Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1949 — Page 16

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‘fourths of a quart of oil each lap.

3 Cars to Vie For Remaining

13 Positions

| Expect Minimum | Of 125 MPH to | Assure Spot

By BILL EGGERT

Another busy week-end of qualifying next Saturday and’

Sunday may make the final qualification date, May 28 one of elimination at the Indianapolis Motor Speedws,.

That final day may relegate

to the sidelines one .or two of

the 20 cars already qualified

since most drivers believe a ‘good 125 mph” will be needed to get

into the starting field of 33 for

the 200-lap race, May 30.

Three arrivals yesterday has

pushed the number of cars at the track to 51, meaning that 31 to

date have an eye on one of the 13

remaining starting-positions. More race cars are expected this w

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES TUESDAY. MAY 17, 1049 TUESDAY

redict Elimination Battle On Final ‘500’ Qualification Day Jackson

Mechani

‘Too Lah Race Cao Bob Jackson, ton engineer, turend down th olis Race Cars, post vacated Su chanic Ed Metz “At this late son, “I don’t fe to any of tho

Retain Leads High School Bowlers Get Trophy for Winning Ways =.

In Pin Tourney

Several Keglerettes Qualify for Stakes

COLUMBUS, 0., May 17 (UP) ~{ None of the leaders of the top 10| of the "Women's International

Bowling Congress tournament cars, Indianay were knocked off their perch to-|- Inc, or the S day, although several keglerettes ment.” qualified for a share of the prize, Jackson had : money. ! Detroit to the

The rolling in the minor events |yesterday saw a doubles team| from Syracuse, N. Y., Stella Pow-| oroznek and Myrtle Brisson, post. g 536 and 605 for an 1131 and high for the day in that event. Far Behind Leaders Their effort landed them in 18th| {place, far below the leaders, but| high enough for part of the 383 800 in prizes. Sylvia Wene, a little bowler, from Philadelphia, rolled a fair-

request of Fre Holliday Steel ( quit Sunday. veteran mechar Metzler's job i cars ready in tions this week With the jo! Jackson, it W Gasoline Alley group was atte deal with anc chanic whose

sized total of 1699 for nine games. | not disclose. The American Bowling and Bil-| Slated lard team from New York, Meanwhile, I

champs of the Empire State, | chalked up a 2613 in the team, event for the best effort in that department on the 26th day of the tourney.

Roy Worline o! tinued to work formerly care Cotton Hennir

-E : slated to be d — MPH Espatience Te . Marion Morell (right Vorrground) captain of the winning team nf the Manual High School Chet Miller, a — f y ealwe of ths years H. S. Baseball, Track Girls' Bowling League, accepts the frophy presented by Larry Lehmann (center), owner of Fountain race Jas Yeas Sony dover, EE Chet Miller, veteran Spoutuey 4 diver, is shown at the wheel of the Maserati he is dated 1 to Schedule This Week Square alleys. The loop has just finished its third year at the alley. Other team members are Da} ore as an example, is only 22, He's been drive. This is one of three cars formerly under the care of Ed Meter, chief mechanic for Indian Togas | left to right) Gey Smith, Carole McVey, Rose Laut and Shirley Judkins. a wt a rack today 16 married four months, He passed apolis Race Cars, Inc., who quit in a huff Sunday when asked by Fred Holliday, head of the group, |, Warren Central at "Decatur Central. oband Fn wR Sock 70 Qualify — eh his driver's test in A-No. 1 style why none of the cars had made qualification, runs. {. Ben Davis » lawrence Conral, 3:30 » Chicago Hornets Sign So al Notes in an effort to This. wouk. ant probebuywinla wen Davis SENAY conn. 330 South Carolina Tackle |, nee iennswols sii Leseie For National Open A

qualify next Saturday.

H. 5. Box Scores Southport, Ripple Seek

speed, along WV

P: gotithport at Hasien Central, 3:15 p.m. CHICAGO, May 17 (UP)—Phil- [Tuesday night May 17 is as follows; 7:00) NEW YORK, May 17 (UP)— cars of the g

m.—Mechani Laundry vs. Allied The entry list for the National His remark, after he had cut a Shortridge Cathedral a plist Savivira at Riverside, 3| Ek) Alesanier, 2 210 pouns signed DT A Tre oy Pian ore ay Tr rILLETt Stood. ot the war 52 ne lap at 126, that he doesn't want toy... ,, 4" § 4 5arion. in ‘To Sew U Diamond Titles ech at Broad Rivpie. 3 3. m to play with the Chicago Hornets cf*¢0 Crispi Society. 9.30 p. m—Eistrod 1356 t54ay as the deadline passed id in Metz run too fast so early, rocked some |8chmchrav 4 1 2 J | Radkovic. es id a a Attucks ve. Pehortridse at River- ball C Motors ys. Checker Flag Tavern. x oi were ‘completed for ended in Me of the veterans. They remember Skate 114 8 ftom’ "1! i i LOPOLOUS Friday jot the All America Football Con-| rhe twilight league schedule with all and plans The other 1} ; avis, 5411 bait 4211 By JIMMIE ANGE 4 Lawrence Central’ at Beech ‘Grove, 3:15 {ference. {games at 6 p. m. 1s: Riverside 1—8hirley qualifying rounds. be driven by when they got pats on the back|gluiie {| § igen 3 i Southport and Broad Ripple can settle their claim to county and» Alexander, 6 feet 4 inches tall, Corp. vs. Gibson Co. Riverside 3—| The tournament will be held a for punching accelerators to get a Riser. c 11h 0havkinne 4 9 city prep diamond supremacy with finality tomorrow and Thursday. ‘Chinedral at De 230.3. W, | ayed as a freshman at South Kroser Bakery ve. Sroub Presovserisd: June 9-11 at Chicago. Qualify. develope Teal Tousing 117 mph. goes 43 8 Agden i 1 i The Cards need only a victory over Warren Central tomorrow| Fark School vs. : Culver M. A. at RIver- Carolina In 1942. He was in serv- ins. oo Moors va. il Fruck {ing rounds are scheduled May 24 mech an'cs it . ’e other drivers completed Tota 3913318 Totals 30103i10/to decide the rural diamond squabble. this season, but the Rockets) : ® Shak ice for three years, but played for| ss Records of the Bush.Callshan at Honolulu, June 1 at Washing. 10 locate the their driver's tests yesterday; FA ess ernie 1 9—17/ may find its first setback against a tough Tech team Thursday. The Saturds three additional seasons through trillent softball league. which plays in ton and May 31 at 28 other localie teady for. qui Tommy Mattson in one of the 8h edrs) ny rr ates # ie =" feated Manual, 7 to 3, yesterday, for their 11th straight _At Indianapolis, yo Bloomington. \1aat fall. the eity parks, will be replaced by the ¢iaq y ! Sheffler Offenhausers, Pat ¥Fla-| Eirors—Radkov “hy jegmgnio Ma Mussio Roses Je ate] AT i ae East Chica last fa Ellis “Trucking Co. team. urday. Fu or. Ae le 3 riump S-season-a herty in a Grancor Special V-8 lock 3, Rleleker 3 lads to pes 2. Davis 3. Flufeb um bert, |t0 get through the Greencla

and Jim Rathman in a Grancor

Offenhauser, Runs, batted Ir Gleging Kappes: P igke- diamond season. Holds Dayton Record dor. Two-Sage iets 3 Si epi i Tech tops the North Central pom

Mattson and teammate Bill}

Bhetfler, who owns the twin entry, a ioe, Toor umphs and can partly atone for

expects to attempt to qualify this week-end; Mattson on Saturday because he has a hi-bank racing!in

date Sunday at Salem, Ind. olgner. Bit”

Flaherty and Rathman finally passed their tests after innumerable laps. Flaherty, 23, is in his

was finding more difficulty with rules than he was the track,

first yéar of AAA driving, and Pt it | i

although the car was using three- ra

He is from Glendale, Cal. Rathman, 23, of Los Angeles, has raced hot rods, midgets and

three-quarter cars, vethe when winning run scored Ing other games yesterday, Mattson, 34, of Wilmington, Fainaeia Genial 1h ster 99 908 1-8! Shortridge scored its 11th victory

Del, holds the world's record of 121.19 for one-lap at Dayton. He

has been driving big cars in AAA can mets since ooks like

races 1 1940 and k a comer. af the Speedway. 2 Three Arrivals

isso, A060 lt flr 4 ¢ avi Sh preserve their first unblemished

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Painted pnt Central |11 games, shoots for its sixth’

A ABH 04 straight county victory. A loss: i AE aeithr 8 9 } 3/to Warren Wednesday and a Ben: eacock.ss SiBernoidslf 4 8iDavis triumph over Lawrence | ite gl Pushin i 1 1Central today would give thei den] gl ager 1'} 8/Giants and Redbirds a 5-1 dead-| SA i fcDanisse 1 2.9 9 lock for the county crown. War-| acon, cf flict i : g 8 ren faces Decatur Central in the '

Totals 3 5 Tova

Hrrors_ Coho, SHE Yl White, Pr in 15 games by romping over .Cated

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Meanwhile, yesterday's new car fed 3 Taw rh ul Fae A arial tou uae fi Ler the Ray Brady tbe Ine the|er 1 In 1. Hit by plteher—By

Schoof Special and the Pioneer Rei yiign

Auto Special. George Fonder, Lansdale, Pa. another first-year driver, is slated to drive the Brady car which

won the race in 19468 with George N

Robson driving. Frank Burany, another newcomer from Milwaukee, will be the ‘Schoof pilot. A

mnt. ey 3 driver for the Pioneer Auto Spe- pith |

cial has not been named.

y TWELVE CARS were on the Washington a Southport

track yesterday including Rex| Mays who wheeled the Bowes Seal Fast Special at 120 mph to help

en) ining pitehiar—Parker. Um. for five and Bill Ralph and

Washington Southport ton got a perfect day in two BHOA BHOA {trips to the plate and Jim ColSDsalla?- 3 3 Milum.3b bert, Roger Pluckebaum and Vic i ee, 88 01 fel,88 1 B ithit 200 ur \ + ¢ 11 Mussio got two for four. smelt 1443 anys $ § 8! Cathedral snapped at the seams oweclin 3 53 Johnsons § 211 lin the seventh and committed 11 rower, ib 11 0 olJausab 1 0 1 2jerrors in the game. Cathedral bb JiMartinge 0 2 2 Shas split in eight games to date. } 1 her's $ $ 2! Lawrence's Jim Wadsworth Jett, o 1|pitched six innings without a hit Totals | 35 318 8 3 331 6 and gave way to Joe Parker in

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Mechanic Pete Clark diagnose some “bugs in the shocks.” Several oldtimers thought Rex should stay out of any other car than the Novi he will drive. They be lieve a driver shouldn't switch from front drives to rear drives. Rex can. He sat on the pole last year in the Bowes car. » » . JACKIE HOLMES of Indianapolis has had the Pat Clancy sixwheeler roaring near the 125 mph. He's anxious to try the car on the dirt at Milwaukee next month.

» » » TOM: McCAHILL, automobile test driver for Mechanix Illustrated, has picked Duke Nalon to win the 1949 race. In the magazing's May issue, McCahill lists the finish this way; Nalon, Rose, Holland or Mays, Johnny Parsons and George Connor, # . . MACK HELLINGS, driver for the Don Lee Kurtis-Kraft, manufacturers motorcycle handlebars and accessories in Burbank, Cal. The trademark is a handlebar mustache, much longer than

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To Join Baltimore Team i 8T. LOUIS, Mo., May 17 (UP)

~The St. Louls Browns an- Manual nounced yesterday that outfielder Broad. Bo

Ken Wood will be sent to the Baltimore team of the Interna-

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speinmg! gi it seventh Inning; Lawrence Central

teinmetz tio. Pin. Terr: » on PH to 1, and Tech walloped Howe, 11

bases-—M gal, Howe, Hurrl Sacrifi 4 Pitcher Stars at Plate re ah igo mage on baser yay Bob Steinmetz scored after he

pon. Time. Howe Tech third win in nine games.

111s. 3b Or’ LY, 88 tucker, it : XS on. ot 0 Nushp 4h dit, ang. 3b Ym

tals oil 33 Jattle Bie An nw {two of them, Larry Gillum's triple} =

uns ers, Viel g—Saxson, off four hits by Glenn Melloy, pe + 1114118 er So A Hugh Wolf, Dickie Campbell and se Node Sh"

Conference with a sextet of tri-* Tres & the 10-to-1 debacle handed Tech| tir in the city tourney. It was the Af Ha er! Green's only loss in 10 games this osing year, an eight-error crack-up. li Lawrie!” “southport, winners of eight inf

«— I! only ether game today. i031 8 Shortridge Wins 17 to 7

thedral, 17 to 7, with a nine-run

igpers. i nicked Plainfield, 7 to 6; South“White, | port squeezed by Washington, 2

> ir uck to 1. 0%, Parker 1. Shortridge's Fred Davis led nies; Fark: the 13-hit assault, getting four

Charles Glesing tripled. Bill Bar-

{the final stanza. Then the Bears 000 3— [regained a one-run lead in the Li r= bot tom half of their seventh in-

in , Sel ning.

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m; ples and Dan Siler got on base with two errors. It was Lawrence's

Tech's Gene Nash pitched andi batted his mates to victory. He} got three for four, gave up three |! hits-——a homer by Bob Plers— and two doubles—and fanned Wi (men, ! Southport got only three hits | off Washington slabman Bob | Bell, who struck out 10 men, but'

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and Dick Thiel's single produced the seventh. ithe winning run in the third in 3 93 808 i ning. Washington got its run off|

4 .[two errors, Jim Lee scoring the | fcker eo i tally. SA ke, Manuals two-run first inning | tle, son. (lead was erased by Ripple's tri

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in Bit on ball ma : Bob Stephens, who got three for | Eh Te TS ol HL al pT vy the third, Dickie Campbell's i nt with Pitcher John Lovell} i. = Bread Ripple on got two of the three markers. ? A ABH OA |". pallor the i 3! yors. it 1 CampbllLib 4 J Ging 11] Inte | mr RT 143 ! Eon 2%] SEAT COVERS Wesirart § 0 | 0 evn lt 800 MADE FOR ANY CAR eee 334 Totals 28 818 i Totals 301021 «| EECLLLNS

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