might be a faulty magneto. They were to find out today if that was the answer. 2 8 = BILL LIPSCOMBE'S second attempt to pass his driving test was stalled yesterday when the four-cyl-inder Greene Special developed an oil leak. The Los Angeles watermeter repair man tried it earlier in the week and developed trouble on the backstretch. ” ” »

IN AND ABOUT GASOLINE ALLEY. , . . Joie Chitwood had to have his steed towed in twice yesterday. Pirst it was fuel pump trouble and then it was no fuel. . . . Chet Miller found a sponge rubber seat for Duke Nalon to use in the Elgin Piston Pin Special. The original cushion put Duke way up in the air. . « » Sam Hanks is inclined to believe he won’t run until Sunday. The car is still shy a few parts, and the long distance lines were buzzing yesterday as Ed Walsh, the owner, tried to locate them. . . . Here’s how drivers judge thé wind: They watch the smoke coming out of the Prest-C-Lite smokestack directly south of the front straightaway. . . . Anybody who has any trouble now with a 225-cubic-inch Offenhauser- motor can get a new one quick. Joe Thorne had one shipped in -yesterday. The price, it is said, is $1200. William Schoof of Milwaukee is preparing the gold-and-red Schoof Special. It was driven at a 117-mile-an-hour clip in time trials last year by Louis Durant, but was eliminated by faster cars....Babe Stapp came back to Gasoline Alley yesterday. He has been working at the Lockheed - factory, but is through with’ racing since suffering severe burns last winter in a midget crackup. . . . Anything for a laugh, Yesterday Paul Russo and Tony Willman hauled a rickety pushmobile out of some corner and used it to jibe the Firestone boys.

MODEL RACES

SUNDAY AFTERNOON Approximately 12-TP. M.

'LONGACRE PARK (4700 Madison Ave.) -

INDIANAPOLIS MODEL

RACE CAR ASSN, INC.

match play for the championship.

House Trailers, Semi-

from floor will not be.

NOTICE

(or Tractor) Trailers,

Stock-Rack Trucks and Trucks with Seats, Stands or Platforms built up higher than 3 feet

admitted to Speedway.

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Building of Seats, Stands or Platforms (as

above described) after

entering Speedway, will

be prohibited. Stake and Platform Trucks of greater than V;-ton capacity will be required to have a minimum of fifteen (15) General

Admission Tickets.

* Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corp.