Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1951 — Page 18

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START—They're off around the first turn in what proved to be the fastest ‘500 ever. That's Jack McGrath in his Hinkle Spl. taking the lead . . .

Lee Wallard.

brace one thin dime after Lee's The dime, carried by Wallard in

Ted Horn carried in his shoe as a good luck piece. Ted was killed,

Oct. 10, 1948, in a race crash

times a national driving champion, he never won a "500."

Report Veeck Browns; Stay

By United Press NEW YORK, May 31—The New York Post, in a dispatch by Sports Columnist Jimmy Cannon from Chicago, reported today that the 8t. Louis Browns have been sold to a syndicate headed by Bll Veeck. The club will remain in St. Louis, according to Cannon. The Post said it had been informed that negotiations for the

Fans Follow Bangtails, Snub Holiday Baseball

NEW YORK. fay 31—The nation's sports fans were more intent on betting the ponies than baiting the umpires during their Memorial Day vacation from work. The holiday attendance was up at the race tracks but down at the major league ball parks in comparison to last year. A total of 345,846 railbirds wagered $15853279 at 10 tracks scattered throughout the country yesterday. These figures represented a marked increase over last year when 318,411 bet $12,602,597 at 15 tracks.

” » u MEANWHILE, the total attendance for eight major league double-headers was 236,805. Last year's holiday figure was 283,326, but included was a morningafternoon split bill at Brooklyn. Yesterday's largest baseball crowd was the 46,499 that turned out at the Polo Grounds to watch the Giants and the Braves. However, that still didn't

A $50,000 LUCKY DIME—Lee Wallard and wife, Esther, em-

compare terday’s

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STOP—Just this once and then for only 73 seconds. That's the only time Wallard, the race winner, halted his dazmling pace in the race. The stop came in the 5ist lap for

tire changes and refuel.

his Is

NO. Driver 25 50 75 100 175 150 175 200 225 25 99 lee Wallard ....eovvveeeee 2 1 1 1 1 5 4 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 | 88 Mike NAzaruk sceceeceeces 8 1 9 9 1 6 8 6 5 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 9 Jack McGrath- | Manuel Ayulo. seeeaesssees 1 2 3 3 10 9 7 4 3 3 3 5 4 3 4 4 4 4 3 3 | [52 Bob Ball ..... tisesenerurn ve . . +. . .. ... 8 6 4 83 3 3 8 4 4 1 Honty BANKS .rececssersesss se 26 +2 + 71 5 5 4 5 6 1 1 4 6 6 6 6-3 5 i857 Andy Linden ..eeeevscvnce os . ie : .e . . . 9 9 1 7 7 " 5 6 6 168 Carl FOrDBIE cceiveeesssee ss os 20 se es os ss ao .e we aba 9 9 8 8 8 7 7 27 Duane Carter ....ceeveeee ee os .e . . oe . ve 10 ’e oe .r . ‘ “ . 10 9 8 8 | 5 Tony Bettenhausen ......... oe 100 .. .e on . . ae 9 9 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 9 9 18 Duke Nalon ........ Mesos ve oe “ ‘e ‘ oe “e “ ‘oe .e ‘ve ‘eo .e “ 10 10 9 10 10 10 Forberg flagged after 194 laps. Carter flagged after 181 laps. Bettenhausen completed 178 laps, magneto trouble. Nalon completed 152 laps, stalled north turn. Ayulo drove last 101 laps relief for M cGrath. ® oo ° ® ‘ y How First 10 Finished in 500-Mile Race New ‘500’ Records Miles Laps Speed Driver Elapsed | Pos. No. Driver Car Laps Time Speed | 25 10 108549 McGrath 1 99 Lee Wallard Belanger Special 200 3:57.38.05 126.244) 50 20 120.530 Wallard 2 83 Mike Nazaruk Jim Robbins Special 200 3:59.25.31 125.802! 75 30 130.468 Wallard 3 9 Jack McGrath* Hinkle Special 200 4:00.29.42 124.745 100 40 130.625 Wallard 551 Henry Banks Blue Crown Special 200 4:03.18.02 al Devix | 6 57 Andy Linden Leitenberger Special 200 4:04.45.07 122.573 . avies 7 68 Carl Forberg Auto Shippers Special 194 csinas creee 179 70 127.882 Davies 8 2 Duane Carter Mobilgas Special 181 crease eses../200 80 127.502 Green I 5 Tony Bettenhausen Mobiloil Special 178 Cesc ses04./235 90 127.135 Wallard 110 18 Duke Nalon Novi Purelube Special 152 sue. cesses omg 100 127.219 Wallard | » > oles | Manuel Ayulo relieved McGrath on 99th lap. 235 110 127.268 Wallard | ® ; @ 300 120 127.207 Wallard Dispute Flares Over Winners = =» =o wi 350 140 126.997 Wallard ogo : 375 150 126.908 Wallard | v | + ‘ ace OS iti 0 ns 400 . 160 126.798 Wallard rd i 425 170 126.643 Wallard | Continued From Page One | * | Joe James’ Estes Lincoln-Mer- 450 180 126.505 Wallard | . Lap Prize Money o 2 alae | 2 Dy erage and that National Driving! cury Special was out on e 475 190 126.384 Wallard | 500-Mile Race victory yesterday. |). 0ion Henry Banks was fifth lee Wallard ............$15900 oighth lap with a broken drive 500 200 126.244

a handkerchief, is the same dime |i a 123.304 average.

Cites Pit Stops | Roy Sherman, entrant for the Leitenberger Special that Andy] Linden drove to sixth position,

at DuQuoin, lll. Three straight

pit stops. Sherman charges that time lost {in a third pit stop would relegate

, Others Buy ® ® in St. Louis Ball to sixth place. That would] { push Banks up to fourth and Lin-

sale of the Browns to Veeck were| ;.. tq fifth. completed last week. The deal| AAA records, according to was said to include the San An- Ricker, reveal that Ball made ‘only two pit stops and that at no tonto club in the Texas League, ny in the race was Linden ever Browns farm. |ahead of Ball. “Veeck llkes a change,” Cannon| yinden, although he completed quoted an intimate friend of 50g |aps yesterday, never received Veeck's. “He knows the other ing checkered flag. owners in the American League| «pg jg deserving of it (flag),” |hate him. He gets a kick out of Myr Ricker said today. | it. Putting over the Browns Finishes 1st Time would give him the kick of his! "yor Banks, who has been rac1ife.” ing here since 1936. yesterday was The proposed sale. of the the first time he ever had gone {Browns has been reported for the distance. {several months. There was one, Then came Carl Forberg, [report that the Browns’ franchise flagged after 194 laps in the Auto {would be transferred to Milwau- Shippers Special for seventh and (hee. {Duane Carter flagged after 181 | Veeck has been out of baseball laps in the Mobilgas Special, won {since he sold his interest in the eighth place. {Cleveland Indians in 1940. He| Tony Bettenhausen in the had taken over control of the Mobiloil Special won ninth place, {Indians in 1946 and produced a although he spun out on his 178th world championship team two |3p and Duke Nalon was awarded years later. the 10th money position, although

Veeck: i3 known to be longing he stalled on the north turn on his to return to baseball. 152d lap.

. . Each of the first six finishers De Witt Denies Sale averaged more than Holland's

ST. LOUIS, May 31 (UP)—Bill 1949 record. De Witt, president of the St. Louis A Browns, denied emphatically to- Worth $55,000 |day a report by Sports Columnist wallard's victory probably will Jimmy Cannon that the American pe worth $55.000 to him and his League baseball club had been owner Murrell Belanger of Lowell, sold to a group including Bill 1nq, tonight when the prize melon Veeck, is cut at the Claypool Hotel vic“There is no deal that I know ;,,v dinner.

of,” De Witt said. “The Browns wanard's triumph is sensational are not sold and there is no deal ;, (hat he led the pack on 158 of Pending with Mr. Veeck. the 200 laps and he was wheeling one of the smallest cars in the

Speedway Prize Purse field. Every record except one-lap,

Boosted to $133,000 two-lap and four-lap marks were

The capital prize purse for yes- shattered. 500-Mile Race was Once again the expensive Novis

with the gathering of 58,512 turf boosted to $133,000 today when failed to challenge. Chet Miller's fans at Hollywood Park.

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Speedway officials announced a Novi was forced out after 56 laps , bonus of $55,000 would be added when it stalled. Nalon was to the prizes. through for the day after 151 This 1s the second straight japs but the pole-winning driver year that amount has been added 4iq a magnificient job considering

after the race to the guaranteed, hil v ‘capital prizes of $75,000. hat for pig no orakes.

Speedway officials estimated that the total prize distribution; The race with its new speeds eswould be more than $200,000. caped any deaths. Nobody got Last year it was $201,135. | skinned although three-time winThe capital prize of $133,000 Eu— a : —— does not include prizes for quali-

. fications, lap prizes, accessory $ : awards, entry fee prizes or any Clarinets 67° miscellaneous awards. FROM

Lee Wallard, the wihner, will collect $32,500 from the capital prizes plus lap money and other

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ner Mauri Rose, who was moving up through the traffic gradually, flipped his Pennzoil Special in a sensational north east turn skid.

A collapsed rear wheel sent Rose's car spinning while he was in fourth position on his 126th lap. The car headed for an infield ditch and flipped upside down on a muddy knoll. Rose, who ‘went for the basement” crawled out unscathed. His first wish was to inform his children that he was not hurt. Wallard won his first $100 when he led the first lap. He and McGrath swapped the lead until McGrath regained it on the seventh lap and held through the 15th. From there it was Wallard again until his pit stop when Jimmy Davies, a soldier here on furlough, put the Parks Offenhauser in the lead. Lost His Lead When Davies stopped in the pits on his 75th lap Cecil Green took over the lead but he was out of the chase on his 81st lap when his car threw a rod. Wallard stuck the little No. 99 out in front again after the 200mile mark and blistered the track for records. Every time he crossed the starting line he could hear that cash register ringing $100. The speed average was helped by the fact that the caution light was on only 90 seconds during Rose's spin,

Wallard’'s heavy foot registered

the quickest lap, his 23d, when he was clocked at 133.809 miles an hour, early victims.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

2,500 oft. At the 250-mile mark, 16

Such a pace claimed

THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1951

was 126.244,

0 275 300 325 850 875 400 425 450 475 500

Wallard |

of the starters were watching Day Knocked Out

from the sidelines. Nine more In Special ABC Match | conked out and there were times ST. PAUL, Minn., May 31 (UP)!

when 30 seconds elapsed before a' .. . Day, five-time national

race car zoomed by. | tch | Wallard stuck with his mount{Match game champion, was the

even though a section of the tail/latest victim of the American] pipe had dropped and a shock ab- Bowling Congress’ first special sorber lost. He was without match tournament today.

brakes for the final 20 laps. The West Allis, Wis, bowler 7th in 1948

. (was the third of eight top notch Wallard, who was ready to give invitational keglers to be elimiup racing in 1948 because he nated in the meet which is being

wasn’t making meal money, got run in conjunction with the reg-

his ride that year in the little!ular ABC tournament. Iddings Special. He did a terrific | Day was beater. last night by job with the small crate and Floyd (Shorty) Stringer of St. finished seventh. Next year he|paul, 599 to 581. Andy Varipapa,| was in the IRC Maserati and out Hempstead, N. Y., and Chicago's on the 55th lap. Buddy Bomar were eliminated Last year he placed sixth in one Tuesday. of Lou Moore's Blue Crown Spark! George King, Alton, III, rolled Plug Specials. This year he got'yp a 1930 total in all-events for the Belanger ride only afterithe pest series in ABC competi-' Duane Carter had selected to pass tion yesterday. He scored 684 in up the car and sit in one of Bill team play, 600 in doubles and 646 Anstead’s front drives managed in singles.

FINISH—Wallard flashes across the finish, the winner and new record holder. Bi Vandewater, assistant starter, gives the New York driver the checkered flag. Lee's speed

« THE VICTORS—Lee Wallard, the Belanger blazer, and his wife relax in the Belanger garage. This came long after the 500. Mile winner was pounded by other drivers, mechanics and well wishers for his sparkling victory yesterday.

Babe, Patty Need Playoff To Decide Weathervane

By United Press | Miss Berg wound up with a WHITE PLAINS, N. Y,, May 31 149 for the two rounds played —The nation’s golfing gals trav- here as against 151 for the Babe. eled 4001 miles to play 144 tortu- aioe Suggs of Sartollion, < Ge, ous holes in the Weathervane with a 73 yesterday for a 144cross country golf tournament— yo 1a total of 614. Betsy Rawls of and they didn’t decide a thing. | Austin, Tex., shot 81 for fourth Babe Didrikson Zaharias and 5¢ 633. Betty Jameson of San Patty Berg will have to play it sntonio, Tex. shot 82 for fifth off —at 36 holes—at some future a¢ 38 and Alice Bauer of Middate at a place to be named'|gnd, Tex. was sixth at 639, one later. Ishot ahead of sister Marlene.

The Babe fought from behind pe on the last nine holes yesterday | America’s Oufstanding Combination to tie Miss Berg of Minneapolis| Self-Stori at 601 for the 144 scheduled holes. | *¢'>'°r"9

Before the final round began, Mrs. | Windows and Doors

Zaharias was behind by one Small Mo. Payments stroke but her birdie four on the 540-yard 17th hole yesterday MA. 5554 gave her 2 36-36—72 to her foe's 934 5. EAST ST.

by Moore. | Next year Belanger plans a new| automobile. There's no doubt who| will drive it. |

Softball Notes

Games are wanted in city park by the Fountain Square AA with boys under 18 years old. Contact H. G. Johnson, 1540 Olive St., MA-T746. Tonight's schedule in the Em-Roe Civic Softball league at Beech Grove Stadium: 7. Gibson Co. vs. Allison Jets; 8, Bridgeport Brass vs. United Home Life Insurrance; 9:30, Naval Ordnance vs. Barber's Firestones

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