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- T a month of n Lake Wales, @bservers were uad is definitely } departments— and the outfield stion mark ree the infield. eneral manager, id help will be the Yanks bearts, but as the \prised the conbe: ‘Stronger 8th place) club, idered good as s go.” sible that the 1 receive a ter- » the acquisition Mickey Mantle to round out a 1. 2 are outfielders from the Texas Beaumont club, b Cerv, who hit for=the Blues, ka U. last year; > batted in 111 t; Chuck Wotoon and Kansas ind the veteran a left-handed gned as a free

vet purchased isco, and Bob vith Muskegen ague last year,

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as Hugh Radthe Yanks: Bob ndeck and Tom t year's Blues; 10, big winner nk Logue, who gon, and Dick \mton. s ) problem ine kman, still pot, a fixture at

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Stock Car Event Features W. 16th St. Midget Track

By ART WRIGHT INDIANAPOLIS’ W, 16th St. Midget Speedway cracks open its season next Sunday afternoon. Stock car racing will furnish the thrills starting with qualifying trials at 1 o'clock and the first of eight races

at 2:30.

lected $89,000 in purse payoffs.

Randall Mitchell, boss-man of the speed plant, looks for the

more races than ever, more thrills (if that's possible) and greater|

crowds are anticipated. His reasons: The drivers will pilot cars now listed in the “Sportsman's Class”. That means they're slightly modified. Locked rear ends, to maintain high speeds on the turns will be permitted. Mechanics will be allowed to bore the engines to certain limitations to give greater compression. The cars

Drivers of the Championship Stock Car Club will be back. They're the same head- | liners who attracted 241,265 St. Louis, Mo.; June 8, Lafans to 48 race meets there| fayette; June 10, Salem, Ind; last year ... the drivers who col-

Soldier Field, Chicago; June 5,

THE DEFENDERS—When the Stroh's Baer foam of Detroit inmost exciting season of all time, | | vades Fox-Hunt alleys here at 8:30 p. m. Saturday, it will run up in 1951, He said the other day| Da YI D3 June 21 Sin | against five of Indianapolis’ top keglers. All leaguemen in the Fox-

dianapolis’ W. 16th St. Midget = Hunt Classic, they are (left to right) Curt Heady, Evan "Red" Speedway. | Stuart, Leo Ahearn, Oscar Behrens and Herb Hohlt (not shown in

v.48 =a | picture). { FOR HOT ROD OWNERS AND DRIVERS—Charles Fox-

u s ” . ” ‘worthy, of W : : Bi | f il Cenncis, Wavenns, meee o INlianapolis Bowlers Fai srs (and drivers} interesied in rac- » n Ww e wi non to get hoe ie on To Advance in State Meet ai 2% a Coca-Cola Team Makes Best Mark

FRANKIE MIKE, the popular!

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Of 2733 in South Bend Tourney & By MARION CRANEY Furious firing by 15 Indianapolis teams failed to budge leaders in the Men's 41st annual State Bowling Tournament at South Bend

will be principally stock. little Championship Stock Car Added to the prospects of added Club driver, will have his own thrills will be car models from cheering section at all races this 1935 to 1951. Last year the oldest year, : model permitted was 1939. The Frankie is being sponsored by last night. cars still must be hard tops.. Barrett's Furniture and Hard- Williams Furniture, Indianapolis, held second on the 2894 total A Championship point system ware Co., 344 E. Washington St. recorded last week. Best showing of local teams last night was a will be instituted with drivers and| At least 50 of the firm's em- 2733 by Coca-Cola. Draper Auto Sales, Marion, leads with 2904. car owners getting added prize ployees will go in a group to the TEN-PIN CLASSIC: Firing of

money for points earned. W. 16th St. Midget Speedway 04 local and Midwest teams failed The Championship stock cars opening next Sunday to cheer to edge Blatz Beer, Chicago, out Purdue Ball Game { of its 2973 team lead at Indiana Washed Out

will race at W. 16th St. each Sun- Frankie. day afternoon until the night) The bosses have furnished the alleys. “| Detsoit’'s Brunswick Boweler-| Times Special

season opens. sometime in May. tickets, Frankie says. He also | = Then there will be races three gays his company ya going to ettes smashed within 66 pins of] LAFAYETTE, Ind. Apr. T—A nights a week—Friday, Saturday make it possible for fans to get that mark, but settled for second downpour of rain washed out the and Sunday. free tickets from Barrett's to see On 2686-221-2907. A 2839 put); t ag5quad football game Midget races, sanctioned by the Frankie race. Frankie will be at Carling’s Red Cap Ale, Chicago, planned as the concluding feature AAA, will return to W, 16th St. for Anderson this afternoon for his in fourth and Indianapolis Min-| g fe a once-a-month appearance start- first workout of the season and West Tool and Engineering was of the nineteenth annual Purdue ing May 25. expects to have some of his co- content with 2828 for fifth. {football clinic this afternoon, as s = = {workers there, too. | Doubles Lead {well as the second effort to launch SUN VALLEY Speedway at| , 4-8 KOKOMO: Everett Scott Jr. and the baseball season against St. Anderson, makes a second at-| GEORGE LUCAS, of Monti- Tom Carr rolled 685 and 588 re- Joseph. . tempt to open its season this cello, who heads Racing, Inc. of spectively to take the doubles] Despite the. antics of the afternoon with Championship his home area, has expanded actual lead in the Moose Tourna- | weatherman, 586 high school and Stock Car Club drivers. The plans for his organization. In ment here last night. Their 1273 college ‘coaches from 11 states opener scheduled last Sunday was addition to stock cars, Racing, passed the earlier mark by 22 and Canada went into a propostponed because of rain and Inc. will provide midget racing.|pins. : {longed morning huddle that exsnow. Time trials start at 1 p. m., The Racjng, Inc. midgets aren't, COLUMBUS: Northern Indiana tended well past the scheduled the first race at 2:30 p. m. going to allow Offenhausers to teams penetrated the ranks of the noon hour closing in the Boiler-, Pennsylvania's NASCAR stock compete. leaders in the Knights of Colum-'maker fieldhouse. car champion, now a sergeant | They stage their first midget bus National Tourney in this Murray Warmath, Army line “at Camp Atterbury, is slated program next Sunday at Ander- Ohio city, with Indianapolis coach, and Bernie Crimmins, for this afternoon's race. He's son's Sun Valley Speedway, and teams not scheduled for play Notre Dame backfield coach, were Hep Jones of Sharon, Pa. An- again there on Apr. 22. The asso- until next week-end. {the featured instructors at the other champ expected to give ciation’s stock car races start, The Fife Electric team, E. Chi- concluding technical session of the favorites of last year's Apr. 22 at the new Monticello cago, smashed 2890 to reach the clinic. campaign a rough time today Speedway. That'll be Monticello’s fourth. Stroh’s Beer, the team Another effort will be made to is Lew Figaro, king of Pacific opener. The midgets will move that comes to the Hoosier capi- play St. Joseph on Wednesday coast stock car racing for three into Monticello Wednesday nights tal for exhibition Saturnay,|afternoon, with the diamond years. later in the season. cracked 10th with 2834. opener delayed until the Butler

This afternoon’s stock car races, Winamac (Ind.) Speedway, | Opening Day Play encounter here Tuesday.

rovide the only hard top event ay, will n | Wysocki Morticians, Detroit, | Pe Sun Valley he oe — up. Monticello way. % op leads teams with 3012. Detroiters

. i : eo or, 22, ih Racing, Inc. stock cars In C'S, 000%, 1a £aaauays nod Manual Renews Y Nay. doubles with 1266, and Al

8s | Offenhausers) will ini ° th Sor Apr, 29 Sun She association's stock cars Will gop5i47i the singles on 707. Sam Tennis Sport y . restrict car models, allow any- Zabrowski, Gary, rolled 63 . Valley presents the Roaring Road thing up to and including 1946 6— Manual High School will have

sters of the Mutual Racing As- worth ninth in singles. Kopitzki's jt5 first tennis team in more than sociation. jeajs, 1 2 he has 3 new Yo), leads all events 15 years this spring. Tickets are on sale there now taas 2 So aS ht Speedway, ST. PAUL: Three Midwest A five-meet schedule, plus the for the “little 500” of the Roaring ya teams punched out plus-2900 .ity tennis meet, has been ar-

— s t Roadsters the night of May 27. Cory and. tor us Be tor.mile [OtA18 to feature opening day Play ranged for the Redskins under on. this vear . ou in the American Bowling Con- mennis Coach John Moffat.

a = = ; OTHER RACES this afternoon: lg is Sor lated Bi Bross Tournament. : Comprising the nucleus for the ROARING ROADSTERS — Bu Thompson Heating Corp., Cin- team are: Jim Beatty, a sopho-

vill be in June. ; o Ss . Dayton (0O.) Speedway, Mutual wi : cinnati, ‘cracked 2970, and Stone pore who won the 1950 City Boys Racing Association. Other tracks have given Lucas construction, Milwaukee, built UP tennis title by defeating his

HOT RODS — Jungle Park 2 tentative promise to run his 2958 Both are past the 2952 that cousin. Ronald Mescall ‘a fresh Speedway, Midwest Hot Rod As- Midgets and stock cars this sea-|yon the 59-day tournament last man at Manual, and Senior Larry

sociation. Time trials, 12 o'clock SON. Sreatly expanding the group's yer Allentown, Pittsburgh, Holland: Beatty went ito the noon; first race, 2 p. m. Schedyle, es 5 2 | tossed 2917. : quarterfinals of the national MOTORCYCLE RACES — CHyCK SCHARF, head man of Ft. Wayne: A music con- tennis tourney last fall. The

Armscamp Speedway, Alexandria, the Championship Stock Car vention cancelled bowling in the g.hedule follows: sanctioned by American Motor- cup promises his drivers the women's State Tournament at apr. 12_Broad Ripple st Riviera: Apr cycle Association. Time trials. 12 yiocest season ever. Chuck told Fi. Wayne over the week-end.i30. Cathedral at Riverside, May Short o'clock noon; first race, 2 p. m. us he has added tracks in the The contest resumes next week- Garfield: May 21 to 25—City Meet (Broad AAA SPEEDWAY CARS -—- Michigan and Ohio area to the end, ends Apr. 22,

Ripple, Cathedral, Tech. Shortridge and Reading (Pa.) Fairgrounds. circuit on which the drivers of Penn Mixed Doubles: Irene

Manual); May 29—Shortridge at Garfield. RACES wi 1 SUA AFTER. the Indiana area may race. Moore and Rusty Buehning Michigan State Takes NODS STOCK CARY elimi: When present plans are com- set the pace in the first half of NCAA B . C 5 eta Chaanapglee pleted, Scharf says, 35 races a Be Week-ena ling Journamen. oxing Lrown ' . ’ , ri v -.ilrene shot a 4: 0 go wit 4 7 Tic Stock Car Club; MIDGETS, (no Often. ‘ “rock Will be open to the Cham-| Oo or oo “With a 135.pm , EAST LANSING, Mich, Apr. hausers), Sun Valley Speedway, Ander- plonShip: drivers. ourse .an 2 7. (UP)--Michigan State College, , , individual driver won't make handicap. they totaled 1250. led by the jarring fists of Gerald

, ctioned by Racing, Inc; . TEN PIN CLASSI ROARING "ROADSTER, ry them all . . . but the advantage iS pai; Beer, Chicago 3762-211—2073 (Jed) Black and Charles Spieser,

INO A the added prize money placed in Brunswick Bowlerettes, Det. 2686-221—2907 | 1. 110d up 21 ints t ight to wi : El . Ch 2641-221 p 21 points tonig 0 win Speedway, sanctioned by Mutual Racing the Championship point standing ciriive s Red Cap Ale. Chi. 3343-20735 the 1951 National Collegiate AthAssociation; HOT RODS, Jungle Pork | fund. The jackpot the drivers will Midwest pool. Engineering 2164.664—2828 letic Association boxing chamSoesdeay, Soverions by Midwest Hot gplit at the close of the year, ac- Irene Moore: Rsty Buhnein 13s 1230 plonship, nn Sauter-) -126—12 > , 5 IRciation. 2.8 : coding io the number of points Dorothy Erler-Bob Earl 1134 99-1233 | Holding down second place THE AAA CONTEST Board ring Shoule mount iv Some Ann Sauter-Ear] Shoemaker 1172- 90-1212 ying nto tonight's - finals, the has .revised its schedule of mid- . : el Spartans handed one defeat to

get auto races under its new That point. setup should mean Vincennes Team Cracks Idaho as Spieser won over Larry increased thrills for stock car Mover and. Wisconsin, which

plan to put the “little atoms” 1 : back in the big league. SE i que ten, fof me harder Illinois Relay Mark ended in second place, beat out a Here are the races for May money theyll win point PARIS, Ill, Apr. 7 (UP)-—Vin- second Idaho man. f and June, all night events: standing money of colrse is ip ctnnes freshman-sophomore med-| Idaho went into the finals with| May 35, Toledo, O.; May 6, Wil- | addition to Te regular’ prize ley relay team smashed a Paris three men and needed only two llams Grove, Pa. May -8, St. ‘money for each race High School relays record today wins to win undisputed possession Louis, Mo.; May 11, Lafayette, ’ TS 3p as Urbana captured class A hon- of the NCAA championship which Ind.; May 14, Springfield, Ill.; | The “500” drivers are beginning to OTS in the 13th annual carnival. jt shared with Gonzaga last year. May 16, Cincinnati, O.; May | arrive. Johnny Parsons, 1950 winner, | The Hoosier team posted a Idaho wound up in fourth place. 18, Kokomo, Ind.; May 28, arrived from the west coast Friday. jraaj of 5 mingtes S30 seconds ise | Sun Valley, Anderson; May 25, | Took off right away for the East to 2nd helped its school finish third 1 Indianapolis’ W. 16th St. Mid- | roce at Rn 3 today. Duane in team scoring behind Urbana Cracks Indoor Dirt get Speedway. | Carter, and others, have arrived here, and Danville, IIL. Bloomington, Track Vault Mark June 2, Toledo, O.; June 8, | too. Ind., took fourth place. BOULDER, Colo., Apr. 7 (UP) |

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Ithé class B races behind Schlar. —Pon Cooper, a determined man and Brownstown. Schiarman Senior from Nebraska University, | won its division for the second Smashed the world's indoor dirt rg : {consecutive- year. St. Bernice, Ind., track pole vault record by clearAs Marks Fall in Rela S lcame in tenth in the 11-team|IN8 the bar at 14 feet 914 inches. contest. Cooper set the mark during a By LLOYD LARRABEE | DURE Cn En dual indoor meet with the Uni-| United Press Sports Writer ngs versity of Colorado here. AUSTIN, Tex. Apr. 7--Oklahoma virtually swept the relays High School Track | Cooper actually broke the recfleld today as four new marks were written into the books and two Schedule This Week lord twice. He first went 14 feet others were equaled in the 24th annual Texas Relays. {88% inches to set a new world's The Sooners raced to championships in the 440-yard, half-mile! Muncie Centra ai Bonad Ripple. mark. Then he came back to and two-mile relays and placed second in the one-mile relay in Crispus Attucks at Shortridge break his own record with the 14 Memorial Stadium under sunny skies before 6500 persons. ee CCTs. ot Manual. [feet 91% inches tonight. © Texas A & M's sophomore —— = Tech at Washinglon Avr. 1 | Several other men have pole weight star Darrow Hooper domj- mile relay to prevent the Sooners | pike Township. Ben Davis at Southport vaulted more than 15 feet, but nated field events as he captured| from making a clean sweep of =~ CRUST). day. Apr. 13 ‘always from boards. Cooper's

titles in the shot put and discusithe relays events. Crispus Attucks at Broad Ripple mark was for dirt runways

Deaf School, Speedway at Manual (Trithrow, winning him acclaim as Angular). indoors. ’ | Hooper won t w y the outstanding performer of the P he shot put crown| Frankfort, Howe at Shortridge (Tri.

r wd lar). 1051 track and field carnival. = |opaqr 1cxas Relays’ record: AC, icocomo, Walter F. Davis of Texas A&M |1 inch in yésterday’s prelimi- Plainfield. Mooresville at Decatur Cen-,

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jumped to a new record in the naries, which he failed to exceed | Pike Township at Franklin Township. fogs Job event as he feared today. He tossed the discus 148! eet, nches, toppling the old | feet, 93; inches. mark of 6 feet, 8% inches made| Oklahoma. however, was nosed] ALL-STAR in 1050 by San Diego State's Jack! gy by three-sevenths of a point | Razzetto and Kansas State 8iby Texas A & M in the fight for | @ ' Sunday, April 8 Time Trials 1 P. M. Races 2:30 P. M.

YE ee anan 440-yard relay|noMiclal teas honors, SUN VALLEY SPEEDWAY

squad dashed to a record-break-| The Texas Aggies chalked up Anderson, Indiana

ing time of 41.8 seconds in the 32 16/21 points to Oklahoma's junior college-freshman division, 32'a, While Texas ranked third smashing the mark of 42 seconds with 16 10/21, and Kansas had 13. set by Texas yesterday, and the| Dennis Johansson, running unLonghorns’ Dean Smith equaled/attached from Purdue, captured the freshman record of 9.6 sec- the Jerry Thompson mile. His onds in the 100-yard dash. (time - was 421.1. The BoilerTexas A&M's mile relay squad makers two-mile relay team

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: PAGE 17 | wep By United Press . : Alerted, who 1s not eligible f Badmitton Leen NEW YORK, Apr. 7—T. G. Benson's Lotpwhite just got to the (the. Kentucky Derby, outga wire in the last stride to win the $25,000 Excelsior Handicap at!two candidates for the Rose Takes All Events at the track in four years. {the $7500 Laurel Stakes. The chestnut son of Devil Driver had only one horse beaten| A crowd of 21612 fans at In State Tourney around the club house turn and down the back stretch. But Eddie {Laurel watched Alerted dash ABSCIMOND, Ape dt Miss) formance, was right there with only a few yards left, paid $4.30 six furlong event, while Senator ' ‘al education his mount at the end of a mile and $3.20 while Great Circle paid|Joe was third, a neck farther Instructor at Purdue University|ang a sixteenth. | $4.30. Paid back. There were two contestants in th -| 78 } 7 ton Tourney Rt Earinam Gomme carried him past half the field © Bay Meadows, Coaltown jack the Great, which finished tonight. in the run through the stretch, staved off a trip to the pastures fourth, and Oats, which w Miss Rutle rent | Wv. In which FE en Sty event ihe wire a head in front of Mrs. handicap from Special Touch by Johns Joy won the $5000 HollyFirst she won the women's ANY Schuttinger's Ferd, winner a nose in a thrilling photo finish, wood Handicap at Gulfstream ) / ; Black George was second and last year’s champion Ruth G .| opening day. longs was 1:09 4/5 and he re-| y p h Gadon- | Yold Stable’s Great Circle, win- turned his backers with $6.90, Lextown, third. the women’s doubles; 15-4, 15-5, | the world's richest horse race, Special Touch, coupled with Man-, The Purdue physical education “aS third in the field of 11 handi- yunk who was. third paid $4.00 south Side Royals will hold their first instructor them teamed with|C2P performers. {and $3.60. | workout today” at “1 “a me at Soran : weather permitting. mixed doubles 15-2, 15-12. | Great Circle in the Maturity, . The men’s division belonged to Picked up $20,750 as his share ot Trotters Win, 69-58 da ue, ih DE vere the Nusbaum brothers. Ray de- the $29,800 gross purse. He reeled] CHICAGO, Apr. 7 (UP)-—The|°™d diamond. for the men’s singles champion- returned $6.70, 3.60 and 2.60| throughout, downed the College oh Risereide No. 6 at 3 pb. m. (ship and then they teamed up to across the board as favorite of all-Americans 69 to 58 here to-| wil (defeat Charles Armon and Clar- the huge crowd. night to take a 6 to 1 lead in their| The Southside Saints baseball team jmen’s doubles championship. way and had the race won with fore 18,356 fans. |usicome. _Anzone interested and ubabls 13 TP HRA — — As AE — Sau - ree Wy

* v o Purdue Teacher Is Lotowhite Under Wire in $25,000 Race Jamaica today before a crowd of 52,110 fans, the largest attendance |in a three-horse blanket finish in Rimes S210 Service Arcaro, with a masterful per- home a neck ahead of Iliad in the Save the bird, 10 the rest of the In a breathless drive which! At Derby candidates in the field= | Arcaro booted Lotowhite under by winning the $15,000 Art Sparks seventh in the field of eight. singles championship defeating|®f the Paumonok Handicap on| Coaltown’s time for the six tur-| Park, rewarding $12.60 straight. } ———————————————— with Mrs. Betty Mathews to win Der of the Santa. Anita Maturity, $5.50 and $6.10 across the board. Amateur Baseball ¢ Z nd E Sunday Charles Armon to capture the Lotowhite, who was second to |Park diamond No. 2 and Every feated brother Harold 15-4, 15-7 off the distance in 1:44-1/5 and| Harlem Globe Trotters, pressed| The Union Printers Mh practice ay :00 p.m. (ence Huetten 15-7, 15-5 for the Ferd, who was well up all the| cross-country basketball tour, be- today. All last year's players and \ryouts ; ; " y " | --at Rieman’s--tnjoy the Best |

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