Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1951 — Page 18

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"the. “outside pole” three straight

* will be driven by AAA Champion]

,* 3-year-old terrier, Wiggles, pulled ‘up to (Gate. 3 at 2 p.m, yester-

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He's rived a —That No. 1 | Sneedway Fan

Californian Wins ‘Pole Position’ Agairi ‘By BILL EGGERT Four weeks from today 150,000 of the .world’s most self-sacrific-ing sports fans will ne up to gnake their way through the In-

dianapolis Motor Speedway 's gates for the annual 500-Mile

No. 1 was In line today. He is ‘Laurence Bisceglia, a 53-vear-old Califormian who has won

years. : Bisceglia, a bachelor, and. his

day. There is no change in the -No, 1 general admission fan. He's still coaxing his 1933 automobile that ate up six days travel motorin from Long Beach tn Chicago where he visited relatives. His Apr. 30 arrival is believed a, record and far outdistances his time last year when he bedded down 11 days before race time. Bisceglia, who is 'a thorough: race fan.and an admirer of race

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drivers Walt Faulkner and Johnnie Parsons, will put up tempor-| d%v quarters in the back seat of! the car until the morning of} 1'ay 30 when he will be first : through the gates. He will head S { £ B for his favorite parking space e or on. the southeast. turn. | = . > By VAL I Meanwhile, on.the inside of the Speedway speed factory, prerace| action: is limited to a half dozen garages.” i . : 2 Look to Thursday of the Legion “team. y Speedway officials are aiming] This year the Coca-Cola Cp.

for Thursday to have the track legion in spreading the program's benefits to even more

in ship-shape for practice runs nation’s youth. Dale Miller, diand drivers’ tests. Workers have|rector of the Legion's program, cleared the south end of the main expects activity to hit a new high. | Co-operation has been a byword was piled for building of the new/in the success. of the program. Grandstand A. | The Legion, operating at the post, The Chapman Special, the -four-|district and department level, has

. cylinder car Jole Chitwood drove|enlisted the assistance of other

as the Wolfe

Special last year to|civic-minded persons and organififth place, is

the latest Speedway zations as the program has ex-

affival ; 1 be driven this panded year by year.. Pd Bogen #0). Sights Higher One of the two Blue Crown| The Legion, worked with the

Specials, owned by Charlie Mar-|Ford Motor Co., last year, sponant.who purchased the.car trom |soring 16,456 teams. It hopes to Lou Moore after last year's/top that” this season. Plans call classic, arrived earlier yésterday.|/for fielding 17.000 teams. MultiGeorge Connor will drive it. The plying that figure by a least nine dther Blue Crown, owned by Lind-|shows 153,000 boys enrolled in sey Hopkins, is expected socn. It/the program. The major leagues have found the program pays off. Last sea-| son's records show that, 270 major leaguers got their start in| Legion baseball. This season 90 of | the opening day starters in the! majors were former Legion] players. Of the 18 starting pitchers, eight had worked up from Legion teams. Approximately 200 teams will] ride.” : {be ‘sponsored by the Indiana He ploneered the Cummins | Department this season, accordDiesel to a qualifying position IN8 to Bill Clarkson Americanlast year and was out of the ism and athletic director for the

Henry Banks. The “shopping list” of drivers increased with apharane of Jimmy Jackson and ny Eaton. Neither has been named to a car. : Jackson, the former Indianapolis..resident who has raced in the last five Speedway shows and placed among the first 10 four times, 1s expected to land a ‘good

Legion's Junior Baseball

‘HARRY; THE TINKER—Mechanic Harry Stephens, who has turned his back on California sunshine and purchased a home in Indianapolis, works over the Wynn Friction Proofing. Special that 1950 will play on. winner Johnnie Parsons will drive in this year's 500-Mile Race. This car probably will be one of the

e track opens.

r 25th year

MICKMAN

The bases can be the basis for good citizenship.. i That's what the American Legion believes as it opens-its 25th year of Junior Baseball, A quarter of a million boys are members

, and its bottlers will assist the

of. the

will” b&“in Section H this season. Tom Strouse’ will direct two leagues of 16 teams. : Trouble-shooter this season is Harry - Geisel, former American I.eague umpire. As Commissioner of Legion Junior Baseball for! Indiana he'll handle all protests. The problem of protests should give Geisel little trouble. He is supervisor of American Association umpires.

Simmons to Face Minor League Club

Times State Service

CAMP ATTERBURY, May 1.

Curt Simmons, ex-Phillies’ hurler, will make his second start for the 28th Infantry Division tomorrow when the soldier nine faces Richmond of the Indiana-Ohio League at 5:15 p. m. The game against the minor league professional club will be played on .the 109th Regiment diamond. Charles Bicknell and! Bob Millikin will also hurl for the soldiers. : oa

Ripple Netters Win |

Broad Ripple “won its second’

high school tennis match in five

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INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Swinging With the Stars .

By HAROLD SAMPSON | Former Chairman P. G. A. Teaching Committee | GOLF generally is considered Ito be a difficult game to learn. | It is. not so difficult as we impake it. { "One reason players have diffileulty learning is that -they labor under the erroneous. impression that practice makes perfect. Nothing is farther from the truth,

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\understangding of what and how

Softball Loop -

| The Marion County Softball Association added a new. emergency clause to thelr constitution ‘at last night's meeting. Due to the shortage of teams the clause - permits players to play with two sponsored teams

in league play. Players must re{port by June 16 what teams they

A managers meeting -will held Monday at 8 p. m. in the Dearborn Hotel Gym. > The Em-Roe Bporting Goods Co still Ihave openings in their njght softball league and Wednesday Twilight league at Beech Grove Stadium. Any teams wishing to play in these leagues or desifing furKelly at

Louis Willing for Purse Cut to Fight Charles

ther information, contact Joe YETR av (7 Je 209 W. Washington St. LI. 3446 I ETROIT, May : 1 t P) Joe Fountain Square's American Athletics Louis put Heavyweight Champion will open their 1951 softball season at > Finch Park -May 6 at 2 p m. All subs

Ezzard Charles on the spot today and players report at S. State and Fletchto give him a September title fr Aves. at 1.30 pb am. Final [iacuce mi shot by suddenly agreeing to ace cept- a. challenger’'s 20 per cent cut of the gate. The Brown Bomber's refusal tp

‘May Move Marietta Race NEW ,M P) take the short end of the purse FORK, May-1 (UD) lf

was the major argument offered another flood raises havoc with by Charles for not agreeing to a/the Intercollegiate Rowing Re-

rematch and had completely gatta at Marietta, O., this June,

stymied negotiations. . Louis meets Omelio Agramonte there nay pe a strong movement tostransfer_ the race again, Asa

again tomorrow night at Olympia | Stadium in. his fifth “comeback Bushnell said today. Bushnell is fight after losing to Charles last secretary of the board of stewards fall. ‘Louis beat Agramonte in of the Inter-Collegiate Rowing Miami last February. Association.

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Golf Is Not So Difficult To Learn as We Make It

in “practice, he ‘will" train himself deeper and deeper into faults which are instinctive and natural. There, is. no mystery about the roke. r { There are five fundamentals) which have to bé performed and, | as ‘the player makes progress in| mastering these, he will progress.

‘These fundamentals are not natural, . They must he ' practiced until

they hecome habitual.

”n . THERE IS no such thing as a tural -golfer. Whenp~we' speak - of. a natural golfer, we mean one who fa adept! at learning and mastering the fundamentals. - t

I. believe,» without question, the. greatest. natural athlete: of all time is Babe Didrickson Zaharias. Yet even she had to work diligently under an instructor before she became proficient. =

THE fundamentals are the grip, stance, ‘arm action. wrist action and body action, or pivot, Do not think you have to think of five things at one time,.or go

of them,

T"Bome, of themi“you will take to

easily and will hardly have to be conscious of. Sat, The others ‘you will only have to concentrate on long enough to make them natural, so you can forget them and have fhem act in the stroke correctly, subconselously. : | : |

NEXT: Byron Nelson points | - out that a golfer doesn’t know

actually how he plays.

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By United Press FRESNO, Cal, May 1.

Jameson went into the final round of the San Joaquin Valley Women's Open today with a'two-stroke lead-—and the shadow of the great Babe Didrickson .Zaharias looming over her shoulder.

- Betty

~Yesterday the San Antoyito pro=|

fessional fired a two-over-par 78, but held her ‘lead with a 36hole total of 150. ‘Mrs. Zaharias, pre-tournament favorite, carried a one-under-par 75 for a total of 152. . Miss Jameson dropped four strokes on the first four holes and then tighténed up on the back

nine. The lanky Texan climaxed the round with a 45-foot.down-hill putt on the 18th green. Mrs. Zaharias, the Tampa,

be on the rest of your life thinking Fla: ace, cut her game down two

strokes on the first nine yesterday, but duplicated Saturday's back nine of 40.

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Program Revamped COUTtS. Clarkson reported that Indi- ede — fana's program has been revamped Prep Golf lentirely. Instead of the 11 'diS-| Tech 35';. Bloomington 33: Broad Ripple 193. Terre Haute Wiley 12

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