Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 230, Hammond, Lake County, 23 March 1922 — Page 7

Thursday, March 23, 1922.

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INTHANAPOIAS, March 23.

Howard Wilcox, winner of the 1919

IndianapolU 600-nxlle race, baa filed his entry for the tenth annual In

ternational sweepstakes five century, next May 30, and aspires to be the first driver to be a repeater.

Nine pilots have won the last nine

races and no driver has been able to gain a. second victory, although

Ralph DePalma has "almost" won

two races. Wilcox will drive the Feugreot he tooled a. year o. In the trials last May the car showed Its speed as Wilcox Qualified at an average of 96 miles an hour. However in the race ill-luck eliminated the Hoosier star, after 65 miles, with a broken connecting rod. Until he was eliminated the Peiugeot pilot d been running with the leaders, at a pace of almost 100 miles an hour. During the winter Wilcox has rebuilt the engine of th.e French car and is confident that a connecting rod will not rob him of his chance to repeat In this year's battle for 150,000 and the glory that goes with winning the gratest race of the year. Wlicox probably knows the Indianapolis track better than any ether driver now competing in speedway races. Wtth, Ralph Mulford he shares the honor of being the only drivers to compete in every one of the International sweepstakes, since 1911, but he has it on Mulford as he also competed in the one meeting in 1909. three In 1910 and the additional race run in the fall of 1916. Not only has be been a contestant in all these events but as an experimental engineer for Indianapolis factories he has made test drives over the two and onehalf mile brick oval times without number. In the first 500 mile event in 1911 he drove at National and was one of

fifteen drivers still runlng when the race was called; in 1912 he again drove a National and finished ninth; in 1915 he was sixth; in 1914 he wu eliminated by mechanical trouble; in 1915 he was seventh, driving a Gray Fox In the three races; in 1916 he finished seventh at the wheel cf a Premier; In 1919 he won with the Feiugeot; In 1920 mechanical faults put him out after 163 miles. Ia addition to fcelngr a crafty driver Wilcox has the mechanical knowledge of. an engineer and annually divides with Ralph DePalma the honors of favorite and given a good car Is always a dangerous driver whether it be in dirt track, road or speedway racing.

JOE HARRIS' FUTUT- IS IN HIS LEGS, SO TO SPEAK

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Joe Harris, star first baseman reinstated by Judge Landis B while eo. has a ereat chance to hoe part of the limelight In Boston this year. Sent to the Red Sox by the Indians, ":t can beceme a shining light on that

hopelessly wrecked Hub team If -and his lejrs make the if. Joe's lees were battem. in an accident while be was in service and when he rejoined the Indians he found his legs wouldn't stand the caflf at firsi base. Then he lumped to the independents. Now a

year's idleness while a waiting reinstatement may have strengthened aaid extremities, be hopes. Joe's reinstatement is Important in that it n.ay forecast lenient attitude toward other "outlaws" and such offenders as Babe Ruth. -

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MAY HAVE 10 RETIRE

PaLLAS. Texas, March 23. Trls ipcaker. Idol of Texas baseball fans nd one of the greatest outfielders n baseball history, msy have to reire to the bench and content himeif with being a pinch hitter and manager. While no official announcement, lave been made Indications that ill Injury to his leg may force th. peerless leader of the Cleveland .ndians to take a long rest before i permanent cure for his Injury can e effected. Speaker twisted ligaments In his eg- last summer and ws out of the ,-ame for quite a while. During he spring training season this yeer t was noticed that he limped after flaking a running catch and In the rame with the Cincinnati Reds here tcently he was forced to retire ,'rom the game in ths second inning. 'If my leg doesn't get any werse than It Is today, I'll play all season and I can't fee why it should get worse," Speaker said today. "I think it will be all light, as there are no bones broken snd the injury is one. I think, that will not be serious."

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Staid Old Boston Shows Up Women Who Would Wear Knickers for Tennis BOSTON, March 23. Knickerbockers on women In tennis play have yet to make their appearance here. Although the national championships In women's singles and doubles and in mixed doubles has attracted to the covered courts of the Longwood Cricket Club nearly all the leading players In the east none has established the knlckerbocker precedent here. "They are fine for practice and some of the girls wore them In New York at the recent M e t T cp oljtan championships but Boston is a bit too conservative to try them here yet." one of the players said. She added that there was doubt too about their fitness for tournament play.

Managers of a doren amateur fraternal. Industrial and civic baseball teams tonight at 7:30 will meet at the Superior Court building. Hammond, to complete plans an. I outline a schedule for the Twilight league of Hammond.

Efforts will bo made to conciliate worning conditions of the various players and .earns with an agreeable schedule. Many knotty difficulties will have to be Ironed out. Every team contemplating entering the league Is urged to send a representative tonight.

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KENOSHA, Wis., March 23. nud Taylor of Terre Haute, Ind., decisively defeated Jimmy Kelly of Chicago in their bcut last night. The Hoosier demonstrated his superiority every step of the way. The Italian did not win a round, but the opening sessions, which were devoid of action, were about even. From the third round until t.-.e finish Taylor assumed the aggressive and did not permit Kelly to do much damage with 'body punches. In the seventh Kelly took a grand socking. Taylor smothered him with left Jabs and hooks and crossed his right to the head and body for damaging- results. TCelly fought back gamely, but Bud . was the master at all times.

TRICOUNTY BALL LEAGUE

VALPARAISO, IND., March 23 A five-club circuit composed of the towns of Kouts and Boone Grove, In Porter county, Wanatah and Lacrosse, in LaPorte county, and San Pierre, in Starke county .has been formed for the purpose of playing Saturday and Sunday baseball this season. Kouts citizens have raised $L'. 000 for the support of its team and a number of high class players have already been signed. Other towns in the league are following the example of Kouts.

Decisions of boxing representatives: At Kenosha Bud Taylor beat Jimmy Keely, (10). Herbie Schaeffer beat Joe Mandell. (8). Billy Kautz best Ma try Smith liOi.

GARY TO SEN1? TRACK TEAM

Out of town high schools will send a Ftrong representation to the eleventh annual interscholastic at Northwestern, which opens tomorrow with prelims in track, field and swim events. Entries have been received from East high, Columbus, O.; East and West highs of Minneapolis; Ced.y Rapids, Hibbing. Minn.; Battl Creek, Mich.; Gary, Urbana and Kockford. Local schools have displayed a keen interest and will be represented by big squads.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE SEGUIN. Vex., March 23. Entirely satisfied with the condition of his athletes. Kid Gleason will lead the White Sox cohorts away from Seguin today. The first stop will be Austin, where Bib KaiK will Join the squad end where tht University of Texas team will be taken on. Gleason has five pitchers ready to go the route and says the season cou!d star tomorrow so far a she is concerned.

To wind up their basketball seaon the Lafayette Specials will day the fast Wentworth A. C. toticht at the Lafayette school gym

at eight o'clock. In a practice game earlier In the season the West Hammond boys defeated the Specials but the Specials are out to even matters up. With Green and Zimmerman in the lineup for the Wentworths they will have 'heir strongest team. The Specials will use thtir regular lineup, consisting of Powelly. Eggers, H. Buhring. Walter Edwards. Downing. Miles. R. Buhring. Elster and Erickson. The Specials have been practlciny hard for this fame and are out to win. In a fast aid exciting frame Sunday aTternoon the Specials defeated the AU Stars 87 to 30. A preliminary game will be played between the Lucky Five and Morris A. C. The big game starts at 8:00 o'clock. Admission at the door 23 cents.

(INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 23. Pitcher George L. Stanton, ot San Francisco. has been transferred by the New York Giants to the Norfolk club of the Virginia league and Catcher Floyd Brown has been sent to Littis Rock in the Southern Asfociation. Shufflin" Phil Douglas arrived In camp early today.

HOPPE EXPECTED IN CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl CHICAGO. March !d3. Willie

Hoppe. who is matched with Jake

Schaefer for the world's IS. 2 balkline billiards championship here next week, is expected to arrive Saturday from St. Louis where he has been practicing for the match. Hoppe, according to R. B. Benjamin, his manager. Is confident he will regain the title he lost to Schaefer here several months ago.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl NEW ORLEANS. March 23. Judge K. M. Landis, baseball's high commissioner will watch the New York Yankees and the New Orleans Pelicans this afternoon and incidentally may be appealed to, to modify the sentence of Babe Ruth.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl MOBILE, Ala., March 23. Fresh from three straight victories over the Ix)uisville Colonels, the Brooklyn Dodgers play the St. Louis Browns here today.

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) ' MINERAL WELLS, March 23. "Home Swe.-t Home", meaning dear old Cincinnati, is a popular song in the Redleg training camp today, because tomorrow Pat Moran's players are to start on the journey northward. Luque in his first appearance on the mound in 1922 yesterday was defeated by Fort Worth to the tune of R to 2.

CUBS SET FOR LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CAT A LIN A. ISLAND. Caul. March 23. The Cubs wili forsake William Wrlgley's personal island this afternoon, not to return until next season. After three games at Los Angeles the Bruins will go to San Francisco for several games and will then start eat by easy stages. Some releases probably will be handed out while the team is at Los Angeles.

Mitchell Steps Out of Class for Shade Bout MILWAUKEE, Wis.. March 23. Ptnkle Mitchell. Milwaukee's premier lightweight, will step out of his class in his bout with pave Shade, welterweight, next Mondav before the Cream City A. C. Shade recently fonsht a fifteen round

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Home run hitting and tluezmz in jreneral is due to slump tonsiderably in the bipr leagues end probably in the faster minors this season. There are two things that point to this change. One is the effective pitching repotted at this early date from the various bis league training- camps. The other is the public sentiment against the prevalence of swatting over food pitching so apparent last season. "Fans like hitting," the baseball magnates had said for years. And two years ago the hitting began. The batting spree was enjwyed thoroughly in 1920. Last year Babe Ruth's endeavor to set a new world's record for slugging kept up the interest in the race for hitting honors generally. Each team had its "Babe Ruth." But toward the end of the season the publ.'i got tired of watching the batters slug and run hog wild on the bases. Pitching had become a joke and the thinking fans and watchful moguls realized that the game was being cheapened. It was believed generally last year that the balls used in the big leagues had been given more of a "hop." While this was denied generally ly the league moguls and manufacturers the wave of hitting, participated in by even the puniest batters, could not be explained away on the one excuse of poor pitching. And so i'; is a good bet that isteps have been taken through changing the ball a trifle to eliminate the farcical hitting. The moguls are awake to the danger to the game from the batting epidemic. The scarcity of stories of homerun kings and startling batting feats from the training camps would irdicate clearly that the supremacy of batting over pitching is doomed. Batters swing into

form sooner than pitchers in the sunny south in the spring. And if there is to be a riot of circuit clouting this summer it should be forecasted in the batting feats of the early exhibition and practice games. So much for the probabilities. Personally I believe that the public will welcome tighter games featured by a 50-50 percentage of intelligent, timely hitting and brainy "heart and arm" pitching. Elmer Ponder psses out of the National league for the Chi-ago Cubs' farm at Los Aneles. When Ponder joined the Pittsburgh Pirates he shaped up as a pitcher who was going to stay in the league for a long while. But he finallw fir?ird in a trade to the

V.UU3 tor i'yy nvunuvu. The passing of Ponder brings to mind a game h worked against the Bosto i Braves when Sherwood Magee was with that club. Magte stung ore on the nose between fields, but Lee King made a onehand grab, cutting off a triple at least. Magee was at first when the ball was caught. He turned around and shouted: "When did Sam Leever get back in the league?" referring to the luck of Ponder. Players called Leever lucky. Phil Schenck, the Yankee groundkeeper, refused to recognize Gler.n Killinger when he presented himself at the ball park at New Orleans. "No. siree. You can't kid me that way," Phil chanted, when Fred Hof man" pointed out the Penn State star. "I saw Killinger play at the Polo grounds, when he thrjw a who!e Golden Tornado for a loss, and that little fellow ain't the same bird." "Yes, it is," asserted H of man. "Then who cut him L l.alf? queried PhiL

C IT Y T IT LE AT ST A KE I N COMETS ST. JOE GAME

Everything- la set for the tU championship fame tonight between th. N. . Comets and St. Josph" A. C. at th Irving fcchool gym, corner Pino and Hohmaa ts.. jn the North Side. Both teams ftava been practicing hard for this am and both teams are confident -f victory, mo the fans can be assured to get their rr.oney'n worth. .The amateur baeketbail champonihlp of Hammond will bo at take. Should the Comete come out On top In tonight'e fray, the title will be thelr'B. Th Comets gained a victory over St. Joe in their laat meeting by a close seoro of 34 to 30. The game tonight should be even more exciting than the first game, for St. Joseph's wl.l be Out for revenge while the Comete will be nghtiug to bring the pennant to the Norta Kast Side. The Comets will probably close thsir season a week from tonight at the Irving gym if they defeat St. Joe tonight. They may take on the Calumet A. C. who are claiming the county championship. These two teams have never met so ii's a toss up.

A WORD FROM THE WET WASH FANS

Sporting Editor Times: Why play In Whiting as the writer of the article la Tuesday's Times says. It would not b fair to play in East Chicago? We are Colonial fans and proud of it; have witnessed every game played this season, and will say they have always been on the square. We went to Whiting and lost the first game to the R. C. team with their referee who did not give us any favors, but we piayed the game out like real sports without any argument. On the other hand when Whiting came over htre they refused to go on the floor without an umpire from Whiting which was not only

an insult to Hess, but also Insured

them against possible defeat, as in as close a game as this wss sure to be the umpire could easily ca'l enough fouls to deciuo the contest. So why show them any favors in tbe third contest. We still believe the Colonials are the best in north

ern Indiana snd would like to have this dispute rettled in East Chicago or Gary Y.

HAMMOND WET WASH FANS S. Hous-jr. Harry Thiel, Walter Rice. Otto Herbst, Richard Mauck. Del Wanzer.

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