Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1947 — Page 34

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CUBANOLA TRIO. ". «. Pitchers Limonar Martinez and Rafael Rivas and outfielder Mario stars

ful Dodger’ park in area they know only vaguely as Flatbush. DAYTIME BALL. . . Attendance is picking up at weekday

insisted he had received two offers,

even city : That the Yankees, led

and that the players will-go to any extreme short of a strike unless MacPhail changes his attitude. TWO: President Bill Veeck of the Cleveland Indians, angry because Mayor Thomas E. Burke permitted erection of a midget auto race dirt track in Municipal stadium, threatened to withdraw his franchise and go elsewhere. He

but declined to identify the cities making the overtures for a big league club, : THREE: Lesser bitterness exists through both leagues involving players who have been cast off or

Other Rumors Report N. Y. Boss Will Resign + And That Breadon Wants fo Sell Cards

By CARL LUNDQUIST, United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, May 23.—Baseball on the field took a back seat to bickering behind the scenes today as its “new era of bad feeling” reached a climax in feuds involving owners, players, managers, and

offigials. RO aliar of fact aia youior, this’ aud ad been established

by the usually mild-mannered Joe

possibly the St. Louis Cardinals or the Cincinnati Reds with his friends as the owners. DiMaggio Angered Most disturbing of all in this year when player-owner committees were supposed to have established means of arbitration for grievances was the Yankee revolt. : DiMaggio, most popular Yankee player since Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, made no secret of his anger at fines levied by MacPhail on six players.

fined the players for. refusal to participate in the club's promotional] activities. DiMaggio

Shea and Don Johnson $25 each. Eight other Yankees were “boiling mad” over the club's action in deducting train fares from their pay checks because they refused to travel in the ‘club's chartered plane. They said they would ap-

The volatile Yankee ‘president !

BLUE DEVIL FLYER — Jack

Tichenor of Shortridge will run the. century and 220-yard dash for the Blue Devils in the state meet at Tech and also will run a leg on Shortridge's mile relay team.

won their only game. They play on| Garfield 3. The second Manufacturers loop contest matches - Allison's

Seek 4th Vietory

The city Champion Kingan Re-|

Unbeaten Atkins Nine To Clash With Kingan's

By BERNARD HARMON

|anapolis Railways.

and! South Side Stewart-Warner at Riverside 2.[that has bowled over Neier beain Ys Zegisteved a. vis- | eis 461 Big Six league competition,

Two Manufacturers league contests are scheduled tomorrow, while| three each in the Municipal and City and four in the Big Six are hillec {| for Sunday afternoon. The Salurday afiersioon Jewure Suid be the same wives =. 0

credit, while the Meatmen haveside 3 and Prospect Tavern, also 8.

500 team, faces twice-beaten IndiSaints Hold 2 Records Saints, the kid team over three oppon-

will try for No. 4 against Edgewood

iliables will be gunning for Sorts SE, a Jun whose ages FORM REVERSAL .. The sur- [fourth straight victory in Sunday’s| range from 16 to 21 years of age, prising New York Giants have Municipal league feature against! have two amateur records to their

the same regular lineup as last | year with the exception of Thomson, instead of Rucker in the outfield. . . . One answer to the amazing form reversal is that Mize and Cooper, plagued by inJuries in 1946, are in fine fettle so far. T's. #2 2 OLDSTERS HAVE THEIR FLING. . . . Youth must be served . . but the two veteran pitchers on the Phillies’ staff, Dutch Leonard and Schoolboy Rowe, simply skip the years and continue winning. . . . They have won 11 of the Phils 15 victories between them.

Bannerline Battle

on WISH Tonight

De Wolf News at Rhodius 2. Lincdln Chiropractic college will] be out after their initial victory | when they journey to Pendleton. {The reformatory nine has won two | games, losing last week to Kingan's. The Leon Tailoring plays Armour | Social club in the third Municipal tilt. at Rhodius 1. In the City loop, Tryon’s Tavern, undefeated leaders, will face Ferris! Food Markets at Brookside 1; Eagles Lodge and Union Printers, with even. even breaks i in the two games

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION WL Pet.

8. City 17 10 630, iMilwdukee 11 13 . Toledo 16 11 ,593|St. Paul 3 18 4 Louisville 16 18 .500{INDPLS 4 17 452 Columbus 14 15 .483|Minn’polis HH 17 452 AMERICAN LEAGUE w w , Pet, Detroit 17 i oy Phila 13 .483 Boston 17 12 ,586/New York 3 481 Cleveland 13 10 .565Washingt'n 11 33 423 Chicago 16 15 .516(St. Lou 346

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i Pct WL Pe Sagieiutsburgh 13 i 530 1 a 577|Ph 15 484 Boston 16 13 .552] Cincinati 13 18 A410 Brooklyn 15 13 .536|St, Louis 10 19 .345 SCHEDULE TODAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INDIANAPOLIS at Toledo (2 Right), Louisville at Columbus (night) Minhieajolis at Milwaukee (2 night), St. Paul at Kansas City (night), AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago at Detroit. St. Louis at Cleveland (night Washington at Philadelphia night). Boston at New York. NATIONAL LEAGUE New York at Boston Philadelphia at Brooklyn (night). Cincinnati at Chicago. Pittsburgh at St. Louis (night).

Chicago New York

Activity on the maul market tonight centers around light-heavyweight |g champion Gus Lesnevich (above) of | New Jersey and Melio Bettina, for- | mer titleholder who hails from Beacon, N. Y. They clash for ten rounds at Madison Square Garden. Bettina is a squat southpaw, solidly

built. Being low to tm: ground makes |” him hard to hit. Melio has enjoyed ming a heavyweight and hopes to get closer ot with the Brown Bomber

marked success since

toa titles by vanquishing Gus.

Lesnevich has successfully defended his title twice since his Coast Guard discharge. He chloroformed the British Empire champ and also kayoed

Billy Fox. Gus knows how to jab, how to hook and, like the Beaconite,

RESULTS YESTERDAY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

Paul . 000 4 000 40 BS City 101 00x — 3 6 3 Gabbard and Danton? Miller and Sil-

vestri.

Louisville ........... 000 010 000-1 6 2 Columbus 100 001 00x— 2 6 2 Dreisewerd - and McGah; BStanceu and | Conroy.

i a Tneapolis at Milwaukee (postponed,

credit this season. They scored 32 runs in their May 11 game, while Henry Mertz, their 16-year-old pitcher, allowed but one hit in last Sunday's game, the top pitching performance so far this season. In other Big 8ix games, Russet Cafeteria plays Navy-Marine Recruiting at Riverside No. 3; State Auto Insurance and Beech Grove Reds tangle at Beech Grove and

Moore's Mortuary clashes with Linde Air Products at Riverside No. 4.

Baseball Standings, Results

NATIONAL wAGUE j 000 000— 1 7 1 ; 30x-—- 4 8 1

| Etsburgh 58 | 8t. Lo 1 Pollett and Gara-

gos and Howell; glo Only game scheduled.

I. U. Favored in

Big State Meet

SOUTH BEND, Ind, May 23.— Indiana rules as the favorite to capture the Big State track and field meet here tomorrow at Notre Dame. The Hoosiers won a three-way meet over Notre Dame and Purdue last week at Bloomington and none of the smaller colleges’ were expected to furnish enough competition to displace the Crimson trackmen tomorrow, Five individual champions from last year will return to defend their titles. They are Bill Bradley of Indiana,’ shot put; Earl Mitchell of Indiana, one and two mile; Tom Mitchell, of Indiana, high hurdles

COUNTY ACE—8ob Rodibaugh of Pike township constitutes his school's one-man team in the state track meet at Tech tomorrow. He'll be in fast com- * pany-in the mile and half-mile events.

Collegiate Status 0f Young Probed

CHICAGO, May 23 (U. P.).— Scrappy Kessing, deputy commissioner of the All-America professional football conference, has been in the Midwest investigating the collegiate status of Buddy Young, former Illinois halfback, the United Press learned today. Young, a flashy Negro star from Chicago, last week signed a threeyear contract with Dan Topping

agreement has not yet been approved by Adm. Jonas Ingram, commissioner of the circuit. Presumably Ingram sent Kessing, a longtime naval associate before

Buddy's status in intercollegiate sports before making any decision whether the Illinois speedster can play in the All-America ranks.

Cleveland Park Dries And. Game Is On

CLEVELAND, May 23 (U. P.).— American league officials late yesterday tromped about on the muddy but drying midget race track around the ball field in Cleveland “stadium and ruled that it would be in playing shape for tonight's game between Cleveland and the St. Louis Browns. Earl Hilligan, manager of the league's service bureati, and Tom Connelly, chief of umpires, said that work being done on the newly installed track, plus a warm sun to-

and Dick Kilpatrick of Purdue, high Jump. Butler university will"pass up the Big State this year to, participate | in the Mid-American meet tomorrow at Detroit;

MERICAN LEAGUE Gleveland = Boston, (post oned, rain), troit”a ew York (postponed, rain). PS at Philadelphia (postponed, >

‘Only games scheduled.

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High School Baseball

| Bread Ripple 10, Tech 0. Chinodm 3 Sheltridge x ] Franklin Township 5 Warren Cental : ¥ Lawrence Central 5, Beech Grove 4.

. @ 25-LAP FIRST RACE IDE x & restores | | 7:00 P.M. | D'VIDEND : GENERAL See 'Em Go for L-14P That Double SEMI-FINALS ADMISSION Purse! XX @ OTHER Rain Cheeks wit Not | ~ Double Bill! EVENTS Be Hone Double Thrills!

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|State H H. s. Records

| 320 Y Bo Ye i (Gary Proebel) :40.3 aa. Ya Trutt (Hammond) 1:57.9 Mile Run—Corridan (Terre Haute Wiley) 4:244 me. De Kok mn es—Denn ( ) " ash: Hur . y x Sesen 9 Low Hurdles—Veregge (Richmond) :32.4 (1946).

18 feet 4% inches (1935).

of the New York Yankees, but the| Beech

both men retired, to look into|o.

Relays to Determine | 44th Champion

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> State H. S. ‘Best 100 Yards—Crowe (Gary Lew Walalce) 230 Yards—Branson (Terre Haute Wiley) 440 Yards—Crowe Lew Wallace), Sth (Connersville 2G Wright (Princeton) ) Yards—A plegate (Spiceland) 1:50.3 Hurdles — Snoddy (Bloomington university) :14.3. Mile Run—Stanger (Albion) 4:32.6. Low Hudios- Snoddy (Bloomington uni-

erly) 2 133.8. Jump—Rice (Frankfort) 6 ft. 1% latr (Haumond) 3 ft. 54 ft. 8 in. 12 ft 3 In.

ayne North Side Bruick) 3:30.3.

«100 Co i pe Be (OkomO! 33 a).

Jump—Williams (Muncie Central) Jump—8cott (Ga Proebel) 23 inch (1932). n i Moore (Logansport) 13 feet — Goldsbe South Bend 53 feet 9% inch, (1048). sale Relay— (Gary Horate Mann) 3:36.86

936) . Half-mile Relay — (Ha : (1939). ) y mmond) 1:31.4

New Grapplers in Tag-Team Match

Two new “wrestling faces” will be seen In action on the Armory mat card next Tuesday night where a tag-team match will feature the show. ° Ed Williams, a highly touted junior heavy out of Springfield, Mo., makes his initial Armory appearance when he teams with Jackie Nichols, Portland, Me., in the main event. The pair will go against Gil LaCross, Boston, and Young Bull Montana, Los Angeles. The other newcomer is Billy Rabron, Atlanta, who will be in the supporting tilt against an opponent to pe named later,

————————————— SOFTBALL Results in 118 the RA Civic league at n Yaverwits Deparment Store 3, L Spring Clutch us ha anics Laundry 7. Kingan Pack-

U. 8. Tires defeated Naval Ordnance, 5 to 0, in an exhibjtion game.

Tonight's Jcneduls 3 whe Capitol = Jags 3. Bogen Fw 3 oss %. RB : Stokol Products vs. Gesco Sun at 8:18 and H. Block Co. vs. Veterans Administration” at 9:30 p. m.

Tonight's Manufacturers league schedCy at Softball stadium is: L. Jacobs W. J. Holliday Co. at 7 Pp. m.; Merz Esineering vs. J. D.~Adams Co. at 8:20 m. and Sajna 2 Paper vs. Continental Optical at 9:

Tonight's Universal league schedule at Longacre park is: V ¥ Ww. 908 venian Home at 7 p. ; vs. Mitchell: Scott. at B40 y Bakius Tavern vs. Sbuth Side urna gt 9:40 p. m.

Fight Results ;

By UNITED PRESS

-|leagues - were Hugh Dalvell nd | Gertrude Bradley.

PORTLAND, e~Lloyd Hudson, 124, Bath, Me. stopped VaR Yrier 124, Portland,” Me. (2). Mass. —Gene Le Blanc, knocked out Eddie Monis, |

(4). (Hamilton Atenas) LLavers ., outpointed nd |

ALL RIV ER, 141, Pall River, 147 al River RK

Roach, 15% Mijburn, N. Amato, 183, 183, Brooklyn (10). (10).

College ege Baseball

Detroit 3, Toledo 2 Papi State 9, Buies 8. Auburn 3, Georgia 0. 3, Georgia 0.

MIDGET T AUTO RAGES SATURDAY NIGHT

RACELAND

On U. S. 67, Between McCordsville and Fortville

TIME TRIALS—6:30 P. M.

PETE RONSOVISH — TOMMY GREY — FLOYD WILFONG—SWEDE CARPENTER— LUCKY PURNELL—MEL HANSON—MIKE O'HALLERON — BUS HODSON — JACKIE HOLMES—AND MANY OTHER DRIVERS.

% All STAR DRIVERS ON A FAST | ASPHALT TRACK

I General Admission, 85¢c; Grandstand, 60c

READY TO &O — Bill Holland, fourth-ranking driver in the A.A. probably will attempt to qualify tomorrow in one of Lou Moores’ Blue Crown

. last year,

Spark Plug Specials. Shown above with Holland are lke Welch (left) chief observer, and Moore. Mauri Rose already has qualified Moore's other mount.

Play Important City Tilt; Ben Davis Wins Crown

Cathedral and Manual were carded for an important city high school baseball series game at Riverside park this afternoon which will see the winner take over first spot in the standings.

The game originally was carded because of wet grounds.

for Wednesday but was postponed

Coach Walter Floyd of the South Side Redskind was in doubt con-

cerning his’ starting flipper as Manual bid to stay in front. Tom Murray, who -has done most of the Manual pitching, has been out of

school all week with a carbuncle [Cs

on his leg and Floyd was prepared

to call on Bob Scheib, a right-|T

hander, as his replacement.

Cathedral moved into second place alone last night with a 3-to-1 conquest of Shortridge at Victory field in the second game of a dou-ble-header. Broad Ripple rolled to a 10-0 victory over Tech in the opener, A mishap marred the ShortridgeCathedral game when Second Baseman Frank Talbot of the Blue Devils broke his left leg in a fall after crossing first base. He was taken fo the Methodist hospital.

Irish Take Lead Cathedral took the lead in the fifth on a single run, then Pitcher Paul OConnell of the Irish won his own game in “the sixth ‘with a two-run double. He surrendered a lone counter to Shortridge in the final frame. Dick Roberts, Ripple mound star, limited Tech to three safeties as the Rockets captured the opener. Coach Frank Baird's boys chased eight counters across the plate in

the sixth on five hits and four Tech bobbles. : The scores: Boag Ripple... ieee... 000 38 1 1 3 0 . 000 000 0— 5

Roberts and wolf; ‘Radcliffe, a and . King.

raed ark ay 000 012 0— 3 4 2 Shortridge ..... ...... 000000 }s-1 4 23

O'Connell and Rumpke;” Crabb and Abbott.

Coach Howard Wood's Giants of Ben Davis won their fourth straight Marion county championship with a 9-1 victory over the Cardinals at Southport. Earl Stegemoller, Ben Davis mound ace, gave ‘the Cards only three hits, two of which were beat' out in the infield. He struck out 15 batsmen, allowed not a pass, but hit! one batter,

The Giants laid on starting pitch- | er Gene Dietz of Southport for five | runs in the second inning, enough | to clinch the victory. Big blow of | the frame was ‘a three-run double by John Yeftich. Stegemoller also | contributed a double and a single) to his cause. The score: Ben Davis 150 031 8 ’ 3 1 uthpo 100 000 0— Ble and Haley; Dietz, Farstend, Doll and Crai

West, In other county games yesterday

Lawrence Central nudged Beech Grove, 5-4, and Franklin township won from the Warren Central War- | riors, Sele aii |

Bowling Notes Notes Last night's leaders in spring | and

Dalvell, rolling in the RCA mixed league at Fox-Hunt, had a 689 with | games of 215-255-219. Bradley spilled | 617 with games of 155-222-240.

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City Standings

Sacred Heart

Double ible Midget Racing Program

Tonight is to be double-header night at’ the Indianapolis Speedrome, Kitley ave. and U. 8S. 52. Because last week's second semifinal and 25-lap feature events were rained out, the events must be run tonight and purses paid for each event, according to the bylaws of the Capitol Midget Racing

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Sod Sanders of Hartford City, who finished in the runner-up position last year, has announced he'll introduce a new Offenhauser tonight. The starting time for tonight moved up to 7 o'clock. The 15-lap semi-final will start then, to be followed by the 25-lap major purse | io. vent. ‘Then, at 8:30, the regular|A

association, the governig body for|

program of 110 laps will be staged. |JoPh®

Johnson, Moore Battle Tonight

A light heavyweight bout promising fast mitt action will top to= night's Armory fight card, with Al Johnson, the Indians state 175pound champion, slated to face Willie Moore, young Chicago belter, in a 10-rounder. Moore sports an impressive record of 12 wins in 15 scraps, mostly staged at Chicago. Johnson never has been beaten in Indianapolis while rolling up 12 straight vie. tories. ft The complete program follows: Main event — 10 rounds — light heavyweights: Al Johnson, Indiane apolis, state champion, vs. Willie Moore, Chicago (non-title). Semi-windup — 6 rounds—heavye weights: Dan Raisor, Indianapolis, vs. Buddy Thomas, Washington, D, C. Prelim — 5 rounds — bantame weights: ‘- Chuck McGow, Indian apolis, vs. Billy Barrett, Louisville, Prelim—5 rounds—welterweights: Frankie Ray, East Chicago, vs, Andy Glass, Louisville. Prelim — 4 rounds — lightweights: Whitey Hewitt, Indianapolis, vs, Doyle Upcharch, Muncie, Ind. Tonight will mark Moore's firs Indianapolis appearance. The Upe church-Hewitt scrap will open the card at 8:30 o'clock.

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