Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1949 — Page 39

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averages and spring exhibition schedules ‘are among the many features carried in the National League Green Book,

he collected three . . . one short of the National League record for one campaign. . . . Sharing the grand slam spotlight with Westlake and Gordon were Ron] Northey of the Cardinals, Hank!

Sauer of the Reds and Walker

Cooper of the Giants. . . . They each walloped two, . . . The two were the only ones ever delivered

by Sauer in the majors. . .. Ralph| . Kiner of the Pirates and Northey

hit grand slammers while serving as pinch hitters.

the rivals perform before that dat, . . . Af any rate, both Notre Dame and North Carolina are already swamped with requests for tickets. . . . Official date for opening sales hasn't been set.

Hornets professional football team, used to pitch for Columbus in the American Association. ... He also saw some service with

Stevens Hotel. . . . The football ‘Hornets are the former Rockets, who have been re-financed for the 1949 season after taking a couple of red ink baths, » » » we THE New Orleans Pelicans have come up with a twin battery, proteges of Bing Crosby, no less. . . . Vernon Law is the pitcher and Evan Law the. catcher. « . « Then there’s John Law, umpire. . «+ « The Law boys hail from California and played for Santa Rosa last

. . . ”. SOME Chicago sports leaders are that jce hockey is becoming too rough ."s « But the lowly Blackhawks continue to pack ’em in apd it's evident that the cash customers prefer high sticking, slashing, tripping plus a brawl or two for their money . . . However, unless the National League players tone it down, there won't be enough healthy regulars around to put up a good, stiff contest: ” - »

<=. THE Indianapolis Clowns of

March 28 . . . Manager Buster throws. He missed nine free Haywood has announced the ac- |throws. “4, quisition of shortstop Jesse Wil- Elgin, m. on i Park (38) Hams from the Kansas City Francis.( 5 3% Ragen, f 1% fp alter, Monarchs . . . Williams played Waster; $4 3 Bradtord.¢ 9 : 3 winter ball in the Puerto Rican Thomsen.t ’ 1 9 Colwell.t 1 04 League. Manele 0 0 3 ie 1 3 : ® ® =» Shillinglawg 4 6 4 Clineg 221 MAURICE ATWELL, who ellg § 2 4 Nilson. 3 : 3 caught and played in the outfield DevVoe.s 252 for St. Paul last year, may be re-| . .., prey a = tained by the Brooklyn Dodgers, Huiitime score—mgin 2, Park 10. parent club, this spring . . . strict-| ies (AIOE mee nue 8h Yael fav

ly as a catcher , , . He is not a polished receiver but is fast and|* possesses a strong arm , . . Atwell has had only three years of

{athletes to stick around and still

{Park Drops Two manson THIS at E10

In Green Book |

National Leag Packed With Information

By Eddie Ash Times Sports Editor

blows in 1927. ... second high? . . . Hank berg, Jimmy Foxx, son? . . , No, it was

" * . CASEY STENGEL, the Yankees’ new skipper, frowns on dog racing meets held in the vicinity of baseball spring camps. + «» « “Keeps the boys out too late,” said Casey, “the hounds -quit running at too late an hour for

be bright-eyed for practice the] next morning.” . . . There's a dog track with all the trimmings located about 10 miles from the Yankees’ Florida training base. ” . " IN CHICAGO early last week, Charlie Grimm, manager of the Cubs, said the fans are underrating his mound staff ... Jolly Chelly seemed only slightly worried. . . . Brave man, Charles . . . but his staff does look some better than last JEATS, When tho Saving Stalod t

. . . FRANKIE TRECHOCK, veteran infielder, who was sold to Buffalo by Milwaukee the other day, was a familiar figure in

neapolis and Louisville. . . . Because of the fact-he is an allaround utility man, Trechock seldom was without a job.

Times Special ELGIN, Iii, Feb. 26 — Park School of Indianapolis dropped its second successive game to Elgin Academy here today, 60 to 38. Elgin last night had rolled up a 66-33 victory in a Midwest Prep Conference game. Park trailed, 29 to 19, atthe half today and fell farther behind. High-point player for Park was Freshman Johnny DeVoe who scored two field goals and five

Park—Ragen, Bradford, West, Hall, Cline Bowes 2, DeVoe 9. a ———————

College Swimming.

league experience . . . The fact

Towa 60, Miunesota 24.

Sgro Signs for Armory Bout Against Kentuckian Mar. 4

Joe Sgro, Indiana's popular welterweight champion, Saturday afternoon signed a contract to battle in the main event of next|,.... officials ruled out all but et by Johnnie Kotz, an all-|

Armory, Promoter yi, petting on the six- horse race. &

Friday night's fistic show in the Forrest McKinney announced.

Sgro ‘signed to meet Jimmy Gramm of Frankfort, ‘Ky., in an eight-round tune-up bout prior to swinging into. his national cam- coming out $234 ahead on the

t decisioned J ackle Cleveland

paign in Cincinnati Mar, 14. But: there is a possibility tha

Gramm, who is a highly-regarded welterweight in the New York

ing Sgro. The Indiana battler in-

the welterwefghit. ladder.

ter, who was runnerup breast stroke file and fourth in the 100-meter free style in the 1948 Olympics, will be one of the top performers in the 39h annual Western Conference swimming and diving championships at Purdue pool Mar. 3, 4 and 5.

Singer, photographed here in the middle of swan dive, is ohe of Indiana University's leading divers. A member of Oceanides, Miss Singer displays her pool prowess before IU students during exhibitions in the University pool. In all, six mem-

bers of the 1948 U. S. Olympic team will appear in the Big Nine competition at Purdue. Most of the existing Big Nine records will be endangered in the meet. The program will start with the 1500 meter swim. There will be six final events on Friday night and the remaining five finals will be on Seturday night. The event runs

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Handicap on a sloppy track. Col. C; V, Whitney castoff.

early In the meeting by illness, came up to the race a fit and speedy colt and proved that his

Pulling himself up out of the University of lowa swimming fed following a brisk workout is ally Ris, captain of the lowa swim team. Ris, who weighs 195 pounds and stands six feet, two inches in height, specializes in the 100 and 200.yard free style swim. He's 25 years old and hails from Chicago. lowa is expected to challenge the Big Nine swim’ mi held by. Ohio State University and the University of Michigan.

Cotton Hennin

By ART WRIGHT When you line up your favorites for this year’s Indianapolis Speedway “500” come May 30, rememLee Wallard, ‘of Schnectedy, N. Y. ‘He's the lead-footed pal of second-place winner Bill Holland + « « the Lee Wallard who created a sensation the final day of qualification last year when he zoomed around the track for 10 miles at an average of 128.420 miles per hour, That was the fifth fastest qualification of the 33-car field. Right up among the hairraising gaits set by Duke Nalon, Rex Mays and Mauri Rose. Lee Wallard is going to drive team of

team formerly engineered by the late “Cotton” Henning with the late Champion Ted Horn as top driver. wr It hasn't been announced officially yet . . . but Wallard will be on the team. He's signed to drive. Rebuffed in 1940 As a result, Wallard should be one of the sensations of all time at the Speedway. His career here is one of those “story - book” episodes. He first came to the track in 1940 after many successes on the Eastern dirt track circuit. But he couldn't find a driving assignment. Although a headliner “back East,” Wallard was a “beginner” to the Indianapolis Speedway’s big timers. In 1941 he came back again to try again. But once more he sat on the sidelines. Then last year he came to the local “gasoline alley” at the insistence of his close friend Bill Holland, who the year before got his first “big break.” Many times last year Wallard flew in Holland’s plane to the Speedway between races back East, . It looked bad. No one wanted to trust his mount to the “newcomer” .

Signs Lee Wallard for 500

day before final qualifications without a driver.

asked, although the Iddings had one of those smaller Offenhauser engines and wasn't much a threat to the headliners.

many of the

Ski Records Fall In

IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich., Feb.| 26 (UP)—Joe Perrault, 22, Ish-|

peming, Mich. jumped 207 feet today to set a new North American ski record in the John Mitch-| ell Ronning memorial tournament | before 20,000 spectators at the! Pine Mountain slide. | Three other jumpers also broke the old continental record of 2801 feet set three weeks ago by| { Sverre Kongsgaard, Norwegian student at the University of Idaho. Perrault broke it twice. | Wilbert Rasmussen, Ishpeming,

g's Old Team

with a 271 foot leap and John

Lee Wallard . . . looms as a new star for 1949.

“Let me take it” Wallard

Becomes Big-Timer Try At the close of qualifications, “big name” car

Mich., broke the Class B record)

Michigan Meet

Bednarz, Iron Mountain, Mich., won the Class C event and a new record with a 285 foot jump. Senior winner Howard Jansen of Chicago jumped 253 feet for a new record. ’

Amateur Basketball

Semi-finals of the Moose Lodge State Basketball Tournament will be “eld tomorrow in. the South Side Armory. Richmond meets Indianapolis at 2 p. m. and Green-

fleld takes 3p m

on Connersville at!

owners wanted Wallard to drive their cars. He had proved he was a big timer, himself. Wallard turned down all offers and drove the Iddings Special to seventh place . . . although he started 28th in the lineup because of his late qualification. He went on after Indianapolis to take sixth place in the AAA National Championship standing —ahead of Holland, Mays and other topnotchers — because he won the 100-mile title event at DuQuoin, Ill. and finished well up in other championship grinds. In counting your favorites for! May 30, remember, too, that it's a good bet for Wallard to drive

- not until the Iddings the Maseratti formerly piloted by Special arrived at the track theithe late Ted Horn.

Coaltown Wins Widener Easily

MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 26 (UP) —

length victory in Calumet Farm the top Florida! racing trophy for the fourth time. | The big brown son of Bull Lea! grabbed the lead from Stud) Poker in the first two strides!

National Guard

minutes before post time Hialeah

Coaltown pald $2.10 but there was no minus pool, the track

over an eight-round route.

Keough of race.

As an added attraction, sk ney has signed Spider Thomas, rode Coaltown to his Jourth area, could stop the hard-punch-| midget-sized featherweight of In-|straight victory of the year bedianapolis, and Pat Iceabucct, fore a crowd of 21,030 which bet tends to open a large scale offen-| Louisville, Ky. Their battle will

sive with the Mar. 14 fight, which|b®

{Of the $74.000 bet on the race, he hopes Will'lead 10 the dop of] Jccabucct has an impressive

record, dating back to 1941. The remainder of the card is being In his last appearance, Sgrolarranged. ta ba pag . a ”

fl ‘|until they hit the home straight-

i Atkinson Rides Winner

| Veteran jockey Ted Atkinson

the Calumet entry down to the | shortest price in Widener history.

$60,157 was vet on Coaltown and Faultiess. The victory was worth $42,300 net to the winner and Calumet collected another $5000 with Faultless.. Shy Guy took down $10,000 for second place and Cherry Oca stables’ First Nighter won $2500 for fourth place. Stud Poker came out of the gate first on the outside but by the

two lengths lead and was just

coasting. 5 Lengths Ahead © Atkinson stretched the lead five lengths ahead of Stud Poker in the back stretch and was never. worge ‘than four lengths ahead

away. Faultless made his move from ‘|third place but tired under the bid made by Shy Guy who charged “lup from fifth to beat’ him.

Rehfeldt Sets Badger Records

—Big Don Rehfeldt set two new

Wisconsin all-timé scoring rec-|

Coaltown galloped to an easy two 0rds tonight as he led the Badgthe $50,000 ers to an easy 79-45 victory over| Widener ‘handicap today, handing| western Ontario in a nonconter-|

from the gate and was never|!0

(lead. Coach Bud Foster used his |

Atkinson, “The Brain” to they

MADISON, Wis., Feb. 26 (UP) |

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ence scrap. | Rehfeldt, who leads the Big Nine in scoring, got only 17} points tonight but still managed | set new Wisconsin scoring| totals for a single season and for the greatest number of field | goals. Rehfeldt now has 331 points, breaking the old mark of 325,

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and has 127, breaking the old rec- | odd of 125. Both records were

ime Badger great during the. 1941-42 season. - Wisconsin had an easy time] with the invading Canadian team | as it piled up a 34:13 halftime]

entire 14-man squad in an at. tempt to hold down the score and | played his regulars less than half| the game. Forward Bob Phibbs led Western Ontario with 13 points.

Gehrmann Runs | 1515 Half-Mile

MADISON, Wis., Feb. 26 (UP) ~Wisconsin's brilliant Don Gehrmann today ran what was beleved. to be the fastest half-mile ever run indgors by a collegiate runner ‘when he was clocked in 1515 in a meet with Marquette, Gehrmann, who recently won the Wanamaker mile in New York, was caught at 1:51.5 by three watches as he nearly lapped the field on Wisconsin's 12-lap clay mile track. : { The official indoor record of 1:505 was® pet by John Borican of Elberon, N. J. in 1942, but Borican was not in college at the time. . ! 3 The 21-year-old . University of, Wisconsin “junior led Wisconsin

jockey lockerroom, never Coaltown with: his back over his

touched and in

ito a-69-45 victory over Marquette. addition to his half-mile vic- , he coasted to an easy 4:256.1 i in the mile. a

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victory last fall over Coaltown was no fluke, { Overlooked In the betting, Vulcan's Forge paid $42.60, 22.40 and 13.10. Dinner Gong, the favorite, {paid $5.50 to place and $4.10 to

(show. Miss Grillo paid $6.80,

| At the start Solidarity, a west. {ern .colt, surprised the crowd of 156,000 by taking the lead from [Ace Admiral, expected to set the pace. Ace Admiral was just be. hind Solidarity, and following as ithe field moved down past the grandstand for the first time were {Vulcan's Forge, Shim Malone, Al-| ablue and On Trust. Going around the clubhotise turn, the horses stayed in their e positions, Solidarity, with sensational apprentice Gordon Glisson on his back, increased his lead to three lengths as they ran down the backstretch. Jockey David Gorman gradually began on his mount and drew even with Solidarity as they went around the last turn, A tremendous roar went up from the crowd at that point as the track announcer called out that Dinner Gong and Miss Grillo were both moving.

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Trick in Santa AnitaRace ~~ © ° ARCADIA, Cil., Feb. 26 (UP)—Vulcan's Forge, the holds a decision over famed Coaltown, today flashed through a driv ing rain to win a half-length victory in the $100,000 Santa Anita

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turned into the stretch while Miss Grillo was closing with a great

Stranahan Upset By Texas Golfer -

HOUSTON, Feb. 26 (UP)~—

Junius Hebert of Houston, &

former Louisiana State University star, sent muscleman Frank Stransdhan down in a stunning 5

and 3 upset today in the semi final round of the Houston Coun-

ry Club's annual invitational golf tournament, Advancing into the 36 hole final Sunday opposite Hebert was the young Larchmont N. Y. star, Doug Ford. Ford conquered Joe Ruby, uni-

|versity of Texas star from Aus-

tin, 4 and 3 in the semifinals while “Hebert was polishing his favored and more confident rival, Stranahan. 2 Tomorrow's rounds start 9:30am and 1:30 p.m, Stranahan, the Toledo, O., sparkplug heir and British ama-

topheavy favorite to win this Guilt Coast simon pure show, A rating which galleryites felt was more than justified after Fe usted off Earl Stewart of Long view, a leading Texas amateur,

The _favored Dinner Gong ‘weaved through the pack as it

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