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ST. LOUIS, Aug. 13 (U. P) —X” usually marks the spot where the body was found but Estel Crabtree, 37-year-old outfielder who is located behind an “X” in the St. Louis Cardinals’ boxscores on most of his playing days, refuses to play dead. Crabtree, nicknamed “Ecks” by baseball wags, should not be playing ‘baseball today according to all the} laws of nature but he is and that’s)

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Unheralded, Unnoticed Earl r Clark Takes All Diving Meets

By DON SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 13.—Earl Clark, curly-haired Njinski of the springboard from Ohio State, fashioned one of the most sensational chapters in diving history at the National A. A. U. meet at St. Louis and the remarkable feat slipped inte the record books unnoticed and unheralded. By sweeping the three-meter and 10-meter diving titles, the hand« some Miami, Fla., senior became the| first diver in aquatic annals to hold once to give him a total of 12 major

Il the major diving titles in the championships in the last three United States.

Here was the situation: Clark al- || hn; , he ; eady had won the three-meter title farsa TN Pa ve

| last Saturday. He needed the 10-| = 1 . - | meter crown to complete his domi- [Jo titles in the three years he coms= peted for Ohio State.

nation of the national diving scene. Paibit. didnt to. od “Patnik didn’t compete from the : Moves From Third to First platform.” Peppe said today, “but } nas to be when it concerns a batter, - Clark was in third place on his | his springboard record is untouche 9 who is pacing a team, that includes| : P ; sixth dive. His seventh effort ad- able Patnik lost only one springs 1 eight 300 hitters. ; 5 %| vanced him to second. As he took | board championship in his career Estel was a frail-looking guy to his position for the eighth dive—the [and that was to Clark in the 1940 | begin with when he became a major climax of a three-year campaign— intercollegiates.” \ | league outfielder 10 vears ago and it was pouring rain, Earl arched | “These two boys undoubtedly are arris but a ma- was sent back to the minors because iy and split the water with a near per- | the two greatest divers the world Why when I was he could not bat. It seemed the fect dive that put him in first place has seen and it's a shame they € > = . . <kinnv guy with the big bat was | ahead of Sammy Lee of Occidental couldn't round out their competition a Sa through but he bounced around the® College. Clark's point total was in Olympic games. Peppe said. “+ bushes for a while and landed with |} 107.7, Lee's 105.37. : With the completion of his grand Rochester where last year he cli- Clark started unparaleiled [slam at St. Louis, Clark closed his maxed a six-vear stand with a bats |} K - \ Wa string of victories in March, when | competitive career. Any divin he ting average of 314. | Pi : Ca Da VE RA i 5 ; he won the Western Conference | Will do in the future will be in one Last winter President Sam Brea-| 3 : one-meter title. He followed up the [of Uncle Sam's planes for he has

don. in one of those unusual machi- | same month with the Intercolle- |applied for training as an airplane nations for which the Cardinals! giate one-meter and three-meter [cadet. pe BE er] Ee a he captured th transfer of Crabtree—who was man- | aptur elQLe . . ager of the Wings and doubled as one-meter and three-meter crowns Shift Georgia Tilt the club's centerfielder—to the : at the National A. A. U. indoor meet| ATHENS, Ga. Aug. 13 (NEA). Cards and it’s turned out to be one} Fae a and realized his goal with the two |p gthall game between Georgia and of the best moves Breadon ever) ; 3 Centre, Nov. 15, has been transe ferred from Athens to Atlanta.

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JOE WILLIAMS SAYS—

NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—What is the toughest job on the ball field? Al Schacht, the baseball buffoon, says it's coaching at third base. Mr. Schacht may be slightly prejudiced. He spent a great number of years operating the green and red lights at the far turn. “Ever hear how I got to be a third coach?” asked Mr. idly stroking a cold glass of Toots Shor's chez bicarb. “I wag working out with the ashington club m Tampa

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chaeht that he had started out to tell us how he became a third base coach “Well, George Weiss, the same A ey . ~~ 3 &

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ed him constantly that year of my value to the club. I am pained to report the old gentleman was not overly impressed. Finally one f we win the ] it square?’ of him was Well, we and Griffith the back of his it, then,’ I said to » win the world call it square?’ aye, but we do win i Series, beat the any part oi you and Griffith comes into had cooled of the club house all full of smiles ’ not want me But your and he pats everybody on the I've always including me. I cant eat club the back. T tell him. r about that $3002" He gives and says okay we are square, t just as he is about to leave club house he turns to me ‘Did I say were all ou Sure did, I anhave a dozen with shook his head must be getting

A aR 2! wins at the outdoor meet over the] made.

‘ week-end. Red Bird fans smiied at Manager He has won the National A. A. U. Billy Southworth’s assertion that platform title three years in a row, Crabtree was better now than when the Intercollegiate three-meter he first tried out with St. Rouis in

CIGARETTE competition twice, the intercolle1033. It was hard to understand giate low ®board once, the interhow an old man who had just

collegiate high board twice, the B U R M S undergone an operation for the re- National A. A. U. one-meter and REWOVEN LIKE NEW moval of a kidney could hold his ST

three-meter indoor titles once, the Wo , own with a fAre-eating band of A. A. U. outdoor three-meter bauble RS dC age ag youngsters who were ready to set &

] once. And the Big Ten one-meter the National League ablaze. I ————— Crabby seldom stays around for Bruns W koft SAVE on your PAINTS the full nine innings and is used ) M apolis Firemen chiefiv as a pinch-hitter. He oncej . : turned in a game at third base that} Times Special The Firemen's defeat, which) had the fans talking for davs. ws RB ttl t Draw MIDDLETOWN. O.. Aug. 13.—The knocked them from first place, was considered the best judge of flv balls] a e 0 | Muncie Citizens were perched atop | blamed on Middletown's three-run 8 LUE p ol NT DELAWARE among all the Cards and that in-1 ithe Indiana-Ohio Baseball League, rally in the eighth last night. & MADISON cludes Terry Moore, one of the most} gy Rruns, of Chicago, and Lee ;

efficient ball hawks in the business | raft of Joplin, Mo. heavyweight

93 inches long and 13% inches at girth. When it was landed, only a shred of skin held the hook to the fighter. Though Bryan, a postal employee of Big | Timber, Mont., has been fishing 30 years, he allowed | it was pretty excitin’ to catch one bringing a $1000 dividend. Two thousand fishermen spent the first day of competition along the banks of the Yellowstone River. Below we see some along the river at dawn.

LIVINGSTON, Mont, Aug. 13 (NEA) —Partic- | ipants in the first National Trout Derby above Livingston range in age from 4!¢ years to one old-timer of 99. ‘ It was a plain angleworm on a No. 4 hook with which Lonnie H. Bryan took the first $1000 prize in

the first 10 minutes of fishing. The Rainbow weighed 5 pounds 133{ ounces, was

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: is hp Ang 4s for his batting, ON stll| Jo atmen. went to a 90-minute draw hard to believe. At the start of this|. = 1a main event of the weekly ae hi RR rh wrestling card staged at g oy ic Sh then Arena last night before a lar CI times and hit safely 29 times, mak | aoe A ane patron ge is - " . ~ : i 3 Sx & % t 3 et ix x i Dil ULES ¢ nS. . NOW TO GET BACK to third {I SIX hits in his last 11 times at, 14 (a6 a rough and tumble affair base coaching—the toughest job | 0 te exneetid . an | throughout with Wykoff drawing on the ball field. Mr. Schacht | Crabtree is experted to help fill} git Hlood after 22 minutes of slam-

practically made it a career before he took to clowning around the country. He directed traffic. for

the A ar [ane action when the Missourian 3 ig or 4 re Ors with a clamped on a leg breaker which the 10 fd mana , Windy City grappler was unable to

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three managers Harris, Walter Johnson and Joe Cronin, “Know what makes it the tough job in baseball? Thats ere all the tight games, most of em anyway, are wont or lost and thie full responsibility is in the { hands, the judgment rather, of the | third base coach. It's up to him to decide whether the runner can make it or not; if the runner | makes it hes a hero; if he doesn't the third base coach is a bum in spades 1 never heard anybody say. ‘that third base coach certainIv used good judgment sending | the runner home.’ It's always the |

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| Bruns came back to even the i count. however, taking the second Doubles Start . . In City Tennis

fall in 33 minutes with a series of dropkicks and body presses. With 15 minutes remaining Bruns forced the going all the way but did not { find an opening for a clincher hold land the draw decision resulted. The semi-final tussle of the eve- | Doubles competition opened tod ay | ine was annexed by Steve Brody. in the city parks tennis tournament, | with matches scheduled in the | men’s, mixed and junior division at| {Fall Creek. | Singles play also was to be con-| ‘ oe eck other way The runners | tinued following a wave of upsets | MARION Cot NTY TOURNAMENT great speed and great slide did the |yesterday that ousted three seeded | Schedule for tonight's games at Speedtrick. when. as a matter of fact, [men from the tournament. ] : the runner never would

The | 30 p.m, to score if the third base coach

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have tried [favorites to fall were Capt. Stanley | Otten i | Malless, fifth-seeded, who lost to M.| park. a IA. Lukas, 8-6 2-6, 6-3: sixth-seeded| 830 rm. Rob Dietz. who was eliminated by| Co "00 Art Linne, 6-4 7-5 and Oban} ye zionsville Reich. No. 7. who bowed to Clyde Park 6 t | Akard, 6-4, 6-1. Big | One surprise also occurred in the are to | junior division, where Sidney Izsak| | defeated Tom Messerlie, 10-8, Complete results yesterday: for | Boys Singles—Dick Lighe defeated Har- on rison Retmier, €-0, 2-7: Richard Wood a2 feated Jack Payne 8-0, 8-3, Porge Busch-| man defeated William Watson, 8-4, 8-1: Bill Boyer defeated Don Smiley, 6:1. 8-2. Junior Singles—Jack Sunderland defeated | Richard Hays, 6-0, 6-1: Don Pfeiffer defeated Vie Cardarelli, 1-5 6-0: nick defeated Jim Akard, 6-1 : | Pfeiffer. defeated Don Olsen, 3-8 6-3, Dave Scudder defeated 6-1; Sidney

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6-4. oN ware A C's wants a game t 2 at Willard Park. C. will play onight at

Where's Oral?

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 13 (U P) —The Pittsburgh Pirates announced today that last week's trade of pitcher Joe Bowman to St. Paul of the American Association for pitcher Oral Hildebrand has been canceled Hildebrand failed to report to the Pirates since the trade was made last week and Bownan told President William Benswanger that St. Paul offi-

I. S. HL. TOURNAMENT

Market came from behind FP. No. 48 6-2 and West Merchants eliminated Irnts 8 prrumiay s Zi e { nai - Dave Minni 8-1, ft As Ine nen zak defeated To NM B, A 10-8 6-4: Dick Wood defeat 6-4. 6-0: Bill Maver defeated 6-2, 6-2 Men's Singles—Art Dietz, 6-4 V-3; ly Orban Reich, 6-4, ray Dulberger. 1 Wall 18-11 6-4:

yA Gear bomFt. Harrison, ; anked Holy feated \ i defeated ¥ will see © Wo at >d Nu oosters d id their 1 3 8-4: Pte lefeated |S. A. ‘our rent crown against a P. R. SYadertand defeated Lin- Mallory tea t 8:45 p.m. at Stout Sta- : der by default: Crabb defeated Ditven-| lum. Kay Jewelry will battle with the cials refused to accept him | berger by default: Bosart defeated Roth, | YM. CA at 730 DB. at Softball : & verdrter ritehi . it: Lukas defeat on wei ther t A YR 1 he rex rted his pitching 18-6 9.6 6.2: a Rt Deller, Stadi n lis M ne and Supm needed medical attention. 7-5. Brills defeat dry, 6-3, 8-3 3 Ftnde Kingdon defeated D 0. 6-0! Bot Poms ug jefeated Stanley . 5:

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Women's Singles—Mary Grace Lauwek de-| Schedule for Zionsville {feated Marianne Gillman, 6-2. 8-0. : i

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John Mark Bass of Greenwood today headed the squad of 10 players Shiecien to represent Indiana in an x all-star basketball game against a similar team from Kentucky Aug.| LV TELE [TK 22 at the Butler Fieldhouse. 330 W. WASH ST ESTABLISHED (0 YEARS

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Gaffke to Cleveland

CLEVELAND, Aug. 13 (U. P)—~ The management of the Cleveland Indians today announced the pur-| chase of Fabian Gaffke, 27-year-old outfielder, from the Minneapolis team of the American Association. |

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