Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1950 — Page 14

Bucs’ New oro “Self Made Man

Worked Way Thioughs School, Into Real Estate Fortune

: : By 4. Gi T. SPINK = The Sporting News Li Another multimillionaire bought a stack of blue chips ~ in major leagues’ poker game when John Wilmer Galbreath,| 52, became president “of Pittsburgh Pirates. Galbreath,| “self-made millionaire, Has done a good job for himself by! piling up a fortune. After working his way through Ohio! University by waiting on tables, he began a fabulous career in Columbus, 0, as real estate de

retreat, the other to wing him r and now hasifrom one place to i hg to branches all over United watch his spreading real estate, States. : empire. . .... He has building now © One of six children ina family{under construction in Birming-| of modest circumstances, hé wasDam, Ala, and Columbus office determined to make his way in isn’t surprised any more when he world. leaves there in morning, phones

Galbreath had an.eve'on Cleve. [rom Birmingham at noon and ane Tradehiny toot yan Ci Bili/later that day from Pittsburgh. Veeck stepped in and swung deal! 5.8 ‘or the Indians. ... Georga M. GALBREATH is Republican Trautman, who was then presi: and close friend of United States dent of the American Association, Senator John W, Bricker of Dhfo. introduced Galbreath to Frank In fact, Bricker's law firm hanMckinney as prospective partner dles all of Galbreath’s legal busiin Pirates and in "August, 19486, . . Galbreath has often . when McKinney announeed that

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In Pro Golf

Jackie Burke Yokes ‘Sioux City Open. To Boost Earnings By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, Aug. 1--Winning one golf tournament doesn't make a leading money winner, but the men who turn divots into dollars} land line their wallets with a wedge will tell you today that another Texan is about to take!

\Golt for years has been domi} nated by larrupers from the Lone Star State, Just to ‘name a few] there was Ralph. Guldahl, Byron} Nelson, Ben Hogan, Lloyd Mans} grum and Jimmy Demaret. In} ithe last decade it has been Texas against the world, and Texas: a feel that those odds were Just about right, Another Artist Most of them now are either over the hill, or well past the 80 along _comes another { Longhorn iron . artist to start |

___. Tom “Johnson, Pittsburgh attorney, Bing Crosby and John Galh were new owners of Pir “Oalbreath was least known - of quartette. : s » ”

SINCE, HE has purchased en-|

tire towns near Pittsburgh for re-|

development and recently hecame] ‘president of 525 Willlam Penn Place, company erecting 35-story

ikyscraper in downtown Pitts-|

burgh for Mellon Bank and Unt-| ted States Steel ration When building Is fue, Gal-| breath will manage it e months Jao he swun ar with Robert R, Young, rujgoad mag-| nate, to purchase control of ‘six; - bulldings® in Cleveland Terminal . Tower . group for reported 56,

extremely popular with players] and employees. Two years ago he rtained entire squad at nis | rm after exhibition game in|

picking up the marbles. He 1g Jackie Burke, a strapping [27-year-old out..of- Houston, who

{Columbus Galbreath plans 10). cinnate as the most promising establish residence In Pittsburgh yo, nogter on the tournament rai

{tor keep eye on Pirates and his 1, pie last week-end “won 't other investments. ... Watch |8ioux City open, but it wasn't the those Pirategs-with Galbreath In!first triumph, saddle. - | On the winter trail, the. hand-] igome blonde with the blue eyes started earning his reputation|

Toxons Pace ace Field

DALLAS; ~Pex Aug 1 (UPY-—— and the §t. Petersburg Open. T {Texans paced the fleld today as Iowa win boosted his year's Phat {the 1950 National Skeet Shooting to $12,487. Association Championship tour- Not Unexpected [Pamient moved Jnto its second’

{with a tie for first in the Bing return to Victory Field tonight Jams.

In National Skeet [Croshy Tornament and vietoriesiattempting to dvenge the 13-9 de-| 8:30. {in the Rio Grande Valley Open! teat by the Indianapolis All-Stars

Jackie's victories weren't ues! Stars

It looks like the jam is on as “Toughis " Brashun (helmet) gets ready to check Mary ‘Gardner

{last spring was voted by the pro- during the: Roller Derby debut af Victory Field last night. Mary

olis Al. Sane wile "Toughie * lod the Brooklyn Red Devils, ; j

All-Star Skaters Lead Red Devils

The Brooklyn Red Devils will leader, scored three

onight’s action ‘begins at

Min last ‘night's Roller Derby de- Narragansett Special but. PAWTUCKET, R. 1, Aug. 1 Blonde Mary Gardner of the All- (UP)-—The $25,000 Narragansett was the evening's high Special, since 1934 one of New

ound. pected. He is the son: of Jackrscorer, getting six points on two England's top stake racing events,

points on ;

million’ cash.

one of the nation's [double and two single

Burke 8r,

tallies i will be run at Narr

ansett Park

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Stewart tewart Seeded First at Riviera

Pat Stewart women's city (champion, will be seeded No. 1 {for the annual Riviera Club tennis tournament, Aug. 12 on the ciub courts, Louanna Early, runfierup to Miss Stewart in the city, will be seeded second according to Riviera tourney chairmen. : Six events are on the tourney schedule; men and women singles, veteran and junior singles, men’s

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[patt in those days and since he | had an underhand delivery, mOst|, 4 "ne only big leaguer to dis

ithe plate.

Ray Chapman “Froze’. as s Carl Mays Let One Get Inside to Plate Hugger

« wy MILTON RICHMAN, United Press Sports Writer MEW YORK, A it felt good to be alive, pad staked out an untimely claim’ on Ray tie shortstop of the Cleveland Indians.

Mays, the somber submarine ball ace, was on the -- mound for the Yankees and

"Once again’ Ruel paused, som‘a ber. Herold JMuady) Ruel; now a, catcher. “Only when ii turned around,” Cleveland coach, was his CENT, (04 «and started back to the

ve Dlate did I realize that !Chapman

rubbed iagonnde sod sapped 12 12% sovar had buted The ball had

‘hit him . . . hit him in the head.

fast ball” “He was lying on the ground

“1 signaled: for a

{Ruel recalls, “and I remember "then “and they were starting to {Carl nodded.

irush to him.” First Fatal Injury

“Mays had an excellent fast] ; Chapman died shortly “after

of his pitches came in low. las a result of an injury on the “Chapman's stance at the plate field, , was somewhat similar to Phill «Mays was broken up about

\Rizzute’s crouch,” Ruel continued, it,” Ruel declared, “and 1 remems=

“except Ray stood much Closer tober the terrific sadness everyone : i felt. ” 8 his windu .and; “Chapman was a fine ballplayef hays stated 3) ball. Lf baliland a fine man. You know, there was no more than six inches in-/are some fellows who provoke side the plate but Chapman, in. anger on the field, but Ray wasn't stead of moving back, just stood one of them. Everyone liked him, there and seemed to freeze.” {whether they played ‘with him -or

” Ruel cleared his throat and re. [383Inst him. course,

i Teaguers began

, 1 (UP)~It was a warm, sunny summer da :

; “destined to Win its first peniaht, Was playing the | New York “Yankees at the - Grounds. Carl

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many big helmets, -

“Chapman was the Kind of fel- —— low who used to wait until the very last second before bunting and I remember how sure I was

he was going to bunt this time.

*4A Dull Whoosh’

“The ball seemed to be almost on him when he turned his head slowly. I heard a dull whoosh and then I was sure Ray had \bunted. It was the kind of sound

Roger Bresnahan of the Giants used a “pneumatic head protecs tor”? Had he worn a helmet that day —or had he taken the day off—

today. But he didn’t. That game he entered so carefree - was his

last.

But as far back as 1907 catcher

Chapman might still be around

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you gét when the bat doesn’t mee the ball solidly. “Anyway, I jumped out in front! of the plate and noticed the ball less than halfway to the pitcher's

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# #8 : I" SN erssentatives of the Lone " GALBREATH TAKES great Star State won three of yester-| best-known pros, who finished in: ‘Toughie” Brashun, pride in his vast farm at Colum- day's five events. . a tle for second with hallowed | _ bus called Darby Dan Farms. Grant liseng of Houston turned Harry Vardon in the 1921 Open. There he has pure bred horses, in yesterday's top performance The young man cut his teeth on sired from Kentucky Derby win-| (while winning the sub-small gauge niblick and learned to walk on| ners, and even a horse once owned crown, {a fairway and never has wanted! “by Betty Grable, | Tseng took a shoot-off over Ito be anything but a pro golfer. Galbreath is staunch follower, {Alex H. Kerr of Beverly Hills, [His - dad objected at first, but finand supporter of Ohio State Uni-| |Cal, and Farl Stoner of Culver ally realized that young Jackie versity teams. particularly foot-city, Cal, with a perfect 25x25. couldn't be swerved away from | ball, It was Galbreath who {The trio shot 9€x100 in the reg-| "his objective. guided “star halfback Vie Jano ular round. | So Jackie started playing for wicz from Elyria, O, to Ohio] Mrs. Ann Martin of San An- {keeps when he was only 7, State and Janowicz works [tonto won the women’s sub-small qualified for the National Open in Galbreath’s real estate office [title with 88x100; -~ lat 16 and become a pro at 18, His during winter. In summer, Jano-|. D, Lee Braun of Dallas cap- ambitions were halted by a fourwiez works on Galbreath’'s farm tured the National Industry sub- year hitch as a sergeant in the and Galbreath will tell you that! small’ championship with 985x100. Marines, but he went right back he works, 100, | Kerr and Stoner won the two-| to golf after his discharge. : man subs-small crown with 192x| Oatches Harmon's Eye om 18 GALBREATH'S idea to 1200, | In 1946, Burke attracted the Install business methods in opera: Dickie Greco of Tampa, “Fla. attention of Claude Harmon, the tion of Pirates and he can't see {ook the Junior ‘National sub-|former Masters champion who| why they won't work. small gauge championship with tutors at Winged Foot, near Ma-| “1 saw the Pirates on their last 191x100, maroneck, N. Y. and Harmon CEROTH” CRETE WHER they “TEOREE 2 i “|took” Hifi ofan an-assistant. . narticularly bad against the Allen Ma : Harmon got Burke| »» Galbreath related. * After] is rino amps |the. pro 4ob at Metropolitican game, I sat with Bill Mever, Both Predict K le. C., White Plains, N. Y.--and -asked him- ‘why he--coul sy] i oie -now--draws a - higher salary -rid of some of the deadw salut EL than his benefaétor. 5 ‘Bill remarked we couldn't get (UP) : y ngland| re who had worked | waivers. 1 sald we should allow| defends his world Pay weight ‘title! 'the eldcr Burke's pro shop at fiston

to.claim. some of our {here tonight against Dado Marino | took deams kt n gétting his a Wiayers and perhaps\-we could OF “bout that ckie under his

_henefit, by playing against them] {camps are predicting will end, Yong f lad took his — crack Meyer sary baseball isn’t run|in & knockout. at the tournament trail in 1942. that way . .. Why can't it be run Johnny Allen, ‘nanager of the Jackie still has a very. ‘boyish | that ‘way? Suppose we take a quick footed Alien, said he looked 50) but at 10 he looked like & loss on some of our investments? | for Allen 16 win by a knockout | by. : These players aren't doing us any| between the 1ith and the 13th One day Demaret took. Burke good. Every deal in business] i rounds,” while Sad 8am Ichinose, ! 'to the Paramount lot in Holly-| doesn’t turn out perfect. And manager of Marino, predicted a wood to have lunch . with . Bing! neither does every baseball trans- Marino knockout victory “by the’, *rosby and Bob ‘Hope. Hope | action. We, in business, shouldn't Seventh.” ‘asked Jackie: be too thin-skinned to admit we| Betting has been about even, «what do you do for a living. made ‘a bad trade and try to sal-| but homeland ‘sentiment dver-| sonny?” vage something.” = i Man a ean. of “I'm a golf professional, " Burke] who won the title last April from le GALBREATH, a Widower, has Honore Pratesi of France, is 27, {Hope gulped. looked him vw) AND FORD’ S v-8 costs HUNDREDS LESS! 3 married daughter and a son. land down, and then grinned: Where? . Boys” Town?

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