Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1946 — Page 16
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But Same Encouragement
Not Offered for Hotel Space
By ART WRIGHT : This is to refute all rumors about a complete sellout of seats for
renewal of the 500-mile Interna Speedway May 30... there are sea
sweepstakes at the Indianapolis vailable.
You won't get any of those box chairs along the straightaway, but ‘re welcome to those new benches some of us like better, anyway. several thousand parque seats (at $7.50 and $9.00, plus
of the pits—a new idea which someone should hav thought about nany races ago. And there are plenty of bleacher seats (at $2.50, plus $3 general admission) for the asking, some of those at the most exciting locations. General admission pasteboards are in abundance. Every indication points to a crowd even exceeding the 150,000 who attended the last pre-war race in 1941. And the Speedway management told the printer to go far above that figure. So you can make your own esti mate on the number of general ad-
mission tickets available today, for:
one of them goes with each seat, plus plenty for the infield standing space. Sorry the same encouragement can't be offered for your out-of-town guests regarding living. acgommodations. All hotels have been sold out on reservations for many weeks. So if you have someone coming to town, better order some extra cots for your living room.
. - = - Lencki Cars Arrive Joe Lencki brought the Tony Bettenhausen car to the Speedway garages last week, then went back to Chicago to bring in the Mauri Rose mount. Says he expects to be running them April 15, but the veterans in gasoline alley figure it'll be after that because of the work to be done on the cars,
Miller En Route
Chet Miller left California a week ago en route to the Speedway to work out with the four-cylinder W. J. Holliday Steel entry. It's a 255 cubic inch, front drive car. Chet to work helping to get the
Bill Cuts Tooth
a teething ring, no less!
80 Golfers Play In Pro-Am Meet At Pleasant Run
Eighty golfers competed in the pro-amateur tourney at Pleasant Run links yesterday and Ed Juniper's 73 was low. Two four-man teams tied for best-ball honors with 69. One foursome was made up of Ernie Stanfill, Cecil Parsons, Leroy Buiter and Keith Lindamood, the other of Fred Wuelfing, Charles Spahr, George Stevens and Carl Fluger. : Pleasant Run members are to
Nine-month-old Warren William (Bill) Shaw has cut his first tooth. And papa is happy. Papa is Wilbur Shaw, boss man of the Speedway.
hold a meeting at the clubhouse at 7:30 p. m. Friday.
South Grove linksmen had a field
eats Still .
S Tlout Rumors Refuted,
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The directors also approved the 12-game arrangement for the 1948 season, with the location of single games to be reversed. Most of the more popular annual rivalries were included in the home-
Wilbur Shaw and son seem happy over that new tooth young “Bill” cut the other day ... with a Firestone tire on a miniature race car as
Midget Ravers Arrange Plans
Although a “warm-up” race is
noon at Alexandria, the first sanctioned run under the Consolidated Midget Auto Racing association will not be held until May 13 at Richmond. The tiny speedsters then are slated to whirl around a local track the following night. These dates came out of a meet ing of drivers, owners and promoters at the Claypool yesterday. The new midget track under construction across from the Speedway
is contemplating lining up with the
Wilbur is happy particularly because day yesterday as 68 players turned consolidated group, In any event,
“Bill's first
tooth came throughjout and competed in the ABCD|{he circuit will race seven ni ’ ghts with the aid of the rubber Firestone{tourney . in which two foursomes|, week. Should the new track
tires on 8 miniature car the lad|tied for the lead with 69's.
plays with. , , . It was on PFirestone| Bill Nichol's, L. E. Laughlin, John |. .ond running night will be given tires that Wilbur won his Speedway Clayton and Herb King formed one), A Fa at Kitley and victories and the national cham-|winning team, and on the other
pionship. Wilbur says it's an appropriate teething ring for the son of a speed king.
Pot-0’-Gold Promised
The story at “the front office” points toward increased prizes for the speed jockeys this year in the %500.” Rooks like the lap prize fund of $100 per lap will include a prize for every lap, something that hasn't happened in many years. A fair estimate of the total pot-of-gold with accessory money, will be about $120,000.
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The speedway management is concerned with how to get the Speedway surface ironed out. . . . Idle for four war years, the track no longer has the oll worked into it, which the speed kings say is for a fast surface. . .. It'll take hundreds of miles of running by many cars to pave the way for top speeds. . . . Wonder what the A. A. A officials are going to
do with the foreign drivers if they
bring any women managers along— and they get a place in the
pits. . . . It's been tradition that women don’t enter the pits at InBut there's nothing in the rules to bar the feminine '8eX . ,» , 88 Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker proved the year he saw that the late Aviatrix Amelia Earhart got a ride around the course. , . . Here's some indication of the choice seat shortage for the big race as long ago as March: The Speedway management scratched its head to
dianapolis. , . .
KANSAS CITY PITTSBURGH
were Clayton Nichols, Stanley In-
Sechrist. Marvin Heckman and Bob O'Connor shared tourney medalist laurels with 73's.
The Speedway course was in perfect condition yesterday for the first tournament of the season and 80 players participated in the blindpar event. Paul Sparks, state amateur champion, shot a 71 for low gross honors. Winners in the blind-par were Ken Loucks, Farl Bilksy, Art Dunavant, Lou Alexander, Ernest Knox, Harold Cork, Paul Sparks, Jack Fortner and John Urquhart. The blind-par score was 80.
Reds Drop Two
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 8 (U. P.)~Two Cincinnati players, Infielder Roland Harrington and Pitcher Harold Erickson wer® sent to other major league -teams today
Chicago White Sox and Erickson to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Harrington is a former Indianapolis player.
find a box seat for Henry Ford Jr. after his car was accepted as the pace car for the race. . . . One of the daily visitors to the track is
kingpin of many years past. . . . Billy, who's made a name for himself in recent pre-war years still is without a mount . . , but he usually connects. . . . Some of the drivers have their own private telephones in their garages . .. but you don't get the number if you're not in the “inner circle.” . , . “Cotton” Henning, head man of the Mike Boyle garage, collects stray golf balls from the infield portion of the Speedway golf course to alleviate the shortage.
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gall, Wallace Mullins and Brooks
on waivers. Harrington went to the|
seek talent from other sources, a
state road 52. Pre-500 Race Ted Everroade, handling the de[tails for the new west side oval, contemplates an “all-night” affair on the eve of the big 500-mile classic. Present plans call for gn -early race largely with Chicago talent, then the Consolidated would move across town from the Speedrome to put on two later complete racing programs, Harry Osborne, secretary of the Consolidated organization, said that 50 car owners have signed to race under the association's banner this season. Races will be conducted under a handicap basis with points
scheduled for next Sunday after- * an
12-Game Net Card Adopted.
By Western Conference
CHICAGO, April 8 (U. P.).~—Each of the Western conference's nine basketball teams will meet all other schools in the league next season for one of the few times in conference history. Conference athletic directors and basketball coaches approved a 12-game conference schedule for 1947 yesterday in which each team will play four series of home-and-home games and four single games.
and-home series. Indiana was slated to play Purdue twice, Illinois was matched with Northwestern for two games and Indiana was listed in a two-game series with Iowa. Ohio State and Indiana, champion and runnerup last season, were scheduled to play a home-and-home series starting at Columbus Jan, 6. 0)
16-Game Card Proposed
A few coaéhes proposed a 16game schedule composed entirely of home-and-home contests as the “fairest possible test for the championship,” but the schools decided against the plan in order to play more non-conference games, ~The adopted - slate, however, should provide one of the most
ence history despite its similarity to the general 12-game pattern the league “has followed almost every year since 1910, = Chicago's weak Maroons paved the way for more equal schedules when they withdrew from the conference in March.
Complaints Eliminated
With only nine teams remaining and each team matched against all other conference schools at least once, the directors said, most complaints about some title contenders having “easier going” than others should be eliminated. Under the new program, most non-conference games will be played in December and league competition will not begin until the first of the year as in pre-war seasons. The conference schedule for 1047:
Jan, 1—Illinois at Wisconsin. Jan. 4—-lowa at Wisconsin, Northwestern at Michigan, Minnesota at Ohio State. an. 6—Minnesota at Illinois, Indiana a4, Olio
n. . 11--Northwestern at Tlinois, Ina at Wisconsin, Ohio State at Iowa, Michigan at Minnesota, Jan. 13—Ohio State at Illinois, Purdue at Indiana, Minnesota at Iowa, Michigan t Northwestern, an. 18—Jowa at Indiana, Purdue at Michigan, Northwestern at Ohlo State. Jan. 20—Michigan at Indiana, Iowa at
rdue. Jan. 25—Wisconsin at Illinois, Indiana at Minnesota, Iowa at Northwestern, Ohio State at Michigan. an. 27—Minnesota at Purdue, Northwestern at’ Wisconsin, Feb. 1-—Illinois at Ohlo State, Northwestern at Minnesota. X owa at Wisconsin, Feb. 5-—-Illinois at Purdue. Feb. 8-—Iowa at Illinois, Minnesota at Wisconsin, Purdue at Northwestern. Feb. 10—-Wisconsin at Michigan, Purdue at Ohio State. Feb. 15—Indiana at Illinois, Michigan at Iowa, Purdue at Minnesota, Wisconsin at Northwestern. Feb, 17—lowa at Minnesota, ern at Indiana, Michigan at Feb. 23—Illinois at Northwestern, Indiana at Iowa, Minnesota at Michigan, Ohio at Wisconsin
Northwest Purdue.
caravan:
Feb, 24—Illinois at Michigan, Ohio Btate at Indiana, Wisconsin at Purdue. Feb, 28 or March 1-—Ohio State at Northwestern. March 1--Illinois at Indiana, Purdue at Iowa, Wisconsin at Minnesota. March 3—Indiana at Purdue, Michigan at Ohio State.
Barons Grab Payoff Lead
BUFFALO, April-8 (U. P.).—The Cleveland Barons were threatening to win the American Hockey league Calder cup playoffs from the Buffalo Bisons today with a “T” formation.
Cleveland's “T” men, lou Trudel, Pred Thurier and Goalie Harvey Teno, collaborated brilliantly last night to bring the Barons from
earned in each event to go toward | a final standing. Winning cars and | drivers will share a bonus at the| end of the season expected to approximate $10,000. Tracks already in the circuit include Richmond, Indianapolis {Speedrome, - Muncie, Dayton, O, |Greenfield and Alefandria.
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Local Bowlers Lead in Tourney
Indianapolis bowlers today hold
Billy Devore, son of Earl Devore {some important positions in the to score.
the Indiana state |
| women's tournament, following | their week-end activities at Gary. | Sally Twyford and Gertrude | Bradley combined their efforts to {take over the leading ‘position in | Class A doubles. Mrs. Twyford {had 619 and Mrs. Bradley, 541, for an 1160 total, 39 pins ahead of another local pair, Dorothy Erler and Margaret Skelton, who are in second place with 1121, Mrs. Erler had 585 and Mrs. Skelton, 536. Nell’ Schmidt, another local en-
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paced by Mrs. Bradley's 556, landed in seventh place in the Class A team events with 2471,
{trant, took over the No. 4 spot in the standings of the Class A singles with a 586. Mrs. Twyford’s Comets,
Hockey Playoff
NATIONAL LEAGUE Stanley cup playoffs (finals). Boston 3, Montreal 3 (overtime).
AMERICAN LEAGUE Calder cup playoffs (finals). Cleveland 6, Buffalo 5 (overtime).
NATIONAL PLAYOFF STANDINGS
Cleveland
Buffalo ...... 1 2.0;
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behind and give them a 6-to-5 overtime victory over the Bisons in the third game of the series. The Barons now lead, two games to one. Trudel scored the winning goal, his second of the night in the final 22 seconds of the overtime period before 10,000 fans in Memorial auditorium, - Thurier scored two of his three goals for the night in the vital third period to tie the score at 5-all after the Barons fought uphill to erase a 4-to-1 deficit. Teno covered himself with glory in the overtime period with several brilliant saves and he also was a hdandy man with the big stick in the third period when Buffalo failed Earlier, he was fooled several times, but after the second period he was a wall of defense.
Sanction Given Larkin-Joyce Bout
BOSTON, April 8 (U. P.).—Official sanction was given today for a world's junior welterweight championship match at Boston Garden April 20 between two of the nation's outstanding leather pushers— Tippy Larkin of Garfield, N. J,, and Willie Joyce of Gary, Ind. The Massachusetts boxing commission authorized the match over the 12-round route and {it was understood that similar consicderation would be given by the New York State commission under a working agreement,
EXHIBITION RESULTS Boston (A) 9, Cincinnati (N) 3 (first ame) Cincinnati (N) 4, Boston (A) 3 (second game, seven innings) Washington (A) 10, Philadelphia (N) 1. Cleveland (A) 8, New York (N) 8 New York (A) “B" team 13, Brooklyn (NY) “B"” team 0 Detroit (A) 3, Boston (N) 0 New York (A) “A” team 1,
(Sou) 0. Philadelphia (A) 6, Baltimore (Int) 3 Chicago (N) 10, St. Louis (A) 7. New Orleans (Sou) 1, Brooklyn (N) “A"
team 6. Chicago (A) 11, Pittsburgh (N) 8 (first g )s Chicago (A) 8 Pittsburgh (N) 6 (second
game, eight innings). Houston (Tex) 0 (first
Atlanta
game, seven innings). Syracuse (Int) 7, Kansas City (Assn) 4. Toronto (Int) 10, Richmond, Va. 6. Newark (Int) 5, Norfolk 3. Bt. Paul (Assn) 8, Montreal (Int) 6. Minneapolis (Assn) 7 Memphis (Sou) 4 Columbus (Assn) 4, Mobile (Sou) 8 (10 nnings). C Toledo Assn) 4, ‘Tulsa (Tex) 2. Birmingham (Sou) 3, Rochester (Int) 1,
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Keiser Backs Into Crown
AUGUSTA, Ga., April 8 (U.P) — As long as there is a Masters tournament at the Augusta National golf course the 18th hole will be remembered as the one where in 1946 Ben Hogan lost a Masters’ title and where Herman Keiser “backed” into one. That was the topic of conversation all over town today and the discussion may never die. Keiser, the Akron (O.) pro, came up to the 18th hole yesterday needing a par to assure himself of the title and the $2500 first prize. He got off to a good drive but was long on his approach which seemed destined to carry him well beyond the green. But his ball hit the pin and stopped on the green less than 20 feet from the hole and it looked like he was “in.” Then as some 2000 of the 7500 spectators looked on, he pushed a putt some five feet beyond the cup and missed coming back to give him a bogey five, a 74 for the round and a 282 total. Meanwhile, Hogan, the Hershey (Pa.) hot-shot, who had started off the day five strokes in back of Keiser, had picked up four of them and was trying for an eagle on the 15th when Keiser walked off the 18th green. Misses Putt Little Ben missed his putt for the eagle but was down for a birdie and {needed but three pars for a tie. Ther: weren't many persons on the course who didn't think he ‘could do it. Hogan parred the 16th and 17th and was on the 18th green in two about 15 feet from the pin. His putt for a birdie and a clear title carried about two and a half feet past the cup. Then he carefully putted the shot that would have given him a tie but the ball stopped about an inch from the cup and the match was over. Hogan, whose 70 for the day gave him a 283 total for the 72 holes and a check for $1500, had lost bis second tournament in a row here by the: narrowest of margins. In 1942, the last previous Masters tournament played, Ben had tied Byron Nelson only to lose in a playoff. C ; Third prize money of $1000 went to Bob Hamilton, formerly of Evansville, who shot a 70 on his last round.
Ali Pasha Strives To Retain Record
Ali Pasha will be out to main-
Richard Stevenson. The East siders row afternoon. s » LJ
The Washington and Tech high school track teams will compete in a dual meet tomorrow that will be
The event is scheduled for 2:30
p. m. at the Tech stadium. The Continentals will be performing again under the direction of| Coach Chester McNerney after a
varsity track coaching staff, still is] in service. The West Side thinlies have been coached by Henry Bogue, football mentor, for the past two]
seasons.
Crescent Paper Lead in Scratch
Crescent Paper Co. rolled into
dry, who had taken the top spot on
second place. | Home Package Liquors, last week's runnersup, are tied for third place with Bowes Sealfast, who last night connected for a 2873 and add- | ed a 243 handicap for 3216. The] Liquor store had 2746 (470) 3216 a week previous. Schoettle’s. Insurance rolled into fifth place with 2749 (455) 3204 and Milano Inn took over sixth with] 2801 (387) 3188. Close Next Sunday
The event will close next Sunday after an additional 72 quintets have taken a shot at the leading positions and nifty array of cash awards. The women’s tournament at Pritchett-Hunt-O'Grady, sponsored | by the Star, wound up a two-week | run yesterday with local Mechanics | Laundry taking first place in the actual scoring with 2564, as East 10th St. Market topped the handicap division with 2389 (474) 2863. The event was the former 3-J tournament. Mixed Leagues Dave ‘Yaver was the big gun in| yesterday's weekly matches of the | Bethel Men's club at the Uptown. | In the loop’s double-header session, |
tain his record of no defeats here
tag-team match headlining
night,
cutta, India, who specializes in the “cobra” hold, has Steve Nenoff of Toledo as his partner and this team also has a clear slate. Facing the two aggressive grapplers will be Monty La Due of Manchester, N. H., and Buddy Knox of Tulsa. three consecutive Armory tussles. It is for two falls out 6f three. Ace Freeman, Bronx, N. Y, opposes India Yaqui, Indian wrestler from Mexico, in the supporting bout. ’
Softball Meeting
The Bush-Callahan Softball association will meet tonight at 7:30. Teams interested in.playing on city parks diamonds Wednesdays at 6 p. m. or on Sunday afternoons should attend this meeting.
this season when he appears in the| the | Armory wrestling show tomorrow
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Knox has captured
he posted a pair of season records | in the finale. He had 238, 278, '169—| 685. The middle game and the) three-game total were good for the| records. In the opening session, Dave Fink set the pace with 577. In the Uptown's evening mixed
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Wings in Half
Coming right at you is a quartet of Tech high school sprinters who'll wear the Big Green track wings in the half-mile relay event. Left to right, Harry Kimbro, Charles Minatel, Norman Johnson and
Continentals and Tech Meet on Track Tomorrow
Raymond Lee, Roy Jacobs and Devon Personett—will be available to
Washington, and the Continental the season opener for both Outfits.| 54 will be loaded heavily with!
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Mile Relay Events
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Broad Ripple high school's track
team will play host to Manual's {Redskins tomorrow afternoon in a dual meet on the Rocket fleld start-
ing at 3:30 o'clock.
Only three returning lettermen—
talent from the 1945 {freshman squad, | The remainder of the Washing-/ ton schedule follows: April 12, Warren Central; April 19, triangular
April 27, Indianapolis relays at Tech: April 30, Manual; May 3,| city meet at Tech, and May 10 triangular meet with Howe and Terre | Haute Gerstmeyer.
Takes Over Pin Play
first place in the Fox-Hunt 1050 |
scratch team bowling tournament yesterday, replacing Mechanics Laun- |
the opening week-end."
The Paper Five posted an actual 2741, added a 594 handicap, for a 3335 total, 111 pins better than the Meehanics posted in their appearance. They had 2785 and 439 free pins for 3224, that is now good for|
leagues, Louis Bateman with 541 and A. Palmer with 525 were the; top scorers in the Consolidated | Finance, while Gertrude Pruitt Jes- | sup with* 511 and John Spalding with 539 were the 8:15 league leaders. At the Parkway, Virgil Briggs with 578 and E. Black with 477 led | the scoring of the 6 o'clock mixed, | while Bob Clark with 581 and Marge | Battreall with 559 were the pace-| makers in the 8:15 mixed.
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Friday, Coach Mordie Iee’s
charges will entertain Noblesville land Pike township thinly-clads in ia three-way affair.
Broad Ripple lost 17 squad mem-
bers by graduation' and only a
few experienced athletes will be the season starts. include Tom Gray in the dashes; Jim Wiley and Bud Teague
in the hurdles and Ed Brown and
other half of Washington's pre-war | pus Attacks; April 23, Shortridge; fm Swope in the broad jump, Gray,
Wiley and Teague also will run on the Rocket half-mile relay team. The Rocket baseball team was carded against Franklin township today.
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