Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1945 — Page 28

mor Bq WILLIAMS WSAYS....

3 NEW YORK, May 11.—Racing interests have a right “to complain about the way they were kicked around in Washington but nothing is to be gained by continuing the ‘controversial aftitiide. On the contrary, these interests should take a good look at themselves in the Mirror (Mr. Parker, will you show these gentlemen, the Mirror, please?) and try to figure out what made them so vulnerable to an action that was nothing less than discrimina-

tion. It fsr't sufficient to dismiss the situation on the ground that race ing, because of betting is always -a popular target for professional reformefs and the congenitally captious. To do this is to admit right off that racing has done a poor job of selling itself. _, . And this, indeed, is one of the reasons I suggest the look in the mirror, Two or ‘three looks, in fact. a's nn & 8 8 There is no such thing as illegal racing in this country, though the way the business-sport was handled by administration brass hats -you might have been pardoned for suspecting it combined the worst features of a narcotic ring, counterfeiting and teeing up in a sand trap. 8 = 8 » » » In states where the horses run racing is just as legal as the gas and electric light service. Accordingly it needs no apology. Yet when this astonishing usurpation of power in the form of Jimmy Byrnes’ “request” came, racing, a billion dollar enterprise, produced no leaders; only apologists. There was no one to make a fight or a case for the industry, certainly not an open one, not one the public could follow

on its merits. : “8 8 . 8 on

Now why was this? There are a number of fine men in racing, respected and influential. Why did they sit back, humbly take their blackout sentence, contritely agree to keep their parks closed until Washington: decided to be nice and let them reopen? Only one answer occurs to me: They seem to be ashamed of being in racing, or maybe of letting ydu or me know they are in racing. sis o o ” # ” » And there are some. thikgs about which they should be ashamed, too. One is the pickpocket privileges gently known as breakage, the odd cents the tracks refuse to give you in change, contending it is mutually inconvenient. Know how much the breakage amounted to at the New York tracks alone last season? Better than $3,000,000. This is split 60 per cent to the state, 40 per cent to the tracks. None of it belongs to either. Il grant you the bettors don't care whether ‘they get the pennies ®r not and the tracks, their earnings narrowly limited by taxes, don't need the money. Only the state could make out any sort of case for keeping its share; to some slight extent it "really does help relieve tax pressure. * . ua 8 8 8 {Where racing overloeks an obvious good will bet here<is in not‘yoluntarily turning over its share to hospitalization or some such {eause, or at least leading a fight to eliminate the high-handed pracfice iltogether. This is just one of several ways to win friends and inpeople, and if racing didn’t learn from its recent painful

. ‘experience in Washifigton that it can use friends it never will

» o rd ” - - I have just finished talking with Herbert Bayard Swope, the Man o° War of racing commissioners, and he is fidgetly hopeful, now ‘that the long-looked-for green light is in operation, that the tracks will not try to crowd in too much racing to make up for lost days. ! “It might be well if some of you press box fellows lifted an adimonitory finger to that effect,” he urged. ri: 2 I have grown weary of lifting admonitory fingers only to have ‘them misinterpreted as signs for a fast ball or a curve but at that ‘Mr. Swope is so right and the dangers of loose criticism so sharp, I'm sure the tracks, dumb as they are, will proceed with caution and iponservatism. They may be hungry, but this is one time they are going fo control their appetites. By now they must realize one of their {principal jobs is a selling job; and any manifestation of greed. on the ‘part of rival tracks, geographically competitive, would be offensive.

Baksi-Wolcott Wartime Bats Fail

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Games Piling Up, Managers

By CARL LUNDQUIST. United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, May 11.—Everything looked fine for -baseball when the government ~ gave a “green light” for 1945, but no one reckoned with the weather man, who has been flashing “top signals” ever since. Managers made no - secret of their conern today over the postponements. Last year at this time only 32 games had been rained out, 16 in each league. To date in 1945, there have been 48 postponements, 24 in each league.. The American has played only 64 games to date and the National 63 for a little more than one-tenth of the 616 that must be played in each league on the basis of a 154-game schedule for each team. Yet the season is . about one-seventh "completed, which means that about one game in three has been postponed. During all of 1934 there were only 35 games postponed in the American and 64 in the National because of the weather. Each game called off now means more work later on for short pitching staffs, tiring veterans and rookies who may pale of the ledgue pace. And under wartime schedules whereby each team makes only three trips a season to ‘an opponents park, there will be frequently as many as three or four doubleheaders in a row with overnight travel trips in between. Big Strain Later Most postponed games will be made up on the second trip to pre{vent heavy accumulation of extra

weather again becomes rainy, That means the big strain will be dur-

August when players are at low! ebb physically. . The Chicago White Sox have had the most ‘postponements in the American, 10, and the Boston Braves in the National, nine, Other American league postponements are Cleveland eight, St. Louis and Detroit seven, and Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, and New York, four each. Philadelphia and Cincinnati have seven each in the National, New York and Brooklyn six, Chicago and Pittsburgh five, and St. Louis three. Another bad factor now is that the “Florida-like” northern spring training weather put the players in excellent condition, but the siege {of rain since then has caused many {to complain about losing their fine} edge. | There was more of the same kind of weather yesterday, causing seven | postponements in the two | leagues. | In the only game played, a night | contest at St. Louis, the Browns {made it two straight over Washingwinning, 10-t0-2, on Jack!

i ton, Kramer's five-hit pitching. The]

games late in the season when the|jate in the afternoon because of

ing hot days in late June, July and |his third victory of the season

{ Columbus the other night with four

- Fight Is Postponed | “CAMDEN, N, J, May 11 (U. P). «A cut eye suffered by Joe Baksi fn his last fight against Larry Lane _ fh Chicago forced postponement of last night's Baksi-Wolcott bout at Camden Convention hall. A requested postponement by Nate Wolfson, Baksi’s manager, was granted after a New Jersey state athletic commission physician said the eye had not healed. The bout

In Heavy Hitting American league champions clinched NEW YORK, May 11.—More bats {the issue in the first inning, scoring than batting records will be broken | three runs on a single by- George in major league baseball this ges McGinn and an error by Gil son. Due to shortage of lumber the | OiTes. wood used in bats has not been Roche, including a homer by Vern properly seasoned, doesn't hold up Stephens, his fourth. well under the impact. : . : It is becoming common to see a player hit the ball and break his bat. The Brooklyn Dodgers alone have broken more than a dozen

Yesterday's star: Mike Kreevich, veteran outfielder, who paced the Browns to a 10-to-2 victory over Washington with three singles and

The Brow: a 1 its: ; oft an Bs rade 15 is] cacker, nearly tied a mark when he

is expected to be held next Thursday night. :

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The recent Joss of the Ben Davis team to Broad Ripple was the first setback in two years for | "Chuck" Stuckey’s Giants. Wendell Smith, pitcher, has a record of I5 victories in 16 games over the two-year span and Ed Stegemoller has a .500 batting mark during that time. Pictured, front row left to right, Student Manager Don Wayford, Bob Hays, Stegemoller, Bob Fraderman, Bob Kearns, Kenneth Hoffman, Bob Risley and Student Manager Don Freeland. Rear row, John Yeftich, Earl ‘Stegemoller, Bill Buttum, Don Stone, Eddie Poole, Bob Hurst and Darrel Edwards.

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|Ohio Race Groups To Use Same Track

COLUMBUS, May 11 (U. P). —

Governor Frank J..Lausche has|held for 90 days. The Thistledown signed -a bill to permit the Thistle- {plant burned last fall. ;

down Racing club at Cleveland to. use facilities of the North Randall race. track this summer. . A The bill did’ not. carry an emer= gency - clause and no meét can be

New Players

Join Redskins

Infielder Ben Geraghty and pitcher Armand Cardoni, new Tribesmen acquired from the Boston Braves, reported to the club yesterday and the former probably will be in the lineup tonight against the Minne-

apolis- Millers. Last night's game was called off

cold weather. Ed Wright was slated to try for

against the Millers tonight -and Manag® “Rosy” Ryan of Minneapolis was expected to use Isidore Juan ‘Leon, Cuban flipper. < A release from American assoclation headquarters disclosed today that one all-time mark had been tied during the past week. This occurred when Louisville used 21 men against tHe Brewers last Sunday, tying the figure set by Casey Stengel and his Toledo Mud Hens back in 1926. * One Tribesmah had a part in the season record-making. Vince Shupe handled 17 chances at first base last Sunday to equal his own mark and that of Ed Ignasiak of Toledo. Art Rebel, Columbus outfielder, broke the ice in the two-homers-a-game department by hitting twice for the circuit against the Millers. At the end of nearly four weeks! of play, St. Paul still has not had a complete pitched game. Not once has the starting Saint hurler gone the route and while it doesn’t bother Ray Blades numerically with 11 men on his staff, it is galling to his pitching pride. Even in beating | nits, Blades had to call on Walt Tauscher to help the starting Bob Tart. Joe . Lafata,

Minneapolis first

| had the unusual day against Colum-

‘Big State’ Meet At I. U. Tomorrow

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind. May 11.— | Approximately 114 track athletes from eight competing schools will

door track meet, the so-called: “big state” meet. Coach Gordon Fisher, Indiana's head track mentor who is in charge,

| said that he has received entry | lists from Purdue, Notre Dame, Indiana = State Teachers college; Rose Poly, Wabash, DePauw and Ball State, besides Indiana. Purtdue and Notre Dame both will enter (23 men, Indiana 15, DePauw 14, Wabash 11, Indiana State 10, and [Rose Poly and Ball State, 4 each. lL Purdue, the réigning favorite in the meet, will rely for their points heavily on Boris Dimancheff- and Ben Harvey, sprinters; Wallace Desterhaft and Don Weber, in the middle distances, and Dick Kilpatrick, high jump, Notre Dame's Joe Kelly, ranking favorite in the discus, and Indiana's Holton Hayes, in the discus, and John Mitchem, mile and half-mile, ‘are among the other outstanding entries,”

Newark Scrapper Has Pacific Title

WITH U. 8. ARMY FORCES ON NEW CALEDONIA (U. P)— Featherweight champion of Pacific

{bus May 6 of getting only one put-

Local Tennis

Star Cleared

NEW YORK, May 11 (U. P)— Billy Talbert of Indianapolis and Francisco Segura of Ecuador, the second and third-ranking tennis players in thé nation, stood cleared today of charges that they accepted excess expenses for Florida tournaments. ° Holcombe Ward, U. S. Lawn Tennis association president, said he had fully investigated the charges by Edward Stillman, editor of a professional tennis magazine and that the two players had been shown to have received proper ‘expense money for exhibitions at Palm Beach and Pompano, Stillman apologized to Talbert and Segura and to the U. S, L. T. A.

Broad Ripple Nine Beats Noblesville

The second one-hit pitching performance of a Broad Ripple high school pitcher. within the week gave -the Rockets a 14-0 triumph over Noblésville' yesterday and kept Coach Frank Baird's team on the] unbeaten list. : Jack Legan held the Millers hitless for four frames and their only blow came off Bill Kidney in the| fith, The line score: .

Noblesville 000 000. 0-0 1 7! Broad Ripple Barker and Reddick; Legan, Kidney and MacDaniel, Kellum, i

Tech Golfers Win

Tech high school's golf team was! a winner at Kokomo yesterday, 15-3. Tom Schwartz of the Wildcat | team was medalist with a 78, while Bob-Buchanan had an 80 to be low for Tech. {

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| Gilbert, Marianas and Palau {s[lands and the South and Central Pacific base commands is Sgt. Sal vatore Scornavacca, Newark, N. J. who won his army-navy title by de|feating two soldiers and a marine before 250000 fans at Honolulu finals, Sensation of the Hawaii tourna ment, the 27-year-old Scornavacoa has his fists pointed toward the pro-

states. ~ Beginning his amateur career at 20, Sal held the New Jer sey A, A. U. championship In the 126-pound class from 1938-40, inclusive, woh runner-up spot in the South: Pacific "eliminations at .|Guadalcandl on Christmas day, 1943, and repeated the ‘performance a year later at “the 'canal.”

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Welters Meet In Top Serap

A welterweight duel "between Danny Williams, and Gene Gudgill, |

weights, will top fistic action at the| Armory tonight when the Hercules Athletic club will stage a five-scrap| pro boxing card. 2 Both maulers have agreed to come | in for tonight's tilt at 150 pounds, | three over the welter division's 147pound deadline and the boys will weigh in at 1:00 o'clock this aft-| ernoon. : : Gudgill has four khockouts to his credit here in six starts and the Albany blaster has taken his first two starts here by quick k. o.’s. The complete program follows:

Main Event—10 rounds—wel- | terweights; Gene Gudgill, Day- | ton, O. vs. Danny Williams, | Albany, N. Y., and Indianapolis. |

Semi-windup—6 rounds—wel- | terweights: Cpl. Dave Bruce, | Baer field, Ft. Wayne, vs. Sparky Reynolds, Indiangpolis.

Prelim—5 rounds—lightweights: Robert Beamon, Indianapolis, vs. Cpl. Dick Cook, Camp Atterbury.

Prelim——4 rounds—lightweights: Victor Byrd, Dayton, O., vs. Raymond Glenn, Indianapolis,

* Prelim—4 rounds—heavyweights: | Whitey Jensen, 180, Dayton, O., vs. | Charlie Reed, 185, Indianapolis.

Jensen, Reed and Byrd will be making Their first starts here. The Jensen-Reed heavyweight clash will open the action at 8:30 o'clock.

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