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By Pilot Wilson's Strategy Fails Eddie Ash Jimmy Wilson, Phils’ manager, used every method Sports recent at hope having Indianapolis prolong game Louis in of liabe Ruth Smacks Homer With Crutch Times to a St. • mm it rained out while his team teas ahead. Hr sent in five pitchers in one inning, hut the Cards won, 7 to 5. itk.w* They Need the Old Boy to Boost Bate INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JULY 21,1934 PAGE 10 J3UTH hits home run. He knocked the ball out of the park with a crutch. You may le reading a baseball account of that description most any day now. The crippled Swat CRAWFORD DEFEATS SHIELDS IN OPENER King, hopping on one h*g, left Cleveland last night and head- ed for Chicago, where the White Sox officials were scream- ing presence, Champ for his “dead or alive.” Off Old and New in Shortstops Indian Runner Western One-Run Jinx A New York Yankee series at the White Sox park with Australia the labe absent isn’t worth a nickel at the gate. He is the big magnet at the Chicago American League plant and his to Advantage 8-5 Favorite Follows Tribe appearance there usually is the occasion for rushing business at the turnstiles. White Sox fans won’t accept any substi- in Cup Action In Arlington on Road Trip tute; it must le liuth. It's a safe forecast that the Bambino willbe out at the No. 2 Ranking Player Trims Handicap Event Draws 12 Indians Drop Fourth in Sox park tomorrow grinning at the customers, either from New Yorker Handily in Possible Starters: Coe Row in Opener at the Yankee bench or propped up in a front row box in the Hk grandstand with his bum leg resting on the wall. He is the Tennis Match. Horse Scratched. St. Paul. By Special stimulator for crowds in cities that have tailend ball clubs BY HENRY M’LEMORE Fin l'niti <1 Press Times I nited Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO. July 21.—D. A. Wood’s ST. PAUL, July 21.—The “one- and is the same as money from Jjome at the box office. so WIMMLEDON, England, July 21. Indian Runner, who once was run margin” jinx pursued Red Kil- a a a broken down it was feared he never lefer’s Indians St. Paul and they man of No. to —Jack Crawford Australia, would race again, today was fa- dropped the opener Lexing- players may fill Ruth's shoes in the outfield and on the base series at 2 in world tennis rankings, today vored to win the SIO,OOO added Ar- ton park yesterday, the Apostles OTHERpaths, but no slugger of his power has appeared yet capable of dupli- sent his team off to a winning start lington handicap over the mile and winning, 4to 3. It was the fourth cating the Babc> 5 gyiations and contortions at the plate when he con- tie a quarter route at Aldington Park. straight for the Tribesmen, nects or misses a swing. His crowd is the greatest of any star in the interzone final Davis cup defeat appeal The attendance was expected to three previous beatings at Minne- in the history of baseball, and club owners around the American League with the United States by defeat- reach 15,000. apolis all being by the difference readily will confess that they ha\e been lifted out of the red ink time Xavier Shields, tower- overnight to ing Francis Twelve were named of a single marker. and again by the visits of the Babe to theii parks. He has participated of ing New Yorker. 6-1, 6-2. 12-10. go to the post, but several this tried enough, in all tames where attendance records have been smashed, and as he The Hoosiers hard Shields, his game hopelessly gone number are doubtful starters. but they checked at almost slides down hill on the way out as an active player pastimer, all club which won the were in the first two sets, fought fur- Indian Runner, every turn and the pastimers of Bob executives in the loop will take time out to think long, long thoughts of and the Stars ously in the third, but finally bowed Arlintgon inaugural Coleman executed four double plays. what might have been if the big fellow had not been on hand during both year ar.d last, to the Australian ace. The result and Stripes this A three-run .ally in the opening the dark days of the depression. 8-5. The Brook- was along form lines as Crawford was quoted at round was a big help to Saints, B B B B B a meade entry of Good the was an overwhelming favorite. Stable’s although they were compelled to Goods, Time Clock and Inlander, BOYNTON, whom the late Tex Rickard, the prizefight promoter, The gallery, which had looked on tally one more to win. was choice at 4-1. Warren marker lOEdrafted from John Rineling. the circus man, is in no sense a public with virtual boredom in the first second Vance Page opened on Hadagal, third in the Ar- the Tribe character, although a lot of people would like to know him better, inas- set and in the second, was repeated- Wright's mound and Lelfty Claset started for lington classic last Saturday, was much as he raked in a good share of the money they spent for sports ly brought to its feet by the bril- the locals. Claset was third choice at 5-1. The other en- injured early and amusements for nine years. liant exchanges of the final one. in the fracas and was relieved bv has been cussed most of them. As chief of the Madison tries were New Deal, Watch Him, Boynton by Shields Given Ovation Judd, who in turn was relieved by Square Garden. New York ticket offices—old and new, from 1924 to 1933 Marmion, Riskulus, Frank Ormont Phelps. and Navanod. —Boynton boasts that he took in $50,000,000. without losing a penny. The Service followed for the first was carry top The second of the series was amount is Boynton's, and may not be far from correct, although, like Indian Runner will two games after which each player Hadagal will carded for this afternoon and on Rickard, under whom lie spent five years. Joe became as nonchalant with weight of 120 pounds. the others. They followed 114, the next heaviest im- the Sabbath a double-header will be figures as those who number boxcars. Boynton broke into the boxing in- broke carry post. played to end the series. Monday dustry at the height of the golden era. He handled some tremendous service again until the fifteenth Ladysman, conquer- will be an off day for the Redskins pugilistic productions, the like of which we are not likely to see again. when through W. R. Coe's game Crawford broke Park, as they leave the west for the east, There was the second Tunney-Dempsey meeting in Chicago, with its or of Equipoise at Belmont EATON, above, Oklahoma to win and lead 8 to 7. Shields was Trainer Hugh playing in Toledo on Tuesday. attendance of 104 943 and gate of 52.658.660; the first one in Philadelphia, was not entered by given a glattering ovation by break- Fontaine. ZELLCity youngster, celebrated attendance 120.757. and Intake of $1,895,733, and the Dempsoy-Sharkey Ladysman developed ing Jack’s service in the 16th game, lameness the week and had twenty-first- birthday at home After two hits and a walk in the Lr ' during battle which grossed $1,083,530. And. during Boynton's tenure, it was i his eighth winning that game by copping two •. any by Indianapolis, Babe nothing out of the ordinary for the principals in an indoor show to be ' • failed to show improvement. —by winning the Western Ama- Phelps seemingly impossible gets. %f.J* -s mm replaced Judd. At the time In- paid off on from $50,000 to SBO,OOO. teur championship. The tour- one Shields’ game was gone, however, golf dian run was scored, Lee was on a a a a a a Twin and he knew it. But he hung grim- Floyd Vaughan has made Pittsburgh Pirate fans forget Glenn nament was held over the third and Cotelle on first and one is back with the big top. and became treasurer of the Ring- ly on until the twenty-first game, Wright. They go back to Honus Wagner, with whom the Arkansas City Teams in Hills Country Club course where out. Rosenberg then hit into a dou- BOYNTONling Bros, and Bamum Bailey shows with the recent death of when Crawford broke Franke’s serv- youngster is conversing here, to find another shortstop like “Arkie.” Eaton once caddied. ble play. Bluege to Warner to Todt. the veteran Charles R. Hutchinson. Joe's noggin is poked through the ice to lead, 11 to 10. He is the key man in the Pirate infield. Eaton's victory in the finals was It was St. Paul’s third double play. window of the first big yellow wagon you run across, for no one can over David (Spec) Goldman, Dal- Falls on Face peddle pastboards quite as rapidly as he. Twin Bill at las. Tex., 4 and 3. Jack Westland, In the ninth, Washington, Siga- What was the difference between a fight and circus crowd? Shields, who now had the gallery 1933 winner, and Chick Evans, foos and Bedore were retired in or- The indoor fight customer can’s be compared with the circusgoer,” former Western and National der.