Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1948 — Page 14

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because of the g

tem. . He also’ controls the speed of the car with a foot accelerator. gates are shown in starting position and at bottom they are shown folded along the sides of the car after a Start is made. Clark also. owns a fleet of Studebaker trucks equipped with the starting gates.

GOOD FOR A ST. ARTER—When the Grand Circuit races move on to the Indiana State Fair grounds next month the sulky riders will be assured of a good start - et in these pictures. Automatic starting gates mounted on the rear of this convertible keep the horses from breaking out of line. The gates are owned and operated by Harry Clark of Indianapolis. Standing the car, Clark calls directions to the sulky drivers with the aid of a public address sys-

in the trunk space of

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“University had not passing of the baton/O 20-yard zone

after seeing official the race and deliberate

& perfectly legal pass : and that the plo committee probably would reverse the decision in favor of the U. 8. AB a result, the Americans r 30th gold medal of

400-Meter Relay Awarded U. S. After Diy pie Jury Views Films

Press Sports Editor

United 5 ore. 10.—The Olympic jury of appeals, after viewing the disputéd 400-meter relay and varied the victory to the United States, was won by the Americans by 10 yards,

race, today reversed the

disqualified the Yanks. They

British after judges that Barney Ewell of Lancaster, Pa., and Lorenzo Wright

ympic committée announced pn that the U. 8. would not

the second leg of the|Protest.

Confused by Markings In disqualifying the Americans, the judges maintained that Ewell was a step over the line to Wright. O s blamed the decision of the judges on the confused marking of the track. The ° controversy lent some interest to a day that promised to be the dullest in the ‘entire Olympics: thus far. the boxing competition got under way at Empire Pool, light heavyweight Charles Speiser of Detroit and Flyweight Frank Sodano of Philadelphia scored early victories.

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passing n limit when he relayed the baton

can team, there was little doubt that the Yanks would advance with ease. Yesterday, the U. 8 brushed aside Uruguay, 63 to 28, in a quarter-final match. Leading the Americans yesterday, and the Mexicans’ main problem today, was seven-foot Bob Kurland, who racked up 19 points. Golden Bears Win The other semi-final found Brazil favored over France. The final found will be held Friday ight. The United States added to its already heavy haul of hardware yesterday by picking up three more gold medals. The most brilliant victory was that of the University of California crew in the eight-oared event that topped the rowing] finals. The Golden Bear eight stroked its way to victory in the 1900 meter race by a length and a half over the sturdy Cambridge crew that represented England. True

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Conference Wilson will ban 15 or 20 football

“Wilson is In London with the

office in the Hotel Sherman, Chicago. Paul Harrell, Indiana's dthletic director who has just returned from a fishing vacation,

eligibility insists that IU is not involved in the issue.

wasn't at liberty to say any-

The ineligibility issue was revealed recently by Lyall Smith, sports editor of the Detroit Free Press. . Smith said Michigan was to lose four players and that Purdue and Illinois are to be given a “harder crack.” He sald most of the players involved are sophomores who enrolled in Big Nine universities in violation of a conference ruling that forbids special inducements.

In Indianapolis today, a spokesman who is close to IU athletics, said he had heard nothing conHe said if anything at all ‘is forthcoming from the commissioner's office the announcement may hit one of the smaller Big Nine schools to set an example. That happened 15 years ago to Iowa. Indiana is scheduled to open grid practice Aug. 31. Purdue will hold its first fall practice, Sept. 1.

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Most owners

Strange as it seems, billiard cues are standard equipment in every trotting barn. They are attached to harness and extended along jowls to keep the trotter’s head from wobbling. But those and the mutuel machines are the only concessions to city life. After all, this trotting game goes back a long rustic way. Why even 95 per cent of the horses trace their lineage to the same stallion, a famed trotter in the mid-1800’'s. His name? Hambletonian, naturally. A forgotten New England blacksmith gave the harness racing game its chief shot in the

| suiky : sent it to Bud Dobble, then one of the hottest drivers, but Dobble wouldn't use it for fear of being ridiculed.

Poor Man's Sport

He stuck to the old Tigh, en-wheeled sulky. But

wood-

five to 10 seconds for a mile.

mediately.

County Softball

Six games are bcheduled to-

8.|night in the opening round of the

annual Marion County softball

Sixty-eight teams have entered the tourney and a new champion will be crowned. Pepsi-Cola, last year’s title winner, did not field a team this year. Players on that winning team, however, now are playing with Speedway Products and Allied Florists. The Florists, with Jim McLinn doing the pitching, have been top-seéded. Rated as contendérs are Keeton Auto Sales, Mechanics Laundry and Insley Mfg. Tonight's games: At Beech Grove—T7, U, 8. Tire vs. Yeager's Drugs; 8, Kenison Cleaners vs. WIRE; 9,'L. 8. Ayres vs. New Augusta, At Municipal — 7, Irvington

United Mgtors vs. Cathedral CYO; 9, in Spring Clutch vs. Indiana

Tourney Opens

Merchants vs. Capitol Paper: 8 |:

horse game, trotting is a poor man’s sport. You could get a fair

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arm when he built the first biyi suiky in 1892. He

Hambletonian Next 3 ~ ‘Veferans and Youngsters of 40 Prepare “ For flares: Racing's Kentucky Derby

“Press Sports Writer

juleps and scorn : "high sounding talk about “improvement of the breed” as the farnbr fellers get ready today for tomorrow's running of the na haysesd hai

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trotting for a horse. It was devised in mid-18th century when light buggies became ular. Owners who wanted to places fast discovered horses booted the buggies to

known first as “fast They can go, though, and fof

usually holds an the harness events. Seldom h an outsider won the

tonian, a best two-outsof-three heat event. As a matter of fact, Titan Hanover was such a standout in 1945 that he was excluded from the betting. He upheld that respect by winning as he pleased. And the big horse this year is Demon Hanover, owned and driven by Haselatn Hoyt of Bethel, Conn, Hoyt is an .amateur, which means he hasi't driven for pay within 10 years, and would be the first non-

professional reinsman to win the

Hambletonian, He'll probably do it, too.

Washington Defeats Indianapolis Printers DETROIT, Mich, Aug. oe

Pop Geers, Indiangpolis was beaten by another hotshot with the reins, Washington, 14 to 2, here yesspotted the fragile-looking inven- terday in the first half of ‘a tion and lugged it out for a try. double elimination series of the He found out that its drag was 34th annual printers union baseso slight that it knocked off from ball tournament.

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Everybody made the change im-/ Chicago today. The Windy C

crew were downed yesterday by

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of “The Cat” i Enos Slaughte the Spark. ‘Cat's’ 1 Brechéen, w game and his fc the second-plac games of the le an eight-hitter drove in five r double and tw scoring the si Cards got a she by beating lefty er, who previ two one-hit vict -Rookie Carl | son, Ind, put games off the p Sy! Donnelly o in a pitching t for his fourth since coming u from Ft. Wort! Ennis

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his 17th. Cleveland de at Detroit, 6 tr den won his 1( hitter, and Ed plied the hitti three-run hom two days. The land a half ga idle Athletics i

1048 The British crew got off in League race. ine re Bid com-{y Sreise clearly outpointed Erlkigront but the Bears came from Housiers Ted off i Denmark In hin division. while nd Dear the half-way mark IL te am Reversal of the decision also Sodano stopped R. N. Bhatta of th, Pulled away to retain for . . se 6 . rewarded Ewell, the 34-year-old India in the first ‘round of their the v i the title 1t bas hed | 13-bit ta k former. Penn State star, With hisipous Speiser advanced to the| me. po: I ona unior two, doubles first gold medal after being nosed secon d round in the light heavy The University of Washington] ; h on re out in the 100-meter and 200-|weight class and Sodano, who had| <r Stined the title In four-oars-I' mie Indiana boys, four from ere, were meter sprint races. drawn an opening round, bye, with-Coxswain Ia a surprise winirnqianapolis, were among the 128 scheduled. - First of Its Kind reached the fiyweight quarter-|2yor (WIEETAnG and Denmark qualifiers that started match play! Barrett ....... § This marked the first time in/finals. was the i "th at has|!°d8y In the United States Golf i sisi 4 3Olymple history that a decision| Speiser floored his Danish op-| i “it e ins race has|,ggociation’s first national junior 1-Hitter t ran 1 1 was reversed involving the win-|ponent for a count of eight in the The hiry R d medal of championship at Ann Arbor, Mich. a a dices I Siner of a race and only the third opening round with a stiff rignt), 15 V0 €0C Jos © the! The local juniors are Pete Burk- Junior B SES Hime that any ruling of the Aeidlto the jaw and continued to pe(dsY; 81d America's 20th of thelnyier, Meridian Hills and Gerald , Little’ Flows judges had been altered. The|the aggressor throughout the rest Sant. oh Joe Dasetns. our-foot| williams, John Mahan and Dick ° fir gant “Wi s: 5 $10. 000 first time was In the 1932 games|of the bout to gain the verdict of 8ht Inch Jos Depletro, an auto|putier, ail of Pleasant Run. The I Nn! ‘|at Los Angeles when third and ithe judges. Speiser suffered a, re om alerson, N. J.iatth member is Arch Voris Jr. of def the ' fourth places wero reversed infout lip in the second round, but| SERIO WOR the bantemwelght/gedtord. defeating she al Tam O'Shanter |: buses sedis second mei vas no rgarded ue serious. [FUELILE, LEHENE Fh) The afgna sed of 0 wae ro pon earlier ijt this year's classic when| Sodano, hard-hitting Philadel. (0 ot [COC 608 If OF 6773 duced at 41 sectional qualifying en SUP)-—Lioyd, Mangrum, a 34-year-old war fourth and fifth places were re-|phia flyweight, threw a wild, loop- pa 660 pounds. g Own markijocations. Butler was the Indiana Other C, Xo ho learned pressure golf in the heat of combat, held a |Versed in the 10,000-meter race. |ing right that caught the Indian . medalist at the Broadmoor Coun- dius Pal 14, N for pro earnings today. $22,500 in one week, The jury's decision robbed Brit-(on the chin, staggering him less| ‘8 try Club with a 74. Riley Pal 12 slim, rn pro put the pressure(ain of ifs only gold medal in|than a minute after the fight Russ to Play in '52 Fairview Pre: © professional fessional compatriots Slamming Sam Snead and Dutchitrack and field. Disqualification opened. ‘The Pennsylvania, farm ¢ “1, |Softball Notes fleld Pal 4. } Tisor Jost 8 a two-under-par 70 and win thejof the U. 8. last Saturday and boy followed in, round. ¢|£ We're Invited acbast nights scores nm the Senior €YO I Rhodius fanne a ai the# awarding of first place to|house lefts and rights which had : Softball Beech Grove Stadium | way tO cool. in hot only two hit on the airways on lengthy the 15th for a birdie and go one Britain aroused nation-wide jubi-| Bhatta sliding on the ropes. The) LONDON, Aug. 10 (UP)—-A ere: Assumption 8, Little Flower §; Holy y to get : 3 V/A od a four at, stroke ahead, but Mangrumijution that the host nation had referes stopped the bout. S0-|pyssian representative to the In-|of Lowrdss i, Cathedral” weather —but the pleasantest (7 1 was a fine week of golt canned a four-footer on the 17thipsen able to raise its own flag|dano was never hit. ternational Basketball Fed | way we've ever found is to of Mangrum, He tame from| "J, S88in it was deadlocked. las a track and feld winner at Favored in Basketball a sa CLOSE-OUT it down and relax with : Friday to win the all That left only the 18th hole forileast once. For the United States, chief in- Hon sald today that the Soviets : Sit gown * American pro tourney and §5000| cd nam a FUE 10 settle he Dean Cromwell, conch of the|terest centered on basketball, | Vill participate in the 1052% Men's Brown & White 2 cool, refreshin’ bottle & 72 hole score of 277. That A F aayrison a o| American team, said he had pro-|where the heavily favored Amer. Olympic games “if we are in- of Cook's. Its clean beer A ze put him in first place in the Hl Ane cou ¢lf'tested the disqualification re-/ican five moved into the semi. vited” \

with only a nearly mposy winners for the year, era eagle two, another $5000 from tours! ‘Luck took a hand then. Saead’s

ha promieed he toe the 100s star goiter drive stopped behind a fr tree, d ‘on Aug. 6. He also won get Sut Into the fairway. Man-

flavor sure pleases ‘cause it’s fullyKraeusened. That is, it's aged for months the costly Old

luctantly, adding that he had {done so mainly in behalf of Ewell and Wright, who had not won any gold medals. Avery Brundage, chairman of the U. 8

final round. The tall point-makers for the U. 8, will face Mexico today for the right to enter the finals and. de- . spite the gameness of the Mexi-

Evan Nikolagewicz Pietuchow, who led a three-man delegation here—-the first Russian participation of any kind in connection with the 14th Olympiad—when -|asked if ~Russia had not been

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Just the thing te finish the Summer;

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