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By ART WRIGHT TWENTY-FIVE cars are expected to attempt qualifications for the 500-Mile Race in the two days remaining for time trials. Wednesday and Saturday are the only periods left for drivers to show speeds fast enough to place them in the 33-car starting field,

The Wednesday qualification was added when rain, winds and cold postponed yesterday's trials. Time trials the two final days will start at 11 a. m. and close at 6 p. m. Rain checks held by fans who turned out yesterday will be honored either day. While 38 of the 62 cars that have been housed in Gasoline Alley haven't yet attempted qualifications, some of them have been placed on the doubtful list because of wrecks and mechanical troubles. Who will be in the “chosen 25” probably won't be known until Wednesday for most of the crews still had hopes of making the runs. » ” ” WHILE 24 CARS have been clocked officially, it was the opinjon that the 120.846 miles per hour average of the Grancor V-8 Special driven by Pat Flaherty wouldn't be quick enough to remain among the ‘fastest 33.” The 124.939 miles per hour of the Federal Engineering Special driven by Henry Banks also was believed “on the ragged edge.” Veterans were divided in their opinions of whether the slowest starter would be in the 125 or 126 miles per hour bracket. Five other cars averaged under 126 miles per hour. With the field of possible qualiflers narrowed, many wiseacres felt today that the 125-miles-per-hour cars would be in the lineup at the start next Monddy,

= THE CREW OF "the alreadyqualified Sarafoff Special which t fire Saturday with Chet Mill&¥ at the wheel said the car would be ready race day. The car was qualified the first day of time trials by “Doc” Williams at 125.161 miles per hour. The few thousand fans who shivered in yesterday's wind and rain saw three race cars and.two sports cars in action. « =» = WARMUP LAPS WERE run by Johnny ‘McDowell in the Iddings Special, Danny Kladis in Joe

Lencki’s Speedviay Cocktail Special and Ross Page in the Page Special

Speedway President Wilbur Shaw took Tony Hulman, owner of the track, for a ride in the Fageol Super-Sonic Sports car. Hulman then drove the KurtisKraft Sports Car with Shaw as his passenger. Then Tommy Milton, AAA chief steward for the race, was given a ride in the Kurtis-Kraft by Shaw. The sports cars probably ran as fast as the race cars yesterday because of the high wind and cold. # » ” JOE THORNE ARRIVED yesterday with his Thorne Engineering Special, the former Don Lee -Maserati,. He has replaced the

Maserati engine with an Art of a re-occurance. They've placed | {another 500 pilot, who toured the | red flags at the drive- in entrance. | half-mile track in :22.803.

Sparks engine but the car has the same body it had last year. Maybe it's because s0 many drivers are looking for cars to pilot . .. placed an airplane seat placard in the driver's cockpit: this seat is OCCUPIED. 3

trained horse will drive an auto-| mobile on the speedway next

Wednesday at 4 p. m. has brought! ton Downs,

Rain, Rain Go Away—But It Didn't

Marge Skelton: Rolls 300 to Win Classic

3d Woman in City Bowling History to Score Perfect Game

Marge Skelton’'s name went into the record “books today as the third woman in the history of Indianapolis bowling to Toil

game” yesterday afternoon in the Parkway alleys in the fourth game of her bid

Widener Course.

Moore to Put Hope on Line i

To Bottom of Light

Loss to Chicagoan Would Send Local Boxer

By JIM HEYROCK

25 Fillies in- a Four Furlong Finish, Won by a “4

Charge of the Light Brigade? No, just the finish of a liming race for maiden 2-year-okds at Long Island track. Chasing Rabbit (arrow) to the wire are 25 fillies, the biggest field of the year at the New York oval. The os was A furlongs

Title Match

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2 Heavyweight Mat Bouts Booked

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night. Heavyweight Heap

dor Szabo of Santa Monica, Cal, iin a meeting for the world's

{Canada facing Hans and Bras The main event will pair Lou Schnable of Milwaukee. . Thesz of 8t. Louis against San-!

Card Pace

for the top spot in the annual 6game women's singles classic.

The man who has challenged Freddie Mills of England, light heavyweight champion of the world, could get stopped in his tracks here Friday night. . Archie Moore, No, 1 contender for the light heavyweight championship, has been signed to battle Clinton Bacon of Chicago, who has made three impressive showings recently in the Indianapolis

heavyweight title. The two Hun-| ST. LOUIS — The Cardinals garians will vie for two falls out have occupied first, second or of three with a 90-minute time third place ratings in the Nae Hmit. {tional league race 10 years in 3

The first 300 Rival brother teams. will battle row,

Photo by Lloyd B. Walton, Times Staff Photographer. Symbolic of the dearth of action at the Speedway yesterday, a cameraman stands disconsolately in a doorway at Gasoline Alley, looking and listening to the patter of raindrops. The intermittent downpour caused cancellation of the time trials and Wednesday has been added as a qualification day in addition to the final one next Saturday.

Speedway Lineup

FIRST ROW No. Driver Car Qual. Speed 54 Dyke Nalon Novi Mobil Special ! 132.939 5 Rex Mays Novi Mobil Special 129.5562 33 Jack McGrath City of Tacoma Special 128.884 SECOND ROW 7 Bill Holland Blue Crown Spark Plug Special 128.673 17 Duane Carter Belanger Special 128.233 22 George Comnor Blue Crown Spark Plug Speclal 128.228 THIRD ROW 61 Jimmy Jackson Howard Keck Special 128.023 268 George Lynch Auto Shippers Special 127.828 28 Johnny Mantz Agajanian Special 5 127.786 FOURTH ROW . 3 Mauri Rose Blue Crown Spark Plug Special 127.759 14 Hal Cole Grancor Special 127.168 65 Doc Williams Sarafoft Special 125.161 FIFTH ROW 36 Bill Cantrell Faegol Twin Coach Special 125.022 21 Henry Banks Federal Engineering Special 124.939 12 = Johnny Parsons Kurtis Kraft Special 182.900 SIXTH ROW 2 2 Myron Fohr Marchese Special 129.776 8 Mack Hellings Don Lee Special 128.260 29 Duke Dinsmore Norm Olson Special 127.7150 ’ ; SEVENTH ‘ROW : kk Joie Chitwood Wolfe Special 126.863 34 Ralph Pratt Belanger “Special 125.764 57 Jackie Holmes Pat Clancy Special 128.087 : EIGHTH ROW * 64 Troy Ruttman Carter Special 125.945 46 T. Bettenhausen Flavell Special 125.764 43 Pat Flaherty Grancor V-8 Special 120.846

games by women in local bowl ing were rolled by Billie Rice and Bertha Urbancie Gorka during the 1941-42 campaign. » ‘Mrs. Skelton not only rolled a perfect game, bit brought her series to a climactic close by win-

Mrs. Skelton

ring. Moore, who calls Indianapolis his home, signed today for the 10-round scrap with Bacon, knowing a loss would throw him to the bottom of the light heavyweight heap.

ning the $750 first prize by one pin. She picked off the 10 pin, but left the 6 pin in the last frame of her last game. Her games were 183-183-183-| 300-220-149 for a total of 1218 Her 300 game came on alleys 7 and 8. Earns $775 . Marge was awarded $25 for her high game to earn a total of $775 over the week-end. Second prize went to Shirlee- Wernecke of Chicago who shot 1217 when the tournament opened a week

ago. ‘ The tourney crown climaxed a brilliant season for Mrs. Skelton, who also rolled a 707 for the highest three-game total of the winter league play. Sorority Match Rolled Lambda Beta Sigma, local bowling sorority, sponsored an exhibition match at the West Side plant yesterday .for the County Crippled Children's Society. The event was staged with the help of Charles Fernald of the children’s society. Wilena Hansen and Hilda Geldmejer of Indiana Fur, and Hickman Whirlaway's Lila Littrell, Ann Crull and Genie Drexler

door show of the season at the Pennsylvania St. Sports Arena. The 32-year-old Moore, whose one ambition is to be light heavy. weight champion of the world, will go to Cincinnati tonight to be introduced as the most logical man to meet tonight's winner of the Gus Lesnevich-Joey Maxim NBA championship go. It was agreed some time ago that the four leading light heavyweights in the country would fight an elimination series to de. termine who would be the top challenger for Mills’ title, oore : and Harold Johnson were paired and Lesnevich and Maxim squared off. Moore defeated Johnsen Apr, 26 and is now awaiting the outcome of tonight's Cincinnati brawl to see whom his next opponent will be. elcomes All Comers Moore, the chocolate-skinned roughy who has knocked over some of the leading heavies and light heavies, says he isn't afraid to meet any existing light heavyweight. That's why he didn’t hesitaté to sign with Bacon, despite the fact he has never seen the up-and-coming Chicagoan battle. Bacon; a muscled slam-bang

took two games out of three from a pickup team representing the Indianapolis Star.

she heard he had any plans to ‘500’ up LI drive. As of yesterday, Pete had Pilot Wins no plans to drive, ” ” ” y TOMMY MILTON, chief stew- : ard and one of the greatest driv- Race at Salem ers of all time, says- he's never been superstitious. He proved it

yesterday by coming out to the Times State Service

puncher, has ended quickly every fight he has had in Indianapolis.

« The fight will be the first out-|

‘nical knockout over Lloyd am-| son, a highly touted scrapper from Cincinnati, Next was a knockout over John Oliver of Louisville. | In his last appearance, he, chopped up Bill Davis of Indian- | apolis in short order and put him away for the count, A win over a big name like Archie Moore would boost the! Chicago lad into the first 10 light heavyweights in the world. Promoter Forrest McKinney says in the event of rain, the show will be moved over to Saturday night.

Amateur Nines Rained Out

Twenty-four teams in the Indianapolis Amateur Baseball Association were. beaten yesterday afternoon-—by the weatherman. Twelve games were scheduled in the three Sunday leagues, Big Six, Municipal and City, but none were able to play because of

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heavy rains Saturday night and Sunday, Only league to play this week was the Manufacturers’ (Satur. day) League. The DeWolf News team dumped the P, R. Mallory] nine.. It . was the first defeat of| the season for Mallory. The Saturday games put Mal-| lory, Boughton Excavators and Capitol Oil in a tie for first place. Each has won three and lost)

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track in green shirt, tie and slacks. Many drivers shy away from green.

of » “LIFE OF TED HORN” by Russ Catlin, a biography in book form, is receiving applause in Gasoline Alley. Floyd Clymer, who publishes the book, says Catlin has waived his royalties and] ' they're to go to Horn’s widow and | | two epilren..

SINCE TOMMY Mattson’s car, struck the pit retaining wall Saturday in driving off the track, officials aren’t taking any chances |

SALEM, May 23 —= Troy Rutt{man, Ontario, Cal, race driver who is slated to wheel the Carter; Special in the 500-Mile Race Memorial Day, yesterday won the 20lap feature race at Salem Speed-| way. His time for the 10 miles was 8:13.41. Second place in the feature {went to Jackie Holmes of andian{apolis. Tommy Mattson, who was slightly injured Saturday at the {500 track when his car hit the re-| {taining wall, placed third. | Fastest qualifying time of: the | {day was set by Jack McGrath, |

‘I can stop on-a dime,” the salesman prom. ised you, “~and leave nine cents change!”

And your Buick did — when it was new and brake linings

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Elimination heat winners were

CHET MILLER, assigned to the {McGrath,

which the late Champion Ted |

but Thorne immediately yy,rn drove last year, wears the Mitchell Rolls 627

most representative badge of the

“Sorry, but 500.mile race. It's No. 500.

In Teen Pin Tourney

AMONG THE H E ADLINE A 2532 total won first place for | ANNOUNCEMENT THAT a drivers of past years at the track [Eagles Nest in the boys’ division yesterday was “Babe” Stapp, now| of promoter of the races at Arling- tournament at the Indiana last near Dallas, Tex. |night, and the Brookside team led |

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many quips from the racing fra- | ‘Babe” is signing up the “500” | the girls with 1710.

ternity, such as:

pital staff . requires a physical examination. (Drivers are required to take phy-! sical exams.) “Hope the horse isn't a mare « + « Or maybe they won't let her drive.” (Females are barred from racing.) |

» » » TONY HULMAN GOT a sur-| prise after he pulled into the pits after taking Wilbur Shaw for a ride in the Kurtis-Kraft Sports| Car. When they showed Hullman | how the steering wheel could be pushed closer to the dash board | ar pulled closer to the lap, he said: | “Gosh, you should have told me | before we went out . . . if that had| bappened while we Were on the track I'd have been scared to| death.” ”

} ” . THEY'RE BURNING the midnight oll in the garages of Indianapolis Race Cars, Inc. The crew) worked until 1 a. m. yesterday and apparently it was worth it. } Bald Lee Wallard about his Maserati: “That baby’s really ready to run now. If it runs fast enough to scare me I'll be happy.” 2 . = = PETE DePAOLO, team man-| ager for Indianapolis Race Cars, | said Mrs. DePaolo told him on| the phone from Los Angeles after| he took the job that she'd grab|

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girls with 418.

Chick Barbo, Lyle Indianapolis Race Cars Maserati | Dickey and Ray Lyden.

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