Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1941 — Page 22
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PAGE 2 3 Hambletonian Rich Stakes Draw World's
Fastest Trotters, Pacers
For Week of Speed Battles
$16,000 Fox Event Biggest Purse Offered; Hoosier Stars Tangle Saturday
With some of the world’s fastest harness horses ready to go after the big cash prizes, Hoosier sulky racing fans are all set for the annual week-long speed program which opens at the Indiana Fair Grounds oval Saturday. Headlining the program will be the free-for-all races in both the trotting and pacing divisions, the famous Fox Stake,
the Claypool Hotel Stake, the Governor's Stake, the L. S.
Ayres Stake, the Indiana
Stake, the Hook Drug Co. Stake, the Commissioner of Agriculture Stake, The Horseman Stake and the Horseman Futurity in both divisions. Winners of the last three Hambletonian races are scheduled to participate in this year’s racing. Bill Galion, the current winner, will face a briliant field of three-year-olds in the Horseman Futurity on Labor Day.
Two Hambletonian Winners
Another stellar field will tangle in the free-for-all trot on Friday, Sept. 5. An early favorite is Nibble Hanover, who registered a new world’s record at Old Orchard recently. But Spencer Scott, Hambletonian winner in 1940 who has been under two minutes this year; Peter Astra, 1939 Hambletonian victor; Earl's Moody Guy and Remus, both of whom have good records, also will make strong bids for the cash and glory. The free-for-all pace on Thursday, Sept. 4, promises some of the closest competition of the entire meeting, with Little Pat, the former Indiana star rated as one of the greatest campaigners of all time,
‘heading the all-star field.
Fearless Peter, one of last year’s favorites here; Blackstone, who turned in a 1:591¢ mile last June, and Dusty Hanover, conqueror of both Little Pat and Blackstone, are others in this event. Brookdale, Harry Whitney's pacer
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who turned in a 1:593; mile at Mii-
.waukee recently and came back with a 2-minute dash in the next heat,
heads the Claypool Stake field. A double winner here, William Cash, also is in the field. He took the Fox Stake two years ago and the Horseman Futurity last year. He has been close to 2 minutes In Grand Circuit competition this year. Bell Boy is a third contender. Sharing the Labor Day spotlight with this race will be the $5500 Horseman Futurity for 2-year-old trotters—a repitition of the famous Hambletonian. Bill Gallon, who won this year in 2:04; His Excellency, who took one heat and finjshed second, and Merwynna, third place winner, will renew the battle they started at Goshen. Volstadt, conqueror of both Bill Gallon and
His Excellency in earlier races, also
is in the field. Others scheduled to start are Lansdown, Guy Barnes, Czarevitch, Lucy Hanover, Earl's Katydid and Lawrence Abbey. $16,000 In Fox Purse Biggest purse of the meeting will go to the winner of the famous Fox Stake, which headlines next Wednesday’s program. Often called the “richest pacing event in the world,” it will pay $16,000 this year—top price since the start of the event in 1926. : Court Jester, most consistent winner this year, is the early favorite of rail birds, but faces sterling competition from the classy field that includes Hal Trim, Mose Dale, Volo Britton, Brown Derby, Jerry Sprague, Dynamite Hal, Fay Sterling and others. Harness racing will get under way
Saturday with a three-event pro-
gram for half-mile track stars of Indiana and surrounding states. While they are not Grand Circuit races. some keen competition is expected. Indiana two-yeat-olds will battle for state championships on Moncay, in both the pacing and trotting divisions. These Foosier stars already have tangled in seven races on various half-mile tracks throughout the state. In the pacing division are the sensational Billy D. Grattan, who set a new world’s record for 2-year-old pacing geldings at Muncie recently; Mose Dale, Eddie D. Lynndale, Frisky Dale, Bonnie Bill, Bonnie Volo and others. A classy group of young trotters will be headed by Pioneer Brewer, Wayne B., and Society Queen.
‘Marse Joe Makes
‘Brash Prediction
CHICAGO, Aug. 28 (NEA) — Holding a 15-game lead with 29 remaining, ultra-conservative Joe McCarthy admitted the Yankees had won the American League pennant. The New York pilot benched four regulars, explaining: “I have some fellows who need work. The other guys won the pennant.” Gerald Priddy went to first, Frank Crosetti to third, Frenchy Bordagaray to right field and Ken Silvestri caught.
Zale and Abrams In Non-Title Tilt
NEW YORK, Aug. 28 (U. P.).— Promoter Mike Jacobs announced today that Tony Zale of Gary, Ind. National Boxing Association middleweight titleholder, and Georgie Abrams had been signed for a 10-round non-title fight in Madison Square Garden Sept. 12. Abrams, stablemate of former champion Ken Overlin, holds three decisions over Billy Soose, who is the recognized 160-pound ruler in New York State.
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Crash Kid’ to Try Columbus Again
COLUMBUS, Ind. Aug. 28.—Topnotch drivers from Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan will vie for honors in the dirt track racing program here next Sunday afternoon under auspices of the Mid West Racing Association. At least 20 cars will compete, with the program to include five events of 10 laps each and a 25-lap feature. Roman Snell, Louisville, known as the “crash kid” since a spectacular accident here earlier in the season, is listed as one of the favorites. Others include Harold Shaw, Indianapolis; Jimmy Sampson, Shelbyville, Ky.; Frank Popp, Detroit, and Everet Rice, Crawfordsville.
4 All-Stars Join Navy's Air School
CHICAGO, Aug. 27 (U. P.).~— Four former college football stars will be inducted into the U. S. Naval Reserve Aviation Cadets’ School and one into the Naval
Reserve Midshipmen’s School between halves of the All StarChicago Bears football game tonight. Those to be inducted into the cadet school are Dave Rankin, former Purdue player; Robert Saggau, Notre Dame; George Franck, Minnesota, and Edward Frutig, Michigan. Warren Alfson, a Nebraska graduate, will be inducted into the midshipmen school.
Girls to Operate Net Scoreboard
NEW YORK, Aug. 28 (NEA).— Women will operate the scoreboard at the national tennis championships, Aug. 30-Sept. 6, at Forest Hills, Girls from Barnard assume duties formerly performed by Columbia men. Typical Miss Scoreboard is blond and 20, a five-feet, five-inch senior majoring in economics. While not a player herself, she has favorites. The change was made because of the demand of national defense
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Winners Ready for Harness Tests Here
Bill Gallon, winner of the famed Mambletonian Stake at Goshen this year, faces the same foes in a feature event of the Indiana Fair Grounds racing program Monday. The proud gentleman with him is Lee Smith, his trainer and driver.
By HARRY GRAYSON Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—Next to to base-running, Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker say the biggest change in baseball since they played the game so well is represented in the preponderance of swing hitters. Branch Rickey of the Ea Sardinals oa = are mmy ilTed Williams son of the Cubs contend scores of batters could tack from 25 to 100 points
and because of the successful use of lineswomen.
on their averages simply by concentrating on meeting the ball.
But the bulk of the boys have shot for the fences since Babe Ruth revolutionized the game and got $80,000 a year for finding the range. Johnny Mize of the Red Birds was one who got wise to himself this year. St. Louis’ Big Boy decided to fatten his average in place of aiming for the distant seats. ‘ The early and protracted slump of Frank McCormick of the Reds was traced to the home run urge. Frank Frisch relates how a hand injury once helped the Cardinals to a pennant. He couldn't grip the bat to swing, so simply met the ball, and base hits rained all over the place. Competent judges say athletes like Joe Gordon of the Yankees, Bob Johnson of the Athletics, Ernie Lombardi of the Reds, Dolph Camilli of the Dodgers,
Vince DiMaggio of the Pirates, Jim Tabor of the Red Sox, Hal Trosky and Gerald Walker of the Indians, Rudy York and Bruce
Campbell of the Tigers and Babe Dahlgren of the Cubs would bs vastly more formidable over a 154-game stretch if they were satisfied to simply get the fat part of the bat in the way of the ball instead of aiming for the outlying precincts. Bambino Ruth, James Emory Foxx and Corporal Greenberg were amazing swinging hitters down through the years. They had marvelous co-ordina-tion. They were to baseball what Craig Wood, Samuel Jackson Snead and Jimmy Thomson are to golf. They did not sacrifice timing, the secret of hitting, in their tremendous swings. Ted Williams has patience at
Everybody's Swinging It—That’s Why Averages Tumble
the plate and isn’t trying to belt every pitch out of the yard. As Harry Heilmann, the old Detroit whacker, points out, Williams’ rhythm is the rhythm of the pitcher. Between pitches the thin kid of the Red Sox will turn around and talk to the catcher or umpire. You might suspect he hasn't his mind on his work, but don’t let it fool you. They play him for a right field hitter, and 90 per cent of his hits are into that orchard, but he gets them out of the reach of the fielders.. Williams, a line drive hitter, thinks only of hitting the ball squarely and lets the home runs fall where they may. That is why willowy Ted Williams threatens to be the American League's first .400 hitter in 18 years.
THURSDAY, AUG. 28, 1940
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Forest Hills’ Keeper of the
Green Worried
\ Net Title Seekers Will Bother His Grass
By WILLIAM TUCKER United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—The “L” in lawn tennis means nothing to a lot of Americans who chase the ball on clay or composition courts but at quiet Forest Hills where the national singles start Saturday the “L” stands for both lawn and luxury. The 22 green carpets at West Side Tennis Club, perhaps the finest grass courts in the world since Wimbledon has grown weedy with the blitz, represent years of painstaking seeding, rolling, watering and trimming. And with all that work, the courts are used about one-
tenth as much as clay or asphalt courts while it costs more than
dition. Dapper George J. Koch is captain of the 20-man crew that nurses the courts as carefully as ever a horticulturist tended an orchid. This week is a lull in Koch's life. The courts are in perfect condition, trimmed to an oriental-rug smoothness at 3-16 of an inch.
Every Crease a Worry
“But my troubles will begin all over Saturday,” Koch said. “While the fans are working their necks on a swivel to keep track of the lobs and volleys, I' will have my eyes on the ground instead of the ball.
Every toe-crease in that grass will hurt like a scratch on my own right arm, “And on the day after the tournament is over, I dread to make a survey of the wreckage. It’s barely possible we may be able to get by this fall without seeding the baselines.” Koch said that in the past, the courts have been seeded twice a year, in the fall and again in the spring. The big job of seeding customarily follows the national singles, when the surfaces are pretty well criss-crossed with marks of the lunges and sudden stops of young men and women who have battled for the most coveted of American net titles.
He Has Soil Troubles
But seeding is only the beginning of the troubles of the keeper of the greens. There follows the sometimes
acute problem of making the sensitive poa annua, poa trivialis and colonial bent grasses take root in Long Island's stringy soil. “They don’t have that ‘trouble at Wimbledon and many other grass court clubs,” said Koch. “In England, there is plenty of loamy soil and it is sunny in the daytime while damp and misty at night. That makes for long-rooting but here, where the top-soil is sandy and there is little variation in the 24hour humidity, we practically have
to jam those roots in the ground.”
3 ° ® i» Lou Signs at Illinois CHAMPAIGN, Ill, Aug. 28 (U. P).— Lou Boudreau, Cleveland shortstop, will spend the fall and winter months as assistant baseball and basketball coach at Illinois U., his alma mater.
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