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I Indianapolis Is Still Shunned; Bugs Doused In Clinton- Shaw May Take Wheel HimseU Spins Clip Twins, 7 To 3 — A1 Jolson has been telling INDIANAPOLIS, May 22. ment and try for his fourth victory chief of the Lee racing crew, said (Plug) Playing in the after* j showers Standings of motor in the annual 500-mile Memorial he was dickering with a couple of us for years that April graduation IP,— The Indian polis ; exerck°n beta!«,' drivers. flowers, but he never Dunn speedway management smooth- day race. bring May High school still effect STATE for holdout Shaw was not to be called Other cars without drivers got around to saying what TOBACCO LEAGUE Spinners ed the way tonight likely gave the n Sai^ Entries held included an Alf-Romeo entered showers have. Manager Nate Twins a membeis of the American so- from the front office. by May Won Lost Pet. bit of basebah Vl'E' cut Fred Frame and Bill White of Los and his Pi- 11 ciety of profession;.! automobile out by the ASPAR group may Andrews Wilmington Sanford 18 5 .784 yesterday, 7-3. ^ to about 26 cars—seven Angeles; one of the Federal engi- rates found the solution Warsaw 14 9 .636 racers to get in the 519-mile the field yester- Sanford's WILMINGTON 13 9 .591 win boos lead- less than the maximum—but there neering specials entered by Rich- a dearth of base- ed r„ race May 39. and ASPAR day—they bring Clinton 13 10 .565 will be enough drivers ard Cott of Detroit; the Lee Alfa- ball in Clinton. ers planned to pull their mem- probably games, especially Dunn-Erwin 10 12 .455 to Romeo; the entry of Palmer Rac- on the new for all cars fast enough qualify. as well. The Bucs Lumberton 10 13 .435 bers quickly pro It was just Red Springs, to «K of Van of Indianapolis, and the new Smjithfield 9 13 .409 four a Ralph Hepburn Nuys, ing meet Sanford's Spinners tonight Wilmington, $ posals. and hold- Novi Governor special owned by Red Springs 3 19 .136 resthn, 7‘ **** Anton Hulman. Jr., speed- Calif.. ASPAR president in the Spins’ back yard, and to- half Lou Welch of Mich. YESTERDAY’S RESULTS a. game behind 7* er of the track record, Novi, be the ^ way owner, agreed personally qualification morrow a similar affair will their but said The Novi, twin to the car in Sanford 7; Dunn-Erwin 3. flven Saturday to extra money for was in Indianapolis today in Stadium. Al- put up quali- unvieled Legion WILMINGTON at Clinton, ppd.. rain. days earlier in S he would not be interested in mak- which Hepburn set the qualification Clinton * prizes for post entry though the Sanfordians have not Warsaw at Red Springs, ppd., rain. fying unless the record of 133.944 miles an hour The a post-entry $75,000 the Smithfield at Lumberton. Spinners ■ ASPAR drivers. ing been faring as well as usual ppd., rain. off collected were Rex last year, was qualified last Satur- Joe ASPAR purse increased. Mays, no can TODAY’S GAMES Kochli. Six 0f -7'7 Ralph Hepburn. presi- Merrill of last few games, one deny driver and day by (Doc) Williams WILMINGTON at gether with an * dent, left for Chicago after veteran speedway that it is best to have one’s best Sanford. error najf" ASPAR member, also arrived with Wyandotte, Mich., at the relatively Dunn-Erwin at Lumberton. runs in the first the conference and said he It wouldn’t half of slow of 120.733 miles an hour pitchers all polished up. Warsaw at Selma-Smithfield. thV® a car but said he hadn't decided speed inning. Wilson, the SnV Sch would pool ASPAR drivers to- be a bad idea to do some hitting, Red Springs at Clinton. what to do. Welch contended the car was morrow. He said he had “15 to of 140 and Williams re- either. AMERICAN The Tucker automobile plant in capable LEAGUE five trips t0 the ''J; r‘ 19" ASPAR cars ready to enter be piate 7 had named and signed. Tonight, Roy Lamb looks to a mate in voted in favor Chicago Hepburn Won'Lost Pet. the fifth, if the majority said he intended to must face the ^5^.; A1 Miller as co-drivers of the 275- Welch today the one who Spin- Detroit 17 11 .607 ped out a n* of the new conditions. homer, 7 accepting case several of the new drivers a ner’s ‘‘Little Murder’s Row” of Boston 17 12 .586 horsepower Tucker special in give Shoffner, drive the car and would and Cleveland 13 10 .565 Sanford's the differences chance to Wilson, Nesselrode, Nessing flIM“ DALE BURGESS Speedway-ASPAR Chicago 16 15 .516 man, took the Bv a before the week-end. Louis Cheshire, who runs ! were ironed out. pick pilot Pugh. Lefty Philadelphia 14 15 .483 vC 22.—i^Pi— honors, however n- INDIAN.-°OLIS. May drive the 12- cars are at the of the seas- H’< Shaw would like to Twenty-eight had his only bad day New York 13 14 .431 second Holdout owners and drivers of the cieaned cylinder. German-built Mercedes track. The lone foreign entry, H. on last Sunday at Warsaw, ought Washington 11 15 .423 the‘sack!" American of Professional St. Louis BUI Stor.e went Society Don Lee, Inc., of Los L. Brooke’s Talbot from Coventry, to be rarin’ to 10 19 .345 all of ti had not imported by go Saturday. for the * Automobile racers tonight this week. YESTERDAY’S RESULTS Spinners. He said he would take England, is expected once „ the Indianapolis Speed- Angeles. Victor over the Spinners scattered hits, accepted if Lee could not find a Most of the activity at the track Detroit at New York, rain. one of on the wheel this season, the Pirates would un- them offer to take their entries Cleveland at Boston, rain. by Twin way's for Duke Nalon. the today was driving tests for dirt Jackson, right fi.’> basis and Wilbur replacement doubtedly welcome a nice sweep Chicago at St. Louis, rain. Neither a conditional who out track drivers who hope to make team was original nominee stayed (Only games “et Shaw. Speedway president, of the two-game series, which scheduled;. fifth inning. „****£ ^ with ASPAR. However, Mai Ord. their first speedway starts. threatening to come out of retire- would cut Sanford’s lead to two TODAY’S GAMES Chicago at Detroit — and a half games. Warsaw Grove <3-1; vs perch- Trucks (3-3). ed in second a half Bettina place game St. Louis at Cleveland (night—Kramer ravored ahead of the Bucs will open in (3-2; vs Feller (5-3) or Embree (3-3). Of — CARDINALS TRIM U. S. Too Fall Miles; Smithfield tonight, playing a return Washington at Philadelphia (night; Haefner (0-3) or Hudson vs OverLesnev1[: engagement tomorrow before the (2-1) Marchildon (3-1). NEW home folks. YORK, iK- : t-\ Boston at. New York—Fine (1-2) vs Yanks Chandler (2-3). Southpaw Melio Bettina PITTSBURGH, Don't Sleep?—Locke Still on the injured list for the been yelling for a ^ HERMAN VICK, WILDCAT mound ace, will probably start against Pirates are Johnny Muscovitch, NATIONAL LEAGUE title’ shot finish tourney when New heavyweight BY HAROLD CLAASSEN “when you your the Gastonia High nine, Western AA Conference winners, was victim of champion Joey whose collarbone Teams W7 L Pet Games will Birds In Seventh drive an hour and are at Hanover meets GHS here tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 to decide the try to prove that Rally you you an in his be’v unfriendly centerfield wall Behind is PHILADELPHIA, May 22—— the next one. But here State high school baseball championship. Vick hasn’t lost a game ■ng justified when the site of — Three Dunn, and Bill Alsnauer, who is Chicago 17 12 586 For Tallies; South .Africa's open this season, winning seven. light travel _ New heavyweight Bobby Locke, it seems you must, 1,500 York _ 15 11 .577 1-2 titleholder nursing some torn ligaments in Lesnevich 7 golf champion here for the Phila- miles. And what is most amazing Boston 16 13 .552 1 in a 10-round Dyer Banished his right hand. The latter be bout non* may _ meet, said today never seem x—Pittsburgh 13 11 .542 1 1-2 at Madison delphia Inquirer is that your players a Square Gen in shape to play in around Brooklyn _ 15 13 .5C6 1 1-2 tomorrow St. that after four weeks in the United to to bed but they always are night. ST. LOUIS, May 22.—UPV—1The go week. Philadelphia _ 15 16 .484 3 he but two the States had complaints up early in the morning for a prac- Cincinnati _ 13 18 .419 5 Bettina, ex-light Cardinals punched half of; will heavy [Louis too and there Sunday, Wilmington play x—St. Louis _ 9 19 .321 7 1-2 er from —the U. S. is big tice round.” MacPhail Places Beacon, N ,Y was hits in the seventh in- a Shamrock Denning and the rest of x—Playing night game. at 8 1-2 'their eight j aren't enough hours in day lor Locke says that Byron Kelson, to 5 in brisk and a 4-1 Mickey Balia’s Dunn-Erwin Twins, YESTERDAY’S RESULTS beat Lesnevich. liing for three runs sleep. now devoting most of his time to Melio was fa,i. who will exchange the compliment St.