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Indianapolis and Louisville Get Equal Number of Points; Kansas City Is Rated Third
By JOHN G. DIETRICH, United Press Sports Writer COLUMBUS, O. April 16.—The 1946 American association pennant rece will finish in a dead heat between Indianapolis and Louisville, the
league's sports writers predicted today. “rl poll of members of the American Association Chap-
«Tabulation of a ter of Baseball Writers showed ‘the Indians and Colonels as co-favorites with 138 points each. re] . 8 = A “test poll” taken among eight
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Indians Co-Favorites
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Official Speedway Entry List Gus Fan Has
Boosted to 20 as Cars Something to
| : : ~~. Cheer About Are Tuned for First Practices |
With seven cars already on hand «at the Indianapolis Motor Speed-| NEW YORK, April 16. —It is as way, the early railbirds may be treated to the first practice lap of the| Plain as the nose om Signor Lomseason before the end of the week. | bardi’s noble kisser that Gus H. “We hope to be running by Friday or Saturday,” says Lou Moore, | Fan is the backbone of baseball who is preparing the Noc-Out Hose Clamp specials for the 30th re-| Without his support there'd have newal of the Memorial day speed classic at the two-and-a-half-mile| been no Ruthian salaries, Yankee brick and asphalt course. They will] ———- os gm stadiums, inered-
By JOE WILLIAMS
be driven by Cliff Bergere of In-| ible men like dianapolis and Joie Chitwood of ( h R | | Landis, not even Reading, Pa. y0S en € ays a Rickey, or a The other cars already at the Griffith, to take the champagne
track are Mike Boyle's two entries, : which again have been placed = To Draw 600
the hands of “Cotton” Henning; |
with t h e sour cider,
For Association Flag
the first half of Joe Lencki's two-|
GOSHEN, Ind., April 16 (U. P.).—
individual writers 10 days ago placed the Indians and Milwaukee | *In dianapolis Brewers as pennant co-favorites. | ties In the all-league poll, the Kansas | .. Louisville City Blues polled 115 points for the | Kansas City third spot, with the Columbus Red Columbus Birds a narrow choice to round out | y the first division over Milwaukee, | Milwaukee the dfeending champion. St. Paul St. Paul was selected for the sixth | Toledo position, with Toledo seventh and | : J Minneapolis & popular choice . for Minneapolis
the cellar. Method of Tabulation The scores were tabulated on a basis of eight points for a first place selection, seven for second, six for third and so on down the
*Photo finish
as some of the writers obviously! based their selection on the parent St. Louis Cardinals’ habit of reinforcing the Birds in mid-season. The writers apparently were convinced that Louisville would not hit| the skids. Every team in the league] except the Colonels was nominateg| for the coal hole, but no writer) picked the Kentucky team lower than fifth. g The association writers flew in| the face of tradition by selecting Minneapolis as the team most like-| ly to finish last—a position in which | the Millers have not finished since the association was organized in| 1902 : The ballots were marked by many of the writers before the Millers! were purchased by the New York Giants last Saturday.
Derby Field to Shoot al Mark Set by Whirlaway in 1941
By JOHN GRIFFIN, United Press Sports Writer
list. Prank Colley of Columbus, secre-tary-treasurer of the writers’ group, said Indianapolis was actually the scribes’ choice to win the pennant, since the Indians outpolled the Louisville club by nine votks to two for the top spot. “Indianapolis accumulated nine second-place votes to run up its point total Although Columbus finished fourth in the point total, the Red Birds received six votes for first place, more than any other club except Indianapolis. “The Red Birds apparently were thé “mystery team” of the circuit,
Don Gutteridge (left), Toledo Mud Hen manager, and Earl Jones, his ace southpaw pitcher, were in a jovial mood as they arrived in Indianapolis yesterday afternoon. You see them at, the Hotel Lincoln as they said it with gestures while exchanging theories on "how to beat the Indians" in the opening ball game at Victory field tomorrow night. Jones is slated to pitch the inaugural for
the Hens, The Toledo party on hand here totals 40. The Hens came up from San Antonio, Tex., their
fraining camp and were to get in practice at Victory field today before the Indians took over.
2 More Cards
car entry, with Tony Bettenhausen | Plans were completed today for the slated as the driver; Fred Holli- staging of one of Indiana's largest
nominated by Carl Magnee and Ted Foreman field on Saturday. Nowiak of Detroit. |, Fourteen schools are listed in The dgivers for the last two cars| Class A" competion, while 23 are mentioned have not yet entered in the “Class B" division.|
been se-| {lected but George Connors of Los| It Will be the first rpvival of the { Goshen relays in more than 10]
| Angeles and Ted Horn of Paterson, |
IN. J. will' be at the wheel for Years. More than 600 athletes are] 'Bovie. : scheduled to compete in some 30 | Deadline May 1 evenis. | : "ich £ : shools to compete in Class yr Ap | The Lencki and Holliday cars are events - include. Hanumond. Ham-
{not entered officially. The Magnee- | nd Tech, Muncie Central, Elk-|
[Howiak [LACAT: Nowever, boosts the hart, Pt. Wayne North, Goshen, Ft official list to 20 and Speedway offi- | \yavne Central. Ft. Wayne South, als expect » 24gpjonst entries o erson, Gary Tolleston and Gary ee the deaims Oe TE lh “hot Froebel, and South Bend Adams, te South Bend Central and South
| foot” who is the American Automo- | Bend Washington Class B schools entered. include:
[bile Association's national chamMuncie Burris, Warsaw, Plym-
{pion in spite of the fact that he| {was foreed to De content with Sec- | suth, Rochester, Howe Military, Gas! | City, . Garrett, Auburn, Butler,!
lond place in the last race at In|dianapolis five years ago, probably | . ' {will be one of the next drivers to| Waterloo, Hobart, Ligonier, New { Paris, Wakarusa, Jamestown, Brisi tol, Albion, Pierceton. New Carlisle,
Imake his appearance here. After visiting Speedway officials recently Lakeville, Washington-Clay (South! Bend) and Madison Township.
{he returned to California in order to make arrangements for bringing _ his Bowes Seal Fast special from' Long Beach, Cal.
i io TA 3000 Score Still
Three cars also are expected from . | Milwaukee, although only one o Elusive at A. B. C {the trio has been entered officially. | : ; | It is owned by George Kuehn, an| BUFFALO, N. Y, April 16 (U.| outboard motorboat racing enthusi- | P.).—Eighty more teams, including]
ast who will be among the newcom- | the 1939 champion Fife Electrics of |
day's racer and a semi-stock car |high school track carnivals at local| #3
What kind of a bloke is old Gus? Well, hes so 5. many-sided it ‘is Williams Impossible to wrap him up in a smail package for you. He may be 10 vears old or 90. He may be a truck driver, a scientist or the nation’s chief executive,
He's Fiercely Loyal He's a fiercely loyal fellow with a tremendous capacity for optimism, a quality which the club owners never fail to exploit. “Wait until next year,” is a slogan upon which he feeds greedily. Every April is
the beginning of a new and reHe
splendent World for him doesn’t want to be told in advance he is going to have a shabby ball club. If this dreadful thing must happen he insists on experiencing it first hand and in person. Thete is no telling how big old Gus' family is. It extends from coast to coast. Some of them live in pin-point hamlets where the ball park is nb bigger than a cigar box. Others live in the great roaring cities which feature massive arenas wrought in stone and steel. Old Gus was represented by * 11,000,000 in the big league parks alone last year. His representation will be even larger this year. All told hell probably pour a minimum of $24,000,000 into the strong box, and this does not include his country cousins in the minors. Old Gus isn't very discriminating.
NEW YORK, April 16.—This year's Kentucky Derby will have to go| some to match in sheer color the swiftest derby of them all—the 1941 1 oO B r av e S
race won by Whirlaway.
Tribe and Mud Hens Take
ers at the Speedway this year. Detroit were ready today to toe the It took a world war to prove he Kuehn's car will be powered by a line in the American Bowling: Con- doesn't know big league ball from | new Offenhauser motor and Al Put- | gress championships and to hit the minor league ball, or, if he does
It will be Whirly’s. mark of 2:01 2/5 for the mile-and-a-quarter | that the jockeys on Knockdown, Star Pilot, High Shine et al. will be| shooting at on May 4 but fans are pessimistic about the '48 crop’s| chances of clipping that standard | ———— - | It's a speed performance that four for the outside and ran there to| stalwart champions have subse- a second-place finish, ai quently failed to match—Shut out, | His chances began to look up| Pensive, Hoop Jr. and the great when Ben Jones, who handled Mr.! Count Fleet. | Longtail for the Calumet farms, The Fleet won galloping in 1943, hired Eddie Arcaro to ride him in Just as Whirly did, but still was the Derby. Arcaro, noted for a
Mr, Longtail. {the rider in the country who had No derby champion ever Tan the best chance of folling Whirly
any have to be coaxed, cajoled and | and on Derby day the odds on the into victory more Calumet speedster slowly dropped
than the '41 champion. {until he was a post time favorite. Whirlaway came up to May 3, Introduced to Rail
Derby day that year, with a promising “juvenile record and seven 3-year-old starts which also indicated
week, though highly regarded, him by way of the race track itself. Whirlaway was by no means the ~—favorite=~for-he -had-exhibited .one of the most f phobias a race-
horse can have, a tendency to swing
away led with exercise boy Pinky way Jones kept the horse's nose
ing the home stretch. [= to every ifich of wood in it. Cut to Outside Before: the stands Whirlaway | That quirk had cost Whirly tri- Paraded and they gave him a good umphs in two very important pre- chance to stand and look at the| Derby tests, the Blue Grass Stakes crowd. When they moved him into| and the Derby Trial. In both races the starting gate, Whirlaway was! pe ‘had victory cinched rounding thoroughly at home and ready to the last turn when he suddenly cut | Fn errr For the first six furlongs he fol-|
more than two seconds slower than strong pair of hands, was thought| Sam Breadon's cash register to the
Final Drills Before Opener
By EDDIE ASH, Times Sports Editor
ST. LOUIS, April 16 (U. P).— First Baseman Ray Sanders and| Pitcher Max Surkont of the Cardi-| nals today were on their way to the Boston Braves for an estimated $30,000 and Inflelder Tommy Nel- | son.
The latest deal tinkled President Gutteridge said it would be Earl 4 un Jones, southpaw, for Toledo. PROBABLE LINEUPS
tomorrow night.
The Mud Hens are in town, opening game pitchers have been | Tudy,
selected, and if the weather man will only have a change of {eart, . all will be well with Indianapolis baseball fandom at Victory ‘field piloted to ninth place in the 1941 in spite of a high scoring tempo majors last year that didn’t have
Paul Derringer, veteran righthander, is Manager Bill Burwell's | I
choice to lead off the mound toil for the Indian§ and Manager Don entry. . a ; of Highland Park, Fifes of Ft. Wayne won with a|volume being such--that five dif-
nam of Indianapolis will be at the elusive 3000 figure that hasn't been | wheel. a reached thus far in the pin derby.| The Marchese brothers, Carl and Predictions were plentiful at the are rebuilding the same racer start of the meet that at least 10] | which Paul Russo of Kenosha, Wis, teams would hit the 3000 mark, but|
race and Bill School is planning to| in the early days of the 62-day clas-
Not since 1922 when the Lincoln Ray Richards
know he doesn't care. The standard of play dropped sharply in all leagues during the war. He Loved It There wasn't a team in the
a touch of bush. But that didn’t
eturn to Indianapolis with his 1941 | sic, no.squad has hit the mark. {worry old Gus. He came out: every
day in increasing numbers, the
Ill, a veteran of dirt track and|2998 tally has a total under 3000] ferent clubs played to more than
midget events, will drive for the been high enough to cop the team
{a million admissions. And the
faster than Whirlaway—nor id in his mad dash for the outside C00
It was then that Jones played | Paid for Cooper is his hole card. Walking Whirly from | $60,000. great ability. But during Derby |the barns to the paddock, he routed The disposal of Sanders, the] H. Roy Hamey, the American —m——— oo . _
Brown in the saddle, and all the Of Dick Sisler;
to the outside of the track enter- bumping on the rail, introducing the spring training season but Sis-
Cardinals’ regular first sacker for|association’s new president,
Browns, respectively. unexpected since the fine showing|Indianapolis inaugural. They are The two were Pat Padden;— Charley Moore --and interchangeably throughout |Bill McKinley. President Hamey employed ler's hitting outshone Sanders’ ef-{staff of 12 “guessers” for the new fort at the plate. season to give the league additional | In four years with the Cardinals|prestige now that it has been elethe traded first baseman hit .278, vated from Class AA to Class AAA. which, in the light of past hard-| It’s the “big Jeague” influence. hitting Red Bird initial sackers is| The Indianapolis Indians, along pretty weak. He is 28 vears old with the Louisville Colonels, tradiSurkont returned to the Cardinals|tional rivals, received the “kiss of | this spring after three years in the death” today when the American navy. He is 23. Wildness retarded | association baseball writers issued
used
changes in player personnel. major leagues do not cut
iuntil June 15, practice field. vesterday
but
do. They
Pp | ! as- | New York Yankees and St. Louis| All around that oval he had Whirl-| the last two seasons, has not been|signed three umpires to handle the Last year, the A. A. scribes picked | ' Toledo to -win- the penmant in their POWling. tournaments operated here, {over-all poll and the Mud Hens in a number of years is planned at |? 8 | finished fifth. You never can tell Pritchett- Hunt-O'Grady alleys in this league owing to the rapid| opi) 20. 21, 27, 28 The | their squads to the official player limit
Rain kept the "Indians off the they were not at a loss for something to attended a noon lunch-
. . 30 To Participate |pose and then, in a sudden ex-|service he was regarded as an explosion of speed, he roared. from cellent prospect. . out of the pack into the lead and | Nelson is slated for service with In Track Meet at the finish was 11 lengths ahead|the Cards’ Columbus American aswith Arcaro twisting in the saddle|sociation farm. Eighty athletes will participate in [to look back—and all around that | the first annual track meet of the {final bend Whirlaway's- flank was!
Capital District conference tomor- |never more than an inch from the Chaney Goes Off row at the School for the Deaf at rail. Irs a just now fast Limits and Runs
1330 p. m. | No one knows Among the athletes competing are | Whirlaway could have gone that
{lowed the pace of the sprinter Dis-| his progress but when he entered |
| ready some
selections to
their annual prediction on the autcome of the race. Personnel Changes The league guessing poll was an-'|a nounced a day in advance of the {customary time this spring and al-|whooped it up for the Redskins. fare | squirming because they mailed their | Ted Sullivan, who served as master’
of the scribes
eon of the Twelve High club and in
at a dinner given by club, 16th and Alabama sts royal club
It was reception and ahout 300 members attended and
Tribe players were introduced by
league headquarters of ceremonies.
before last week-end.
«| At noon today, the Indians were
the evening they were entertained | the Ipalco|
One of the first “house league” secretary, and has announced team |competition will be scheduled at 8 i. April 20 and at-4:30-and--7 . m. April 21, while the doubles and singles will be rolled at 8 p. m. April 27 and at 5 and 7 p. m. April | Only leagues rolling >their weekly 28. schedules at ‘the East side alleys Leagues eligible for entry are Litwill be eligible for competition in tle Flower, Our Lady of Lourdes, the team events, doubles and Grapho Products, Howe 400 Club, singles. It will be operated on a Coca-Cola and Naval Ordnance handicap basis with 75 per cent of plant. the difference between team's aver-| Bob Earl's 672 in the South Side age and 1000 being allowed in the Business Men's league at Sport
average and 400 being allowed in!for Roehl's Drugs the doubles and 75 per cent of the] Management of the Illinois alleys difference between the bowler's thas announced they will have four average and 200 being allowed in!alleys available for open play to-
the singles: {morrow night. For reservations, cali E. W. Chandler is
Local League Tenpin Scores
House League’ Bowling Meet
| The contest, is scheduled to start {Mud He NDIANS— | | oy ox ulel under the lights at 830 totowing | hte a. |Marcheses. Schoo has picked | title. Budweisers of Chicago won world series—well, that was really players since e 1045 seacon Dre ceremonies. Lie shortest on Gutteridge 3b Drews. ab his pilot but Frank McGurk and the last event at Columbus with | something. It looked like a struggle The B 1 ats record according to the program. Corona a Shu 1b Louis Durant, two Pacific coast|3131, which is 136 pins more than between the Bushwicks and the fopocile Tor at To of the! Both clubs scheduled final prac-| Witte Ib Nieman rf drivers, ate being given Serious cor. | the Milwailkes Wells Shot hers| House of DAVML. Jb: Wu sets Fit Wie Sov asiout 31. oo L the) oe ibe pak greenwai Love I No sideration. March 30 for the current lead, | Havesty and a libel. But old Gus sugar for Pitcher Mort Cooper and | today, with the Mud Hens taking| Wren, 2b Wieczorek, If e i i A 7 . I hope the foregoing gives you a | Outfielder Johnny Hopp. The price ©Ver first. The Redskins planned Galle, ss Cieslak, 3b P If A + H tf O i d B || : DRO at | their last drill along about mid- Moss, c Brady, c¢ ri Cc e - un > ra y I S fois aris and Yenerasis J aay 5 Moss» Brag, friend, for old Gus is quite a char-
{acter, and I am happy to report that today he finds himself on the threshold of what promises to be the most intriguing season the sport has ever known. He's going to see the big timers {back in action playing their first {full length peace-time season since P. H—the DiMaggios, Fellers, Coopers and all the others — and he's going to sit in on some engaging experiments. Greenberg trying his hand sat first base again, | Stirnweiss reshaping himself at the Dodgers playing
third base, iittle boys, MacPhail running Yankee stadium in his own way for the first time, Southworth trying to
five-men competition: 75 per cent Bowl was last night's outstanding | gin with nothing in Boston. Move of the difference between howler’s league total. He had 204, 201, 267 | gyer; Gu.
1 want to sit in on this,
it
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PREWAR | Robe! Fadal. pads 4G, | BLUE POINT tre
standing performances this season, | ily enough to shave two-fifths of a Bob’ Newbold and Bill Gleesing of [second from Twenty Grands Derby Franklin township, Bob Rodibaugh mark, set in 1931.
the following who have made out- |day if pressed, but he moved sveed-| [nt Violent Ray
During the said week-end, the to be luncheon guests of the Uni- DELAWARE, MADISON & RAY STS. New . York Giants purchased the|versal club at the Columbia club! . : : - Minneapolis Millers, and thejand tonight they will be enter- 400 BOWLERS (MEN) 0 SHER JEAGUE LEADERS S AE ia) i iol ; Bob Earl, South Side B. M. ........ oilman, Indiana Be ot Kansas City Blues and Toledo Mud | tained at a baseball dinner-party at Ll RapD: Transportation® . 639 Ray Ingalls, Auto Transp. 586 BUTYL TUBES | Colion Chahey, Indianapolis Ne-| Hens received néw players from the Harry Schornstein, Courthouse ...... 632 | Groseclose, McQuay-Norris 593
the Lakeshore Ceuntry club.
Get the New. Fisk Tube that
of Pike township and Frank Kaiser, | S——————————————————— [EF0: She indians Siate Advede ining rT eco —— Pasi er OL Tos ape on rena Mhassinchke, Rvnawd: Mrchis, 58 Science Has Proved Better than Ray Nelson and Ila Walker of the Ssions No. 1 challenger for nt Mi S S U bh M Paul Briles, Holy Cross 628! Jim Hurt Sr., Kiwanis rervr-389 Pre-War Rubber lar ' nk " Ed Leindecker. Reformed-Church 626 | Hob Eder, Kroger Grocery ........... 588 ors Sri oly Purdue Baseball |lard Reed's Hoosier heavyweight 1SS duges \ ets n eaten atmen owed Deer Sr. South Side B. M.... 620| Lowell Young, Inter-Plant .......... 588 HUGHES-LUCAS, INC Two of the competi hool S *h ‘3 fistic crown, wandered away from Oo Joe Argus Jr, Optimist 620 John Rige, Praternal 588 . y . peting schools Schedule Given [the home grounds yesterday and) / F f B f Pob Kays, St Philip 607/ Ted Kolbus Little Flower . 5861 643 N, ILL. ST. LI 6589 have started track for the first | | : oy N rth South ace mn eq ure ou C. Lemon, Transportation . 606 'Walt O'Neil, Brightwood Merchants . 584 {ithe and the championship laurels, VAFAYETTE, Ind. April 16 turned up in Baltimore Jast night.| [V0 - Neil Young. Evangelical I tor. Roe re Nendioen 318 ——— i» rasn’ v y " . F ; s. T § 605! V ur eder oose odge 74! . are expected to be taken by Prank- | (U. P).—Purdue university's base- ae lous ara! PINEHURST, N. C., April 16 (U The undefeated Ali Pasha and prey ‘Geninbacher. North Side B: M... 604 O. Blanford, St. Joan of Arc Nai... 570 3 { s s. He essay ’ , " st Si ; ‘ lassic . 560 lin township, Pike or the Silent ball squad will play a schedule of get into P roped arena with heavy. | P-)-—Louise Suggs of Lithia Springs, he Lnidervnted Bully Knox will Ed lenin, Joa Bip CHIION rireh 303, out nig Real Bik Mixed 587 Hoosiers. 24 games, opening against Butler| weight Elmer (Violent) Ray, Florida| G2» Who won the Women's Title-| 0) oy Ine feature of 10- ou Richter, Evangelical pi Bd Lenten. ar er riers 3 Houston Meyer of Technical will here today, Athletic Director Guy! Negro, and when the bell ‘sounded | holders tournament last week led Aighee ree-hout wrestling pro- Carl Wood, Transportation arises SO KC Ea Tt Pate nrt. Winr. Mxd. 520] serve ‘as referee and starter while Mackey announced y ending the first round the Hoosier | the field into match play in the gram he Armory. 1 : . | Joe Zoe, Cathedral High ... con 519] the following also will serve as of-| With the exception of the date for was counting‘ the birdies and the 44th annual North and South wom- Pasha, a Hindu matman from Sheridan Fichts 500 BOWLERS (WOMEN) f SE ficlals: Charles Rawlings, Everett a return game with Notre Dame at | referee was counting 10 and out en's goff championsh®p today after Calcutta, India, has been using his ’ a h | Muska Roberts, John B. rol oan. HH C lete Stock of Daniels, Norman Brown, O. L. Van South Bend the schedule was |The bout Was scheduled for 10, taking medalist honors with a 73 in! pet “cobra” hold to finish off his __ . [Mary Sheehan, Blue Ribbon Ice Cream 542 | ~omplete Horn, Virgil Riley, John Noone, Apri) 16 Butler: April 17 ines Nor. | rounds the qualifying round opponents, while Knox has been Charles A ril 25 io Berkopos. Cvea Cols Rez.) : 3 MOTORCYCLE John Reece, James Paden, Earl mar April 19. at lowa; A ni 20, at Towa Rav- “dressed vp” Chaney with A total -of 101 women played in combining skill and power to cap-| “4 / A P rt Mae Ellis Blue Ribbon . 523 Schaffer, Gregory Kratzberg, Wil< (two games): April 29. at Wabash. May | two lefts and then parked his right- the qualifying medal round. Eight-| ture his bouts. Buddy is from Tulsa lire Domi or Tor eee a Mirabx a1 EQUIPMENT liam Fair, Ray Giroud, Charles yy) 5 a1 pepsin May ic oe Ste: yang havinaker. The winner weighed een holes will be played today and Both have defeated front-line op-| FT. WAYNE, Ind, April 16 (U.iperothy Neel, Blue Ribbon . 518 Whisman, Prank Callahan, Gorna 1, Hlimols May 13. Wabash May 15. at 1041: pounds the loser 182. It was the final round is scheduled for ponents in Armory action and both P,).—Tommy Charles, Terre Haute, Bila Holliday, Weis Ins ins 334 HELMETS y » ler. May Mav | 4% 2 y L ‘ 3 . 3 : Edwards, John O'Brien and Lester May 20, Miami. May 33. Debary: Mac 25 Ray's 40th consecutive fistic triumph | Friday. tout clear records for the season. | holder of the Indiana state light|Artie Stephenson, Blus Ribbon ....... 513 GOGGLES Stanfill. at Michigan. May 23 at Mich) on May | and th victory by the k o route. } Miss Suggs, playing consistent|. Opening the program at 8:30 eaYywelght h onik gl Eien Sheridan, Bive Ribbon xan S08 BELTS . ] a and June . 3 3 « Oh . % | . Wa ywe , ec § . | Mary Bresok, Rea 505 | ———— at Jodiane - golf, shot a 36 going out and a 37| p. m. will be Gordon Hessell, a netv- 8 aIplons Np ¥i | Mary Kidd, Coca-Cola (Dez) assesses SOA} BREECHES . coming in yesterday, carding birdies| comer from Milwaukee, and Ace meet Al Sheridan, Indianapolis, here| Olivia Winings, Wolf Ins 501 JACKETS mbidextrous Mr T / on the third and 17th holes. Her 73| preeman, Bronx, N. Y. The semi-| April 26 in a title bout, the Ft.| OTHER LEAGUE LEADERS (WOMEN) ‘ » ruman ay row u total was three over par | wind je,| Wayne Athletic association said|Bdith Herndon. Stewar-Warnr. Mxd. 430) \ : 3 » ; | windup is between Rene La Belle, today Edith Angleton, J, D. Adams .. 485]
Defending Champion Mrs. Estelle Toronto, and Jackie Nichols, Port-|
=President Truman, who can fo em in with either hand, cuts loose tradition
today with the ceremonial pite
league baseball season. It will mark the first time since fer. the dark days in 1041 that a Chief paw. Executive has done the honorary |
in 1910. But Mr,
Actually, he is ambidextrous.
iy when draft-riddled baseball or a right-hander. a going only hy the grace of the southpaw the. White House, the chore was Will see legated to lesser dignitaries. 1 was promised “part. idy and cooler” weather for transacted
history's first Presidentia
resented a wel- in e prom. bers ihreatened to military brass hats
(man himself was ta 0.4 turnifecord. party of 31 dignitaries,
ye.
First Presidential Portside Pitch
WASHINGTON, April 16 (U. P.). at tossing out the first ball since
Trufirst’ man, whose Hurling experience is that opens the 104f major limited largely to horseshoe pitch-| first-come-firsi-served bleacher) eT RTI. ing, has something different to of- seats, the place was sold out weeks! Monahan Is Named He's adverfised as a south-|ago.
o It's a toss-up whether he willl dent of the United States in spechurling. During the intervening war| take his wind-up as a left-hander | tator interest will be Ted Williams, If he chooses the fabulous Boston slugger who restance, Washington| turns to baseball after three years
portside pitch at an opening game, a cold and sore throat, but Manager| newly-organized Little Boverame business will be, Joe Cronin said the powerhouse of | semi-pro league, n Washington today, the Red Sox would be ready atk Monahan, who played at -Indian- pious #8 an opening-game all the government bigwigs—Cab- game time. la
Lawson Page of Chapel Hill, N. C..|jand, Me. {and Sally ‘Session of Muskegon] sounters. : { Mich., trailed Miss Suggs with 76's, : - standing-toom=-only | while Mrs. Catherine Fox Park of}
All told, a
g -Willlam Howard Taft started the crowd of 32.000 will jam flag-decked | Glen Ridge, N. J. and Margaret Second m Meet " Avenue Boys club placed second in fhe national standing broad:jump contest conducted 3 ’ 1 | recently for 9191 boys of 81 clubs, Umpires Meeting { Athletic Director George R. Tem- | {plin announced today. Mt, Vernon,
for 4000 | Gunther of Memphis, Tenn., were, The English
Griffith stadium. Except rep tied with 77's.
Lafayette Pilot LAFAYETTE, Ind, April 16 U.N v. was. first. P.) —Pete Monahan, Indianapolis, a |
.| Running second only to the Presi-
1/as a Marine flier. Williams. nursed | of the Lafayette Red Sox in the
mdiana-Michigan Crispus Attucks at Manual
Howe at Broad Ripple
- on =
Lt fgut ey Dim i
They are one-fall en-
veteran of 20 years in minor league ' 2 baseball, today was named manager| ] OC @y S H. S. Track M.
Sa ud EEA x = y : \ i Li Loh 2 a, ts id NG yl
The 10-round battle for the state, Pitcher Released
title has been okayed by the state athletic commission, the association |
| said. Sheridan and Charles have The Cleveland Indians have remet in the ring twice before, each leased veteran southpaw pitcher Harry Eisenstat, 30, to cut their
taking one match. |
roster to 48 players. was given his unconditional release
Detroit Tigers.
A meeting of. the Indianapolis
QLEVELAND, April 16 (U, P)).—
Eisenstat, who
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Umpires association will be held | ‘next, Friday night. Secretary Harlold ‘Scoggan announced rthat the] ZEPHYR'S names of John I. Osborn, Norval Corbett, Ralph J. Gatti, Tony Bova. and Harold Waechter have
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