Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1947 — Page 16

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en draped W wh to Lou :Boudreau’s Indians. . . « . Don’t be too surprised if that Gy .« + The Chi | team remains in the thick of the SAR hatut &¢ poy race all the way. sized fortune an ‘ 8 = =» $123,008, , . » Some THE BACK FIRE. . . . Players purchased infielder |sold off by the Cardinals in the lush Coast | years are beginning to turn on their old team in a big way. . . . In St. Louis Wednesday, Johnny Mize and But he |Walker Cooper, ex-Cards with the bust as a |Giants, had a picnic at the plate employed |. . . The former collected threq singles and the latter a single and a triple. . . lik

Baseball Standings, Results

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uis at Boston. 10 13 435! Only games “scheduled.

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Rain Cuts Short Night Twin Bill Rain stepped in to cut short the high school baseball twin. bill last night at Victory field, but only after Broad Ripple had defeated Shortridge, 6 to 2. thedral and. Crispus Attucks was called in the first inning with the Attucks nine leading 2 to 0. Approximately 1200 fans turned out for the first prep night games.

tucks for a lopsided 18 to 1 triumph at Rhodius park. Southport's Gene Diets, turned in another vie-

tory for the Red Birds as his teammates got 15 hits to defeat Beech Grove, 11 to 3, on the losers’ diamond. Tech scored six runs in the first inning and continued to defeat Nen Castle, 10 to 2, in a North Central test Castle. homer the East victory in orced to

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Amateur Notes

SOFTBALL The Little Flower Vets will West

Indiana; Clowns ave, and Howard st. diamond at 3 p. m. Sunday. For games with the Vets, call

country winning two of the four

lapse.

LEAGUE . L Pct.| Cleveland at Wa ton (night), 8. umbus 11 13 478] Detroit at Philadelphia (night). 542| Toledo 9 10 .474 t. Lo

NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn at Pittsburgh (night). Philadelphia at Cincinnati. New York at Chicago. at St. Louis (night),

RESULTS YESTERDAY AMERICAN ‘ASSOCIATION

14 9 .600|Brooklyn 14 10 .583(Cincinnati

i “458 | Milwaukee ......... 310 350 Stx—18 18 1 tsburgh 10 9 .526{Phils. 11 13 .45¢ | Milwaukee -._....... York 11 10 .524/3t. Louis 7 15 .318 . Maser, Johnson

000 100 300— 4 11 1

GAMES TODAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION APOLIS at St. uisville at Minn ledo at Kansas

= Columbus at Milwaukee.

Ostro y ison, Rudd and Aragon; Fisher, Abernathy and Westrum,

Toledo at Kansas City, postponed, rain),

AMERICAN LEAGUE

(14 Innings) > 1% 1 r 3 Detroit ..... 020 000 02-417 3

- bi, Sl f it by A 010 010 000 000 00— 3 3 FRobinson ug es as Benton and Toons omit

) On wi S H Ton ig h } Flores, Christopher, Fowler and Guerrs,

Rosar. St. Louis 001 000 100-2 6 © Boston ...... . 000 001 000— 1 7-3 Muncrief and Moss; Fine, E. Johnson and Wagner.

110 031 002— 8 16 2 New York 200 000 000— 3 5 1 Papish, Haynes and Dickey; Gumpert, Page and Houk, Berra. ty 102 013 200— 9 14 1 I wiaaisn sn 010 000 000— 1 8 3 Stephens.and Lopes; Wynn, Knerr, Scarborough and Evans. » -

Bevens,

' NATIONAL LEAGUE ‘Boston 000 000 110 2.7 1 Bh. LOWS voinnansss 100 102 40x— 8 11 © Sain, Barrett, Lanfranconi, Wright and Masi; Brecheen and Geragiola. 322 000 010— 8 14 1 Chicago en bipaktieas 200 001 000— 3 11 © oA ung, Valselle, Trinkie and oper: ‘ h er, ro’ ickson and Behefting. . 5

Brooklyn 000 000 201— 3 6 Pittsburgh ,....... 000 310 31x— 7 8 Lombardi, Gregg, Chandler and Edwards; Bahr, Bonham and Kluttz.

i AR | | Philadelphia 100 000 020— 3 10 - » © Schmidt, Hughes, Jurisich and Padgett i , Hughes, i . Harlem's Ray “Sugar” Robinson, tr ey, aan une aly world welterweight champion, tonight

Sc Erautt and Mueller. kles the cleverest boxer in the

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fiddlewsight division, Georgie Abrams ol ove) x Brooklyn. The match is bi or ten rounds at § Bitacinon Scquare Garden and the tite Al TG-Tumetisie Ingallation not at stake.

A. A. President Cleans Up Speech

:| At Home Plate

COLUMBUS, O., May 18 (U. P.).

9 0|_A ballplayer can swear at the umpire in the American association and get away with it—if he swears at everybody else, too, just because

of. habit,

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CLOSE CALL—Bud Winfield, designer of the two Novi Governor Mobil Specials, is shown in the cockpit of one after it spun with him yesterday in the northeast turn at the Speedway. Traveling at a pretty lively clip, Winfield said he hit a "slick spot.” The car spun down on the apron, shot up almost to the outside retaining wall and spun back down on the apron. Winfield was uninjured and—except for a coating of mud—thé car also escaped.

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of victories may be just as good and can make themselves the team to beat if they . Mallory

in the third muniecione will enjoy its inivictory. In the City league, twice-victori-ous “‘Tryon’s Tavern should score victory No. 8 at the expense of Indianapolis Railways, who have looked unimpressive in two games Prospect Tavern and Eagles, each with an even break in two trials; and Union Printers and Ferris Food

U. S. and Britain Split Opening Golf Matches

ST. ANDREWS, ‘Scotland, May 16 (U. P.).—The United States and Great Britain split the opening Walker Qup matches today, each

foursomes with which this inter

national amateur golf series was renewed after a nine-year wartime

The winning U. 8, team were amateur king Ted Bishop and Robert

(Skee) Riegel and Fred Kammer Jr, and Willie Turnesa, while the American combinations who lost were Marvin (Bud) Ward® and Smiley Quick and Dick Chapman and Frank Stranahan. Singles Tomorrow The split left it up to tomorrow's eight 36-hole single matches to decide the winner of the cup—now held by Britain. : Bishop and Riegel defeated R. Cecil Ewing and Joe Carr of

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MUNICIPAL LEAGUE

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ookside. . Indianspoliz Rallvays vs. Tryon's Tavern at Riverside 1. Union Printers vs. Ferris Food Mkts. at Riverside 3. BIG SIX LEAGUE . Moore Mortuaries vs. Navy-Marine Recruiting at Riverside 3. Edgewood Merchants vs. Beech Grove Reds at Beec rove. vs. Linde Air

State Auto Insurance Be a rede south Side Saints at Garfield 3. Markets, also .500 teams, hook up in other City league contests. The Big Six league's headliner matches South Side Saints and Russet Cafeteria. The Saints set an early season record with 32 runs in their second victory last Sunday. The Russets have nabbed two wins by single run margins. Navy-Marine Recruiting plays twice-beaten Moore Mortuaries; Edgewood Merchants with a 500 record meets Beech. Grove Reds and State Auto Insurance and Linde Air Products, both without victories, clash in other Big Six games.

Shortridge Tennis

Team Raps Muncie Shortridge high school’s tennis team scored a straight set 7-0 triumph over Muncie Central yesterday at the Riviera club, the second time this year the Blue Devils have beaten the Bearcats, Summary: Singles—Carl Bals defeated Ted Spencer; 6-3, 6-2; Charles Raubb defeated Jack Gilbert, 6-1, 6-0; Harold Smolinski defeated Frank Gibson, 6-0, 6-0; Dick Hamilton defeated Tom Blake, 6-1, 6-1; Dick Powell defeated Dick Cook, 6-0, ‘ Doubles — Raubb - Smolinski defeated S8pencer-Gilbert, , 6-0; Bals-Hamilton defeated Gilpen-Blake, 6-0, 6-0.

Kingan Reliablés vs. Pendleton at Pen-|

said that with some players “pro-

Britain 3 and 2 in

In a bulletin to umpires and man- match. Kammer

agers, league president Frank Lane

fanity is just a form of speech.” He told umpires to wink at swearing if the profanity is not audible in the stands and doesn't cause the ump to lose self-respect by ignoring it. But if the player uses “the more filthy variety of profanity and puts

—Joe Tinker, 67, last living member of the Chicago Cubs’ famous Tinker-to-Evans-to-Chance infield combination, will be the guest of honor tonight at the Orlando Sen-ators-Sanford Celeryfeds baseball

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Fight Results

Efe 145, Miami, Fila., ‘outpointed Sal chie, 147, New York (10).

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Randy Brown, 161%, Mt. Vernon, N. Y., outpointed Jerry Piorello, 162, New York (10). BURLINGTON, Vt.—Bernie Cummins, 180, Burlington, knocked out- Lee Murray, 155, Montreal (1). 165,

Racing Schedule TONIGHT At Indianapolis Speedrome, Rd. 53 at Kifley ave, Capitol Midget Racing

association. TOMORROW NIGHT... At Greenfield Midgetdrome, Capitol Midget Racing association. At Raceland, U. S. 67 and Rd.

At Indianapolis Midget Speedway, W. 16th st, Capitol Midget Racing association (afternoon). At Rockville, Jungle park, Midwest Dirt Track Racing association, big cars (afternoon). At Mitchell, dirt track cars. At New Castle, Mt. Lawn track, stock cars (afternoon).

Dates Are Set For Junior, Open

Dates for two more Indiana golf tournaments were on the calendar for the club swingers today. The state junior meet is to be held at Ft. Wayne Brookwood course from June 23-28, and the Indiana open will be contested over Delaware Country club course at Muncie from August 18-21. The open will have an added $1000 prize from Kuhner Packing of Muncie and the purse will reach $3000 for professionals competing. Bud Marsee of Mishawaka is the defending champion in the junior, while Maurice Feeney of Indianapolis won last year’s open crown.

Jones and Pasha Paired on Mat

Farmer Jones will be back In main go action. on the Armory wrestling card next Tuesday night, taking on Ali Pasha, u grappler out of Toledo. Jones, a “hill billy” style of matman and a favorite here for the past several seasons, defeated Buddy Knox in last Tuesday's main event. Knox has one of the best records of any junior heavyweight to show here. Sammy Kohen, New York, and Duke Keomuka, Hawaii are billed for a supporting tilt. Sammy was here for the first time last Tuesday.

College Baseball

Ball State Earlham 1. In 5

! flance 3. Luther 0. 15, Wabash 14.

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Morrow, Other likely qualifiers tomorrow will be Russell Snowberger in the Maserati-powered Federal Engineer ing Detroit Special, Doc Willlams in the secohd Novi Governor Mobil

16-cylinder Auto Shippers Special. Two straight days of hard luck

bearing ailment. Must Pass Test Henning, after rouhd-the-clock

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the Murphy Auto Special. Weather will be an important factor in tomorrow's trials. A warm, windless day is preferred, and should the temperature be down and a breeze up, some drivers undoubtedly will await better conditions. Wind not only can slow a car, but makes handling difficult. A chilly days plays hob with carburetion. Qualifying Rules Qualifying rules will be the same this year as in the past. Drivers will be required to drive four laps at a speed of 115 miles an hour or more. Should the driver fail to complete the four laps at the required speed, he will be given two more opportunities to make the grade. - s » THE NOVI GOVERNOR family experienced its second mishap in as many days yesterday when Bud Winfield, master mechanic in the| crew, had a brush with disaster in

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sey Special also came down with a|.

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BUFFALO, N. Y., May 16 (u. Pa ~The National Basketball league and the Basketball Association of America, the nation’s largest professional circuits, today prepared to agree upon a standard wage scale which would limit “exhorbitant” player salaries. Committees from the two leagues agreed yesterday that bidding bate tles for the services of intercollegiate stars last season had proved financially disasterous to 90 per cent of. their teams. After a daylong meeting, officials of both loops said possibility of a working agreement ‘on salaries and territorial rights appeared “good.” Pocket Billiards CHICAGO, May 16 (U. P).—Willie Mosconi, Barrington, N. J., and Irving Crane, Livonia, N. Y., headed down the stretch of their 16-block world's - championship pocket bil liards match today with challenger Mosconi far in the lead despite Crane's victory last night.

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