The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 72

4 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, SUNDAY MORNING. MAY 15, 1927. SECTION 6 ules Against It Will Not Stop Intentional Pass, Ruth Declares Ready for Net Campaign Young Guides of Mini Meet Success Fisher Will Pace Speedway Start a Whiskery Avenges Defeat of Mother By Bradley Colts By R. J. BOYLAN, Of The St.

Louis Globe-Democrat. Harry Payne Whitney won his second Kentucky Derby Saturday afternoon when his good colt, Whiskery, outgamed Osmand at the end of the mile-and-a-quarter struggle and won by a neck. Jock was third. It is twelve years ago that the Whitney colors were carried to victory in the Derby by Regret and often since then Managers Must Be Convinced That Gift Has Little Real Value By BABE RUTH. Detroit, May 14.

Every year you hear the old howl about the intentional pass. And some fellow always comes along with some new rule to stop it. None of them work. The only way to stop the intentional pass is to convince the managers that it is poor business." As long as they figure it helps them win ball games, pitchers will continue to pass men intentionally. The boys were talking about it the other day in Chicago.

In the ninth inning of the first garnet sst --su yVj PI ttA r4J A Ifl tn-V if i- i Indianapolis, May 14 Lawrence P. Fisher, youngest and most colorful of the important automobile manufacturing executives of today, has accepted an invitation to pace the starting lap of he international 500-mile race to be held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Monday, May 30. With a LaSalle roadster, a new product of the Cadillac Motor Car Company of which he is president and general manager. Fisher will bring the field of fast cars entered in the 1927 five-century event down the straightaway at a rapid clip for flying start after a parade lap. Chosen because of his keen Interest In automobile racing and his popularity in the great Industry which automobile racing has assisted to its present state of perfection in transportation.

Fisher will be exceedingly popular with not only the greatest crowd that ever attended an automobile race, but the largest throng of humanity that ever has been collected at any one time in America. The pace lap at Indianapolis is one of the" most excting moments of an entirely colorful day. The cars, which gain their position in the lineup by virtue of their speed efforts in the qualifying trials line up in rows of three and exactly at 10 o'clock not a moment before or a moment after the pace car and field pulls away from the line. Slowly they wend their way into the first turn, gathering speea as they sweep through the back stretch. Coming through the turn onto the home stretch, the pace car opens up and brings the field across the tape in a flying start at a speed that is unusual for a stock pace car but a touch slow for the boys who are piloting the special racing cars.

As they cross the tape the start' er's red flag falls on the field and the race is on. The first flight contenders are off in a battle of speed, jockeying for position and driving like fury in a wild attempt to gain first position and the additional prize of $100 for each lap they can toss the tape in the lead. Lawrecne Fisher has spent his entire life in the automobile industry. A member of the famous Fisher family, he served an active connection with the Fisher Body Company as production manager. In September, 1924, he was elected a director of General Motors Corporation and in February, 1925, was elected a vice president.

In April, 1925. he became president and general manager of the Cadil lac Motor Car Company. tell where the fight will be. And this year it is working out about as I guessed it before the season opened. In our Jeague the Athletics and Yankees look like real beta and the race is hot enough to please anyone.

Over In the National League the Pirates and the Cardinals still loom as the real contenders. And the Giants are right up there, too, as they should be. McGraw hasn't any very hot pitching, but he has a great defensive club. And when any gang can hit the ball like the Giants, they're a dangerous outfit. (Copyright, 1911.) Tennis Players Must Bring Own In Chicago The opening of 135 tennis courts in the West parks in Chicago is bringing loud complaints from players because they are required to furnish their own nets.

Othewise, they agree, the city is treating them handsomely. The seventy-five grass courts have been well conditioned, the eighty dirt courts have been rolled and all will be freshly lined each week. Since great pains were taken to put the courts in condition, the players cannot understand why the job cannot be done completely, sparing them the delay, inconvenience and expense caused by the net requirement. Thty find it particularly irritating on crowded days, when so many ave waiting to we the courts that a change is made every hour. the leading Eastern turfman has tried to annex another Derby.

It is a coincidence that in 1921 he started Prudery in this race and she ran third to Behave Yourself and Black Servant. Whiskery is a son of Prudery and Saturday he handsomely represented his dam and, in winning, left another pair of Bradley colts, Bewithus and Buddy Bauer, far behind. Jock was off in front and set a dazzlin gpace for a mile, with Osmand close up and sticking to his task with more gameness than he has been given credit for possessing. These two were well clear of the others at the end of a mile, and as Jock fell back it looked as if Sande might be able to keep Osmand going long enough to win. As the leaders swung into the stretch, Whiskery came out of the trailing bunch and in a few strides was racing along close to the leaders.

Then "Pony" McAfee urged his mount forward, and a furlong from the end it was apparent that the race was strictly between Osmand and Whiskery, for Jock was dropping back and none of the others was showing ability to come out of the bunch and challenge the leaders. Sande Uses All Skill. Sande used all of the skill of which he is the master to keep Osmand in Iront. but Whiskery was going strong Osmand was faltering at the end. McAtee landed the Whitney colt In front.

The finish was close, and when Sapde rode back to the stand he thought he had won and was disappointed as he looked at the numbers and found that first honors belonged to Whiskery. Whiskery was last to come back to the judges' stand and was given a great ovation, in which his owner did not join, because he went back to his private car before the race. "I believe I'm a jinx," he said to his friends, "and if I get off the grounds mavbe one of my colts will win. It was not discovered that the owner of the winner was absent until Colonel Winn sent for him to come to the stand and receive the gold cup that is given each year. When it was Miss Helen Wills.

Miss Helen Wills, outstanding woman tennis player of the United States two seasons ago, is ready to start her comeback to the ranking position In the tennis world. She will compete for honors in the W'imbledun tournament in Knglsnd. Miss Wills forced to relinquish the championship of America last year because of illness. Real Sport Fans. Baspball fans of Salipbury, rained a fund of $300 by popular subscription to buy the release of a "prodipal son," Pitcher Jimmy Mahady, from the Fort Smith Club of ihe Western Association so he could return to the local team.

found that he had left, the cup was presented to Trainer James Rowe by Mayor W. H. Thompson of Chicago, who congratulated him on having such a good, game horse In his stable. Outside of the three placed horses, none of the starters showed the necessary combination of speed and stamina except Hydromel, that finished fourth, and Bostonian, that ran fifth. There was an excuse for Bostonian.

as Abel, -who had the mount, saw that Whiskery was going to the front and did not ride Bostonian very hard when he saw that his stable companion was winning. Osmand's partner. Kiev, with Mack Garner in the saddle, ran a dull race, as did Fred, Jr. The latter was expected to like the dull track and show a lot of speed toward the end, but disappointed his admirers. Rolled Stocking Disappoints.

The big disappointment to the Ken-tuckians was Rolled Stocking. He got off well, then dropped back to sixth place and finally finished eleventh place. Early in the day it was reported that Rolled Stocking had been sold to E. P. Waggoner of Texas, but the report was not true.

A suggestion was made to hi owner, J. W. Parrish of Midway, that the Texan would give $75,000 for Rolled Stocking, but Parrish said if he sold Rolled Stocking before th race the folks down in Midway would quit speaking to him. so negotiations were off. Heavy black coulds hungover th course as the horses went to the post and it looked as if the race might be run in the rain, but fortunately the rain held off and the race was not marred by weather conditions.

Inherits Ability. Robert Thompson. Scotch rolf pro. ho has been appointed to the Riverside Goif Club of Toronto, is proud of the fa-t that both his father and grandfather were urolwMonals in the ancient rami before him. Nine cities of the world a trrinp to land the Olvmpic Uamea of 1U3H.

They lauu me twi.n R.nme Hjuvwlona. are l.os aiik ul Rio de Janeiro. Alexandria. Lausanne. Hel- M.

cf our series there, Ted Lyons passed me to get at Gehrig. And Lou Tiarked one outside the field, -with Line bases full. Chances are Ted SWon't taka mnr rhflncpa that Of course I'm against the intentional pass. Most hitters are. Seema a though when I come up with the Jr.ases full or with men on in a close tame I never get a good ball to hit at.

At Different Slant. But when I was a pitcher I looked at the thing from another slant. As I Bee it, there are times when the in-tentional pass is good baseball. In a close game when you've got the tying or winning run on second with one out it's a good thing to pass the I next man. That gives you a chance I for a double play.

Or when you're in a tight game with a weak hitter coming up next, it's good baseball to pass the strong man to get at the Veak. But passing Ruth to get Gehrig, or passing Gehrig to get at Ruth is the bunk. It's as foolish as passing Shaker to get at Goslin or passing Frisch to get at Southworth. And speaking of passing me to get Gehrig, reminds me that our Lou has certainly been soaking that old apple this season. Make no mistake about It.

that kid's a good hitter. And he hits any sort of pitching. "When he first came to the league Lou was a dead right field hitter, and pitchers knew how to pitch to him to keep him from hitting 'em out of the park. But he has changed his style now, nd anything is apt to go for a ride anytime. Each SWe and Middle.

If you pitch 'em inside- he hits to right field; if you pitch on' the out-aide he socks 'em to left, and if you pitch down the middle he's apt to get himself a pitcher, and he can hit 'em equally havd in any direction. If there's any man in the league row who will ever beat my home run record I've got a hunch it will be Imu. And I certainly wish him luck. He's a great fellow; he loves to play-baseball and he's one of the hardest workers on our club. With him sticking around, the Yankees won't have to worry about a home run hitter for a long, lo'ng time, believe me.

As the season goes on the clubs In both leagues are beginning to find their levels. In the spiring there always is some fisirk horse that shoots along in front a while, But by the middle of May you can just about Pro Football Slips As Soccer Gains Favor (Globe Press.) New York, May 14. Promoters who built fields for professional football in letroit and Cleveland Jast season have, abandoned that enterprise and have turned their attention to soccer. It is understood that these men are getting behind the kicking game in those sections and will have continuous high class pro soccer every' week-end, organizing two teams, one to play at home while the other is away. These men say that the profession-alization of the college game is an Impossibility and have given that task up.

mm Clubs, And WILL SELL BEAUTIFUL New Motor Yacht Is Built For C. T. Fisher A handsome new cruising motor yacht, the Saramar built for Charles T. Fisher, vice president of the General Motors Corporation, was launched recently at the yards of Robert Jacob, City Island. The new boat, which is a stanch seagoing craft ICS feet was designed by John H.

Wells, marine architects of this city. Saramar II. will be used by Mr. Fisher at Detroit, where he makes his home, during the coming summer and will cruise in the West Indies next winter. The new boat has a beam of 18 feet 9 inches and is a twin-screw yacht, driven by Winton six-cylinder motors of 200 horsepower each.

(New York Times. New Michigan Plant To Seat 99,000 People Crowds running ashigh as 90,000 spectators are expected to attend important football games played next fall in the new Wolverine Stadium of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. The dedication game with Ohio State on October 22 and the game with th Navy on November 12 are expected to draw vast attendances to the new field. (New York Times. ooiiiewood Anchorage, Ky.

Embracing 162 Acres TJrbana, 111., May 14. The belief of George Huff," director of athletics at the University of Illinois, that young men of the right type could be taught how to coach athletic teams Is being justified by the records which erad- uates of the Illinois four-year course in athletic coaching and physical edu cation are making. Reports of the 1927 basketball season show that the Illini grads made many excellent records. Only a small minority of these young coaches had varsity exDerience. hut the noni average of victories was high, demon strating tnat, helpful as it is to play on a varsity team.

It is not necessary for a prospective coach. However, the Illini instructors point out that the youth who wants to coach must have sufficient athletic ability to be able to demonstrate form to his teams and that If he has not been able to make his high school team In one or more sports he probably will be a flop as coach. Some of the teams which made excellent records under Illini products were: Birmingham, State champions, John Blane; Wichita University, tied for State championship Leonard J. Umnus; St. Joseph Junior College, Missouri, conference champions, Leonard M.

Haines; Stivers High School, Dayton. Ohio, sectional champions, Floyd S. Stahl; Marys-ville, conference champion for second consecutive year, Glenn Potter; Northeastern High. Detroit'. city championship.

Other teams which won district or conference titles were: Gainesville, Texas Edgar A. Hennig; Westville, 111., Clayton M. Miller; Windber. Perm Nelson Hoffman; Deerfield-Shields, Highland Park, 111 A eei; Richfield. 111., R.

E. McAfoos; rVift nkfr 111 B' C- Doen: u- V'i11" Becker; Ashland. E. K. Weikal.

Hornsby Believes Cards Now Have Star Recruit According to Rocers Wnrnokv WaUy Roettger, the recruit outfielder of the St. Louis Cardinals, is going to ueveiop into a great player. "Roettger is one of the best outfield prospects that has come ud to th leagues in some time," says the second Baseman and captaia of the Giants the other day. "Right now he can as far back after a line drive as any other outfielder in the National League. Not only that, but he can after a fiy baii as wfii.

"He is only a youngster. The Cardinals signed him two years ago, after he quit school. He was farmed out to the Syracuse team because he could get more experience playing regularly in the International League than sitting on the Cardinals' bench. He was with the Syracuse team last year too, and now I believe that he is about ready for the big leagues. "His hitting is a bit weak, but he has a good swing at the plate and his hitting vill improve as he goes along.

"If I owned a ball club I wouldn't let Roettger get out of the league by waivers or any other way." Roettger is a St. Louis boy. He played against the Giants in Sarasota and showed his speed by going into deep center field and catching a line drive from the bat of Bill Terry. He is exceptionally fast on the bases and Southworth, Douthit and Hafey will have a hard time keeping hi mout of the Cardinals' outfield this season. (New York World.

'Peaches' In Audience Don't Spur Athletes Huntington, Wr. May 4. Good-looking girls don't cause an athlete to rise to the heights. That's the philosophy of Willie Green, star halfback, and other Marshall College ath-letee. "It's all bunk about some player fighting hard because of a good-looking girl on the sidelines rooting for him," Green claims.

All other athletes, from Captains on down to scrubs, agree with him. Morris Badgro Named On 3 All-Coast Teams Loa Angeles. May 14. Honors in three major sports were bestowed upon Morris "Red" Badgro, Southern California star, during the season now ending. Badgro's latest honor was selection on an All-California baseball team as a fielder.

Badgro was end on the official All-Pacific Coast team and forward on the official All-Coast basketball team this season. In baseball Badgro led his squad in batting with a .352 average. He played in twenty-one games, hitting twenty-four times in sixty-eight times at bat. Badgro scored twenty, five rung to lead his team in this honor. The Trojan red-head will captain the S.

C. basketball team next year. Freak Machines To Be Kept From Legal Race Des Moines, Iowa, May 14. Freak automobiles must not be permitted to enter any dirt track race meets at American fairs this year, sanction board offici.ils of the International Motor Contest Association warn promoters seeking permits for contests. For publicity purposes, promoters have been prone to permit experimenters with freak machines to en ter race meets on dirt tracks.

Secretary A. R. Corey, of the M. C. A.

claims, and a3 a result many accidents that could have been avoided have occurred. Cars entered in race meets must have a wheel base of at least eighty inches and a tread of at least tifty inches, front, and rear, or they will be classed freaks, and dangerous. Promoters disobeying the I. M. C.

A. edict will be barred from future sanctions, the announcement states. Talk Loses Title. The Alumni of Windsor lost the baketbail championship oi Canada to the Winnipeg- team when the latter eore1 two point on free throws awarded by the IC AUCTION Wednesday, June 1, At 3. P.

i Small Cities Soon May Conduct Motor Races Chicago. May 14. In order that automobile racing may become a diversion for fairs in the small cities and towns of the United States and Canada, managers of the largest State fairs and provincial exhibitions in America will lend their co-operation in the future, officials of the International Motor Contest Association have announced. Properly supervised race meets with competent officials and star drivers and with the sanction fee reduced to a minimum will result from the aid to be given by the bigger fairs. Circuits are to be established for drivers under I.

M. C. A. license and racing conducted under practically the same plans now used by the American and National Trotting Associations. 3 Quarter-Milers of Syracuse In i4.i4.i4.i4.

Philadelphia. May 14. "While Coach Tom Keene of Syracuse is making no idle boasts about winning any championship in the Intercollegiate A. A. A.

A. games on Franklin Field. May 27-28. he confidentially expects his three noted quarter-milers, Cecil G. Cooke, Oliver Proud lock and Ra Barbuti, to out a wide swath in the scoring column.

Cook holds the I. C. A. A. quarter-mile title, having won in :48.8 at Cambridge last May with Jimmy Burgess of Georgtown second, and Pruudlock third.

When Syracuse stepped through the mud and rain to win the American College one-mile relay championship in the Penn carnival in the good time of 3:23 2-5 Coach Keene smiled all through the raindrops. He was running TCelsey Denton in place of Ralph Kubado, a star member of the indoor team, who was stricken with scarlet fever a few weeks before the Penn relays. Coach Keene says Barbuti is running better than ever this spring and is capable of giving the giant colored champion a battle every time they get together. Barbuti is captain-elect of the varsity football team. In the Intercollegiate championships Coach Keene will, use Cooke exclusively in the 440 yards, but plans to have Barbuti "double up" in the 220 yards and quarter.

Captain Proudlock, the Pennsylvania coal region lad, who runs every distance from the 100-yard to the long cross-country Events, will be entered in the 440, while Denton will wear the Orange colors in the 100 and 220-yard dashes. Emerson Spencer, the Stanford star, recently ran 440 yards on the Coast around one turn in :47 4-5 in a driving rain. Captain Lawrence Babcock of the same team was right at Spencer's heels, and was clacked In :48. Mexico Wants Motor Racing Next Winter Chicago, May 4. American race drivers who have been compelled to put their machines in the garage each fall and leave them there until May or June, may find all-year driving if Mexican tracks are developed as planned this year.

Mexican motor interests have l.een promoting motor races for several years, but the competition has been more of a local nature than are the meets in the Cnited States. In letters received by the International Motor Contest Association from Mexico City, plans are outlined for developing the sport during the coming year and to invite scores of American pilots to participate in the meets. According to I. M. C.

A. officials, motor racing is very popular both in Cuba and in Mexico, where betting is unusually heavy and gambling is permitted at the meets. Profs Play Golf. ot th faculty at the i -l iiincsGt-'i ho had ver played i re'f" nv-' in 3 tournament uiuif-r hf ff Sul'ivan. a- jjro of tCif coiif-je Racing Fixture.

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