The Minneapolis Star from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 17

MINNEAPOLIS 1 earns No Longer an Infant-It's Full Grown Roller Derby Is Five Years Old! bet tor A nnua MSP stirring as a football game. And it combines qualities of all those sports and more as these days the derby fills the Auditorium to Its rafters every night between 8.13 and 11 p.m. "Inventor" Seltzer had a lot of trouble with his brain child, and just as Abner Doubleday wtih baseball, and others with football, he was laughed at from Last year's squalling infant in the field of sports has become this year's fall, dark and handsome hero. The roller derby, started just five year ago next Tuesday night, started out fast, has con tinued Its amazing pace in rising fan popularity until today derby officials boast the event is certain to shatter and short lyall box office records In any event any place in history. Since Aug.

13, 1935, when Leo Seltxer started off the first roller derby in Chicago, the game has gone a long way. It's a good show not strictly a sport by any means. It's as colorful as a bike race, as lusty as a basketball tournament, as fast as hockey and as STAR JOURNAL City Toiiraey coast to coast as he continually changed for the better his roller derby. At first the derby was a sort of marathon with skaters traveling a mythical highway from New York and San Francisco. At first there was no steeply banked track.

At first there was no accent on team competition. At first probably for those reasonsthe fans didn't catch on in great enough quantities to assure the success of the sport But now, with five skaters to team, with banked tracks, with colorful, good-acting skaters, with plenty of team competition, the roller derby Is a major Page 3 Sunday, August 11, 1940 LEGION OF STARS V. By Al Papas Three Classes for Meet Scheduled Aug. 24-25 at The Parade By ROLF FELSTAD Of the Star Journal Sports SUM Minneapolis snort to about 9,000 fans every night. And more than 9,000.

Last year, for Instance, there were 239.000 paid admissions to the derby In Minneapolis. Over the country, more than 4,000,000 people watched last year's roller except for its city champion, will have its 1940 grand finale Aug. 24-25 when the 0 third annual Minneapolis d-ball tournament is staged at The Parade. Only Minneapolis teams will be permitted to enter In one of three classes, and C. Teams are limited to any 15 players, with no restriction of individuals.

TWO GAMES A DAY FOR ANY ONE TEAM HAS BEEN SET AS derbies. That's outdrawing pro foot ball by 3 to 1: It's outdrawing every sport on the American continent In total attendance over a nerlod of a year. Why? Well, that's uncertain. But you can figure It nut easily If you drop around to the auditorium and watch "Grand, ma" kick a referee In the slats, see Peggy O'Neal nose out Honey Thomas In a special sprint, watch Johnny Rosasco carry the "flag" around the track ahead of the pack, see the numerous "fights" they put on. It's a good show.

And when the fifth anniversary of the roller derby Is cele-brated Tuesday night at the Auditorium, there'll be a full house awaiting for something to pop. And they won't wait In vain. Because something always does, THE MAXIMUM. Following the tournament will be an intercity series between the Minneapolis and St Paul champions, then the state meet at St. Paul Aug.

31, Sept 1 and 2. Pillsbury House and Jerseys, rained out Friday night, will lock horns Tuesday night at 8:30, with the Pills seeking to capture the City National title. A Monday feature will renew hostilities between Merrl-mao Cafes and Traffic club, 'who tied, 8-8 Friday in a City playoff game. The City-Commercial champ will be decided by next Friday night, Av mm imf lMK scxcwsw BOYS WOULD LIKK 1 g. A Hj AlJrl J-'lVf Ifttf A 1 UJt teM fe m.

W0Z THINKS A LOT OF HIS STRING lff J- Of fence- bustebs. vllr 'tu- pAps- and the city championship series between the minor league survivor and the National king will begin Aug. 21. Ross' Homer Minneapolis Wins From Saints, 13-12 At the end of the open house sprinting Saturday night at the Auditorium, Minneapolis had broken St. Paul's tring of five straight triumphs and come through with a 1312 victory.

This was due largely to John-ny Rosasco's hand to hand duel with St. Paul's Lou Stasiuk in the last few minutes, wherein Johnny picked off two winning points. Puts Dodgers Down to Bees BOSTON (U.R) Chet Ross' four bagger with the bases loaded gave the Boston Bees a 4 to 3 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers, Sol. ibihty. ights OESKl The Bees, held scoreless for five frames by Lefty Grissom, put over all their runs in the sixth when or Cooney, Rowell and singled to load the bases.

Grissom was replaced by Luke Hamlin. Hamlin's first pitch to Ross was a ball, the Second was walloped over the left field fence to clear the bases and N. W. Skeet on State Fair Butler to Bolster Bluebirds for Polo Battle at Snelling put the Bees ahead to stay, A homer by Camilli coupled with Program; 16 Pacers Enter a walk and three hits gave Brook lyn two runs In the opening inning. Officials to Seek Change in Decision Team Off for Regional Legion Tournament at Belleville By BILL HENGEN Of the Star Journal Sports Staff Frank "Smoky" Solonski Their third run came In the sev enth on a double and a single.

Brooklyn I Boston ab po a ab po a By HOWARD LA PRAY The local polo supremacy which the Cardinals team has held this season will face a serious threat at Fort Snelling this afternoon when the Red lineup tangles with a rejuvenated Bluebird quartet at 3 p.m. 0 3 1 Sh 2 3 0 5 3 the Blues need only one more to draw abreast of the league leaders. According to the railbirds, the Blues have a good chance to accomplish the trick. In their last game, the Blues held a hard fighting Spencer, Iowa, 1 team to two field goals while racking up IS. Today they will be bolstered by the addition of Francis Butler who will play No.

2. The lineup is the strongest the Blues have presented in the past two seasons. 3 OCooney.cf 4 1 5 0lRowelV2b 4 2 2 6 OjWest.rf 4 11 1 OMoore.rf 0 0 0 0 41 Ross. 4 2 2 4 OlMNler.M 4 0 5 0 4 17 0 0 Berrea.c 4 12 0 Salvo.p 10 1 ni Reese, si Walker.cf Camilli.lb Phelps, Resier.rf Medwck.lf Grlsaom.p Hamlin. iFransk Head.p ltxWasdell uxHudaon 4 2 4 2 4 1 4 0 3 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 In early season, the Cards racked at No.

1 will be Nick Rodesci who has been playing his best polo this season and Maurice Kreier, former Fort Snelling ace who will be making his first appearance of the year. Tom Daniels and his son, John, again will play at pivot and back! and to complete the lineup Is thej visiting star, Herb Lorber of Chicago. With one position still open on the squad which will journey to Lake Forrest, 111., next Sunday for the Onwentsia game, today's tilt Is expected to produce some vicious battling among players who hope to be chosen. Four Days of Auto Racing Billed for New Speedway The Northwest Open skeet championship, the first of its type in the west, was added to the long list of sport attractions for the Minnesota State fair, Aujf. 24 to Sept.

2. Announcement of the approval up three straight victories includ bij Hal? ey Hall 0 Ol Total 31 8 27 14 ing a smashing 13-to-3 win over 0 the Blues. Since then The Blue mallet wield ers have started a comeback drive has been ruled ineligible to compete in the regional American Legion baseball tournament at Belleville, 111., this week but local officials are going to stage a "fight to a Total! 33 11 24 61 Batted tor Hamlin in 7th. XX Batted for Head In th. xxx Ran for Wasdell In 9th.

Brooklyn W0 Ronton 000 004 which dates from the signing of 1003 00X 4 The Cardinals, out to hold their Major Landon Lockett, Fort Snell ONE of the promising young race horses at Saratoga is Mrs. Payne Whitney's "Monday Lunch" Seeing as the ownership is what it it, that ought to be a pretty rich diet On the other hand.how would you like to have Sunday Dinner by J. P. Morgan? Possible embarrassing situation developing in a conversation by Mrs. Whitney "You must come over and No.

1 position, also will present a ing polo director. With two wins of this new scatter gun competi over the Cards in their last starts, strengthened lineup. Alternating finish" in an effort to reserve the decision. tion was made by Raymond A. Lee, fair secretary, late Addition of this athletic event to The Fire and Police post third Error Slstl, Salvo.

Runs batted in-CamllH, Phflpi. Row 4. Two base hits Medwlck. Walker. Home rune Camilli, Rom.

Stolen bases Reese. Sacrifices Reese. Ststt. Double play Roweil to Miller to Left on bases Brooklyn, 9: Boston. 7.

Bases on balls Grissom, Head, Salvo. 5. Struck out Grissom, Salvo. 2. Hits Off Grissom In 5 tnnlnfcs (none out in 6th); off Hamlin 1 in oft Head 2 2- Losinft pitoher Grissom.

Umpires Reardon, Sears and Jorda. Time 2:28. Attendance 4.6S8. Dick WildungN ears Gopher baseman was ousted from the meet Saturday through a technical violation of the birth certificate harness races and horse show gives the fair its strongest competitive program In history. Goal Set as Nine- Year-Old rule.

Tournament officials said his birth certificate had not been placed on file last Jan. 1. The Fair's new speedway will be officially opened with the Amerl- enjoy Monday JLunch in our stable" Runner-up to Sammy Snead in the Ontario Open golf tourney was Gordie Brydson; that's the same gentleman who once starred for the Kansas City pucksters, later in the National Oswald Jacoby and the Four Aces were eliminated right off the deal in the big bridge tournament; Xx 252 National Refuges Set i An order by President Roosevelt In less than a month, Dick will report to Coaches Bernie Bierman and George Hauser, HERALDED AS ONE OF THE BEST TACKLE PROSPECTS TO ENTER THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IN YEARS. Dick hasn't won his spurs yet in big time competition, but he begins his varsity career with even more determination to make his mark In football than tan uii uacK cnaiiipiuiisnip races Aug. 26.

Four days of auto racing are scheduled with the speed kings furnishing the thrills Aug. 28, 31 and Sept 2. The harness horses will take over the spotlight Aug. 27 and 29. The skeet shooting championship will get under way Aug.

81 at 7:30 a.m. The gun- ti, However, as the ruling was made on a technical and not serious violation of an amend- ment, Manager Budy Tersch and Dr. Paul Preston said Saturday they would appeal the decision Monday night. Whether Solonski plays or not may have considerable bearing on Minneapolis' chances In the regional. a If the ruling Is upheld, then Tersch may have to move Catch has made 252 out of 264 refuges administered by- Fish and Wildlife Service national refuges.

The order affects most of areas in mammoth bird, mammal sanctuaries from Puerto Rico to Alaska and Maine Ten years ago, Dick Wildung, promising Minnesota sophomore tackle, rode by Memorial stadium in an automobile with his mother and father. He was only nine years old then, but he startled mother and dad wtih this statement: "SOME DAY, I'M GOIXG TO BE IN THERE PLAYING FOOTBALL." The remark was passed off at the time as just one of those childish dreams. But it was something more than that with this young lad. in fact three years later he got another look at the same Memorial stadium. "Don't worry, I'll be out there with the Gophers some day and 111 work my way through school if I have to," Dick remarked.

He had reached the age of 12. to Hawaii. tern win lire in relays an unj and on Sept. until the championship has been decided, a Complete entries in the 2:14 pace event which will open the racing for $6,250 harness purses Aug. 27, were announced by George E.

er Eugene Podlesek to the outfield and put Frank Horazy on third. In that case Francis Shannon he had when just a youngster and dreaming about gridiron heights. He takes his highway job as seriously as his football playing. Through the hot summer months he has won the admiration of his fellow workers for more than holding up his end of assignments. The Wildungs originally made their home in Anoka, but a number of years ago they moved to Luverne where hU widowed mother runs a dress shop.

I now, Dick has made good en his promise that he'd werk his way through the UnlTertity. He had Job tn a loop bank during his freshman year and when he return, tn September he's all set at a nniv ratty restaurant. He's the talk of Luverne today, but headlines for his activities as freshman haven't changed him from the quiet, modest, soft spoken and likeable lad that he was before a football career loomed for him. would catch. ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE WOULD BE TO PUT VIRGIL Gumbert Beats Phils, 1 to 0 PHILADELPHIA (IP) The New York Giants blanked the Philadelphia Phillies, 1 to 0, Saturday behind the five-hit pitching of Harry Gumbert.

Gumbert won his own game when he doubled in the third, was sacrificed to third and GUTSKI AT THIRD WHEN NOT PITCHING. OR CLARENCE RINGWELSKL ANOTHER HURL ER, MAY TAKE OVER THE HOT I i fv I CORNER. Solonski will not accompany the team Sunday when it leaves at scored on a fly by Joe Moore. New York Philadelphia ab po ab do a 2:30 p.m. but he will motor down it couldn't be that the hekman Four Aces ran temporarily out of them Messrs.

Jacoby, Sims, Culbertson, et al, put their pants on just like you and I when they get a mess of ten-spots Harold Anderson, who coached most of those great Cokato Junior Iiegion nines, is now at Wheaton, says he misses the Junior stuff; comments, on that thrilling 14 Inning loss to St. Paul in the finals two years ago, that none of the kids ever mentioned the game afterward Glenn Guessed Wrong From an old memo, Fay Tyler comes up with the printed remarks of Glenn L. Curtiss, airplane designer, to the effect that "An airplane attaining a speed of 500 miles per hour can be built but the craft would fly so fast that It would bum up by friction" The date 1923; and Mi. Curtiss went on to say that the maximum feasible speed had been reached They've found a way to beat the Cincy Reds play 'em on Friday; Clncy has won only three Friday battles all year It escaped us until just now, but do you realize that Billy Herman and Peewee Reese art graduates from THE SAME CHURCH TEAM? It'a the New Covenant Presbyterians tn the Loulsvillle Church League The Other Foot A modest cheer for Eldon Rowe, chief of the State Highway Patrol, who has ordered that all slow drivers, impeding traffic be pulled off the highway, given warning tickets To us one of the most shocking things about the Hirschberger suicide was the likable young catcher's comment to Bill McKechnie the night before "My father did It and I'm going to do It, too" You think of a leader with pretty fair power, but Cleveland has ranked sixth In batting most of the time and Cincinnati fifth And how about the Yankees during one stretch, where they hit 21 home runs, yet won only three games And DO TOD REMEMBER the time when the biggest front page newi was the Culbertson-Leni bridge match? Today this same Dick Wildung, grown to six feet in stature and 210 pounds in weight, is toughening his physique on a state highway maintenance crew working out of Luverne. 3 11 fi8chulte.2b 1 1 3 5 with Preston Monday.

Moore.lt 4 Marty.cf 4 Demaree.cf 4 12 Braen.ai 4 TounK.lb i oil I Rlzzo.lf 4 3 2 0 3 0 1 2 One piece of good news was reported Saturday, however. Miller I 0 8 0 0 Danning.c 3 113 Ott.rf 4 0 May lib 3 Wltek.si 4 0 7 Warren.e 3 6 Mahin.lb 1 Gumbert, 3 2 1 1 Mueller, i 0 0 Totals tt 27 21 Brown. 0 S'iJnhn 2 Klrtn.rf 1 Trainer Doc Bowman worked on Jimmy Smith's shoulder for an 0 Hanscom, superintendent of speed. Sixteen horses are entered. Expected to lead this fast opening horse event are Viola Scott, fast stepping chestnut mare, owned by Elmer Matin and Son of Bemidji, and Billie Jean, one of the horses entered by the veteran St.

Paul reinsman, Frank L. Bundy. The 2:14 pace entries are: DON BAR. b. Bartac A.

D. Hrrl- ton, Brnnton, Man. TRUABK, b. Truaz, Dr. L.

B. Cobb, Sun Prairt. Wla. THIS GOOSE, bay MftrtintVM, Elmer Marin ft gnn. B-mklJI, Minn.

VIOLA 8C0TT. eh. MeKfcinty Boetl. Elmer Murln ft Bon, Bemldjt. Minn.

HELEN C. RATTAN, bl. OrtHaB at Law, BarUli ft Gerllna Milwaukee, Win. CHARLKt MOKIN, b. c.

Moktn UN Great. Homer Kartxr, Shellburg, Iowa. KING KI.I.IS, Rwwell Boy, R. Harp. PfUsfleid.

I1L BK ATT GKSTK. b. Leon June, Chaa. S. Beattr, Farmington.

Minn. UXIQl E. ch. Martinique, Dr. Wm.

C. Knufmsn. Appleton, Minn. BRK'R FOX, br. Boeahua, Soul St.

Paul Horse Market. South St. Paul, 1MCK PATCH, b. Phil Patch. H.

BMtn, Brandon, atan. GUY HAL. bl. Guy rUfS. St.

a B. Iimnn, Sintaluta, Saak. BILLIE JEAN. b. BiaMyou.

Frank L. Bundr, St. Paul, Minn. RED GLOW. ch.

Artcm Gay, F. M. Peers. Br-ntirrleM, TIL VOLO TREASURE, br. h.

Htfh Trail-ure. Mra. John Hennlrk. Sioux Falla. S.

D. GENE TALMADGK. br. Lulwau Crtppen, Watt Allla, wl 1 hour and there Is a strong possibil ity that the centerfielder will be I Totals Batted tor Ms hHn tn 6th, rt Ran for Mueller la 6th. Near York (WV Philadelphia 0f0 OOO OOO 1 in the starting lineup.

Tournament drawing will be made Monday night Besides the local representative, there will be 0000 i i 'a-, if 'V -5 a team from Chicago, Milwaukee, and from Iowa. Errors Par.ninic. May. Runs batted in Moot. Two base hits Gumbert.

Marly. Sacrifices Masters, Whitehead. Double plays Dannina, Witek Younje; Gumbert and Lett on bases FM'adtipiua York and New Gum- Base on balls Johnson 1. bert 2. Struck out Bl Jotmaoa S.

Hits oft Si Johnson, 6 In innings: A break In the draw would enable the locals to play Tuesday and then. If they win, rent Wednesday with the finals ex-eeted be played Thursday night on K-own l. Ijnutnr pitcher SI Jnrinsrri. rmptrea Barr. Markurth and Stewart.

Time mCB. WTLDUNG Highway work prepares him for big tkatut at last.