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Selection to Be Made on Basis of Character, Attitude; Achievement

‘By JIMMIE ANGELOPOLOUS The Indianapolis Times will establish a precedent in local high school athletic annals when it makes Athlete of the Year awards to the two outstanding city and county athletes for the 1949-50 : school year; Walter Leckrone, editor of The Times, announced last night. The Athlete of the Year awards, which will go to the

First Indiana Victor Sets urse Mark

Jack Brant Brings Him In; Storm Hour Rider Injured

By JIM HEYROCK

~ athletes Selected by The rectors and all the coaches of the es for all-around excel- respective award winners. lence, will be the highest! Several members of The Times) individual tribute ever paid to leditorial staff and all mem i of Marion County's senior prep/the sports department will athletes. present at the banquet.

The Times’ selections will be Cite Character Traits based on character, mental atth| The honored selections will cite

«iude-and. all-around, outstanding the. .top..athletes. in. the. city. and)

athletic ~ achievement bringing|county who have best exemplified honor and distinction to the re-/strong character traits of loyalty, spective schools for the past year. fair play, sportsmanship, determiTrophies From Em-Roe’s pation and unselfishness toward Two large trophies from the|teammates and classmates in or Em-Roe Sporting Goods Co. will out of uniform. . be presented to the honored ath-| Final selections will include letes adjudged by The Times as academic and all-around athletic displaying the most desirable ath- proficiency reflecting outstanding letic and behavioral traits on and credit to the school and perpetuaoff the athletic field. {tion of the school’s name with disThe trophies, which will be tinction throughout the year. called The Times-Em-Roe awards, The Times- Km-Roe trophy will are 33 Inches high and are two of | contain the gold-plated figure of the largest trophy awards given!an athlete symbolizing victory to prep athletes in the state. and achievement in athletic enThe Athlete of the Year awards deavor. will be presented tg the two boys| Both trophies will become the at a banquet to be given by The personal property of the Athlete Times later this month. Mr. Leck- of the Year award winners serone will make the presentations. lected from a field of the city and

+.» Al50 to be honored at. the dinnericounty's. most. outstanding: -ath< . will ‘be the parents, athletic di-iletes for 1949-50.

Tribesters Lose Again By One Run; Slip to 3d Place

Helped by 3 Double Plays, Toledo's Grissom Hands Indians 4th Straight Loss, 3 to 2

Times Special TOLEDO, “Tune 10-—Following a pattern in games betweén the | ‘Indianapolis Indians and Toledo this season, home runs played the | Sending role and the Mud Hens won the series opener this afternoon, 02

It was the Tribe's fourth straight defeat on this brief road trip ~since it followed three setbacks In Columbus, “two by one- run

The defeat dropped the Indians third and scored after the catch to third place in the American jon Barnacle's fly. Association race. Louisville on in the Stxth; fF oamphell doubled, at umbus and passed the Tribe- 282ain an red as Barnacle walsters to challenge Minneapolis for fay 5 Gregg pitch a - rn, the lead. _ ipark. It was Barnacle's four Homer were: even in Jody s homer uf the Staghy. ked contest—oneé apiece—but the To-| n amp smacke 8 ledo four-master, by the veteran second double, Gregg had erased

Indiana horse to win the Royalton Steeplechase, today set a new course record and romped home a winner with

a local rider up. Jack. Brant Jr. brought in Bannock Laddie in 4:25 2-5 to

Poti the> third ronning ofthe

Royalton Steeplechase over the Wells Hampton Farm, 14 miles west of Indianapolis off Rd. 52. And the rider of the favorite, Storm Hour, was -in Methodist Hospital with a fraetured collar bone and possible other injuries: after falling on the 13th jump. Storm Hour Trips Greer Allen, 28-year-old rider from Chicago, was a 2-to-1 favorite to bring Storm Hour home a winner. He was making a bid

when the great Storm Hour] tripped and allowed Bannock| Laddie to come in the victory by| 25 lengths.

ous record last year when he! came home a winner in 4 31 2-5.

again today to overtake Bannock Laddie but Brant had other ideas. Brant shoved Laddie, which isi owned by George Sadlier of In-|

Royalton Winners

FIRST RACE ‘The Buena Vista 1—-R. Bird; 3—Isa Princess; 3--Big Train, i SECOND AACE The Irishman’'s Ru 1--Clear Drive; 2oVArginIa Ranzi; - 3— {Book Tip.

The RD ACE RE Plate | 1-—French Coast; 3—Clear Drive; 3—| Campsite. TH RAC

FOUR E. The John B. Stokely Noma ria 1--Lady Charade: 2--Lan Eien FIFT| CE The Fishback Run 1--Buddy Hancock... 2-~Red. Maiden: |

3—Red. = SIXTH SAC °K

Thom kelshaus Memorial Boland, Middleground whipped Pa “Melody: ines Ebony; >| through the stretch like

SEVENTH RACE Eagle Valley Turf <Haven; 2—Easter Boy, J3-—8camper

EIGHTH RACE The Royalton Stecpicohane 1—-Bannock adi die; ~Ballyskylight: Foxey Pore. ie

Cs into the lead “with the {starting flag as the 3000 fans

~~ Rannock Laddie; the first"

on the final round of the course

Storm Hour had set the previ-|

ee wont Bags Belmont. |

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Bantam Ben Battles Pain and Par to Get

Little Texan, Legs Sagging in Terrific Heat, Fights Way In With 287 Card By OSCAR FRALEY, United Press Sports Writer ARDMORE, Pa., June 10—Bantam Ben Hogan battled pain and par to a standstill today. - His fighting heart cone quered- faltering -legs-to-carry-him-into-a-threesway-tie-at-287 with Lloyd Mangrum and George Fazio for the National Open Golf Championship. | His trembling legs tormenting him in every throbbing he tendon, the tight lipped little Ho Hogan out ABA B44 4i3—

man from the Lone Star State, ~~ ie staggered home through the Ben Hogan in 445 345 td heat that blanketed Merion Golf cenessiiinnes STen287

OIE With =r four over par--hst Lloyd Mangruns ous. $61-655- 848m. .

round 37-37-74 which put . him! tesa N ERNE A nna Aa 41. ig into a triple playoff tomorrow Lloyd Mangrum in 444 345 484 : afternoon. SABA ANNs aay a The balding Fazio—who almost Geo, Fazio out 463 554 463 abandoned competitive golf this whssvsnsanerenneen 4 ; spring—-led the way in with a (Geo, Fazio in 444 333 385 final round of 70 for his 287. Al rerirsineeenes STB

short time later the dapper Man

grum-—a Purple Heart war ave 0 who won this classic in the light- 0 oe S Nl ning and the rain at Cleveland Robert Keeker, 17-year-old Indianapolis rider, refused to be thrown for a loss in the Royalton's in 1946—matched his total score]

Thomas F. Ruckelshaus Memorial race. Greyboy, Keeker's mount, made him come a-cropper twice, |with a soaring 76. Red Bird Streak but young Keeker climbed back « on each time and eventually fi nished third. | Hogan Keeps Coming

Mi dle d Wh | But out there under the blazing!

sun, fighting pain and par and. Columbus Loses, <0 heat and -hazards, came Hogan.| “3 For a time it looked like the tiny, 4=3, In 9th Frame Texan might take it all. But it| COLUMBUS, 0., June (UP)— was just too much to ask of this| The Columbus Redbirds threes Httle -man=who- Ameri EAE. W AL : NBS. lca’s most coveted golfing prize tonight as Louisville took a 4 to3 in 1048 and then almost lost his decision in the opener of a four life in an automobile accident in| game series, . | February of 1940. The Birds lost in the ninth after Not since returning to the golf [leading by one run from the sixth wars this year had Hogan played |!0ning. on when the Colonels 36 holes in one day. But now| Pushed across two runs. 5 [he had to, and only that old willl Columbus relief pitcher Thomas . to vin brought him home in pun hurt when he tried to field a |dead heat, For after the first uni laid down by Piersall in the ® (18 holes this morning, he baraly| Colonels’ game - winning upper was able to get his shoes back | of the ninth and had to be on to his swollen feet | olga] from the field. > e victory moved the Colonels ; Finally he made it, and started into second place in the American 3 the long journey through the heat| Association, five percentage points

and the largest crowd in open!ahead of the Indianapolis-Indlans ey "history, 12,500 tense and feverish . Loulsvilie : 3

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Hill Prince Fails,

Running Seventh

| NEW YORK, June 10 (UP)-— | Middleground, turning loose the! {same stretch drive which carried him to triumph in the Kentucky | Derby, sprinted to a clean cut| \one-length victory in the $75,000}

i Belmont Form Chart on Page 18 | i

| Belmont. Stakes today. “Vaunted | £1 {Hill Prince failed to last in th ».|BTUelling mile and a half stak and finished seventh. Held back in the early stage fof the race by Jockey Willie

to take two-thirds of the ora] [triple crown. George D. Widen-| jer's Lights Up was second and iC. - V, Whitney's Mr. Trouble third. - A crowd of 30,152 expected to see a two horse battle between |

| 1 LJ oetior ‘conditioned men were fall- ! §/ing by the wayside, f A § = Lif : | Loe Not Hogan. Almost, but not ; i ¢ : lin gute £131 : i Every shot Was an n effort and] he was limping visibly as he |

Jack Brant Jr., could point to the record to show why he won

{Middleground and Hill Prince, dragged himself to the | hinth| Bill Barnacle, came with one run- 14 batsmen in a row, getting the cheered on the local horse. Iwho en the Preakness Stakes! the third annual Royalton Steeplechase. After touring the two green-the 27th of the day—in | Moss Heian ner on ahead; whereas the In- side out in order in the second,| Bannock Laddie held at least © finishing second 1’ the Der) and one-half mile brush course in a record 4:25 2.5, Brant didn't |37, one over par. But it was to fon Doggies k dians' homer, by Danny O'Con- third, fourth and fifth, after strik-/a two-length lead going.into the’ © oF LF 0 aos left] mind posing with his trophies and main cheerleaders, his wife get even worse. For on the Retain en in. nell, was belted wien the bases|ing out the last man in the first 80a] round. Sion Hour one in_ Hill Prince: once the field of | (left) and Mrs. George Sadlier. Mrs. Sadlier's husband owns (twelfth he twisted that scream- El Were empty. Barnacle batted in! i the wt out the first man UP apparently he gh aele oy nine hit the head of the stretch.| Brant's mount, Bannock Laddie. he ktiee and Hom thefe on in a oledo runs. {in the sixth. e wasn't even able to ben own | of evil Fe ‘Biru Toe Md Hons won on ive" Win he coe 3 to unit, 08 Toe pare mie Sede For Md iy ye ana, ik bie bil out of the cup 16'S pf hits, three off Hal Gregg, two | Four Marks Set e caddy did that—and Caryl in 0 innings: off: Hal : he Bel t Cup to his Mo be og ACTH oft Bil} Pierre. Or -ghe other! (Continued on Page 16, Col. 1) head. Four Bookies on Hand [oading Ten faded with Hil Who ls This? eat t She og Memphis, HY SE Nix and, e losing Tribésters col- i Tenn entist w was playing — nt N lected eight safeties oft Marvin 17iD@ Box Score— Hala! 1 botiies--there ets four Prince, the _real racing began. bg | with Hogan, helped kick away Bina, Jatap, pie in Grissom, a recent importation] ! INDIANAPOLIS rope i Lights Up, who Chased Hut Prince a m eet |the championship he had won from the Hens’ parent Detroit AB RH O A all the way, went on op bul now | {last year by doing Hogan's bendTigers. Gregg i loser. Dear we YT 118 $lodds of 5 to 1 on Bannock Lad- Bland had Middleground right! {ing to line up the tiny Texan’ ul I8 v Due to Stay? Rough in Clutch Stevens 1a”. 4 8 33d HT cre Deen ®VeD alongside him, The pair battled, | . Hoosiers Figure putts. UNION CITY, N. J., June Grissom was rough in the hired i .r +4 30 2 4 8 Loutsville Steeplechase. but stride for stride with Mr. Trouble : In Earl Victori 250 At Turn 10 (UP)—A spat over the clutch, struck out six and Toledo Baseall, «4-8 1 @') ranging up to make his bid. | y ries family television set landed edo Pitatieraid. ¢ ‘4 8 2 § 0 Yfinished fifth with Storm Hour, °, i322 | 1 ‘Mangrum was sitting restlessly completed three double plays to|G 333111 winning. It was a thrilling race between| MILWAUKEE, Wis, June 10! in the clubhouse now, his score Nicholas Barricella in ponone by Indianapolis. The twin| Bhlessandro 3 dN The Royalton Cup, is the win-|the three for 100 yards. Then,| (UP)-~Champions Don Gehrmann | posted, and the jittery Fazio was lice court today. killings “murdered” the Indians! &ain iil 3 8 yy ners tora year until the same |Boland lashed Middleground with! \Don Laz breezed to two of “four out there in that wincing crowd - He was charged with because on each occasion there| Dailessandro lined out for Gres. in/OWNer wins it three times in a row. nls Whip and slowly but surely | [new records set tonight in the watching the little champ. - throwing a knife at his

was a threat of a rally with the|sev

irst di up getting on base. alia rues ot Eng a ainth, The Indians had one or more p.gerors. » AR RP: i runners on base in every inning) Campbell. 1b ib 3.73 1 1 except the ninth, but the timely Lerchen, of . +3 0.9. 3% hit in the clutch was lacking. (En v : ] es 1% : It was Grissom's first triumph Pero; ss ....- «3.3 8°31 since coming down from the big| Grissom, b. 3.9 9.33 ° show as he kept the Indians’| Tot 77. 3 5.1 1 blows scattered. He issued three| | Riiaror 8 10d G9 003 a) oe gone dev inte Eig Hed Three for Stevens | fu SR a ancy base som Bero, Federoff to Bero to

running by the weak-hitting Paul | on Camppely to Baro 7° Toledo 4. Base

n balls—Off Greg 1. Grissom 3, Pierro 3.| loftered the same excitement. First Lotowhite and Sunglow completed no's not a sea lawyer, He takes Campbell put the Hens in position Struck out-BY Gregg 4 Grissom 8, Biers! was the Buena Vista flat race. A the field in that order. y | Warren Druetzler of

2. Hits—Off Gregg, 3 in 6 inni Pler to win. In the first inning the .243|3 in 3. Losing biicher ~Grese. Umpires | hitter doubled after one out, stole’ Jt {andenceson: "0 Kiel. Time—2:02.}

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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION i T ! woh Pet GB RESULTS YESTERDAY Minneapolis ,......... 2 16 836 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Louisville 20 574 2! Toledo 3, INDIANAPOLIS JNDIANAPOL 18 22 569 21; Louisville 4, ey 5 5 Bt ul 24 478 17 St. Paul 9. Milwaukee 8 Co hal a . 23 ATT 1% inn. 5, Kansas City 4 Ransas Sir isa 2 du aii waukee vi nua 4 p: IE Toledo . 18 30 3715 12 il Detroit MuLmicAy LEAGUE AMERICAN LEAGUE | &. Louis 7, New York 2. { © G.B.| Washington ‘6, Chicago 0, [called after! Detroit 14 682 Ya| four-an-a-half innings, rain i New York 15 681 ... Cleveland 7, Philadelphia 3 | Cleveland td 5o3m 1 | Washington. .. 24 478 3 i NATIONAL | LEAGUE | Philadelphia rn 31 354 15 St. Louis 6, New York 2 LOMB <inascieess 28 349 14% Gincinngy 4 Brookirn 3. | 5 ey oonle 8 31 S40 15% 08 { NATIONAL LEAGUE rar adeiphia at Pittsburgh, (postponed, | Pét. G.B. . Bt Louts EARNER 3 BH 823 i TooKiyn - 4 * . Philadelphia 126 1s 301 1% Probable Pitchers in Easton pt : 34 1 a3 3 CAZO 3 ; Rew fon # # 4% © Major Games Today JRSUTEY «sireres ik 0 318 Be (Won and lost recoras in parentheses) | ; (XI Dauble-Kewders) al ( ouble-headers) GAMES TODAY | Cleveland (Lem 6-3 and Gromek 2- al AMERICAN ASSOCIATION at Philadelphia {Shantz 4-4 and Kel ed (All double-headers) ner 3-5; { DIANAPOLIS at Toledo. St. Louis (Widmar 2-2 and Overmire | uisville at Columbus, 1-2) at New York (Raschi 6-3 and San-| anes Car al. Minas fo etroft - (Newh 2 and Hutchi etroit (Newhouser 4-2 an hin- | Aric ICAN {son 6-3) at Boston (Parnell 5-4 and;

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Storm’ Hour was the winner last {year, Mrs, Brant, who presented her

o/husband with the trophy, was so tucked his bat under his arm and] § nerv reous she was unable to find|handrode his mount under thei" o/the big plate until it was handed |Wire as Lights Up and Mr. Trouble! §

o/to her by an attendant. Mr. Sadlier insisted his wife was the of(ficial owner of the horse. Not Most Exciting But the Royalton or finale was by no means the most exciting race of the program. All races from the beginning

15-year-old Kirklin farm youth {was the winner over the one-half {mile course. Joe Stouérs rode R. Bird, to vic-;

tory in 40 seconds. The horse is PICKINg up a purse of $61,350, This Por. tthe shot = put. = Byrl Thompson’ |owned by John Reiter of Zions- Doosted his seasonal earnings to

[ville. Second was Isa Princess and third was Big Train. The second race, the Irshman’s Run, became the most. spirited of {the day with eight starters and

ionly four finishing. Although

was for a purse of only $265, the riders spurred on their mounts like it was for thousands. The field got. away with Virginia Ranzi leading the pack. As

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Be 0d Stake s yesterday. Jockey William Sota was up on the King Ranch winner. Lights Up or Montana State University and | in the {three-man playoff today. Mangrum's be fh from lo a hl ond Pile (immediately to the left of Lights Up) was third. |the University of New Mexico as| off are George Fario of F Wakingion £ 3 rasiness winner Hill Prince finished out of the money, : |conference members. Hershey, 8 Ply x

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Stakes. Lights Up, paid $7.50 and! Wisconsin 4, Ohio U > Tulane 10, Ohio State 9, Rice 8 $5.50 while Mr. Trouble returned Tans Yorsat 8. i a and Marquette and Iowa 6. | £4.70. VPI 4, Union | THirty-four of the 53 colleges

the King Ranch charger began tol [move away. At the eighth pole Boland|

[25th annual Central Collegiate] niece and punching his {Conference track meet that end-| Flic wie of 250, That meant sisters when they refused = {ed with Michigan State and Mich-| to. switch to a television {igan Normal tied for the title. | (Continued on Page 17 Col. 8) program: he wanted to see. Gehrmann, the lanky pacemak-| ® & = - jer from Wisconsin, ran the mile i : lin 4:10.2, breaking the 1938 mark | {set by Charles Fenske, also of! Wisconsin. Laz, an Illinois pole-| | vaulter, broke his own record" of| {14 feet 1% inches of last year, by| {hoisting himself 14 feet 2% {inches He's an ex-Navy man who has| The closet race of the night | won most of his court cases. But was the two- mile run. It went to! Michigan | a fair view of athletics and once State who clocked 9.12.3 for a did what other men considered new record. Don Lash of Indiana | impossible on the gridiron. His ran it in 9.13.3 in. 1937.

mén made it rough on some Irish- Minnesota kept the récord In|

{hung on gamely but hopelessly, 7 . Closed Too Late i Lights Up gained the place by!

only a head ahead of Greek Song, who closed too late to‘theraten the winner Hawley, Greek Ship, Hill Prince,

"Hill Prince was the favorite at 85 cents to $1. Middlegrournd, the second * choice, paid $7.40, $3.60 and $3.20 across the beard while |

A writer, as well as. a 8portsithrew 52 feet 3% inches. Five! genius, success has come to him inches beyond the mark set b $239, 225, Tr a ta ims in dribbles. He's much in demand Fortune Gordien in 1947. Y was pickéd up in the Roar as a radio personality and a ban-i—The two Michigan teams deadDerby for the Bélmont was only JU¢! Speaker. He'll probably show|ijocked at 31 points in the fight the second triumph of the year > profit next year, but he lost a for the Rockne Trophy.

for Middleground. buck this year. Who is he? * Drake finished third with 19 He was second in his other six Answer on Page 18, points, Wisconsin fourth with 17 starts, three times to Hill Prince -— and Minnesota fifth with 16. Notre

.<in .the Wood Memorial, College Baseball oot Dame and’'St. Thomas tied at 14,

Whithers Mile ‘and Preakness Illinois scored 12, Bradley 10%,! Purdue 10, Bradley 5

Seion Hall 9. Lafayette 3. i ona a atarette eo entered scored.

| Prominent among the winners Hn-the- early events were Franklin (Ind.) College's Loyd Smith (ss in the javelin and Notre Dame's Bill Fleming in the 120-yard high 88 hurdles. Smith tossed the javelin ii 1202 feet, four inches and Fleming skimmed the high sticks in a! respectable 14.5 seconds. f Indiana’s Charles Peters, the! {Big Ten’s sprint king, finished second to Tulane's Paul Bienz in| the :09.7. 100-yard ‘dash. Bienz,! a Ft. Wayne, Ind. product, cap-| {tured the 220-yard sprint to rack! {up 10 team points for Tulane,

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Skyline “Eight Formed SALT. LAKE CITY, June 10 (UP)—The annual spring meet-|

oc io Tal S| ord Menra of No. adr 1 the i : po ¢ M. Acme Telephoto. - the National O off tournament at en Kentucky Derby , showed the way home in the 82d running of the Eine Phos aie) had to shoot a one-nder par on his final nine fer 2