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(Sjp^Lb Ben Auehbaul 8 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES &TTG. 29, 1923 FIRST MUNICIPAL GOLF TOURNEY IN CITY STARTS WEDNESDAY FAST HORSE ENTERS FAIR RACES ROQUE WINNER . ' I ., .. WINNER WILL BE Here and There SEMI-WINDUP IS .......,..r . BROTHERTUTTO In Sportland DECLARED CHIP By Dick Anderson FEATUREOFSCRAPS MEET WILES IN Times municipal golf tour- IT TOMLINSON'S . 15RRUND BOOT OF MIMSES ney opens tomorrow at 1 p. m. THEon the South Grove course. Play on Three Links Starting Eighteen holes will be played each Sidney Click and Jackie Barn- Jackson Carries Wallop and day, the second day's play at River- at South Grove at 1 P. M. side and the third hart Mix Things in Lively Wills Must Beat Him for Tomorrow. Fashion. Chance. golf tourney to be I By WESTBROOK PEOLER, Two interesting bouts and a clinch- held in Indian- A United Xetct Staff Correspondent DAD ing comprised WILLIAMS STARTER apolis In which _ gJ&Hr’ match the fistic enter- NEW YORK, Aug. 29.—Brother Tut the gates were tainment at Tomlinson Hall Monday Jackson of Washington Courthouse, Ohio, is boy who uses screen let down to the night. It was a card of ten-rounders a coal for Contest Is 54 Holes From many golfers who shaving powder, for staged by Washington A. and two-inch cable the C. shoestrings, block and tackle for sus- Scratch With Low Gross there were thrills a-plenty, even if the JgHV ijUjiH penders and the discarded maintops of Score Winning. wind up affair did turn out to be a the Ringling boys for his shirts. is a boy, a big event. Brother Tut black first municipal golf slow boy, and he’s tough. The tourney to The hot stuff bout was the second William McCarney, who had Luther be held in Indianapolis will begin at will be staged in on program the between Jackie Barn- McCarthy and a potential million, back 1 p. m., Wednesday bigger and better on the South ANDERSON hart of Terre Haute and Sidney Gllck in the white hope days, and style next year .. hasn't had Grove course. of Indianapolis, two youthful light- bMHiisSHMMMIS any luck an accidental punch by the Times. It will enlarged to since be weights. In this scrap the fans were W. A. ROUNRS snapped Luther’s spinal out in Play will be 54 holes with the low incorporate women golfers. column The men’s kept in an uproar by the terrific mill- Cleveland, presi- the Pacific Northwest, is responsible gross score winning. All entries will tourney will be regarded as a State W. A. Rounds of ing and fought at such top William start scratch. municipal the rivals Roque Associa- for Brother Tut Jackson. from affair. speed was dent of the American The second 18 holes be played that there little to choose tion, showed the other contestants in heard about Brother Tut when Tut got will between them closing bell a fight at Riverside Thursday afternoon and State fair authorities have when the the State tourney just closed at the into with Sam Langford, down somewhere, simply the final 18son the Highland links Fri- taken out SIOO,OOO weather in- sounded. Garfield courts It be South and devastl- Park how should cated day afternoon. THEsurance. This is to Douglass Wins done. He was winner in the champion the devasticatin’ bear-cat from insure them Boston. William cocked an ear to- The T.mes will award three prizes—- against inclement weather during fair In first bout of the evening division. the ward Washington Courthouse. Then a to winner, an engraved week, which begins next Monday. medal the One of the feature events on the The Omaha, Neb., trainer, Marvin last week won a stake race at Aurora, Bljly Douglass of New York ap- Brother Tut was matched to fight silver belt buckle to runner-up and an racing card at the Indiana fair The track program will be one of State Childs will start his crack trotter, The 111. In this event. The Triumph set parently deserved the verdict over Jack Johnson down there in Washing- engraved silver match case to the this year $2,000 Schloss the fastest seen in this section for will be the Triumph 2:07V4, in this race. the track record for trotters at 2:OBVi Ray Rivers of Los Angeles. Billy ton Courthouse, and received some third man. Bros., stake trotters, some time. The added attraction la Horseshoe Kings Clothiers' for 2:12 leading most distance, publicity during the ensuant negotia- Harry Schopp, South Grove pro- Thursday, The Triumph was one of the sur- in the third heat. Pop Geers, the veteran race driver. did the of the which will be decided on and though he took many Jabs to tions which resulted In the abolition fessional, will give a bag and clubs to week. big a prise at the early meetings on The Omaha star will have a stiff He will drive his fastest nag in an Compete fair This stake attracted trotters the face, he never faltered and kept City of the match. the winner. big field of high-class horses, many of the Grand Circuit, since turning field to battle with In the Schloss exhibition race. of and boring In and made it a fight. Fight at Ebbets* Field Other prizes will be announced which have been winning on Westward, performing in Bros,, stake for such trotting cracks The "Old Man of the Tracks” la the mile has been along The wind-up bout between Jimmy to fight Harry later. tracks and important two-lap track rare style over the half-mile tracks. as Walter Sterling, 3, 2:OSVi; Clyde well in years and is still hale in National Meet Tut Is scheduled Dalton and Happy McHenry went the Tuesday night. "Dad” Williams will start the en- meets, and It should prove one of the He won a corking race at Davenport, The Great, 4. 2:O7Vi; Peter Harvester, nnd hearty. He boasts of more than By Timet Special Wills at Ebbets’ Field limit of ten rounds and ringsiders one tries pairings may be at races lowa, in 2:O9Vi, fifty years behind a horse’s heels. It’s DES MOINES, lowa, Aug. Every of the forty-some fighters and made the best of the week. where he trotted and 3. 2:07V4. figured it was a was 29.—The tee. Entries will also be accepted at aorne record. draw. There who have raised their fists to him In too much clinching, pulling and in- national horseshoe tournament began tee, golfers are urged to enter a year’s career has been knocked the but Big sports fighting. Dalton boxed with a ban- early. in Ten will today at noon in the twenty specially cold as a corporation Judge. A couple fall under the ax of John L. daged arm. Western Golf Association rules will left constructed courts here. Champion of the boys escaped in one bout, but BETTINGGriffith, newly appointed com- prevail. BASEBALL COMMENT, GOSSIP horseehoe pitchers from all sections of were squashed Into the rug In return mission or athletics of the western is first tourney in Indian- SPLENDID GOLF country entered. matches. This the collegiate conference. A. B. C.S WIN AGAIN the have apolis which has been thrown open Frank Jackson, national champion, Brother Jackson Is to go fifteen "It is the greatest evil in intercol- to golfers using municipal that Johnson Makes Wise Move In Checking “Stalling” and C. Davis Columbus, Ohio, rounds or less with Wills. He Is a links legiate contests,” he declares. Swamp Tate Stars in Slugging Match C. of have no mem- Tactics—Baird Yerkes Star in winner the Petersburg (Fla.) man of tremendous strength and Is club affiliation. Club and Louisville He will seek the aid of the public, —Charleston Gets Homer. of St. bers are not barred, however. IS IN tourney, are among the entries. There loose muscled, which makes for hard EXHIBITED : Opener—Other Sport Chatter. students and alumni In squelching the By Timet Special punching. There is no entry fee and the win- have been eighty entries in all for the ner evil. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 29.—The women Wills must win this bout in order will be regarded as the municipal By EDDIE ASH a good place for Griffith to start men’s tourney. Sixteen have course champion. It's every own entered section. to get that match with Jack Dempsey Johnson, president of the American League, is to be congratu- his work. A. B. C.s had thing their their A Ban for which he Is signed. If Jackson match may be arranged between lated on the action he took against the Yankees and White Sox for TOLEDO IDIM! way here Monday with the Tate Stars should win he probably would have to the winner of the Times tourney and the game of Aug. 1. He fined Manager Huggins and George Atkinson. Indianapolis cham- delaying unfinished and won easily, 13 to 3. Ber Taylor's go through the routine of Billy Reed, city golf champion. players and three Chicago players on charge pion. was sent to Des Moines by the tedious four New York the of Public Links Players Show crew went on a batting rampage and knocking out Kid Norfolk, Bill Tate The entries: Edward Smith. Maurice "stalling.” Jack Blakeslee City Horseshoe Association and Eddie Feeney, C. O. McCormick. P. J. Barnhart, knocked out twenty-one base hits and the Jamaica Kid before qualify- George Stanley. contest was played in Chicago under threatening Werner was sent by the Brookside F. R.
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