Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1947 — Page 16

Rivals Meet Again;

Hens Blank Locals

By EDDIE ASH Times’ s Editor

Te, Colmels| Square Of in | Holiday Series

The Memorial day holiday series

at Victory field is at hand and it calls for the Louisville Colonels and the Indians to clash head-on, some thing on the order of last: year's “pennant series” when the Ken-

tuckians rubbed it in on the Hoosiers. i

under the lights tonight at 8:30 and a double-header tomorrow, twilightnight, with the first attraction scheduled to get under way at 6:30 p. m, Lou Tost, winner of four games, is slated to pitch for the Redskins tonight and Ken Gables and

tomorrow’s mound assignments. The holiday bill is expected to attract a huge crowd to the Tribe park, including many 500-mile race goers who will have had their 500mile outing completed by the time the twin opener gets under way. Kentucky Fans Coming Furthermore, there will be hundreds of Kentuckians in town for both the motor classic and baseball and it's a safe guess they will

cided the time was ripe to give the speed addicts two events a year, but they made a Wrong guess. . : .

“The series calls for a single tilt|-

. YOUNG RAILBIRDS—CIiff Bergere, front row qualifier for the 500-mile Speed- | way classic tomorrow, was stopped by two youthful railbirds yesterday for his auto-

Manuel Peres probably will receive’ graph. The boys (left to right) are Byron Bennett, 13, of 4480 N. Wilkins st. and Gordon Whitney, 12, of 3002 Fall Creek bivd.

Wally Potter of Indianapolis, guard and captain of the 1946 con-

Bulldogs, received the university's top athletic award, the Andy Williams Memorial award, at the BMen's Alumni association annual spring banquet last night. Potter, a senior, also was a member of the track squad. The award started in 1943 in memory of Andrew Williams who died of injuries sustained while on Butler's 1942 gridiron squad, is given annually to the athlete rated the best sports-

: man and who has contributed most

to Fairview athletics.

| Last { Cardinals’ by piling up a tremendous ladvantage of 49 $ictories and 17 defeats against the Braves, the Phillies and Giants for a sénsational 742 percentage. But against the western teams they did little better than break even.

mula this season and today after their second straight victory over the Giants, a 14 to 2 landslide decision which put them back into

They are playing the same for-|

Potter Receives [I's Up to Western Clubs To Stop the "Atomic Bums’

By CARL LUNDQUIST, United Press Sports Writer 2 NEW YORK, May 29.—Keeping the Brooklyn Dodgers out of first {place in the National league race apparently is going to be a job for) ithe western clubs, for it was evident today that as in the 1946 race, ference football champion Butler|,., «atomic Bums” are going fo fry and run rough-shod over the

, the Dodgers almost spirited the pennant away from

‘Major Leaders

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McQuinn, New York 30 108 14 Mullin, Detroit ... 32 117

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flag over the field. Si The race, of course, commanded today's convereation, afd everyone Had his favorite. But un

late Floyd Roberts' record winning

' {speed of 117.200 miles an hour in

1938 would be surpassed. Among the choices to flash across the finish line first and get a major portion of the $135000 in prize money were Ted Horn in the Ben+ nett Bros. Maserati, Cliff Bergere and Herb Ardinger in the Novi Governor * Mobil Specials, Mauri Rose and Bill Holland in the twin Blue Grown Spark Plug Specials, Duke Nalon in the Don Lee Mercedes and Rex Mays in the Bowes Seal Fast Special. \ Confusion on Apron In one of the most hectic qualifying sessions at the historic halo of haste 11 cars won their eligibility yesterday to compete in tomorrow's race, An. almost nted Jam just before the 7 p. m. closing time sent four cars on the track at once, had Starter Klein waving three flags “at one candiddte and kept timers and ‘scorers over the figures for nearly a half hour after the last engine had conked out.

{in the proceedings. Duke Dinsmore |wefit at least three laps before his | pit crew could tell him he hadn't

Starter Seth Kiein flashes his green

ob--servers saw little chance that the

turn, and on the second {| There was humor and heartbreak cay burned out a piston.

oe THURSDAY. VAY, Flag For 50 1 Cars Pass Trials In Hectic Rush To Beat Deadline

Fans Arriving in City for Annual Classic; Gates Open at Dawn, Race Starts at 11 A, M.

lap and started back to the pits. But spying the large number of cars still waiting on the apron and knowing he. would have to follow them on'another trial, he went right back and qualified at a disappointing 124.412, . Al Miller qualified the Preston Tucker Special at 124.848, and Paul Russo won the outside spot in the seventh row with a speed of 123.967 in the fish-nosed Wolfe Special. In Eighth Row Earning starting places in the eighth row were Jolie Chitwood in the Peters Special (123.157), Fred Agabashian in the Ross Page Special (121.478) and Charles VanAcker in the Tucker Partner BSpecial (121.049), ; Ninth-row starting positions went to Tony ‘Bettenhausen in" the Belanger Special (120980), Henry Banks in the Federal Engineering Special (120.928) and Duke Pinsmore in the Schoof Special (119.840). Cy Marshall qualified to sit alone in the “10th row with & ‘speed of 115.644 in the Tattersfield Special. Bettenhausen, incidentally, tried’ twice previously to quality the T. E. C. Special, last year's race winner. : On his first trip he went into a spin coming out of the southwest p the

Williams’ Attempt Fails Others making unsuccessful attempts were Walt Ader, who had

{to give up after spinning in the his Olson Special; Doc Williams, who

made one lap at better than 122 in Timmy Bogg's entry before a clutch ailment developed, and Charles Otuwiurd in the Pat Murphy SpeL

Brisko failed to get his Maserati that had been assigned to Harry McQuinn to the starting line. The same could be said for Joe Lencki's Tucker Partner Special that Emil Andres was to have driven. Also left

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without cars to drive were Louis Durant, Chet Miller, Tomel, Mel Hansen, DeVore and Kladis, Some obviously will serve as relief drivers tomorrow. Among the cars that never reached the starting apron for sun dry reasons were J. E. Pauley’s entry, H. L. Brooke's E. R. A, the Jack Dixon entry, Z. Arkus-Dun-tov’s Talbot and Johnny Mauro's Phil Kraft Special.

H. S. Track, Golf Show Deficit

The Indiana High School Athletie association went in the hole for

{ near] EVANSTON, il, May 20 (U. P.). high "school track ms ‘oe, ate

Track Captain Elected first place. thei i against the “Yi Also honored last night ' Was/east was 13 wins and six losses for| \ pi Pave .|Courtney Gerrish, junior track|y 684 mark. Yet in engagements Wiifiams. Rid 8. 11M, Reds... star, elected president of neXt year's against the west, they have won six Keller, Yankees . J0i Mullin, Tigers ... track team. games and dropped eight for a 429 © RUNS BATTED IN Twenty-nine B monograms and : Turgeson, Swe 34jMize. Glants _..: two numeral awards also were Taylor SHences Giants Wiliams, Red 8. 38! : Yesterday, Harry Taylor, a little

given to members of the track, used t hander, who been rs fig and beaten pa, been gave George Munger the help he : 3 needed for his second straight vicnati in his only other start, silenced Ar tory as the Cardinals topped the the Giant sluggers. He gave up ug 0 only five hits. Reds at St. Louis, Eddie Bruce Edwards led the 18-hit|Miller hit his ninth homer for the

* | Brooklyn attack, driving in six runs Billy Joh who. rapid) res)

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eiland, gaining his pre-war eminence as a 4 ht onser and Bddle Miksis 4150} jutch hitter, led the ¥ a Title at Stake

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Bob | With a three run ninth inning rally svile: | 0 Win, 7 to 6 at Pittsburgh.

Frank Gustine and Clyde Kluttz

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in the big final inning. The Pirates

a1 {made 16 hits.

The Phillies battered aging Si Johnson for a 4 to 2 victory over

The Red Sox capitalized on a seven-run fifth inning rally to win with ease over the Athletics at Philadelphia, 9 to 2 Rudy York started Boston on the way with a fwo-run homer in the third. Dave Ferriss, moving along after a slow

—At least one record appeared sure to fall in the 47th annual Western conference track and fleld championships at Dyche stadium here tomorrow and Saturday.

put is 52 feet, 11; inches, set by Bill Watson of Michigan in 1938.

sioner L. V. Phillips said today. Gate receipts and sale of pro grams at the meet Indianapolis last week totaled T1, Phillips said, while expenses—including of-

The standing mark for the shot Jficials’ pay, transportation, medals

and the like—came to $3621.96. Anderson high school won the

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Ward Eliminates Bishop From British Golf Tourney

Another” Wolverine). Charles. Fonville, who won the indoor title with

a pitch of 53 feet, 2%, and has plained that the recent sta ales dy done 53 feet 11 inches out- school golf tournament, at aie Nigh Ts. ar challenging Fonville will be linois’ Norman Wasser, who has |deficit on both track and golf meets heaved the iron ball over 53 feet $1725.04. a ° and on occasion has bested Fonville | in indoor competition.

the Braves at Boston, while castoff Ken Heintzelman coasted to victory.

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Halli Louisville, 2 to 0, last night. Emery

Sornicsi |Rudd and Wes Bailey, who relieved] CHICAGO, May 29.—The western him in the seventh, allowed the Golden Gloves champions of Amer-

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ches ~Gornicki, .Hallett.| The Kansas City at St. Paul and res « Time Milwaukee at Minneapolis games m————————— —— ia were both postponed because of cold College Golf

weather Colgate 5, Cornell 4.

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Salk J ‘cision over Simpson Studio, getting| Stolen wn 5, Wentzel, Moran,

1 11 hits and taking advantage of the|**/'™ Weatherly, Castiglione. loser’s nine ertors for the victory. 2 : 3 The losers got one hit off Wendell Tribe Pitching {Smith in the first two innings, but|maloy their bats were stilled as Barnhorst, | 18%, - Elrod and Burge held them hitless |Perez ... for the remainder of the game. Nagy vin Linde, Air Products, trailing Pros- |Barrets ...

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lica swamps the all-nations European amateur boxing kings before a ca- | pacity crowd of 21302 in Chicago

CARNOUSTIE, Scotland, May 29 (U. P.).—~Marvin (Bud) Ward of Spokane, Wash, who is at his best

stadium last night, seven bouts to|When the chips are down, Knocked

one. The international gloves show

the Chicago Tribune. Dick Hagan, Chicago heavyweight,

197 [knocked out Jerry O’Colmain, the 3361 Trish blacksmith heavy, inthe sec-| they were all square at the end of

ond round. Europe’s only triumph in the title bouts was scored by Luis Martinez, Spanish soldier, who got the nod in a close match with Bob

242 | Holliday, Cincinnati, in the fly-

weight contest. No Hoosier state Golden Glovers

fought in the main events, -

.| Midget Speedway Sets

'3 Race Shows Today

. A 12-hour program, featuring at the Ipdianapolis Midget Speed-

8 lway today on W. 16th st. across

from the 500-mile track. Three: events were arranged for each race with time trials for the first race tp begin at 12 noon. The

was staged under the auspices of]

three complete races, was scheduled’!

Stanley E. (Ted) Bishop, the U. S. amateur champion, out of the Brit|ish amateur golf tournament today to reach the; quarter-finals. Ward won, 1 up in bY | holes after

the regulation 18.. Earlier { round results today for the Americans were: Bishop, Dedham, Mass., defeated (P. R. (Laddie) Lucas, Britain; 2 up. | Ward defeated Maj. A. A. Dun{can, Wales, 5 and 4. ’ | Willie Turnesa, White Plains, N. vY., defeated Hamilton McInally, | Scotland, 2 and 1. | Prank $tranahan, Toledo, O., defeated aj. A. J. Michell-Clarke, Britain, 8 and 7. Richard (Dick) Chapman, Pinehurst, N. C., defeated Virgi] Finlayson, Scotland, 6 and 5. Robert (Skee) Riegel, Upper Darby, Pa., defeated Francis Ouimet, Boston, 2 and 1. Stranahan in Trouble

sporting gesture, conceded him a putt. Stranahan’'s action, coming just a year after he fired his caddy for allegedly giving him the wrong information on how to play a dogleg hole. Bey : The Incident occurred yesterday on the first hole of Stranahan's third round match against Gedbge Morgan, a one-eyed Scot, as they reached the green to putt. Morgan dropped his putt for a par-four, then in a sporting gesture, pushed Stranahan’s one-fotter into the cup. Stranhan,” who sajd he didn't want any putts conceded, sent his

Illinois is the defending Big Nine titleholder. Defense of the Illini title rests largely with its aces who have recorded best performances of the 1947 outdoor season in sik events. : The stem-winder of the Illini team is Herb McKenley, who has chalked up the best mark by a conference athlete in each of three events, the 100-yard dash, the 220yard “dash and the quarter-mile. Other Illini leaders are Bob Rehberg in the mile," Bob Richards in the pole vault and Dike Eddlevan in the high jump. .

caddy to the club house to get an Coach at Noblesville

official ruling on whether under British regulations, his opponent was permitted to touch his ball. It is not permitted under U. S. rules. Later, Stranahan tried to explain that he had meant nothing by his action. 4 ! Frank Pigeon, veteran golf writer

NOBLESVILLE, Ind, May 29 (U. P.).~Kenneth Smith, baseball coach

athletic 7 director and basketball coach at Noblesville high school.

for the London Daily Mail and s' Amateur Notes

member of the Royal & Ancient

Golf club, told American reporters a

he could produce two witnesses to

FTBALL le at Beech Grove sta- . Allison at 7 p. m.; U.S. at 85:15 p and

Manual Clinches

Baseball Title

Wet grounds canceled the schede uled high school baseball game to« day ‘between Shortridge and Manual, assuring the South siders the city championship. The Redskins completed the season with a city record of seven vice tories and two defeats, losing only to Tech and Broad Ripple. They also won two non-league games. Washington, the second - place

team in the standings, completed its season Tuesday with a 6 and 2

| record in the city and an 8 and 2 at Bloomfield high school the last three years and a graduate of De-| Pauw university, today was nanfed,

record for the season.

City Standing

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i : testify that Stranahan told Mor-(l 0. 8. Ciuteh vi. Mechanics Laundry [2 Games Feature gan that he thought he still should emreial league Mu- A Stadium Softball

THe Com schedule at have won the hole and that he was| pico), stadium tonight ts: aK Ho Rafe Two games are on the Memorial

willing to bet a pound he was Motil righfr { ee eitin—————————— ro a the Tanto Day schedule at Municipal stadium, .. a” . ; with a local rival ame featurin Virginia Laycock Wins ie 5 Sotont Trpaue” of | 10 a. : Guest Day Tourna nt church, Lynhurst sptist, Second Pr PPL sip 8 oe un! Sipe] a { is 5 - " Virginia Laycock with an 86 won |Methodist and West Morris Street Chris will clash with Insley Mfg, which

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first race was set for 1:30 p. m.| Meanwhile, Stranahan, a young Times trials for the second race man with an unhappy talent for were to be held at 4:30 p. m. with [getting himself involved in unthe race beginning at 6 p. m. Trial pleasant incidents, wasn't having heats for the final program will be- |any luck today explaining why he gin at 9 p. m. and the race will{got uppity and called for the rules’ start at 10 p. m. committee when his opponent, in a/

innings, staged a five run rally in the |Gomikl _....... 2 8 3 Maloof hurled a six-hitter|fifth to gain a 9-7 win. Pive singles, (1 ne ndlans: Mikie Sn 2, Woods Wan winners. Don Ray led the|a walk and a Prospect error were er———r—————— with three for three. responsible for the five tallies. College Tennis Eagles Trim Tavern Nine . One amateur association game Kalamazoo at Notre Dame (cancelled). . Lodge, ailing Tryous vil a Javed, tomorrow aftattioan, pennsylvania 7 Penn State 9 ~ staged a two-run rally 0 ews and Armour i , Colgate 0. sth on three singles and Club will play off their postpoped error, to gain a 4-3 edge. Municipal league game of May 18 at ‘De News scored a 23-4 de- Riverside No. 1 at 2:30,

Standings, Results

No. Driver Horn Jackson Chitwood Mays

Entry Bennett Bros.

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low gross honors yesterday in’ af guest day golf tournament at the Thursday

Meridian Hills Country club. Louellen Trimble, 103, and Mrs. Hal Benham, 105, were second and third. Peg Moores with an 83 won low net honors. Myra Joyce, 86, and Mrs. L. B. Hurt, 89, were second and third. Mrs. Charles Edwards and Mrs. Kenneth Fischer were low gross and net winners, respectively, for’ Meridian Hills members. Mrs, Esther Bogda and Mrs. Claire Knox, won the two hole-in-one tourna ments. .

Bulldogs Lose -Final

Game of Season The Butler Bulldogs ended their baseball season in-defeat yesterday, losing to Ball State, 4 to 3. ‘ Ball State ‘led Butler 3-2 going into the ninth, after scoring In the

.(fourth, sixth and eighth innings.

The Cardinals won in the ninth on Walt Field's single, a Butler error and a pinch triple. by Louis Buergler. All Ball State runs were

an. Games will be played on Tuesday and evenings beginning at 6:15 p. m, on diamond 1 In Rhodius park.

. Fight Results NEW YORK (Jamaica Arena)-—-Warren Peterson, 173, New York, knocked ou Billy Pa as, 177%, Reading, Pa. (1). PROVIDENCE, R. I—Jackie Weber, 134%, Par ioRot, Ri. L, #8 Tony Costa, 139%, Woonsocket, R. I. (3).

College Baseball

DePauw 5, Hanover 4.

represents Beech Grove park in the loop. The Colas will attempt to match the Insley pitching staff of Cecil Cherry, Arnold McDaniel ‘and Joe Sherman with the veterans, Hal Ma« haney and Jack Wagner. The game is carded at 8:30. In a curtain-raiser at 7:15, Kramer Mfg. Co. clashes with Hoffman

Specialty Co.

"NEW YORK, May 20 (U, P.). —~ Only because his opponent lacked punch, fat Tami Mauriello—former heavyweight challenger — managed to stop Jimmy Carollo of Corona, N. Y., in the fifth round last night in “promotor Andy Niederreiter's opening show at the Brooklyn Dodgers’ ball park. A “For a time, it seemed to the 11,000 fans at Ebbets field that Mauriello

Fat Tami Manages to Stop Jimmy Carollo in 5th

escape in the first round at Yankee stadium last September—might alse let 23-year-old Carollo escape. * Carollo, who survived two knocke downs in the second round, won the third and fourth sessions. Carollo was floored for the third time in the-fifth round, and when he rose he appeared so helpless under Mauriello’s savage head bome bardment that referee Rudy Gold

fee stopped the bout at 2:58 of X Whe Bronx—who let Jos Louls|the Afth a)

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