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. sts Birds From Ee pot With Double Win Over Brewers; Series F inale Tonight

By EDDIE ASH Times Sports Editor

' Look who's in second place and still throwing haymakers at the

Jeague-leading Milwaukee Brewers!

Yeah, the Tribe is up there again

_ and only 2% games out of first place.

The rejuvenated Indians ousted

Columbus from the American asso-

glation’s runner-up spot last night by bumping off the Brewers in another double-header by 6-to-4 scores.

Truly, it was wonderful to behold #5 9846 ladies’ night fans looked on.

© That made it four straight over the league pace-setters in the series nd there is one game to go. It will be played tonight af 8:30 and it will be another special ladies’ night at Victory field. Jim Trexler, the Indians’ ace pitcher, is slated “fo work and he'll be gunning for his “15th friumph of the season..

~ They're Tough on Lefties "The Brewers have been tough on ‘ Jeft-handers all season but Tribe Manager Bush thinks Dandy Jim is destined to keep the winning streak going. Bob Bowman, right-hander, is expected to receive the Milwaukee mound assignment. The Redskins certainly got up off ‘the floor—and how—after losing 10

‘straight. They have won seven out of their last eight starts. Tonight's game brings to an end

Milwaukee's appearance in Indian-|

polis in regular league play. In games between the rivals for ‘the season to date the Indians have defeated the Brewers, 10 games to seven. The star of last night’s first 6-to-4 victory was Gil English, right fielder. He batted in five of the Tribe's six runs and was batted in himself by Ed Morgan.

Makes Running Catch

English also made a game-saving atch in the sixth inning. Brewer runners were on first and second ‘and none out when Grey Clarke belted a line drive to right field. Jt looked good for a triple until ‘English cut across the greensward, ‘stretched and leaped and snared the flying pellet. It smothered a Brewer rally and Tribe Pitcher ‘George Jeffcoat proved that he appreciated the help by striking cut the next two hitters. Woodie Rich, who started on the ‘Tribe mound, sparked the Indians’ four-run splurge in the third. He ‘singled after one away and reached third on Blackburn’s double. Moore ‘was given an intentional walk, filldng the bases, and Hofferth's fly was too short for Rich to attempt . to score from third after the catch. This brought up English and his Jong double to right cleaned the bases. Morgan then scored English ‘with a single.

+ Brewers Tie Score

Rich got into deep trouble in the fourth and was batted out. He walked the first two men, struck ‘out the third and then went haywire. .He was rapped for three sucgessive singles and Jeffcoat relived him and was touched for a single before he could retire the “side. The Brewer rally was good ‘for four runs and deadlocked ‘the score, Joe Berry, the Brewers’ ace hurler, stepped aside for a. pinch hitter in the fourth and ‘Ray Caldwell took up -the toil. ~The Indians “re-won” the game “the fifth. Blackburn led off by drawing a pass and Moore sacriBoth runners were safe then the Brewers elected to head if “Blackie” at second and failed. The throw was late. Hofferth sacrificed and English n came up in the clutch. He .¥ammed a single to center and both glackburn and Moore scampered the plate. There was no

Softball Guson

Katie Haag, third baseman for the Royal Crown Cola girls, today was named the winner of the “Glamour Softball Queen” contest sponsored by ' Speedway stadium, Miss Haag is employed by the Link-Belt Co. of Indianapolis for whom she starred last year in basketball. Votes in the contest were by a

Pepsi-Cola Wins 1st Tilt

The Pepsi-Cola girls grabbed the first leg of their two-out-of-three series with the Royal Crown Cola girls, 7 to 0, last night at Speedway stadium, The two arch rivals will be pitted against each other Friday night at 7 p. m. at Speedway as they resume play in their series.

Results of games at Softball stadium last night. Allison Red Rings downed Kingan Knights, 5 to 1: Capehart-Packard dropped J. D. Adams, 4 to 1, and R. C. A. polished Metal Auto Parts, 7 to 3. Tonight's schedule sends Curtiss-Wright against P. R. Mallory at 7:45 and Allison Patrol against Eli Lilly AllStars at 9 p. m. in exhibition games.

Christian park and 6lst andj Broadway advanced to the final round of the city recreation department’s annual softball tournament with semi-final triumphs at Riverside park yesterday. Christian reached titular play by edging out Coleman, 6 to 4, and the 61st and Broadway team pushed across the winning run in the last inning to eliminate Greer Street, 5 to 4. The winners will clash tomorrow at Riverside No. 2 at 12:30 p. m. for the championship. J

Fountain Square A. C. (senior) softball team will meet Moose lodge in a double-header at 2 p. m. Sunday at Finch park, Fletcher and State aves. Fountain Square has the first two Sundays in 'September open and would like to book strong city or state teams. Write Hyatt Johnson at 725 Shelby st., or call MA-3075.

Asked to Report

Yikes and Robner report for practice with the Armour baseball team at Garfield No, 2 at 6 p. m.

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everlasting gloom to Mudville.

proper credit. So Riley wrote his own poem,

But what's th’ good o’ crackin’ up

By DAN MeGUIRE United Press Staff Correspondent SAN . FRANCISCO, Aug. 12—The late Ernest Lawrence Thayer immortalized Mighty Casey of Mudville, who struck out with the bases loaded in the last of the ninth, but until Jack McDonald of the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast league began rooting around in some old files no one knew the name of the pitcher

McDonald, Seal publicify man, was digging up long-forgotten records in the clubhouse basement yesterday when he came upon a dusty piece of paper, yellow with age and inscribed with fine,

Holding it up to the light, MacDonald saw the heading: *

The lines under the heading unraveled the mystery which has cloaked the identity of that moundsman of long ago who brought

It appears that Riley—for that was. the pitcher's name—got tired of hearing DeWolf Hopper and thousands of other professional and amateur orators perpetuate Casey's deed without giving his conqueror

and this is it:

: RILEY IN THE BOX THERE'S BEEN a lot of smoking over Casey and his bat, An’ how he didn’t win th’ game an’ other .guff like that; They've made some rhymes about him that sort of swelled his fame,

th’ mutt that lost th’ game?

Bands Play Somewhere, Not in , Casey's Town, Serenadin’ Riley, the Man Who Put Him Down

I'D HEARD ABOUT this Casey an’ th’ way he smashed ’em out, Td heard about his posin’ just to hear the bleachers shout; So when we tackled Casey's team you may be sure I tried +

To put a kink in Casey’s fame an’

FOR THOSE 0’ you who seen th’ game it’s easy to recall That we'd have lost an’ they'd have won had Casey hit the ball. "Twas in th’ ninth wid bases full that Casey came to bat, An’ lordy, how- th’ bleachers cheered when in his hands he spat.

I DOUBLED UP an’ then unkinked an’ let th’ horsehide fly, But Casey only stood an’ smiled an’ watched th’ ball go by. “One strike!” th’ umpire shouted, an’ I thought there’d be a fight,

But Casey sort 0’ turned an’ said:

AGAIN TI shot a screamer, an’ it whistled o’er the plate; If Casey thought he’d strike at it, he thought a bit too late, “Two strikes!” the umpire bellowed, but th’ bleachers didn’t shout; Then I looked at Casey an’ saw his smile was dyin’ out.

I BRACED MYSELF an’ sent him one in my peecoolyer style, An’ Casey swang with all his might—an’ missed it by a mile! po'try says of Casey an’ his bat, This is th’ 'way it happened, you can lay your coin on that.

TH’ BANDS are playin’ somewhere, but ‘tis not in Casey's town; They're serenadin’ Riley, he’s th’ man who put him down, An’ so skidoo for Casey’s fame, his number’s “twenty-three!” "Twas Riley, Pitcher Riley, was th’ hero, don't you see?.

No matter what th’

puncture Casey's pride.

“Be quiet, lads, he’s right.”

Seeded Teams Win Matches

The first-round matches of the men’s doubles in the annual city

tournament at the Riviera club ran off according to schedule yesterday with seeded teams turning back their opponents in straight sets. Billy Talbert and I. Goodman, the No. 1 combination, were awarded a

.|default ' victory over Smith-Purcell

while Art Linne and Jack Sunderland ousted the Iitenbach-Brund-age two-some, 6-0 and: 6-1. Seaman and Felson stood off Madinger and Goldman, 6-1, 8-6; Christopher and Toombs eliminated King and Waters, 6-1, 6-1; Cox and Higgins chopped down the Eckhard and Koretz duet, 6-4, 6-4, and Bastian and Bastian entered the second round with a_ default from Geddy and Pratt. In one of the two singles contests Jack Sunderland, seeded No. 3, ousted Wayne Trapp in love sets while the perennial Marshall Christopher grabbed the other match by eliminating Dick Light, 6-1, 6-0. Today s schedule:

i m.—Virginia Binford vs. Louise Mo y, Jack Sutherland vs. Bill King 3 Talbert vs. Marshall Christopher. 5:30 m.—Car Hartman vs. Picket, Art inne vs. Waller Seaman 6 p. m.—Mary Anna Gallagher vs. Betty Mathews, Light and Havercotte vs, Wilkens an utz, 6:30 p. m.—Bastian and Bastian vs. Bicket and Eta, Linne and Sunderland vs. Cox and Higgl ns.

Hagg Prepares

Volo Song 'Greatest Trotter Ever Foaled,’ Says Owner

By JACK CUDDY - United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 12—Volo Song’s victory in the 18th Hambletonian classic convinced Owner Bill Strang of Brooklyn today that the sleek bay colt is “the greatest trotter ever foaled.” Strang, $23,263.92 richer because of Volo Song’s triumph yesterday at Empire track, is sure his 3-year-old will complete his 1943 campaign unbeaten. And that he will shatter many records before retirement. Efperts along the sulky circuit lend an ear to Strang’s predictions. They recall that he made no such statements last year ' when his horse, the Ambassador, won the 17th Hambletonian at Goshen, N. ¥. That was before wartime necessities shifted the race to Empire. Unquestionably Volo Song is the hit tune of the harness world after treating 12,407 fans to a surprising display of gameness, speed and

| stamina—after changing threatened

defeat to victory. Volo, drumming around the Empire oval with 70-

‘| year-old Ben White at the reins, Andy | finished third in the opening mile

heat, but won the other two heats. Volo, ‘one of 11 starting 3-year-

olds, “broke” as Steve Phillips sent’

the field away from the wire for

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Home After 8th Win in Row

‘By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—Gunder Hagg, Sweden's miracle man of the

cinderpath, prepared today to head for home after winding up a tour of America with his eighth straight victory in a mile race that was

both thrilling and disappointing.

The thrill for 5000 fans came when Hagg fought an elbow battle with Gil Dodds, flying parson from Boston, and then went on fo win

5 Hagg, holder of phenomenal records for distance, takes a cut at a softball in New Jovk eles %s reiurning So Ber

* Our Scott Wins BAtEikiafe Fair

at Triborough stadium last night.

American mark he established at Boston. Big Bill Hulse took the lead at the start and, with Hagg in lockstep, marched the first quarter in a speedy 50.8 second the crowd roaring to its feet. held this order going in! stretch on the second pace fell off badly and moaned at the 2:03.5 count—which meant a 63

Pay $926, 700

For 311 Horses|

LEXINGTON, &y, Aug. 13 (0. P). — The nation’s leading horse buyers and. trainers moved to the

J. 0. Keene farms today for the an-

the first heat. Before White could

" {pull Volo into legal trotting stride,

the best of the fleld left him ber hind.

Strang said Volo’s closest rival was 300 feet up the track before his horse could get under way. :

But Volo then turned in one of the fastest miles in trotting history to finish third, behind Mrs. James B. Johnson's Worthy Boy, the winner, and Aaron F. Williams’ Darnley, second. Worthy Boy was clocked at 2:02%, a modern trotting track record for Empire and just one second off the Hambletonian record.

Amazing Clocking

Strang said Volo Song, fighting to make up lost ground, was private-

—an amazing clocking for a 3-year-old. Volo came back and won the second heat in 2:02%, equalling Worthy Boy's first-heat figure. He got away third and took -the lead at the half-mile post. Volo made it a wire-to-wire victory in the third heat, taking the lead at the start and holding it as he carried White to his fourth Hambletonian victory. Second money—$8,459.61—went to Worthy Boy for his first, third and second finishes. Other awards from the $42,208.03 purse were given as follows: Third, Phonograph, $5,075.76; fourth, Darnley, $2,537.88; fifth,

‘| Director Guy Mackey today branded as “highly improbable” the re<|

ly timed at 1:59% for his first mile].

Michigan Tilt Is ‘Improbable’

LAFAYETTE, Ind, Aug. 12 (U. P.).—~Purdue University Athlétic

port that the Boilermakers’ fnothall team might be scheduled to play Michigan uinversity on Nov. 25, as a replacement for Michigan State. The ‘possibility was mentioned following . the Michigan State university athletic department's announcement that they had suspended football for the duration. Mackey said that the Boilermakers were scheduled to play Marquette on the date mentioned and that the switches in the schedules of the two schools would be. too involved to be practical. Mackey indicated, however, that he, too, is looking for an opponent to replace Michigan State, who was scheduled to play Purdue on Nov. 11.

Meet Today to Decide on Football

COLUMBIA, 8S. C.,, Aug. 12 (U. P.) —A university board of trustees committee meets today to decide whether the University of South Carolina will play football this year. University officials said there are few civilian students who had grid experience but that it was understood many experienced players in the navy V-12 unit have expressed

{Even Harris

| to blame, avoided Shibe park.

Was in Stands Cheering Fitz

NEW YORK, Aug. 12 (U. P).— Reports indicate that Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons has become the toast of Philadelphia with even Bucky Harris cheering the former Brook-

lyn pitcher. You will recall: that on July 27 Freddie was named manager of tHe Phillies, succeeding Bucky Harris. The Phillies had lost 12 of their last 15 games, and apparently were heading for their perennial niche in the cellar. Bill Cox, club president, blamed Harris; Harris blamed Cox, and later called Cox “an all-American jerk.” The fans, uncertain about whom

Shuddered at Plight

When Cox picked Fitzsimmons, most of the baseball writers and other friends of the fat man shuddered at Fred's apparent plight. Fred, in his 17 years of pitching with the Giants and Dodgers, had become one of the most sociallypopular men in the game. It seemed that Cox was commandeering Fitzsimmons’ personality and good will merely to make the Philadelphia fans forget temporarily the club’s flounderings. Freddie never had

lyn bowling alley. It seemed Fitz was tackling a hopeless assignment

grief. Even the Phillies players thought the importation” of Fitzsimmons absurd. On July 28, when Freddie celebrated his 42d birthday by taking over the club at St. Louis, 24 of the Cox players signed a petition threatening to strike unless Harris was given a chance to resign in dignified fashion, He was. . Before the day had- passed, the men were playing ball for him—winning ball. On that same July 28, in their first game under his management, they downed the Cardinals, 6-4, breaking the Cards ll-game winning streak.

Received an Ovation

. Since then the Phillies have registered 10 more victories against four defeats. And when the club returned to Philadelphia yesterday from its road tour, Fitz received an ovation from 11,129 fans. To make the debut perfect, the Phillies beat Pittsburgh in both ends of a double~ header, featured by Schoolboy Rowe’s mound victory over Rip Sewell, the National league’s leading flinger, who was seeking his 18th win. A Philadelphia report says Harris was in the stands cheer-

managed anything except a Brook-

that could bring him nothing but];

Grid Sport Is Canceled . At Franklin

BREAKING a 57-year-old tradition that had withstood the ravages of two previous wars, little Franklin College which has consistently since 1886 put scrappy elevens on the gridiron every fall has finally had to bow to the god

tion. So great and persistent has been the war god's raid on her ranks that all of last year's players are in service, the male student body has been depleted to the extent that to carry on would be inadvisable, and President W. G. Spencer has watched three sons, all football stars, g0 For to war, o FRANKLIN FIRST trotted an eleven out on the fleld in the

autumn of '86 against her tra- 2 ;

ditional rival Wabash and since that meeting which ended in a tie she has been annually represented on the gridiron. The Grizzles have always been respected opponents wherever the blue and gold traveled, but they were feared most of all at Goodell field where they carried an over-all edge over visitors. However, the school has announced that 17-year-olds and men exempt from the draft wills be given intensive physical education and those in the various

reserves will be. given the regular

preinduction athletic program.

Toronto Splits

Double-Header

By UNITED PRESS

League-Leading Toronto split a double-header with Jersey City in the International league yesterday. Joe Sullivan hurled the Leafs to a five-hit, 4-3 triumph in the first game as his mates collected 13 hits off Bill Voiselle of the Giants. Tiny Wells turned back Toronto with seven hits to win a 2-0 decision in the nightcap. Harry Shuman went the route for Toronto.

Newark put over four runs in i A

first inning and coasted to & 7-4

triumph over Buffalo in the first

game of a twin bill but then bowed, 8-4, in the nightcap. Rufe Gentry, belted out of the box in the first. game, came back and went the route in the nightcap. Steve Roser, aided by Bill Marleau, won the first game, Syracuse stopped Rochester 5-3, in 14 innings, and 2-0. Syracuse twice came from behind to tie the score in the opener before pushing across,

Gordon Gray, $1,691.92; sixth, Hester Hanever, $1,268.04.

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