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JOE

WILLIAMS SAYS. ...

NEW YORK, Aug. 4—On the possibly misguided, though well intentioned, theory that jockeys are human and therefore entitled to human rights, a supreme court justice has ordered the local turf fathers to put up or shut up in the case of one Bobby Merritt. It seems that Merritt, a veteran knight of the saddle, to borrow a phrase which has always fascinated us, wasn't able to get a license to ride around here so he took his gripe to court. Whereupon the court ruled that the turf fathers must either prove their case, if any, or give with the license. This is the first time in more than a generation the right of the turf fathers to dispense justice according to their own lights has been put to a legal test and it will be interesting to follow the developments for more than one reason. Among other things, the developments could be of vital concern to other self-regulatory bodies, notably the boxing commission.

Regard Merritt as Undesirable

THF FACT THAT the turf fathers have refused to act on Merritt’s application carries its own inference, namely that they for rea-

Our Home Boys Got 13 Hits

(Just Imagine) but They Lost Their Eighth Straight Tilt, 4-3

By EDDIE ASH Times Sports Editor

Is there a sawbones In wie park? Bring out the doctor and let him sound out the Indianapolis Indians. They can’t win for losing. The home boys collected 13 hits in the first of the series with the Minneapolis Millers out at Victory field last night but the visitors won, 4 to 3. It was the eighth straight defeat for the Redskins, once the happy & & & and contented league leaders. After losing seven straight on the (road, the hunch was all in the o/Tribe’s favor to snatch the first g tilt in the new home stand. The

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Is There a Sawbones in the Park? | The Indians Can't Win for Losing!

Brooklyn Is Only Asylum

Inmates Run

GAMES TODAY

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION (All Games at Night) Minneapolis at INDIANAPOLIS (8:36, following Indianapolis vs, Brooklyn exhibition at 6:30). St. Paul at Louisville, Milwaukee at Toledo (two). Kansas City at Columbus (two),

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Philadelphia at Pittsburgh (night). Only game scheduled.

AMERICAN LEAGUE No games scheduled.

By PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent

1 home boys held a 2-to-0 lead after llfour innings and the fans figured o/that the slump had ended. | But what followed indicated and! proved that the Indians are in the, dumps as well as being in a slump. 3 They become rattled in the clutch.

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NEW YORK, Aug. 3.—=For once, the baseball situation at Brooklyn=-

only asylum in the world run by its| "a

inmates—is clearly defined. The

Dodgers border today on a collapse i of such proportions that it may be- | {come unparalleled in major league)

history. The 1925 New York Yankees were

considered history's greatest accordion club at one time. After click= ing for three straight pennants, the Yankees wound up second in 1924

Schiuveter, ¢ ‘ seneets

There is another angle, however,

land then sank to seventh in ‘25.

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 4, 1043

One Stance for Fighting Men

Marines who should know demonstrate at Camp Lejeune, N. C., that all methods of fighting

utilize the same stance. Capt. Stephen Stavers, commanding the hand-to-hand combat school, han.

dles a Thompson submachine gun from quick-firing position.

Pvt. Young Terry, former middleweight

boxing champion, wields the bayoneted rifle. Cpl. Tommy Loughran, former light-heavyweight

ruler, puts up his hands.

| Fading, Fading, Fading

Seeded Stars Show the Way

' WILMINGTON, Del, Aug. 4 (U, P.) —With the ranking seeded stars showing the way, second round play continued ‘n the Delaware state women’s invitation tennis tournae ment on the grass courts of the Wilmington Country club otday. Top-ranked Louise Brough of Beverly Hills, Cal, defeated Mrs, Connie Clifton, Miami, 6-2, 6-0, yes« terday after taking the opening round by default. Second-seeded Margaret Osborne, San Francisco, topped Mrs. Wanton

sons best known to themselves, regard Merritt as an undesirable. It is characteristic of the turf fathers in situations such as this to deny the suspect and the public all information pertaining to the case. This is done for the “best interests of the sport.” It is the continuing attitude of the turf fathers that the less said about unsavory things the better, in short, the children should never, never know. They have consistently refused to recognize the healthy, psychological value of telling all and thus reassuring the public of their activity in policing its interests.

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Jerome Wasn't Dizzy, Paul Wasn't Daffy; They Do O. K.

Times Special NEW YORK, Aug. 4—Jerome Dean wasn't so Dizzy and Paul wasn't so Daffy after all. Daffy was a misnomer for Paul, anyway. He was a quiet, orderly chap with a deep affection and admiration for his more spectacular older brother. Paul walked up to Luke Sewell several weeks ago, told the manager of the Browns he could no longer win in the American league. He possessed the curve and control, but the fast ball #=€ was gone, and he was essentially a power pitcher when the incredible hicks were mowing ‘em down for the Cardinals.

half games behind the home boys, |recovered to register three more Minneapolis _. 000 022 000 4/In other words, the Indians are on Successive flag triumphs. Indianapolis 010 100 001 3/the skids and losing face rapidly. | By no stretch of the imagination Runs batted in—Schiueter, Hutchings,| They are fading out of the pen- can the Dodgers hope for such a

2h), Clark, Two-base hit— Toned . Botan, stolen ight. Double, Nant race and apparently are Miracle of recovery. Brooklyn, with plays—Pofahl to Skladany to Danneker, headed for their “favorite” position) Some of the best players in the game

SER ints, 1 No ¢n he Amoricn asain ily Herma, Doon oun, Po Be HiisoR Hutenmes 8 hy % Inranes, | But baseball rolls on. There will Owen and Pete Reiser—bowed to Sark 8, B,8 Pines Ado J meh Ibe a bargain attraction at Victory the Cardinals in 1042 only after EE Pe ery ort Ts fart eure Bitter stretch figh:. GO OE, dians. In the frst game, an ex Laster Than Expested hibition, the Indians are to meet! The current collapse can hardly

the Brooklyn Dodgers, over the ‘be called a surprise—it just comes scheduled nine-inning route, and injiater than expected, for all but

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= = = THEY HAVE SET themselves up as an arbitrary court, filing charges ang sitting in on judgment of same, a practice which must be construed as tyrannical no matter how wisely or benevolently exercised. Their good intentions cannot be questioned; their irfallability can. Whose can’t? At that, it is not impossible to appreciate their reticence, at least to an extent. Only the very naive will deny the existence of

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intrigue in racing. Not all the characters are in it to improve the breed, and some of the characters are very elusive and shadowy indeed. It is one thing to be familiar with their sinister operations; it is another to prove it. This helps to explain the unwillingness of the turf fathers to hang all their dirty linen on the line. Whether it justifies their over all position is something else. We don’t think it does. When they've got a rascal dead to rights the full details should be presented té the public. Rather than injuring the best interests of the sport, this tends to protect them.

Have No Alternative in Future

BUT THE TURF fathers may have no alternative in the future. The ruling in the Merritt petition emasculates the final authority of the turf fathers and opens the way for any disputant to seek court action. Even this may be for the best all around. It is obvious enough that no Jockey, trainer or owner is going into court with soiled hands. It is just as plain that any party whose conscience is clear and has been kicked around is entitled to a hearing. The border line cases, the unprovable ones, have always been the turf fathers’ headaches. It should be a relief to them to have the co-operation of the courts, even at the risk of losing some of their dignity and stuffy self-importance.

» 2 ” PRESUMABLY THE turf fathers will be permitted to go along handing down suspensions, withholding licenses, and performing their other quasi-judicial chores, and when there is no appeal to the courts you can be sure the turf fathers were right. In this connection, and in view of the Merritt ruling, it will be interesting to see whether Eddie Arcaro, our premier jockey, makes a bee line for the courts. The turf fathers won't let him ride, either. If Arcaro fails to make a move now the burden of proof will con= tinue to rest on him. The human makeup of racing, unfortunately, runs to extremes, the very nicest and the very worst. Racing is far from perfect morally, but the good must enormously offset the evil, or else the sport could not endure. Admittedly there are larcenous owners, corrupt trainers and crooked jockeys but they are in the minute minority, matehing in ratio, we'd guess, the reprehensible elements in other fields of human activity. .

Good Horses Win Quite Often YOU ENCOUNTER all sorts of scandal rumors at a race track; you can ignore at least 98 per cent of them. After all the good horses win quite often and when they don’t they are usually in the money. You frequently hear of the operations of a “jockey ring,” and, of course, such things are not always myths. There was supposed to be a jockey ring in action around here last year; it was unique in that the objective of the ring was to win. The formula was this: The ring jockeys would elect a horse to win, a good one, and then gang up on the contention to make the winning doubly sure. This could have been something more than fiction, too.

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] Baseball Calendar

(First Game; 7 Innings; Agreement)

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

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RESULTS YESTERDAY

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the second attraction, the Indians] are to play the Minneapolis Millers)

in the second of the series, over regular American association dis=|

tance, nine innings.

Accept Ruling

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U. P)= The New York state racing com=-| Bob Logan or Woodie Rich willl mission and the Jockey club today be sent against the Dodgers in the! were prepared to accept any ruling lexhibition and Jim Trexler, the made by the courts in the case of Tribe's ace left hander, is slated to Jockey Bobby Merritt. face the Millers in the regular A. Herbert Bayard Swope, chairman A. game. The Brooklyn-Indianap-of the commission who now is sefv= |olis tilt is booked to start in the ing as consultant to the secretary twilight at 6:3¢ p. m. and the regu-

Reese, Reiser and Owen were players working on borrowed time. Camilli, Fred Fitasimmons, Joe Medwick and Johnny Allen have left recently in a new deal instituted by President Branch Rickey. His policy, regarded as pennypinching in some quarters, is pesfectly sound. No team could hope to come back as a winner with 75 (Continued on Page 17)

of war, indicated that he considered

which the Jockey club was pri= marily interested since it took charge of all disciplinary matters. “When the Merritt case is finally over,” Swope said, th racing bodies will proceed according to the judgment.”

a ruling of Supreme Court Justice Carrol G. Walter in New York, which required the commission and Jockey club to show cause why Merritt should not be permitted to ride on New York tracks. Merritt claims that renewal of his license was denied on May 1 without reason.

1 Games Set

For Princeton

PRINCETON, N.J, Aug.4 (U.P). —Dean Christian Gauss, chairman of the athletic council, today an= nounced a seven-game “wartime” 1943 football schedule for Princeton university. Only newcomer on the Princeton program this fall will be Villanova, which appears for the first time since 1811. The season starts with Pennsylvania at Philadelphia on Sept. 25. The other out-of-town gaines will be with Columbia at New York, Oct. 2, and Yale at New Haven on Nov. 13. The schedule: Sept. 25, Penn at Philadelphia: Oct. 2, Columbia at

lar A. A. game at 8:30.

Sawin Coach .

the Merritt affair a test case in |

Swope’s comment was inspired by |

In last night's debacle, after the Indians gained a lead of 2<t0<0, the Millers got down to business in the fifth inning. «Joe Vosmik popped out and Skladany singled to right, Bill Barnes,| Charles (Bud) Sawin, coach of the Tribe's new second sacker,|the Riviera club national chamlooked like an amateur on the ball | pionship women’s swimming team, and it rolled to his left. Clark| has been named swimming instruec[forced Skladany and John Hutch-tor of the air crew students of the |ings lost control and walked Clifton. | 524 college training detachment at Jimmy Pofahl hit to right center Butler university, it was announced for two bases, scoring Clark, and| today. Clifton also scored when Catcher Frank (Pop) Hedden, acting athNorman Schlueter muffed the etic director at Butler and director throwin from the outfield. of the detachment's physical train-

Moore Makes Wild Throw ing program, in making the ani i i = In the sixth inning Ab Wright of | ROUNCement said Sawin will co the Millers led off with a single and| duct a series of classes each week in the fieldhouse swimming pool.

Dil g ut. si {in fi Struck out, Relanason singled Under the schedule, each of the

to center and Joe Moore oore made a more than 900 pre-flight students

wild throw to third and into the ™ 2 Indians’ dugout. Wright scored.|Will receive swimming instructions at least twice a week throughout

Fairly tossed out Vosmik, Skladany : the five months he is stationed at

was given an intentional pass and Pitcher Clark's single scored| Butler. Sawin will begin his classes 'Rolandson with what proved to be|for the air crew trainees this week. the winning run. The importance of service men The Indians scored a run in the knowing how to swim properly has ninth and forced the Millers to been emphasized repeatedly in this change pitchers, Ewald Pyle going | war, said Capt. Samuel C. Gist Jr, in for Otie Clark. And Pyle, a|commanding officer of the unit, and southpaw, subdued the Tribesters,|the purpose of this program is to Tribe Manager Ownie Bush sent up make each future pilot a good Stewart Hofferth to bat for Ed swimmer before he completes his Morgan and the pinch hitter struck regular flight training. » The Riviera club women's swim-

out. ming team, under Sawin’s coaching,

| Fred Vaughn, former Tribe in(fielder, was dickering with the won the national swimming cham-

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Minneapolis Millers last night and {probably will be signed up. He was made a free agent by the Indians.

| Ce ——— FIGHT RESULTS NEW YORK-— (Queensboro Arena)=Joe

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New York; Oct. 9, Cornell; Oct. 20, i v Brown; Nov. 6, Villanova; Nov. 13,|Eready Fores. 156% New xork: moar

Yale at New Haven; Nov, 20, Grant, Behl. Grange, N. J. defeated aron Eatman, 170%, Bridgeport, Cenn., Dartmouth. | i). y po

Jumpin’ Jeep-ers

Anticipating another visit to Berlin, where he broke the

pionship in 1941 and again last year at the annual meet. The team will defend its title at the national meet next month in Shakamak state park.

Al Sheridan on Boxing Card

Al Sheridan, Indianapolis lightheavy who battled to a fast sixround draw with Colion Chaney at Columbus, O., Monday night, has been matched with Roy Finn, the up and coming Dayton, O., lightheavyweight, who will be making his first ring appearance before local fans on the inaugural open air boxing card to be staged at Sports Arena next Monday night. Matchmaker Lloyd Carter will send the pair over the eight-round route in the evening's semi-final clash. Another scrap promising plenty of action will pit Buddy Maxwell, popular Indianapolis lightweight, against Mutt Schwartz, another Buckeye state battler, who hails from Cleveland, in the top sixround prelim. Main event opponents will be Bob Arthur, known to ring addicts as Ohio's “Little Galento,” and Johnny Denson, Indianapolis ‘heavyweight, Arthur, a product of Columbus, O., is a slugging specialist who discards fancy ringwork for a two-fisted attack and lost a thriller to Lou Thomas, another local heavy, in the

Olympic record in 1936, Capt. Forrest (Spec) Towns hurdles an:

The younger Dean told Sewell that he might pitch again if the Texas league resumed play in time, but that right now he was needed in a Russellville, Okla., stave mill operated by his father-in-law. Paul married well. : With his father-in-law, he owns } plenty of land, and making staves for whisky barrels nets him a handsome income, ” ” on ” DIZZY DEAN was reported to be worth $100,000 when bursitis in his shoulder ruined as fine a piece of pitching equipment as ever pro-

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pelled the ball toward the plate.

Dean immediately went on the air, broadcasting games in St. |

Louis, and his quaint manner of speech and own language quickly won for him one of the largest audiences in that sction of the country. He now has a three-year contract at $10,00¢C a year. Games are not broadcast from Sportsman's park on Sundays, so Dizzy pitches for semi-professional clubs in neighboring towns. He manages to get in two appearances each week-end, working five innings each afternoon and night. He collects from $300 to $500 a performance depending on the attendance, and he is still one of the major attractions of the game. ” " » ” THEY SAY his pitching Is still a bit more than all right, too. Certainly it is effective enough to make him the big frog in the small puddle. They say he could help some major league club under current conditions, but is doing so well in his new lines that he doesn't choose to bother. \ Dizzy married a smart business manager in his pretty wife, Patricia. They have prize white-faced cattle on a large ranch outside of Dallas, and a modern city home, Ol' Diz sold a 6-months old bull for $1000 the other day. ~ Me ’'n’ Paul are still a winning combination.

They have come a long way since those days in the cotton fields.

Thompson Is K. O. Winner

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4 (U. P.).—| Turkey Thompson, hard-hitting Los Angeles Negro, won a David and Goliath contest from Philadelphia's Big Ben Moroz last night, stopping

Galan Given

Landis Summons

CHICAGO, Aug. 4 (U. P)— Augie Galan, successor to Dolph Camilli at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers, appears before Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis today for an undisclosed reason.

Galan received the summons from Landis in St. Louis last night. Both President Branch

the 293-pound pugilist in the second, round of a scheduled 10-round

bout.

Rickey and Manager Leo Durocher said they had “no idea” of the reason. Galan was involved in last Sun-

day's fracas with the Cardinals,

Referee Mushy Callahan tolled | the 10 count over Moroz at 2:48 of the second round when the huge but sluggish boxer failed to arise

after going down under a barrage of left hooks from his dwarfed opponent, Moroz outreached Thompson by a half foot, towered over him by 16 inches and enjoyed a 90-pound weight advantage. But he couldn't prevent his speedier opponent from finding the range on his massive jaw.

having narrowly escaped a spike wound by Catcher Walker Cooper of St. Louis in a close play at first base that resulted in a brawl between Catcher Mickey Owen of Brooklyn and the Red Bird backstop. Landis apparently wants to question Galan regarding the incident.

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Wins Over Veteran

Battling Monroe, Negro stablemate of Moroz, recouped for the .| Philadelphia contingent by taking five rounds to win over veteran Arizona heavyweight Bob Ford in a six-round semi-final bout. Ford weighed 180 and Monroe 174. Thompson's protege, Leonard Nix, scored a technical knockout over Russell Metcalf of Los Angeles when he knocked his opponent through the ropes ih the third round of a scheduled four-round fight. Nix weighed 182 and Metcalf 174.

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