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By EDDIE ASH

All Roads Lead to the Roaring Road Saturday

ALL ROADS are a cinch to lead to the World's Greatest Race Course Saturday, so look for a day-long flow of

ouk for the second set of the 500-mile qualifications. All around the town and over the state frenzy over the time trials has been spreading, mainly because the populace expects a field day this time since only seven cars of the scheduled 33 starters have made the grade thus far, wv Qualification addicts don’t have to be told to shove off for the track early any more . .. All they ask is that the Speedway be ready, too, early, and with all gates open. The gate tenders won't want for customers . .. It will be a steady stream . . . Splendid place, out in the open, to spend a Saturday off . . . That “Saturday off” is the key to the huge attendance at these time trials +». . It wasn't always that way. Some years ago the 500-mile qualifications were witnessed by sparse crowds .. . The largest part of the adult population of the city and environs wasn't free on Saturday . . . Either had to work until noon or all day.

” n » n n Ld Then came the five-day, 40-hour week . . . what a break that turned out to be for the Speedway and its time trials «+ + «+ which have become an attraction almost equal to the five-century classic itself . . . In the days when Saturday was just another workday, no special days were set aside for qualifying, which gives you an idea of how times have changed «++ All roads lead to the Roaring Road and this week end is : building, up to be the daddy .of them all in. pre-race activity in Gasoline Alley.

” ” = ” 3 QUINCY TROUPE, the big catcher, is getting very little action with the Cleveland Indians except to warm up pitchers in the bullpen .... Not much work there, either, with Al Lopez’ mound starters going as well as they are and needing only occasional relief . . . Troupe has been at bat only 10 times with one hit . . . With a hitting average of but .100 don’t be surprised if he’s shipped to Indianapolis . . . Chances are he'll catch for Cleveland in the exhibition with the local Tribesters here Monday night « . . Big Troupe used to throw the gloves in amateur boxing competition . . . In his younger years he fought in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat Golden Gloves tournaments.

» » ” 2 = o Seems as though Indianapolis’ Frank E. McKinney saw the handwriting on the wall and knew his baseball when he sold out his controling interest in the Pittsburgh Pirates in midseason of 1950 . . . National League baseball writers say the current Pittsburgh lineup is the worst ever seen in either major league . . . Well, that's pouring it on pretty thick . . . There have been a few woefully weak dungeon teams in the majors down through the years . . . But the current Bucs really are woeful , , . winner of but five games in 32 starts. » » o 2 ” 2 » THERE'S AN interesting “piece” on Harry (Kid) Matthews and his manager, Jack Hurley, in Look magazine this week . . . Boxing fans here will recall the days when Billy Petrolle, the Fargo Express. Hurley's star welterweight, fought in Indianapolis rings . . : Petrolle now is chairman of the Pioneer National Bank in Duluth, and has a quarter of a million put away . . . When Hurley first took over Kid Matthews, he was skeptical of the boxer’s fighting qualities . .. As a test, Hurley put Matthews in a ten-rounder against a second-rater . . . The Kid won, but the cagey manager was unimpressed . . . “If you fight like that on the street,” said Hurley, “they wouldn't even arrest you” . . . Now Matthews, a light heavyweight

turned heavyweight, is gunning for fistiana’s top crown. » » s ” J

s The Indianapolis Indians play the Kansas City Blues at Victory Field on the night of June.7 . .. But Tribe Pitcher Bob Chakales won't be there . . . He'll be in Richmond, Va., on his wedding night . . . The big righthander, who was recently optioned to the Hoosier Indians by the parent Cleveland In- © dians, will marry Miss Anne MacKenzie Robinson in the Vir-

* ginia city June 7, according to the wedding announcements. ” ” Md s s

= JACK DEMPSEY says he doesn’t mind refereeing professional wrestling matches but wishes some of the big musclemen would overcome their desire to get extra publicity by taking a swing at him . . . The former world’s heavyweight boxing king said, “One grappler bit my finger so badly during a tag match I nearly got lockjaw. But he had an alibi. I had my hand on the rope at the time and he said he thought he was biting the rope” . . . all of which goes to prove a wrestler is never without an alibi.

10 Colleges Are Entered : | In Big State Track Meet

with a 13-foot 10-inch pole vault

By United Press

i BLOOMINGTON, May 22—Ten a¢eqrt could surpass the 13-foot 3 r tess ih » ratio. They want several more HH Hoosier colleges planned today tol" 0 on 1038 hy Dan miles.an-hour and hope the more. Additional Sports

A send 166 athletes to the 27th | o “running of the Big State trac

Vs meet here Saturday. Denis

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diana has taken nine and tied one ana’s Jim Smith, 1937. “year with Purdue, The meet was

it was a three-way affair between | State and Rose Poly.

traffic in the track area as speed fans wheel in and wheel’

‘|hood. And to refute all rumors, /launch Butler's home schedule. |

k |Smith, also of Notre Dame. And [mum qualifying speed will be no| Johansson has] On Page 30 4 - Notre Dame has won 16 titles done a 4:10.6 mile and could! “since the meet began in 1923. In- eclipse the 4.11 record of Indi-|

Other schools entered are But- | “not held last year, the year before ler, DePauw, Hanover, Indiana

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Novi Threatens '~ Chet Miller Is 1st

Driver to Go 140 In Speedway History

By BILL EGGERT a ot WHEN CHET MILLER said, “It was no trouble at all," "% he meant it and everybody believed him. It was just after the 49-year-old race driver had passed three cars on a practice run yesterday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and had become 4% =n the first chauffeur in history to, TO FURTHER expect. Higher tour the 2'4-miles ‘at 140 miles qualifying speeds this week end, ian hour. Tony Bettenhausen has aeveral Never a 500- {135 mph laps to his credit in the sMile winner in [No. 99 Belanger Special. 18 appearances | Bettenhausen, helping the here, Miller {Peter Schmidt erew, prepare their wriggled into the 3 {pair of éntries, later drove the No. No. 21 Novi Pure ¢ |77 Schmidt car at 134 and advised Oil Special at} f |some necessary changes that will 5:15" p. m. yes- |help the teammate car, No. 88, terday ond after Jimmy Bryan and George Tich- ~ a ' jenor are the Schmidt drivers. one “mediocre | yo lap stoppeds | BOB SWEIKERT took ‘over watches at 1:04.2. + ‘ a Ari Lihe He never got the driving responsibilities of the out of the Lrack’s Pat Clancy Special today In the groove and Firestone tire experts latest driver-change. He got out

. ; of the Milt Marion car and rewere outwardly enthused at the |... .. gj Cantrell,

minimum tire wear AB I, too, clocked him at 1:04.2 but| pyg “1g0t" was piled chin-high tried to stuff my watch in a ),4t night for Neville Reinners, pocket because I didn't want any- chief mechanic for the Cummins one else to know that I couldn't! pjesel as he was honored by the squeeze a stop-watch with any gngjanapolis Junior Chamber of degree of accuracy. But, Anthony commerce at the Athenaeum. Granatelli, a 500-car owner, SAW jis awards included chronoit and from there on it was pit- graphic wrist watch from Goodarea news. man Jewelry; set of Supreme Lou Welch, owner of Miller's tubeless tires from Firestone Tire Novi and the one Duke Nalon & Rubber Co.; two-week use of a already has qualified,. said, new" car from Hertz Drive-Your-“Maybe, it's best to do it when Self Service; electric clock from there isn't any pressure. I knew IPALCO Club; . 30-inch trophy Miller conld do it.” from Pure Oil Co.; set of ¥-inch Speedway President W it bur drive wrenches and torcometer Shaw. who also saw the unofficial Par from Snap-On Tool Co; record-lap, remarked, “We old traveling bag from the Studemen got the stuff.” baker Corp.; engraved lighters Novi crewmen later calen- from Wynn Oil Co.; hat and sport | lated Miller's Novi reached a shire from, Yaver Men's Store; | peak of 176 mph on the back- Fon Tid uh from Sostrech where the asphalt pro- | == 7 Lo. and a | vides higher speeds. plaque from the Jaycees. ea or So niversity of Nor akota, is MILLER has more Speedway f . as) miles in competition and practice the third pele-position-winhing

: | mechanic to he honored by the than any driver at the track to Jaycees. Others were Clay

day. When he first raced at Sagi- Smith, 1950, and Jean Marnaw, Mich., in 1924, many of the| ..nac 1951. : jcurrent-day drivers weren't born. | 28»

Although he made his first] SE RIRI ARC S REINNERS humbly paid reSpeedway appearance in 1928, 004 to driver Freddie Agabaand wrecked the eve of the race, |... saying the difference beMiller probably has 10.000 Speed- || een winning the pole and not way miles to his credit. He was getting mm the race is AgabaWelch's first driver in 1934. That i310 driving skill and native was when Miller qualified a engineering ability. Bohnalite Special at 109.252 and Agabashian predicted race went over the southwest wall on g,5e will see 110 mph qualifihis 12th lap. cation this week end. The closest Miller has come | ghaw lauded the diesel's perto winning ‘was in 1933 when. formance with “the greatest thing { he finished third in the IBEW {nat has happened to Speedway | Special. in its existence.” Miller reports he knew he was running fast by virtue of his turn

peed ana quick hop across the Byfler Schedules

north and south short stretches.

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. AFTER THE 140-LAP—Spe (center) and Driver Chet Miller miles an hour during a practice

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AND you can put him down as New Grid Opponent

the driver, who may become the first to qualify at 140 or better for Butler University's 1952 footfour laps Saturday. A burned\ball schedule, calls for nine piston kept his car immobile lagtigames. Saturday. The appearance of North CenOn the basis of the ease withitral College (Naperville, Ill) in| which Miller did yesterday's run, place of Western Reserve is the it's obvious there are several ad-lonly change from the 1951 card.] |ditional mph's under the Novi The Cardinals’ first visit will

{there hasn't been any compres- Wabash, St. Joseph, Indiana] sion taken out of the Novi engines State, and Washington (St. Louis) |

{this year. If anything, acco*ding\will also make Fairview ap-| to Welch, there's been some pearances. | added. The Bulldogs will play five In-| =~ SR AE I

| Miller's 140.187 lap was the diana Collegiate games, with the | climax'to a day that had 37 [first one, fists Bares marking Seattle Buys Hurler | ears on the track between 10 [the start of their fall campaign. From Louisville | a.m. and 7 p. m,, indicating the Games away from home also in- | rush this week-end for the re- [clude Ball States, Valparaiso znd { maining 27 places in the start- ‘Western Michigan.

ing lineup. ! __... they have bought Sept. 20. at Evansville: Sept. 27. NORTH . . { . a 8 CENTRAL: oct. 4. WABASH. Oct. 11, Pitcher Bill Evans from the Bos

» at Ball State. Oct. 18. ST. JOSEPH: Oct THERE are other. cars 3s INDIANA STATE, Nov. T. at Valpa- ton Red Sox. threatening to better

Freddie 5, N°: Western Michigan, | , at 5 h | Agabashian’s 138.010 qualifying) —— - recbrd set last Saturday. BilllVeeck Sets Up Home |Vukovich of Fresno, Cal, had one ’ lap yesterday at 136.5 in the In Sportsman s Park |Howard Keck Fuel Injection] ST. LOUIS, May 22 (UP)—Bill| Engineering Special. And owner of the 8t. Louis Amateur Baseball crew is digging for more speed. Browns, who spends most of his, Linde Air Products ... 000 005 0— § 7

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Sheely said Evans is with Louis

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ingan . 312 000 x— 6 | Then there was the 33-year-old waking hours at Sportsmans| = Cox and Coyle; Wawrzyniak and Ve rookie, Eddie Johnson of Rich-|Park, revealed today that he willl Riis, ; 100303 5 7 - i M 3 100_00. ¥ 1 /mond, Va., who passed his driv-{soon be sleeping there, too. aliory and Waits: Bursiig an er's exam here last week and also] When the Browns moved to new Rosenstihl 3.303 0. s had a 136.5 lap yesterday in the and larger quarters in the park Wilken, Construcuon. 008 102 3 3

Central Excaviting Special Vuko- last winter, Veeck decided to turm| Hastings ane (Called After 7 Innings. darkness)

vich qualified last year. the. former husiness office into a islet {five-room-apartment for himself.L Machoussll 502 030-10 13 ALSO. crowding into the quali-ihis wife, Mary Frances, and their [fying picture is Alberto Ascari,|infant son, Mike. 3 lwho buzzed the track in 132.7 in| The living room will overlook! this Ferrari Special. That was the the ballpark ticket windows so {fastest any of the four Ferraris the Browns’ owner ‘can “count have gone yet. It was accom-the house” without moving out of Iplished after his Italian crew his home. members had installed a new gear

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years during the war. | h The title is expected to be | EF ~ dominated by the big schools |! ~ again this year despite a ruling |! calling for six places to scored

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are expected to give their larger | cousins a tussle but Notre Dame

nd TU still figure to run away! ady for another fight with oi oy of hy glory. yi Chuck Davey in June. That's

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Time TWO ALIKE—A pair of watches were stopped at 1:04.2 indicating Miller's 140.187 mph lap.’

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LaMotta Eyes Bout With Randy Turpin

By United Press

DETROIT, May 22-—Burly Jake LaMotta, who left a sick bed to defeat Eugene

(Silent) Hairston, turned his eyes to England today and a 2s possible match with Randy Turpin, the king of British empire middleweights. The 30-year-old LaMotta said _ after taking an easy, unanimous 10-round decision from Hairston before 10,233 Olympia Stadium ° fans last night, he was sick all last week with a stomach ailment: {but didn't consider calling off the {fight. | Jake now is in a strange sit-{-uation. James D. Norris, president of the International Boxing Club, has promised him a crack at the light heavyweight

| title. However, LaMotta must | walt until Joey Maxim and Ray i | Robinson, present middleweight .

champion, meet next month to ‘decide who will wear the light heavy crown,

LAMOTTA sald regardless of the Maxim-Robinson outcome, he would take on whichever fighter {the IBC chooses—which might be {Robinson in an overweight match if Maxim retains his championchip. There was no doubt LaMotta .. who scaled 168, defeated Halrston. Judge Jack Aspery favored : : Jake 55-45, Judge Joseph Lena- . than liked him 52-48 and Ref edway President Wilbur Shaw (left) congratulates Owner Lou Welch [Clarence Rosen 28 pS a 5347

(right) after Mill er was clocked unofficially yesterday at 140.187 jdge. There were no knockdowns

lap. It was the first time any driver had reached 140, —— Davey, Vejar Rematched

By United Press :

DETROIT, May 22 — Chuck (Davey, the southpaw welterweight from Michigan State College, signed yesterday for a 10-round {rematch with Chico Vejar at Detroit's Olympia June 11.

| Davey gained a unanimous de{cision over Vejar in Chicago May {7. He floored the Stamford, Conn, {welterweight four times, using a {murderous left to the stomach. . - Master boxer and holder of a {master's degree in education at IMSC, Davey will be making his {first appearance in Detroit as a ‘main eventer. _ Vejar, a New York University drama student, had lost only one fight in 40 professional bouts until he met his match in Davey. Davey never has been beaten in 133 fights although he boxed to one draw.

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