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WEDNESDAY, ey ” 1048

Manuel Ortiz 2-1 Favorite In 5th Defense Of Bantam Title

DePalma Drove 150 MPH 25 Years Ago; Now He Builds Planes Capable of 400

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Faces Robleto

Over 15-Round

Route Tonight

I'ONG BEACH, Cal, May 26 (U. P) Bantamweight King Manuel Ortiz was a 2-1 favorite today to take Joe Robleto in their 15-round title bout in Municipal stadium here

By ROBERT MELLACE Times Special Writer FARMINGDALE, N. Y.,, May 26. —Use of racing drivers as guinea pigs for automotive industry development is no more, according to Ralph DePalma, who roared to 2557 victories in 2889 races over a

span of 27 years. Now, at 60 with hair as white as

Weight Is Down

Robleto sided with the mentalists. “My weight is down,” he said, “and I've been training hard. I've been working out every day in my gym at home over in Pasadena, and I figure I've got his number this time. | “He gets 371% per cent of the gate] and I get 15 per cent. I want to get on the heavy end of this busi- | ness, too.” A win for Robleto would be powerful medicine for his big brother, | Canto, Pacific coast bantam champion 10 years ago when he was| hailed as a coming contender for | the national belt. Canto had a couple of shots at| 8peedy Dado, and beat him both| times. Then he went blind.

Blind Ever Since

He has been blind ever since, but gets into the ring with Joe as trainer. Hes packed a lot of solid ring science into the little brother, | | end thinks he has him ready this] time. ‘I missed mine.” was just ready to crash the big! time. Now Joe's ready at least to} give the champion the battle of] his life. Don’t sell him short, either. | He comes from a fighting family.” Brother Ceferino also boxes, and Manuel, Benny and Phillip all threw leather before they signed up with Uncle Sam for the big fight. All] six have their money down on Joe.

Golf Course In Bad Shape

The Speedway golf course probably will not be open for viay this week-end. There will have to be several days of sunshine | before the fairways will be in shape. According to Al Rickenbacker, course manager, the last five holes on the course are impossible to play under any conditions. The fairways are covered with dirt and gravel, washed over them by the recent flood waters.

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the sandy stretch at Daytona Beach, the winner of the 500-mile race over the Indianapolis Speedway bricks in 1915 lends his smoke and dust-eating experience with motors to Uncle Sam as a mechanical engineer in charge of the transmission laboratories at the Ranger aircraft engines division of the Fairchild Engine and Aeroplane Corp. here on Long Island. Development and research in combustion engines will no longer look to the saucers filled with careening, skidding, tumbling gas buggies driven by madmen for testing of new ideas and study, All such rigorous conditions can now be simulated in the laboratories. Nevertheless, he says, racing has more than justified its existence because airplane mniotors wouldn't be as developed as they are now without the drivers who took engines out of the textbook and put them to actual test.

FROM THE day in 1907 when he stepped into a special Allen Kingston as a raven-haired, spark-ling-eved Italian of 24 and made 65 miles per hour, DePalma never was a thrill seeker or speed maniac—qualities often wrongly associated with men who risk their necks for prize money. It was the start in an ambition to get the most power, durability and speed with the greatest safety from gasoline motors. He carries that hope with him to the laboratories today, laboratories much quieter and far removed from dirt tracks and the Indianapolis Speedway. Like all great athletes and sportsmen, though, DePalma likes to double back over memory lane, and he remembers his 14 years of competition with the immortal

| Barney Oldfield, with whom he

split even in victories, and his association with Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker when Rick was a gangling kid who sat high in the seat of roaring chariots. DePalma recalls his closest call,

Ralph DePalma exhibits his model plane in the experimental laboratory.

an event of the 1915 Indianapolis running, when he chased Dario Resta 425 miles. The drivers were fatigued and almost axle-to-axle when Resta’s steering column broke and his machine skidded crazily in DePalma’s path. Death was imminent but iron nerve and the Guardian Angel of racing drivers shoved DePalma’s car by the whirling Resta, enabled him to pick up a winning lap and the $36,000 for first piace. DePalma traveled 159 m. p. h. as early as 1919 in a Packard Special on Daytona Beach, but now concentrates on sending younger men through the skies at 400 and better. The game might be doomed, but DePalma holds his sport up as the most honorable of all, one which

has never been tainted. That might be due to the caliber of men like DePalma, who was never reprimanded on a track, and never entered a protest. 2 2 - IT COULD EASILY be said that the sport has done more for progress of science than any other on the calendar. Better yet, the kid over the Ruhr or South Pacific might get an extra ounce of juice and an extra notch on the throttle because men like Ralph DePalma, Barney Oldfield and Eddie Rickenbacker put their lives on the line many times for a few bucks a copy. That seems just a little more important than any of the current wrangles between muscle jerkers and team-sports backers.

Risner Is Lost

To Warsaw H. S.

WARSAW, Ind, May 28 (U. P).

| —Loss of Virgil (Sug) Risnar, stel{lar football and basketball player, ‘has dimmed Warsaw high school prospects for an outstanding season next year,

Risner, a junior in school, enlisted in the merchant marine last week. He scored 80 points as fullback

fon Warsaw's undefeated Central In|diana conference football team and

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was named second-team fullback on the all-state team. In basketball, Risner scored 435 points in 27 games, including a 32point splurge against Plymouth and a 27-point performance against Ft. Wayne Central, ultimate state champs, in the regional at Ft Wayne.

i j| Gets New Post

NEW YORK, May 26 (U.P).— {The post of director of athletics at

= Columbia university will be taken

over next month by Ralph J. Furey, former football star at the univer- : sity and currently assistant director.

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NEW YORK. May 26.—The first the strangest muddle in lightweight

Square Garden, June 11. To simplify this jig-saw puzzle

Steps Are Taken to Clarify Muddle in Lightweight Class

United Press Staff Correspondent

Sammy Angott and Henry Armstrong for a 10-round bout at Madison

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step was taken yesterday to clarify championship history by matching

we will start off by examining the

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men and the pattern involved. The men may be listed as follows:

1. Bob Montgomery is the Philse delphia Negro who won recognition | the logical challengers, as originally | planned.

in New York State as world Hgnb! When Angott came out of his “reweight champion by defeating young | tirement” or “rest” the N. B. A. Beau Jack of Georgia at the Gar- | {declined to re-recognize him as

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den Friday night. Montgomery is expected to be recognized soon by the Pennsylvania and New Jersey commissions, although n-o-t by the National Boxing association. 2. Beau Jack has a contract guaranteeing him a return shot at Montgomery's title within 90 days. 3. Angott of Washington, Pa., was the undisputed champion—recognized by all boxing bodies—until last Nov. 13, when he “retired,” apparently giving up the title because of injured hands that refused to respond to treatment. However, in March Angott announced that he was returning to the ring—that his hands had healed — that he was ready to defend his “title” To, prove the robustness of his hands, he met and defeated Featherweight Champion Willie Pep in an over-the-weight match.

Greco Demands Shot

4 Pvt. Johnny Greco of the Canadian army is the outstanding young contender. He is demanding a title shot on the strength of his punch and recent record. The pattern is: When Angott ap-

crown in November, New York

| State staged a tourney from which {| Beau Jack emerged “champion” by| i knocking out Tippy Larkin in the

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| champ, withholding recognition until | Angott had tangled with the New York commission's champ — Beau Jack. Meanwhile Armstrong, who formerly held the featherweight, lightweight and weiter crowns, crashed into the picture with one of the most amazing comebacks in ring history, winning 19 of 22 bouts and drawing gates totaling more than $350,000. Armstrong's latest performance was a seventh-round technical kayo over Maxie Shapiro at Philadelphia Monday night. Armstrong still can make the 135-pound limit, he insists. In the interim, Pvt. Greco of Montreal hammered cut a notable string of victories and became a formidable, popular contender, Now the plan is to have Armstrong and Angott fight on June 11; Montgomery and Greco to meet in a non-title tilt later; if Greco beats Montgomery, he will meet the Arm-strong-Angott winner, for the right to a title shot; if Montgomery beats Greco, the Armstrong-Angott winner will get a title shot at the contracted Montgomery-Beau Jack winner. Thus will emerge an undisputed champion, assured recognition by all governing boxing bodies.

Ol’ Diz Faces Gold Medals

LAFAYETTE, Ind, May 26 (U. P.-—Jermoe Herman (Dizzy) Dean will pitch for the Lafayette Red Sox against the Indianapolis Gold Medals in an exhibition game here next Sunday night, it was announced today. Dean, colorful former major league hurler, achieved his greatest heights with the St. Louis Cardinais during the days of Frankie Frisch and the “Gas House Gang.” He also pitched for the Chicago Cubs. The game, a Memorial day feature, will not figure in the standings of the Red Sox in the Indi-ana-Ohio league. A schedyled league game will bring the Sox face to face with the Indianapolis Kautsky A. C.’s here today.

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Race Meets

At Saratoga To Be Moved

ALBANY, N. Y.,, May 26 (U. P). --Racing events usually held at historic Saratoga race track today were scheduled for removal to Belmont park or Aqueduct this summer because of the critical gasoline and rubber shortage. The decision was reached last night when Washington officials agreed with a recommendation of Governor Dewey. Warren W. Leigh, supervisor of tires and tubes in the office of Rubber Director William M. Jeffers; Orton P. Hugstader, representing the mileage rationing division of the OPA, and James C. Hagerty, executive assistant to Governor Dewey, arrived at the decision after conferring with the Saratoga racing committee. The Washington officials visited Saratoga Springs and agreed with a report of Hagerty's that the Saratoga track was inaccessible and that most of the patrons would have to use automobiles.

Whitney Resigns

From Race Group

NEW YORK, May 26 (U. P)., — The war deprived racing of one of its most colorful figures today when Chairman Herbert Bayard Swope of the New York state racing commission announced that Lt. Col. John Hay Whitney had cabled his resignation as a member, Whitney was appointed to the commission in 1934. He is a member of one of racing's first families and has been an enthusiastic turf patron all his life.

Minnesota 2d In Conference

EVANSTON, Ill, May 26 (U.P). —The University of Minnesota's baseball team was tied for second place in the Big Ten with Wisconsin and Illinois today.

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Here's Mud in Yer Eye

Here's what happens when you don't come in first. Tommy Atkinson, left, who rode Blue Stride, and Joe Renick, who rode Moondrift, at Belmont Park, N.

Hagg’s Debut Set for 55th N.A. A. U. Meet

NEW YORK, May 26 (U, P.).= Gunder Hagg, Swedish racing star,

| makes his American debut in the

Y., have bad cases of mud in

Girls’ Loop to Open Tonight At Speedway

The Girls’ Softball league will open its season at Speedway stadium tonight with two games. Members of the league are R.C. A. Mfg. Co. Lukas-Harold Corp. Royal Crown Cola and the CurtissWright Propellers. The league will operate each Wednesday night. Gil Smith, manager of the R. C. Colas, is president and Walter Bruce of Curtiss-Wright is vice president. Tonight's schedule: 8 p. m— R. C. A. vs, R. C. Colas; 9 p. m. —Curtiss-Wright vs. Lukas-Harold.

Fountain Square A. C. will practice at 6 o'clock tonight and meet

The Gophers, with one big inning in each game, took a double<header | from Northwestern yesterday, 5-2| and 5-0. The twin bill closed the season for the Wildcats with a record of one victory and six losses. Minnesota trailed, 1-0, in the first game until the sixth inning, when the Gophers bunched six hits to score five runs. Gene Kelley, Minnesota pitcher, held Northwestern to two hits. In the second game, the Gophers broke a scoreless tie in the seventh inning with three walks and three hits, one of them a double by Howard Schultz, which scored five | runs. Stan Kaiss held the Wildcats to three hits.

BOWLING

The mixed doubles and men’s | doubles will be held at Sturm’s| Recreation alleys this week-end, ! starting at 6 p. m. Saturday and | 2 p. m. Sunday. For reservations call CH-T061.

A mixed league opening its spring’ ischedule at the Pritchett-Hunt-O'Grady alleys tonight at 8 o'clock! needs two more teams. For information, call BL-0713.

Last night's leading bowlers were: Al Montgomery, Uptown Handicap . 659 Weldon Rugh, Fox-Hunt 640 Pete Gallagher, West Side .. . S28 Larry Kramer, Fox-Hunt ... . 603 E. Frey, Fox-Hunt ........ceovavvees. 6011 LADIES Ollie Schreiner, Curtiss-Wright .... Bernadine Flora, West Side Doretta Cash, Parkway

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The Pure Oil baseball team will play the first of a three-game series at Camp Atterbury Saturday. A similar schedule has been arranged with other service teams throughout the state. The Oilers are undefeated in five games this season.

The Diamond Chain Gang softball team wants a game at 10:30 a. m. Sunday at Garfield No. 1. Call GA-8188 for information.

Broad Ripple Triumphs, 11-3

A homer by Dick Isenhour with

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safeties each by Dee Baker and Bob

| Gossman led the Broad Ripple base- | -

ball team to a 11-3 victory over | ‘the Silent Hoosiers on the Rockets’ | diamond yesterday in the first game of a double-header.

After four innings of play, the

second game was called with Broad Ripple ahead, 9-0. Isenhour got his second homer of the day in the second encounter—this time with {the bases loaded—and Paul, McCloud rapped out three safe hits.

If someone should tell you— “No 5 Crown today,”

Dispute Flares In Zivie Bout

CHICAGO, May 26 (U. P.).—The Illinois Boxing commission threatened unofficially today to “take steps accordingly” if Fritzie Zivic, {former welterweight champion, fails to meet Tommy James in a scheduled bout here June 7. Zivic was scheduled to fight Jake LaMotta at Pittsburgh Monday night but the bout was postponed

55th annual national A. A. U. meet in Triborough stadium June 19 and 20, Daniel J. Ferris, secretary of the

national A. A. U,, announced today. Six other cities have been included in a tentative nation-wide itinerary, he said. San Francisco was the latest city to enter a bid, Ferris said. Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Pittsburgh and Cleveland earlier had offered to feature Hagg, now en route to the United States. Two defending champions—Greg Rice in the 5000 meters and Gil Dodds in the 1500 meters—have agreed to race against Hagg. The program is also expected to include five other defending champions. Ferris said entries are expected from Sprinter Hal Davis of Cali fornia in the 100 and 220; Cliff Bourland, Southern California, 400 meters; Bill Cummins, Rice instie tute, 110-meter high hurdles; Cpl. Adam Berry, Camp Carson, Colo. nigh jump, and Frank Berst, N. Y, A. C, 56-pound weight throw,

Ferris: ‘Glad to

Serve’ on Committee

NEW YORK, May 26 (U. P.).== Dan Ferris, secretary of the nae tional A. A. U,, said today that he

{would be “glad to serve” on Presi-

dent Roosevelt's advisory commite tee for wartime sports guidance. Lawrence Di Benedetto, national A. A. U. president, offered Ferris’ name for the contemplated three= man board in a letter to Mn. Roosevelt. “Certainly, I think someone should be named to represent ama=

until June 19 because of the weath-

er. In setting the new date, the] Pennsylvania Boxing commission made it impossible for Zivic to fight James here as scheduled. As a result, a dispute between the two state boxing commissions appeared in the offing. Sheldon Clark, chairman of the Illinois commission, said he had not been informed officially of Zivic's postponement. “All that concerns me is that Zivic is supposed to be under contract to fight Tommy James here on June 7,” Clark said. “If he does not keep the engagement the commission will take steps accordingly.” Promoter Irwing Schoenwald, who

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