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TUESDAY, AUG. 31, 1948

Close In On Title

Condition

Questions May Be Answered in Sept.

By JACK CUDDY United Press Sports Writer

NEW YORK, Aug. 31-—Boxing'

seems to be entering an era of bewilderment.

Fortunately for the public there.

has been such a hurly-burly over baseball during the past few, weeks that the fans have not been forced to share the per-| plexity assailing ®most persons connected closely with the fight’ game. i However, boxing again will bid for national attention in September, - when two outdoor ex-| travaganzas are slated for the New York area, and the National Boxing tion's annual | meetings are scheduled for Phila-| delphia. { Joe Louis has re-! [tired, but officially he is still {heavyweight champion. Ray | (Sugar) Robinson is welterweight champion, but he admits he no longer can pare down to the 147zm pound limit for a title defense.

Television Sport Since boxing is the

Here Sept 13

The Indianapolis Indians are preparing for a heavy schedule i in the knife-and-fork league after 4 they clinch the American Asso"gifts and $1500 in cash, all of ciation pennant and after the which il be divided Ally al the close of regular league season, in pregame, Seremontes Sept. 12. tonight, starting at On Sept. 13, the night before 4d Radios nd Ks the start of the post-season play-

ate a portable offs, the Indians will be feted by ni Se sal dogs pat Job.

LEADING TROTTER—Pronto Don, pictured above, owned by the Hayes Fair Acres stable of Duquoin, lll, is one of the leading trotters entered in the $10,000 Horseman Futurity for 3-year-olds. The futurity race is on the ‘Labor Day racing schedule at the Indiana State Fair. .

pinch-hitters cam climagtic - four-ruz

the Indianapolis Chamber of Sasi: Blayer. a specially He ninth inning tha

ring and sevs Commeree Athletic Committee. blood species. It will be a testimonial Victory Het pi Club ball room, Baseball notables! civic leaders, Chamber of Com-!| friends, is for some special at! merce and other fans nave! wir b be invited. Women fans also

broken the Cards

opener, the bot breezed to a 6-to-]

‘Dinner, limited to 400, and to be for six men to paint da are to be invited.

held in the Indianapolis Athletic new home, and three pa ‘Diz to Be the MC “perfect

ho!Diz Dean, the former ‘mound

Red American Association president, and George Trautman, top chief 7 {of all minor leagues, who is al |

A. B. Chandler, baseball's commissioner, will be on hand for a talk and the master of ceremoinfes will be none other than OI

t who now is a radio base1 announcer in St. Louls, Among other special guests and Speakers will be Frank Lane,

isport” for television, one would {imagine that the rapid spread of

leffort, apparently, to work out a

video entertainment would have poured fresh gold into the beakbusting business. Instead,’ however, most promoters have found — television a “gate-killer” for their bouts. Yet, no one connected with sockers or sets has made the

financial arrangement -satisfactory to both enterprises.

40 Get Grid Call : At Indiana Central it Pro-Am Victory

GEIST LAKE CATCH—Irvin Turley of 330 S. Lynhurst Dr. is shown” with part of the 50 crappies he and his wife caught Sunday night at Geist Lake. Mrs. Turley also caught her limit last Thursday night. They used minnows,

Decker Leads Foursome

The Indiana PGA's weekly proCoach Angus Nicoson has in- am was won yesterday at Ine

nightcap that gav sweep of the fo and extended streak to eight s Trailing by thre came to bat in tl of the opener, R pinch double tha! runs, Vaughan co gle and Edwards kept the rally ge Rackley delivered

vited more than 40 men, including | jan Lake by Bob Decker, Pendle 17 lettermen, for Indiana Central dian . in d. amateurs Chuck

"College's first grid workout next ton pro, Tuesday morning. |Hess, Art Hall and Bob Sparks, Six lettermen from wt Leas. of Indianapolis.

The 20th Century and the rival former AA president. Mayor Al Tournament of Champions, Inc. Feeney will head the group of ’ are engaged in a bitter promocity officials. E tional war that should reach a « Gold baseball charms will be climax on the nights of Sept. 21 ted to each member of the and 23. be squad, including trainers,

tied the score. -Rookie George | inserted into the after serving the on the bench, ther

lis are Paul Eicher, Chet LeRus-| The Decker combine won the winning tally wit

For Sept. 21, sa, Robert Harvey, Marion Burle- event in a play-off with two other

. bat boys and clubhouse boys.

Bat ri rE tor ‘the ‘day went to Marlene Bauer, 14-year-old, 100-pound daughter of a Long Beach golf pro, The young miss tied for medalist honors with Mrs. Jackie Pung, 27-year-

Sr old Honolulu housewife, and be-

chance of squeez-

ofl Be es a [post-season piayos

The start on Sept. 1", with No. 3 finisher

and the runnerup No. 4.

' Victory - r feld : ‘open early this eve. at 8:30, to take care of an

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; PrgoBhs the youngest player ever 3 uality Aor. the = Western

Sagrhey "Ba “and 8. agi J Pi the th in a Rela 1" 131 le. to equal regulation figures on the hilly, 6412-yard Olymple CI Club golf course.

diminutive Miss ! hose sister, Alice, ] the championship flight, tackles veteran Barbara Ransom of Stockton in the first round of match play in the upper bracket today, in the lower

bracket, Mrs. Pung tangles Allee Baer: g tangles with

Yesterday's play found nearly

Bauer,

also quali

PACE ENTRANT—Harry Short of Columbus, O., has entered his pacer Patrick Hanover in the $3000 Hoosier stake for Class 20 pacers.’ The race will be run Sept. 8

at the Indiana State Fair.

Modern Sulky Far Cry Riviera Prepares “From ‘High-Wheeler'

By JIM

27 inches from ground to seat. The Jidth between the axles is 48 {nchés for a half-mile track and 46 inches for a mile track, The shafts vary in length from 86 to 88 inches from the front of the seat to the point. That length will fit the majority of horses, but there may be some additional

p pennant winner meeting

| Curtis Cup

all the favorites, including stars, gain the lonship round. One of the few favorites to fall by the

four

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po Same of the 14th National Base-

3 11, in 1 4 " Gutter 5, ! iy & “Turner 2,

Saffell 8, Tuther 5, Ricard eming, Kalin, Peters,

Saal 10, a Cd ' kard 4,

funner-up for this crown, came. In with an 87-one

over the score that qualified for title play.

she

Ft. Wayne Nine in {Championship Tilt

] WICHITA, Kas, Aug. 31 (UP) 1/—The unbeaten Ft. ayne General Electrics were given an edge over the Elkin (N. C.) Chatham Blanketeers in the championship

ball Congress tournament slated

A Ft. Wayne win would give the General Electrics a clear 5 tre, If, however; the underdog 3 3 Elkin club should win tonight, a second game will be played He

The defending champion General Electrics, in winning six straight, have stacked 48. runs while allowing their opponents

only 13. .

Fight Results

By United Press WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Jim Carter, 133, New York, , oulpoinied Joey

variance depending upon the size of the horse and driver. The! sulky costs approximately $300. Hickory and ash are used In its

was Mary Agnes Wall, o Id construction. The axles, truss and

braces are drop forgings.

latest type sulky is: a so-called “all-steel’t ‘affair. Actually it is

made of chrome molybdenum. It has 22 separate parts and weighs 33 pounds, A wrench and a screwdriver are all that is needed to spread it all over the barnyard, or put it together: Perfectly Balanced All modern sulkies are perfectly balanced. The horse holds no

SMITH

You can call it a sulky or a.bike. But regardless of the name you tag on' to it, that dainty looking 'go-cart)’ which Hoosier ai race fans will see spinning dizzily along in the rear of Mr. Horse at the Indiana State Fair starting Saturday, is one of the lightest and most durable two-wheeled vehicles in operation today. The modern sulky weighs around 28 to 30 pounds and measures

isn’t the smoothest way to travel for the modern sulky has no springs of any kind. A “jogging” or warmup cart has springs to make it a little easier on the driver, who wheels several warmup or exercise miles every day. But it is against harness racing rules to use a sulky with springs. It took nearly 100 years to produce the streamlined effect of the modern sulky but the story is written in the record books. Seconds actually dropped off as the springs were removed from the

axles replaced by the arched type, the ‘wheels brought down from the six and seven foot type to the

raised and slanted upward instead of bearing straight down.

weight either up or down. A driv-|;

hurt his chances in a race cause of the weight he carries.! This wasn't true inthe early days of harness . racing. Then the sulkies were high wheeled affairs and the driver sat way up in the air and looked down between the horses ears. Thin or fat he loomed large against the wind and wasn't much help to his four-footed friend. Both he and the rig were a straight pull on the horse, and weight counted heayily against the horse. But today the whole picture has been lowered. The driver now rides down behind the horse out of the wind, his sulky is perfectly balanced. In fact the balance is so perfect that if a person

Angelo, 141, Providen 10 ORK (Croke. Park) bed

‘Cartier, 161, New York, -y pDaby) Jams; 180, Now, ors Hy, Conn. Bernie Rexnolds. | 1181, Fauci Con. knocked | out R Tontini, 178. Mame, Italy

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RESULTS YESTERDAY : AMERICAN ASS00IATION No games sched: AMERICAN LEAGUE Livia kg + 000 eh) 200. : } 1

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kine, ‘Miner,’ {Savand 001 363 2 § 0 010 000 000 3 3 ~ Stale; ce 000 001 000. 1 Pitts Ae 200 000 00x 3 8 Sain and "Mast; Os vormniier and . Only games scheduled, -

i Behrman, Palica, Casey and and Campanella, Edwards; Dickson, Wilks

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holds up the shaft at the exact point of balance, the sulky willl roll forward of its own accord teven If standing on level ground.

Origin of Name 4

come from? Well, here is the 100 years ago, four wheeled buggles were used for light harness racing. In 1844 a young sporting man, they say, decided he {would like to do his driving alone, presumably for speed and comfort, Jeater with two wheels. In that {manner he could “get away from

Civ all”

But his wife, who liked to take

$.Jithe alr with him, didn't like his

new cart. She got rather peeved {about this lonely rig and said only ‘@ “sulky” man would build one. But he built it, she stuck to her guns and called it a “sulky. contraption,” been éver since. At least that's what the horsemen say.

— $18 3. Riding along behind Mr. Horse RR is

GOLF BALLS 39% ... .*1.00

unbelievable thing in those days. But 94 years later, in a modern

flat. onds to the mile. Billy Direct was

48 feet per second, and it is inter-

horse, when he’s hitting his top speed, doesn’t do much better than 53 or 54 feet per second:

2 Managers Suspended COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 31 (UP) ~Two Ohio-Indiana league man-

story harness horsemen tell. Over

80 he designed a single-|:

and a sulky it's’

BLUE POINT 22, |

Delaware, Madison & Ray Sts. |

and fined today by league Presi{dent Frank M. Colley for use of obscene and vile language in a

Ind.

field were suspended. Blazo was

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ancient carts, seats lowered, vibration eliminated, the straight{Post for the meet.

present 26 inch, spoked, rubber tired spinning disk, the shafts

sulky, Billy Direct paced to the yorn ee ON i 15% pear to be as strong as last year, traveling just a fraction short of

esting to note that the running

agers were suspended indefinitelylvited to pre-season drills

game Saturday night at Muncie, *

Managers Mike Blazo of Mun-. And where did the name sulkycie and Rufus Jackson of Spring-

fined $50 and. Jackson was fined!

the comparatively new T. of C. has scheduled a battle for the world middleweight crown between Champion Tony Zale and Frenchman Marcel Cerdan, holder of the European crown. Also on the card will be a 15-round heavyweight bout between Jersey Joe Walcott and Gus Lesnevich, ex-light heavyweight champ,

Williams-Flores

23, Mike Jacobs’ outfit has scheduled a lightweight title fight between Champion Ike Williams and Jesse Flores of Stockton, al. Right now it seems that the conservative 20th Century will be hit harder by the conflict in dates that the T. of C. The interna-

Record Defense

Riviera Club, which holds ex-,

plonship swimming records, is pre-| paring to defend those records in| the 17th annual competition Saturday in their own pool. Riviera grabbed a grand slam in the National distance swim at Clementon, N. J., last Saturday as Jean Lutyens, Sue Schaffner, Linda Woods and Barbara Fade-| ly finished in that order, proving their worth at any distance. Jim Clark's Indianapolis Athletic Club team will be defending 11 records. in Saturday's races with the remainder the responsibility of the YMCA. Invitational Meet The City Championships this year are invitational with the Riviera acting as co-sponsor and The Indianapolis Chapter, - American Red Cross is also co-sponsor. Thirty-four events are scheduled to get under way with elimination heats at 1:30 Saturday afternoon. Finals will begin the

YMCA's boys, under Coach! {George Medera will be gunning! {for the boys’ records held by! {IAC with such youthful stars as ob - Wasson, John Stevenson, Bill Frederick and perhaps Ivan| Chalfie,

Clark’s IAC squad does not ap-

[having lost some of its best personnel. Riviera is essentially the same as last year and should win everything in sight in the girl's division.

Pre-Season Drills

GREENCASTLE, Aug. 31— Coach Mike Snavely’s football squad will open season training Sept. 6 with some forty men inat Blackstock Stadium. The Tiger eight-game schedule leads off Sept. 26 with a home game with Hanover.

firs TIME TO SHINE |

SELF-POLISHING

GRIFFIN

actly half of the 32 City Cham-|

Same time the following after-| It took a lot of hard work but "°°

here's what it accomplished. Back |

n 1844, Aggie Down, hitched to} er can Weigh 250 pounds and not gt ot of the old high wheelers,

“turned a mile in 2:29, an almost

Cerdan seems certain to command more attention than the WilliamsFlores bout.

Blood Clot Cause Of Steeler’'s Death

{| MEADVILLE, Pa. Aug. 31 UP — The death of Ralph ICalcagni, tackle of the Pittsburgh | Steelers, professional football team, was attributed today to in{testinal gangrene resulting from la blood clot. The cause of death was an{nounced last night by Dr. Robert |C. Burt, pathologist at Meadville City Hospital where Calcagni died Sunday after undergoing an operation for appendicitis. Dr. Burt said it was believed that the condition which caused the football star's death was present before the operation.

13 Lettermen Begin Anderson Grid Drills

ANDERSON, Aug. 31—Thirteen lettermen will be included in the squad when Anderson College gridmen assemble next Saturday for the first practice session, Two of the lettermen are Car{ter Byfield and George McCool of Indianapolis. Coach Frank Hedden will send the Ravens against Earlham at Richmond in {the season's opener, Sept. 25 at (night.

Johnson Wins rose

CHICAGO, Aug. 31 (UP)—Al Johnson, 167, Indianapolis, outpointed Ralph Jones, 156, Springfield, Ill, in a six-round bout here

tional clash between Zale and!

son,’ Verne Chandler and Don | foursomes, Fleenor.

will include Duane ' Robinson of Speedway High School;

Sept. 25 against Butler in the Only two nights later, on Sept. Bowl.

last night.

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. Decker garnered two birdies on the extra holes to Freshman candidates this year|cinch the No. 1 spot. ’ Wayne Timberman, Meridian Harvey Hills pro, and amateurs Jack imbro, John Preston and Don|Nickel, Red Wagoner and Harry

Bucksot of Tech; Jim and Henry| | Feeney, all of Indianapolis were Harvey, twins from Manual, and{second in the extra hole battle . Tom Barnes of Howe. The Grey-|and Floyd Hamblen, Tipton pro,

hounds will open their schedule and amateurs Walt Chapman, Russ Winter and M. Carlisle, all of Indianapolis, were third.

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MEMPHIS, T olis, Western Cor tered in the Nati yesterday by Rob Despite a cou who had been ta

Managoff Wrestle 1

Wladyslaw (Ir of Vilno, Polan Managoff, Chica; in the featured b

outdoor Sports J program. The all-heavyv ranged by Ma Thom calls for t tilts. The Talun-M: calls for two fal with a 90-minute The semi-wind one fall or 30-mi together Al Low title aspirant, an Ray Gunkel, athletic star, anc St. Louis, Mo., W first event, also fall or 30-minutes start the action s

Softball To Play A

The Mechanics County softball play an exhibitic row night at Mu prior to leaving : regionals at Mil time is 8 o'clock. A team of Al by the Marion Association, will position for the Proceeds from th defray expenses tournament whi Sept. 3 to 8. Drawing for | tournament, star be : made follow Entries to the dc tourney will be the drawing. Members of th

are: McLinn, Border, H Alljed Florists; Dible ucts; ker, A