Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1951 — Page 18

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Sstreak as he hurled the win over

“in the third. But Ray Scar

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‘the ‘owner of the first horse win two heats. If a winner is decided after three heats, first place finishers in each

£5,

ins:

~ heat will battle it out In a fourth trip the kite shaped, one mile course, This tiny village just 60 miles from ae York City was drenched by intermittent rain yesterday, but the Weather. man predicted clearing shle

for today. In the event of continued rain, the race will be postponed until tomorrow, The bulky field of sidewheelers, which at post time is

expected to resemble a Holly-

wood mob. scene, will break

. from two tiers. There will be 11 horses in the first tier, with

the others lined up directly be-

hihd them,

~ ” FORM-FOLLOWERS going over their figures at some of

busy picking out those colts with early speed. A terrific jam probably will occur when the field hits the first turn, and if a horse gets clear sailing at that point it could

“steal” the race. The post positions also figured greatly in pre-race speculation, for it is not easy to

swing inside or find an opening while sitting back In an:

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SPENNIB, from the Hayes Fair Acres farm of DuQuoin, Ill, drew the No. 1 post but Mighty Fine, a more highlyregarded entry from the same stable, was relegated to No. 19, placing him near the outside of the second row of starters. Mainliner was scheduled to break from the No. 2 post, while the remainder of the first tier was made up of Sugar Candy, Scotch Rhythm, of Two Gaits outside Indianapolis, Mahlon

x crowd of 25000 was exto turn out for the richest renewal of the worldfamed “horse and buggy”

By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer

The Borton Red Sox, who scted to zoom to the top ‘the American League durtheir current home stand, themselves picking up d-today—but down. “In fact, the richly paid Bosfans could be falling right out ‘ the pennant race unless they p a sudden halt to the losing eak which reached four games st night when they took a 7 to wd licking at the hands of the “jowly Philadelphia Athletics. welt was a rough one for the to lose, for they had a iden opportunity to gain ground on_ the league-leading Yankees, who were idle. But, though they ‘took an early lead against a pitcher—Bob Hooper—who never before had beaten them, they just couldn’ t hole it ahd Jost again,

pi oat Ans Red! : or “em the ey ont Indians’

din a4 the Broadmoor County

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‘for the highest bidder to J aver with that etbra:

: DRAWING BLANKS—Litle Arnold Blanks i is. a shrewd little businessman. A shortage of cad. fs. little Arnold siting, arms folded, adie 13 in money. Galfars Jerry Hammeran' (le¥¢],

Club golf jambos se

unwieldly sulky.

when Indianapolis regained its /five-run advantage lost in the first inning. The tilt, sponsored by a local Times photo by Henry E. cienng Ee drug store chain,» saw the Inians gain an edge in hitting, 12". Ahn ac game. Anas Jasied

used. ‘The Indians marked up a Jack Efroymson (center) and Jack Goldberg can't seem to sway Arnold with al that lettuce.

5 to 1 triumph over the 8t. Louis Browns to move within a haif-| game of the Yankees, Most startling thing about the| Red Sox’ sudden slump is that it| has come at home, where the Bos- | ton belters have been virtually invincible year after year. When . they opened their present home| stand on July 22, they were only] two percentage points behind the! Yanks and needed only one of their familiar “big’ home records to take charge of the race.

By CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Sports Writer

80 what happened? Baseball's new commissioner, at Last night's loss made their who is almost certain to be will have more

“fecord for this stand seven wins named on Aug. 21,

and eight defeats, Instead of power and better job security, hig “being in the thick of the race, league owners indicated today, +they have got to ‘eome from be- qespite the fact that they fired “hind all over again. their last hoss because they figboa o& {ured he was too powerful for w HOOPER, who helped his A's them. “mates end a six-game losing] The most significant develop-

iment in yesterday's lengthy meetin: (ings at which the field of comel missioner candidates was reduced r- (tO 11 men; was that a committee the | was named to redefine the pow{ers of the office. The committee consisted of

“in the fifth cut the Red Sox’ Warren Giles, general manager

{of the Cincinnati Reds, Vice Pres lead to 4-3 and then Philadelphia |, + "ni Dewitt of the St. Louis

«Boston, gave up two runs “the first inning and two mo

ough gradually permitted “Mackmen to rally, Joe Tipton’'s bases-empty homer |

Be er va Be in . Browns, and Branch Rickey, gen Wally Moses and 2 triple by eral manager of the Pittsburgh “ ' 8 Hank Majeski to go ahead Pirates, No Scandals Hooper bore down then and the A's never were headed. They will meet between now Mike Garcia had one of his and Aug. 21 and act upon a manmost ‘brilliant games for the date of the club owners to “put Indians, pitching a four-hitter more teeth into the commissions and hitting a three-run homer, #r's contract ; Del Wehbh, co-owner of the New

» = ~ IT WAS the sixth straight win for the surging Indians and the 15th of the year for Garcia, his best season yet. His homer, in the sixth inning against Jim MeDonald, turned a tight, 2-0 game into a snap. He missed a shutout when the Browns scored a run in the ninth on Bill Jennings’ single, Frank Saucier's double, and an infield out The Chicago White Sox pulled within two games of Boston when they won a 2-to-1, 13-inning game from Detroit. Billy Pierce pitched | all the way for his 11th victory, Pacific

York Yankees and chairman of the commissioner screening committee which called yesterday's meeting, said it was likely that the new commissioner have a!

‘We'll Be Satisfied'—

PCL Seeks 'In

will

Ry United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 Coast Baseball

The League

and the Sox got the winning runiwould be satisfied with independ] Tha investigators also called the junior boy's division of the ona walk to Ed Robinson, anient status somewhere between p,ymond L. Fisher, University of chersers ran ont River Forest open tennis started i i ’ » dl O10 9 p v ' Siu) hs Ors Ar ) n eighth infield out, and Jim Busby’s single. Major 2d Thor Janus y x It Michigan ccach who was barred KANSAS CITY : today. Schulze, a Riverside, III, Robinson earlier hit his 20th Soule Food the Slayer grat 2 from baseball 30 years ago, to's ah AB R H O A Enpative, took a second round vicros { 10 | ancisco 1 ficis 8§ . b 1 01 Ss homer of the year, third in two todas cisco cud oficial SalGi.eiiry on the reserve clause. 3 10 i 0 tory over Mexico’ ves Laniajtte, games, ay. Je x Blt 8 8 1 ovine G64 to stay in e running » » » Damon Miller, secretary and Ww Thomas, if . t- 1 2.00 vesterday. ~ Wahl! y THE Philadelphia Phillies came business manager of the San Heaney h orld Champ Cory ih Yd Te 2 The only major casualty was ’ AY Yeds ies — 4 . i Special i e : 3 ‘3 a \ i ET Rantiiss Jas. Jad the disuse DALLAS; Tex. Aug. 8 Indian- 3jeatc: 5.01 °3 a @§ gfourth-seeded John Hironimus of » ves n the M¢ olv Sub-Co re > n I ‘8 p a n ; > y ea Ing the y r 8, 1 to 0, In e Monopoly Sub Committee that the apolis’ George Heaney couldn't Peters Sp : sa 2.2 8 3 0 Evansville, Ind., who went down a= § eague would not be satisfied with Ross, : 0 ) 0 ) 0 , DEefore James S( C ¥ S1INISE hightonh o1 A Dipnipnt 1 1 i t | With have lost the world's professional B ost. 0 0 0 0 0 bef ore J " ; Schmidt of Galves - . sCor 8 ar \ yr less ) ( ( . -4, 6-3. was broken when Richie A hb Ls thing 20-gauge skeet championship here Ramses © 5 9 0 0 On RRs So 1s divisi top as broken n Richie ASOD pormer Baseball’ Commissi@ner yesterday. He hit 100 consecutive Totals % 1. im In the junior Rifle division, tophit into a force-out, moved to B. Chandler told the baseball targets. Other. Hoosier scoring Margulis pooped out for Slea erin fourth seeded Betty Epstein of Dayton, second on an infield hit by Willie xatipnt : i ph " Courtney walked for R nint} 0O., whipped Peggy Marconi of Jones, and scored on Dick Sisler's no ikation Monday that thejleaders were: .Dr. F. P. Willlama,| Ramey ran fo: Courtney in ninth , Gary, Ind. 6-4 6-1, in a first a PH Class AAA Pacific Coast League Huntingburg, 93, and Dr. C. A. RPIANAROLIS 300 200 030-10 ery, pateR ! iy’ Re. Phillies ‘also won the first might he raised to a new four- A, Laubscher, Evansville, 04. Runs Batted In. Manes 1 -'} r me: 3 to 1 oH Robin R sharia Status az a compromise in the . {iassandra Stevens 3, Ferna i Bey Aa. . r ( "18 wr. ‘ s ) } rey, § st pS Pwo Bas ne a five Bittas. for hia 15th West Coast's demand for major Opens VEW Play Hits Merson 3 aren, Two-Base Annual - 8 Lh league ball tolen "Base Merson. Sacrifices Cole victory of the season... A two Times: Special Peterson. Left on Rases—Indianapolis 10 . run rally in the eighth got him Miller said the new classifica FT. MADISON, Ia.. Aug. § Sansas SUX 0% Buses A Balls anther s STRAW HAT ) \ ‘ . ( s ter 8, his winning margin tion would mean nothing unless South Bend, winner of the Indi- Peterson 1 W5irikeouts Fisher 2. Strobel 1. . the major leagues lost the right ana VFW softball t AS {08 Plater 3 i 3 horas goss 7. Hits-. LE '/3 OFF " CE 0 ol J n J nings:. Sleat The 8t. Louis Cards came out oer | gues lost the right ana softball tourney, was of Fisher 3 | J innings. ‘Sleater 8 in 4 3 raft 1 > Cs ng ; 1 a son 4 7 " of 4 ‘Hitting slump. as they|!® draft the PCL's best players,” [scheduled to hatte Akron, 0, Ime? Ba: Raa a In 1ur Mate 3g Jo oN trounced the Pirates, 16 to 7 : The major leagues now may VEW tournament today. national Hit By Pitcher By Ross (Gear rt ; HARRY LEVINSON $ Ars raft one plaver 1. @ Te 0 p ings. - Losi Pitcher — Peterson. Umpires Peorioe hoor Toteng 3 Ine ars! —_ t ne : hye from: each We sl Carnes “Jakowsk| and Fete Time 3 58 ‘at. | linels and Market 37. N. Penn. ' y: Ss en on 0 oas ciub 1 a set price o tendance-—24 858 rr fotal 21 hits, including Del Rice's $10,000. Miller said this forced, BOSOX Game Off —

seventh homer and five singles the clubs to sell their stars who in five trips for Peanuts Lowrey. might be worth more than $10,000

“ » & to avoid losing money when they “BOB RUSH hurled his second are drafted

straight four-hitter for the Cubs,| San Francisco, after long pro-| beating the Cincinnat! Reds, 4 to tests against the draft, kept its

i The Yankees and Senators were man, Ferris Fain to th : fdle. The Dodgers-Giants night 3 1 to the Philadel

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e was rained out and will, a played tonight, in addition to| me regularly-scheduled day game.

BEDBUGS

mnst as much power as Judge Kenesaw M. Landis, who becam ruler of the game after it wa

almost destroyed by the Chicago

“Black Sox" scandal of 1919,

No such scandal hovers over the

sport now, but it legal entanglements, declining at tendance, Washington on reserve clause, a deterioration o

the structure of minor league ball, and

and the problems of radio television. Thus, Webb emphasized

owners wanted a man w ful

authority to take over the game

and make major authoritative decisidins. To get the caliber of mar

‘necessary, they will have-to- make

ome ¢oneessions,

Eleven Left

Major-Minor Standing

fs beset with

a full dress hearing in its controversiall

hat the 1,Gov, Frank Lausche of Ohio, and City had 13 men stranded.

ew Commissioner To Have ‘Big Power

but it was believed that the actua e field of top-flight 8 been reduced to five or six. The 11 survivors were believes

Hanover, Great Hanover, True Boy, Darnella, Lou Darnley, Betsy Volo and Overture. Reading out from the rail in the second tier were Yankee Hanover, Candy Man, Bernie | Hanover, Watcha, Prince Colby of-Two Gaits, Merritt Hanover, Irish Sweetheart, Mighty Fine, Scot Lane and Kashaplenty,

Rassle Hassle

Indians Seek 2d KC Win

Times Special

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug.| |8—The rampaging Indianap-| lolis Indians winners of five of ‘the last six games, try notching their sccond straight scalp at the expense of the second-place Kansas City Blues and their rec-ord-smashing crowds today. Not even a season's largest crowd of 24,658 fans and the in‘oculated Kansas City Blues could {stop the Tribe from dumping the thosts, 10 to 7, with a three-run {eighth-inning uprising last night. n ” { THE TRIBE weathered the

(boisterous crowd’'s pop-bottle {storm. But the Blues took cover

”

nearly Three hours. Lloyd Gearhart ignited the In-

dians” eighfh-isning rally with a| pinchhit double to left off Max| second hurl-| After Ted Beard drew an in-|

| Peterson, the Blues’ er. [tentional pass, both- runners ad-| vanced to second and third on Johnny Merson’s long fly.

J Then Nanny Yelmander single

broke a T7-all deadlock, marking the 11th consecutive game in which Nanny has hit safely. Dom Dallessandro’s ‘single sent Peterl son out and I.efty Bob Ross on

candidates had the KC. mound, but Fd Stevens

y singled across the third run.

” n ” to include such key baseball men . 2 as Giles. President Ford Frick of AND BIG John Hutchings, who . — handcuffed the Blues with the the National Leagué, George! _. ke loaded in 1 : - Trautman, boss of the minor SACKS loa ed In the sixth and leagues, and U. 8. Sen. Edwin seventh innings, notched his fourth

Johnson (D. Colo.), fof the Class in Denver. Additionally, appeared to be support for Gen.

and presiden

Douglas MacArthur, former Post-

master General James A. Farley,

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

» Named Cancdin: ProGrid Team Captain

MONTREAL, Aug. 8 UP) Veteran Lineman Herb

A Western League there

Trawick

¢, Victory against no losses. Fire-| man Forrest Main, appearing in! his 48th game, shut out the hosts in the eighth and ninth frames. Ten of the 17 walks were issued by Indian hurlers.

Indianapolis pounced on

doubled, and Dick Cole singled after Sleater gave up three walks

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For one thing, it is almost cer- ** . : BUT HARRY FISHER failed to tain that the three-quarter sup yesterday was named captain of hold the lead and was relieved in port rule to stay in office will helthe Montreal Alouettes of the {pa fourth. Fisher and Fred abolished. The: club owners who * anadian Big Four Football Un-igi . anel vielded five singles and supported the deposed commis- ON for the 1951 season. He suc- a walk ahd Mickev Mantle's sacsioner, A. B. (Happy) Chandler, ceeded Frank Filchock, former ond single helped bring the count should see to that. There were INdiana University player to 7 and 6. Indians. Two more nine of the 168 who stuck with him free tickets. one to Jackie Jensen until it was apparent he no longer Solunar Tables forced in the seventh and tying had a chance to get the 12 (or Minor Major Minar Major runs. : three-quarters of 16) total nec- Jogay 8:30 3 i 3 35 30% Umpire Bill Jackowski had to omorrow 3 32 25 5:20 - Me : essary in a vote of confidence. Friday 1045 4:30 11:30 3:30 stem a pop - battle barrage in y ' y y Saturday 11:48 5:50 - 8: Bi: = . . ”g ings, sa a ere Monday 3 Si Hn 38 i . Tues 3 ki made a plea to the overwer til £ Tuesday 3 RN nn 9:13 OWS e 11 men still left on the list a 2 flowing crowd over the PA s aI eo - + f Tribe Box Score system, threatening forfeiture o INDIANAPOLIS the game to the Indiana, ’ AB R H © A ¥ . ———— etween E11 > . : 1 . : » | 0 Two Hoosier Netters 0 1 1 n 0 0. 0 0:8 0 . 2 2 22% lose Tourney Tilts nh \J 2 i 0 £ 1 a 1 0 0. CHICAGO, Aug. 8 (UP)—Topphmia Athletics for $10.000, when >» 3 0 aseeded Earl Schulze and most of he was worth “more than $100, 8 8 L 9 Othe other favored players held 000,” Miller said. » 0 0 0 0 otheir own as the third-round of

BOSTON, Aug. 8 (UP)

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