Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1943 — Page 6
SPORTS...
By Eddie Ash
A tall young man who established the amazing earned run average of 0.87 in three games of the Texas league playoff last fall, is expected to be one of the mainstays of the Minneapolis Millers’ pitching staff this summer. + + +» The gentleman in question is Claude Horton. Horton ‘won 15 games for Ft. Worth last season and was acquired in the deal that also brought Bill Lillard, George Jansco, Flea Clifton, Bill DeCarlo, Ray Mosley, and Ben Parish to the Millers. Rogers Hornsby managed Ft. Worth and when Owner Mike Kelley of Minneapolis inquired about Horton, Hornsby said: “He can’t miss. He has everything. He was the best pitcher in the Texas league. A lot of ability and he knows how to pitch.” Russ Rolandson, young Miller who did most of the catching for Ft. Worth last season, also is high on Horton. “If that’s what Hornsby said, he was as right as rain,” Rolandson said, “He’s got a good fast Ball and don't let anyone tell you that his curve isn't all that it should be. It was a fair curve early in the season, but at the finish it was a honey. It just exploded.” Horton is a big, strong fellow Who thrives on steady employment. . . . If the experts are right, Mike Kelley is about to send another good pitcher to the majors.’
Count Made Derby a Cake Walk
THE 69th running of the Kentucky Derby was not much of a ‘Tun for the roses.” ... It was a cake .walk. ... The last-minute withdrawal of Ocean Waver removed most of the edge from the race. - - . But it figured to be a one-horse Derby and that’s the way it turned out.... The Count is king. ... And he always lives up to his press clippings. Last Kentucky Derby for the duration? . .. Could be. . . . Many horse addicts from other states were on hand at Churchill Downs Saturday although it was supposed to be a “no travel” Derby this year with tickets limited to residents of the Louisville area. . .. Plenty of Hoosiers were in the crowd and they weren't residents of New Albany or Jeffersonville, Many “important peopie” were absent but the run-of-mine race goers got there from Chicago, St. Louis and Indianapolis . . . and they didn’t walk.
Army Rules Against Dodger Lights
PERMISSION to complete twilight games under the arc lights at Ebbets field, Brooklyn, was denied the Dodgers by the second corps area army command. ... The Dodgers have seven twilight games beginning at 5:30 o'clock, on schedule this season and as a result of the army suling the contests will have to remain strictly of the twilight variety. . .. The first is scheduled tomorrow against the Phillies. Last year the Dodgers played 13 twilight contests, finishing most under the lights. n 5
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THE New York at Boston National league game. today was postponed on account of transportation difficulties. . . . It is scheduled to be played off in a double-header Wednesday.
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Jot It Down—Home Opener Wednesday
DESPITE a two weeks’ later opening, the American association had no weather luck for its early games. . . . It simply goes to prove that bad weather may be encountered in late April, or even in early May as well as in mid-April. . . . It's a gamble outdoor sports must take and it's useless to guess. Indianapolis is to stage its home opener at Victory field Wednesday night at 8:20 and Toledo will be the opponent. . . . The home boys will be home tomorrow on an open date to be present at the baseball luncheon sponsored by the athletic committee of the Chamber of Commerce. . . . The home boys also expect to get in some hitting practice at Victory field tomorrow.
Wins $6000, but Loses It And $2500 Ring to Thieves
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 3 (U. P.).—Harry Dusenberry, 31, Muskogee, Okla., pulled $5000 out of the feedbox at Churchill Downs, but someone else pulled the same $6000 out of Dusenberry’s mattress. Dussenberry’s wife also reported the theft of her diamond rings, which she valued at $2500. Dusenberry had a good thing in the fifth on Derby day. He collected $6000 when Longshot Busyridge romped home a winner, - paying $54.60 on a $2 ticket. Yesteraay, three men bound and gagged the Duesenberrvs in their hotel room, found the money in the mattress, took the rings and departed.
Baseball Calender
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| (First Game) 1 Philadelphia 2 Boston i Arntzen, Christopher and Wagner; Hughson, Karl, Ryba and Partee, Conroy. | (Second Game) (First Game) Philadelphia . 000—1 3 1 Milwaukee . . 001 000 030— 4 11 1 Boston coo... 001 000 . St. Paul coer. 301 003 00x— T 11 1 Wolff and Swift; Chase, H. Newsome Caldwell, Sproul and Helf; Smith, Reis and Conroy. and Andrews. (Second Game) | Milwaukee . 063 351 6-21 21 1| Cleveland St. Paul , 030 000 0— 3 10 2 | Detroit Oana. Bowman, Powell and Pruett; Car-| __ dinal, Speer, Reis, Morgan and Castino. | Newhouser, Henshaw and Parsons. Cleveland at Detroit, second game, poncd.
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INDIANAPOLIS games postponed.
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FT. WAYNE, Ind, May 3 (U. P.).
at Cones, both jgent of the Indiana state umpires | | association, said today the National!
a sued a charter for umpires to the 000 001 100— 2 5 ¢ Marion, Ind., baseball organization.
Blue Swords,
By TOMMY DEVINE United Press Staff Correspondent
LOUISVILLE, May 3.—The cham-
today for another renewal of their turf rivalry. Count Fleet, the current ruler of the 3-year-old division after his impressive three-length victory in the 69th renewal of the Kentucky Derby, and his persistent challenger, Blue Swords, who took second-place money in the blue-ribbon stake, were traveling companions en route to Baltimore for the Preakness next Saturday. It was the fourth time that Blue Swords finished runner-up to Count Fleet. As preparations were being made to ship the colts yesterday, Don Cameron, trainer of Count Fleet, and Walter Kelly, the conditioner of Blue Swords, were ‘“rib- | bing” each other.
‘No Walkover!’
“You better treat me right, Cameron,” Kelly said, “or I won't ship 'my horse and then you'd be in a
tough spot because you wouldn't have anybody to stay up close and make the Count run!” “Aw, Kelly, don’t leave,” Cameron replied, “I don’t want any walkovers.” Behind the jesting there’s a world of truth, for Count Fleet by his triumphs in the Wood Memorial and the Derby has scared off the bulk of his 3-year-old rivals. From the Derby field, only Count Fleet and Blue Swords are certain Preakness starters. Slide Rule was shipped east today, but Trainer
whether the W. E. Boeing colorbearer will go in the Preakness.
Wants “Triple Crown”
Only two eastern representatives who failed to come here for the Derby are considered probable Preakness starters. They are the Belair stud’'s Bossuet and W. L.
mum field for the rich Pimlico event appears to be five starters. When Ocean Wave, the Calumet farm's top 3-year-old who was declared out of the Derby three hours before post time because of an injured leg, and John Marsch’s Occupation, one of the outstanding two-year-olds of 1942 but inactive at 3 because of an ailment, are able to return to the races, there may be some stern opposition for Count Fleet. . Until then the star of Mrs. John D. Hertz's stable will continue his head-long plunge for a sweep of the major stakes.
Wants ‘Triple Crown’
Count Fleet's immediate objective is to grab the elusive “triple crown” of the Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont stakes. Only four horses in history have accomplished the feat, but “The Count” is a good bet to join the illustrious quartet, composed of Sir Barton (1919), Gallant {Fox (1930), Johnstown (1939) and | Whirlaway (1941). | By his Derby effort Count Fleet
added $60,725 to his earnings and |
| boosted his aggregate for his brief career to $159,070. {remaining lucrative stakes virtually
|at his mercy “The Count” may push | {his way into a high-ranking spot
among the all-time great money | Winners of the turf.
Count Fleet Go Again Saturday
pion and his “shadow” rolled East
Cecil Wilhelm has not decided yet
Brann's Vincentive. Thus the maxi- |
With all the:
Tribe Takes League Lead
Times Special
COLUMBUS, O., May 3.—Weathered out of four games in a schedjuled five, the Indianapolis Indians lave leading the league as a result
|of winning that one played, at Toledo, Saturday night, 5 to 3, in 11 innings. Yesterday the Tribesters invaded {Columbus to meet the Red Birds jin a double-header and the teams { played two innings, after which they {sat it out the remainder of the | afternoon. Both tilts were postponed. | The teams were scheduled to play | “the last of the series” this morn{ing, starting at 11:30 central war |time. Earl Reid and Elon (Chief) | Hogsett were ready to answer the Tribe mound call. Manager Ownie Bush was uncertain about his starter last night. Skipper Nick Cullop said it would be Ken Burkhart for
the Red Birds. It Was Brief ‘Game’
John Hutchings opened on the Tribe mound yesterday and he was opposed by Ted Wilks. In the Tribe's half of the second Mickey Haslin doubled and scored on Carl Fairly’s single. But the run and hits won't count. Weather conditions ended the game after one Indian batted in the third. In Toledo Saturday, the Indians collected eight hits to six by the Mud Hens in the 11-inning affair. Bob Logan and Jim Trexler pitched for Indianapolis and Kimberlin and Hanning for Toledo. Trexler was the winning pitcher, Hanning the loser, Trexler won his own game by smacking a timely double in the 11th, scoring two runs. The Hens got their three markers in the first inning. Indianapolis scored one marker in the sixth, two in the {eighth and two in the second extra | stanza.
Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears State Track Crown
Uneasy lies the head that wears the Anderson total, and almost Johnny Allen's two hits helped him loaded yesterday for the Phils
high school track championship, ‘and erstwhile docile subjects seem {ready to rise in earnest revolt. Ft. Wayne North Side owns the uneasy head, and track fans wondered today if the uncrowning will take place next Saturday during the {Northern Indiana conference meet. Coach Rolla Chambers last week ' said that he feared this meet more
Riddle, Shoun, Stome and DePhillips; than any other, and that Hammond
| might be the team to snap the Redskins’ iong win streak which {reached 37 straight Saturday—by a
3 margin of one point. :
North Side won the Kokomo relays with 40 points to Anderson's with 28:2. It was the narrowest
Isince it began its winning ways in the spring of 1941.
4 The closeness of the final score : ; Wynn, Carpenter, Was unexpected mainly because of time, running up 45 points to 22 for second win as the Yankees pounded
1 lhe ease with which North Side has swept through all opposition so far this season. | North Side took five firsts to three {for Anderson, but greater strength
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fonds, thirds and fourths pulled up
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| Pure Oil, returning to sandlot | competition after a year’s absence, defeated Eagles Aerie 211 by a 5-4
| score in 10 innings yesterday to fea- | ture the opening of the Indianapolis
son. Don Birge scored the deciding run
home on a passed ball Birge led the Oilers’ 11-hit attack
Blauvelt said his group would with a homer in the seventh. {establish umpire associations in at| s 1 least four other parts of Indiana in| 5 2|addition to Marion and Ft. Wayne,
| the last two seasons, thumped the Red Wings of Allison's, 17-0,
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In another Municipal league game,
Sad the crown emblematic of the stage Pulled down the high-flying champs.
A loss in the N. I. C. meet would {not affect North Side's state title, (but fans are accustomed to Redskin victories. If they lose, it will | be a case of “The king is dead—long |live the king.” | No records were broken in the | Kokomo relays, which saw Freeman | Longardner of North Side win both {hurdles races and Anderson's Bris- | senden take the high jump and pole {vault to become individual double | winners. Wabash won the “B” championship at Kokomo, scoring 38 6-7 | points to 30 3-28 for second-place Muncie Burris. Auburn, Pelphi,
R 39. Ft. Wayne South Side was third Warsaw, Rochester, Larwill, Garrett,
Fairmount, Plymouth and Windfall
Hayes; Humphries, Grove squeak North Side has experienced followed in that order.
At Terre Haute, Wiley of that city won the Wabash valley track championship for the ninth straight
{ Paris, Ill, second-place finisher. | South Bend Central won the pub|lic high school track title in that ‘city in the first annual city meet, | winning nine of 13 events to over- | Whelm Riley, John Adams and | Washington.
Pure Oil Victory Features .. : Opening of Amateur Season
Harder, Naymick and Rosar; Gorsica,|
post-
, Lukas-Harold had no trouble | swamping the U. S. Rubber club, 23-8, in the Manufacturers’ league. | The winners blasted out 19 hits. Stewart-Warner decisioned Kingjan’s, 4-2,
| rapped a homer in the second. In a Big Six league opener, the
when he singled, stole second, went 40 and 8 trimmed Armour, 5-2. 'to third on a fly and scampered Kops and Ott, who shared mound to climb into seventh as the Red Now, after a decade, their trails Eldred duties for the winners, allowed only Sox fell to sixth. A 12-hit assault cross again, and Bucky is piloting | |climaxed by two runs in the eighth |
three hits.
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Ahead by three lengths at finish line of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs was the | favorite, Count Fleet, with Blue Swords second and Slide Rule running third. In center are Bankrupt, Amber Light, No Wrinkles, Dove Pie and Gold Shower. At rear, Modest Lad and Burnt Cork.
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United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, May 3. — Re-
|lies, but Danny Litwhiler today | furnished the . perennial National | | league tail-enders with plenty of | cause for elation. | The young gent who tossed away! a job as school teacher to become | one of the best outfielders in the {loop during three years with the]
| Phillies has a lifetime batting aver- |:
lage of 294. But currently he is| wielding such a potent bat he may | { furnish the spark needed to lift the | | circuit doormats out of last place. ! Mild-mannered, polite and con- | | siderate, Litwhiler is the exact op | posite in the field. He is fast, fear-
and is a good judge of fly balls
with three homers. He has slammed out eight hits and driven six runs home in 18 tries. Divide With Braves
The Phillies divided with the
Braves yesterday and Litwhiler fig-|é
ured heavily in both games. His! homer tallied the Phillies’ lone run} as the Braves took the opener, 3-1, and his double with loaded bases
12th as the Phillies took the night- | cap, 6-5. Schoolboy Rowe hit a! four-run homer for the Phillies. | Wally Hebert and Bob Klinger {of the Pirates turmed in the best lone day pitching job of the season | ‘by blanking the Cubs, 3-0 and 1-0.! Hebert bested Hi Bithorm with a six-hit job in the opener and Klingter racked up a four-hit effort in | the nightcap. Dick Barrett held the | Pirates to one hit for seven in[ning in the second game, a double {by Vince DiMaggio with Elbie Fletcher on first. Nobody covered | second for the Cubs, however, and the throw in from center rolled i wild, Fletcher scoring.
Allen Helps Win Brooklyn divided with the Giants. |
{win the opener, 3-2, after he re-| {lieved Whit Wyatt. He punched | out a double to figure in the Dodgers’ first two runs in the fifth and {his single drove home the winner] lin the next frame. Rookie Ken | Trinkle spaced eight hits to give] | the Giants a 2-1 decision in the! | second game. The Cardinals whipped the Reds, | {7-6 and 6-3, to climb into a tie for second with the Pirates. Rookie | Lou Klein singled home the win-| {ning run in the ninth of the first! {game and Howie Pollet held ia |cinnati to seven hits in the night-| | cap. | New York's Yankees maintained! (a slim half-game American league {lead over the Indians by dividing] | with the Senators as Cleveland won | ‘over Detroit. | Bonham Wins Second | Ernie Bonham chalked up his
[three pitchers for an 11-3 opening] game decision. He allowed nine | hits. Ewald Pyle set the Yankees, down with six safeties to give Wash-| ington a 4-1 triumph in the night-| cap. | The Indians garnered 11 hits off | three moundsmen to defeat the Tigers, 5-2, Detroit dropping to, fourth behind Washington. Ray Mack’s homer, his first hit of the] year, put the Tribe in front to stay in the fifth. | The Browns rocketed into fifth| and dumped Chicago into the cel(lar by beating the White Sox, 3-2 | (11 innings) and 5-1. Chet Laabs| | homered in the 11th to win the first |
| game for the Browns. Steve Sun- |
Jack Bradford, who dra allowed the Sox seven hits in 5 fielder. | Amateur Baseball association sea- pitched 6-hit ball for the winners, the nightcap and breezed home peen, they have insisted that I
| after the Browns hung up four runs in the first two innings. | Philadelphia divided with Boston
gave the Sox a 7-6 margin in the |
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Saw Rowe as
Another Ruth
By JACK CUDDY United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, May 3.—The story from Philadelphia saying Schoolboy Rowe hit a homer with the bases
against the Braves caused our heart #to flutter like one of the butterfly balls Rowe used to throw. Every time the tall tower from the Ozarks does anything spectacular at bat our ticker starts acting up, and we felt like blubbering, because for 10 long years we have considered Lynwood Thomas Rowe a tragic figure—a mammoth misfit —a guy who might have been another Ruth. Babe Ruth started his major league career as a pitcher—a good one—but he was lucky’ enough to be shifted to the outfield early in his career. Schoolboy Rowe never wanted to be a pitcher, but he lacked the luck that might have conveyed him from the mound to the land of his dreams—the outer garden, Wanted to Pitch
Drifting back from memory lane, we recall vividly our first meeting with the tall flinger from Eldoiado, Ark. and the things that he said— that night 10 years ago—as we stood in the cavern beneath Grand Central station, waiting for his train to pull out. He was a rookie with tne Tigers then, fresh from Beaumont, and the club was heading for Detroit after finishing its spring exhibition season. “I'd rather be an outfielder,” he said, “because then I'd be playing every day and batting every day. I love to step up to the plate and take a cut at the ball. I hit pretty good, and I've got what it takes as But everywhere I've
pitch.” Bucky Harris was managing Detroit in "33 when Rowe came up.
They Played the Game . . . No.
Walsh Pitched Arm
MONDAY, MAY 3, 1943
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Greatest of Spitballers
By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Sports Editor . EDWARD A. WALSH had nothing but a fast ball when he climbed out of a Pennsylvania coal mine to attract attention on the sandlots.
Big Ed’s curve wasn't good enough. It was for this reason that Charley Somers of Cleveland and
other major league owners were not interested
in Big Moose
Walsh after he had kicked around in the minors for a couple of
years. The White Sox drafted him from Newark of the Eastern league for $750. Young Walsh knew nothing of the spitball that TT was to make i N him feared and famous when he reported to Jimmy Callahan at Marlin Springs, § Tex, in the spring of 1904. He obtained : the biggest break in his iF baseball life A when he drew Big Ed Walsh Elmer Stricklett as a roommate. Stricklett had been monkeying with: the spitter for two seasons. He had picked it up on the Pacific coast from George Hildebrand, who was tocome upas an American league umpire and who, strangely enough, was an outfielder. Noticing Walsh's effectiveness with only speed and an unpronounced curve, Stricklett decided to experiment with the recruit. Because Callahan and Fielder Jones had the hurling giants, Doc White, Nick Altrock, Frank Smith and Frank Owens, Walsh, the Iron Man, got in no more than 20 games in his first two campaigns, winning 14. ” »
Set Fungo Record
BUT when Walsh helped pitch the Hitless Wonders to the pennant and world championship in
1906, no pitcher could break off a spitter quite like he did. He was the daddy of the saliva slingers. He listed among his many accomplishments a fungo hitting record of 418 feet, established in 1912 and which stood until 1929 when Babe Ruth hit one 447 feet. Four out of five of Walsh's pitches were spitters. He had amazing control, could break the spitter exactly where he wanted to, usually around the knees. It would break either in or out. That was the only thing he could not call. Walsh had many a thrill in 11 years with the Sox, but his biggest was striking out Napoleon Lajoie with the bases loaded, and two out, in the ninth and the Sox leading, 3 to 2. “Billy Sullivan called for a spitter,” recalls Walsh, “but I knew a spitter was just what Lajoie expected. So I crossed Billy by shooting a fast ball right through the middle waist high. Lajoie was so dumbfounded he didn't even take the bat off his shoulder. “That didn’t Lajoie being strikes.” Lajoie never got over striking out with the bat on his shoulder and losing that pennant for Cleveland. That was the key game of the famous three-way race of 1908, and gave Detroit the flag by half a game. ”
Strikeout King
THE pitching feats of Walsh would fill a book, and the most exciting chapter would be his narrowly missing hurling White Sox to the pennant singlehanded that same year. Big Ed participated in 66 games, a modern record. He won 40, lost 15. He pitched 464 innings, or 52 complete games, a trifle more than one-third of the total number scheduled. Walsh was the strikeout king of his time, 171 in 1906, 207 in ’07, 269 in '08, 258 in ’10, 255 in ‘11 and 254 in ’12, his best years. He won 17 games in 06, 24 in "07, 40 in '08, 15 in 09, 18 in ’10, 27 in 11 and a like number in 12. Big Ed literally pitched his arm off for Charles A. Comiskey, for, you see, he was not as effective in '09 as he was before and during his herculean efforts of 08, or in the following campaigns. Overwork no doubt shortened his iareer. In the 464 innings he pitched in '08, he yielded only 343 hits and walked no more than 56. He was in seven games in nine days in one stretch and wound it up by beating the Red Sox in both ends of a double-header. Walsh fanned a dozen in shutting out the Cubs, 3-0, with two hits in 06, a world series record until Howard Ehmke made it a baker's dozen for the Athletics against the same club in ’29. Big Ed turned in a no-hit performance against the Red Sox, Aug. 27, 1911. During the heat of the memorable pennant fight of 1908, Big Ed Walsh struck out yielded Cleveland only four hits, vet was beaten, 1-0, as Addie Joss churned his perfect game. Walsh and Sullivan was the White Sox’ most famous battery. Walsh sang and told a story better than he knew. He was one of the most genial of all the great men of sports. Edward Armstrong Walsh was— and is—a grand character.
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Local Keglers Blast Maples In Pin Meet
SOUTH BEND, Ind, May 3 (WU, P) —Two new leaders appeared to= day in the mens state bowling tours nament being rolled here week-end, with Joe Torzewsk® of South Bend posting a T16—the first 700 series of the meet—for singles leadership, and L. Ahern of Indianapolis take ing the all-events top spot with 1931. Torzewski maintained a torrid pace with games of 233, 256 and 227 in posting his total. Ahern hit 6556 in singles compe= tition, 589 in the doubles and 687 in the team event to take all-events leadership. He is a member of the Bowes Seal Fast team which moved into fifth place in team standings with 2881. Another Indianapolis team—Falls City Beer—took seventh spot with 2871 in major changes in team standings.
Schott Gets 679
Kunkle Music shop of Misha« waka rolled into eighth spot in rege ular five-man team competition, hitting for 2856. In other important singles changes, E. Schott of Indianapolis took fourth place with 679 and E.
linto fifth place with 672. [also took fifth in all-events with
Striebeck of the Capital City moved Schott
1874. Standings: FIVE-MAN TEAMS
Sheriff Molnars, South Bend ......... $ J. J. Burke Furniture, Gary.. Millikan Sport Shop, Hammond... Western Recreation, South Bend...... Bowes Seal Fast, Indianapolis OUT-OF-TOWN BOOSTERS Phillips 66 Oilers, Elkhart ........... Rescke's Recreation, Crown Point..... 1 Doe's TGA, Crown Point ............ 2798 Wolf and Dessauer .... VaR VE Major Bros. Pkg. Co., Mishawka..... 2% DOUBLES V. Ancich-F. Glasmier, Hammond ... IL. Swinsick-S. Fabian, South Bend... Brockus, F. Borsics, South Bend.. Niemann, J. Nemath, South Bend... Robertson-R. Kelley, Indianapolis, ALL-EVENTS Ahern, Indianapolis ....... sana W. Barman, Hammond G. Moore, Ft. Wayne M. Anderson, Gary C. Schott, Indianapolis .......v0vvuve 1874
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Joe Torzewski, South Bend .. Arthur Dolan, Huntington ... C., Turner, Anderson E. Schott, Indianapolis .... E. Striebeck, Indianapolis
Ex-Belter to Face LaBelle
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wrestling ring, takes on Rene Lae |Belle of Toronto in the feature {bout on the grappling menu to- | morrow night at the armory. | Ferona, as a boxer, met such glove throwers as Sammy Mandel,
| Andy Callahan and Moon Mullins, | He is out of Boston and has shown [here three times as a matman. | Joe easily won his first two los ‘cal tussles, then went 30 minutes {with the skilled LaBelle last Tues |day. No falls were registered in {the match, but Rene annexed a {referee's decision. Their encounter tomorrow night is for two falls out of three. They are junior heavye {weights | Supporting bouts are between | heavyweights, with Cowboy Luttrell (of Houston meeting Roland (Long Boy) Kirchmeyer of Tulsa, and Ralph Garibaldi of St. Louis Oppose ing Albert Mills of Montreal.
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