The Dispatch from Moline, Illinois • 12

DAILY DISPATCH, MOLINE, ILLINOIS: WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1933. 12 rr Speedway Claims Three More Li vestas Louis Meyer Wins Again Famous Football Coach NED BRANT AT CARTER A Story of College Athletics COAST DRIVER WAS VICTOR IN YANKEES BEAT SENATORS 3-2 IN WILD GAME ill 60TH SO LONG BOY ILL SENO YOU A COHCW SHELL AKO OP YOU fcvfcKY 7 THIRTY MINUTES- TMEY SAY SEASICKNESS It 0 1 DMT KNOW RIMS' HE GOTUSTME. I WE OUGHT TO UNLESS WE. 3l0m- IS A VERY ANNOYING D0 HAD AKYOCEAH THROUGH A SEE A LQTOTHg. GET OK A SLOW 1 1ZjJ AILMENT, NEO mANSfDKT f-S FOIENO OP Hl9 WORLD EVEN IF- A TU6 WfTH (TP flk ojtciupcc WHO HAS A PLEET TME WORX IS PRETTY HOMEAAAOE XjHI ITvST I UNDERSTAND 1'ST i I HOwb THAT Jill 'i I I 1928 CLASSIC POfi YOUIi WHATNOT mi 1 II .7 -Ay 1 lit 'ril II Ilftlifl -3 Cft I Ml tiff ftw Ben Chapman and Whitehill Figure in One Dispute; Cronin Protests.

Sets New Record of Better Than 104 Miles an Hour to Capture Prize. CLAIM HOMER WAS FOUL BILLMAN, SPANGLER DIE White Sox and Cubs Get Even Break in Games with Indians and Reds. 8 Bffi(fr ind Tribunr Syndic Mechanic Jordan Also Killed in Spectacular Crashes at Indianapolis. AUGUSTANA WINS BIG TURNOUT AT Meyer Wins Auto Classic in Record Time Killed in Race By HUGH S. FTJLLERTON JR, Associated Press Sports Writer.

SrRUGGLE between the New York Yankees and Washington senators in the American leazue TENNIS BATTLES may develop into one of baseball's SOFTBALL MEET classic rivalries If tne teams play a VA By CHARLES DUNKLEY, Associated Press Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS, May 31. VP) Three daring young men lay dead today, tragic victims of gmashups yesterday in the 500-mile automobile race won by Louis Meyer, Huntington Park, in a record-breaking finish. By his triumph, Meyer became the second driver to win the race twice. The other was Tommy Milton of St. Paul, who triumphed in 1921 and came back to ride to vic few more close games.

Visiting the capital for the first time since April 25, when the rival Ums eneased in a free-for-all on Strong Viking Team Upsets in Jf the field, the Yanks came out with Two Favorites Are Upset Seven Games at River Outing Grounds. Macomb Aces on Riverside "Courts in Moline. a 3-to-2 victory yesterday but it was only after much argument and a bit of pop-bottle dodging that they won and even then the game was protested. The trouble started when Ben Augustana college varsity tennis Several hundred fans and were attracted to the Rock Chapman, one of the leading figures in the April donnybrook, went to team added Macomb college 10 iu list of victims by beating the Teachers easily on the Riverside park courts in Moline yesterday after-rwn 5 to 1. A large crowd saw the River Outing softball tournament yesterday east of the airport bridge as seven fast and close ball games bat for the first time against nis prstwhile fistic rival.

Earl WhitehilL were played in the opening round The fans booed; Whitehill rubbed Augustana team sweep through all his hands in the dirt and then on the ball and an argument arose of the invitational meet. Two favorites were upset and one game was postponed until a night later four singles man-uta nips which featured the play drew repeated applause from when Umpire "Brick" Owens tossed the ball out. Then a couple of bottles were heaved towards Chap- man as he went into the outfield. the gallery. vpsrdav's meet was the only tory in 1923.

Meyer previously had won in 1928. Death List of Five. With three deaths yesterday and two in the qualifying tests Sunday, the race had claimed five lives, the biggest sacrifice to speed since 1919, when three were killed. The three victims yesterday were Mark Billman, 27-year-old Indianapolis driver; O. L.

Jordan, also 27, Lafayette. mechanic, and Lester Spangler, 27-year-old driver from Los Angeles competing for the first time in the Indianapolis classic. While the cheers of 100,000 spectators- were acclaiming Meyer as the speed king of 1933, Billman and Jordan were dead. Spangler succumbed to his injuries last night, five hours after he had been injured. The bodies of Spangler and Jordan were horribly crushed when their car, traveling at a terrific speed hit a machine driven by Malcolm Fox of Westville, N.

set-back suffered by Macomb this season and again showed the un Dispute Home Ron. Things settled down to a peace usual strength of Augustana able duel between Whitehill and year. The excellent condition v.i- f- Russell Van Atta until the eighth the Riverside courts and better ac I sS when hungry Lou Gehrig belted one commodations for taking care of a in the week. Harvey's Oilers upset Enright's Coal team and Nu Enamel took the count of the highly-rated Skelly Boosters in surprise wins of the tourney. In other games, Chink's Idle Hours, Blancke's Markets, Speed Boys, Augustana Pugs and Gordon VanTine teams triumphed.

Dimock Gould and Bergstrom and Slatten-gren will play later in the week. Semifinals and finals of the tournament will be played next Sunday, starting at 9 in the morning. Harvey's, Enrights, 7. Harvey's Oilers scored seven runs over the fence close to the foul line large crowd caused me matcnes niawpr! in Moline which gave MARK BILLMAN, Indianapolis Driver. and Umpire Owens ruled it was a Louis Meyer (right) of Huntington Park, CaL.

is pictured with his mechanic. Lawson Harrison of In WV Jf local tennis fans an opportunity to i a dianapolis in the record-breaking time of 4 hours, 48 inutes averaging 104.162 miles art hour. Meyer thus witness tennis as is piayea iu became the only driver besides Tommy Milton to win the Indianapolis race twice. (Associated Press photo.) intercolleeiate competition. rn Raturdav.

the Aueustana team homer that put the Yanks The dispute raged for ten niinntes before Manager Joe Croniazdecided to finish the game under protest. And after a ninth-inning rally had won for New York, Clark Griffith, owner of the Senators, entered a formal nrotest on the grounds that will go to Macomb for a return on the southwest turn shortly after Wrecker Removes Death Car in 500-Mile Race Billman had wrecked his car on match with western leacnera, uu on next Tuesday will meet Coe col-iti at cdar. RaDids to finish the in the first inning and then battled the opposite turn. Fox Car Wrecked. Providing Augustana wins to the finish to nose out the En- Owens iad refused to consult with Roy Van Grafian, who was stationed along the first base line.

I their two- mey right Coal team, 8 to 7, in the open Another car, racing in front of ing game. Efflandt tightened in will be finishing tne season unae-fpntpd. In such a case, which is Fox, skidded and forced him to Athletics Win Twice. The second same of the holiday the pinches to keep the lead. shoot towards the outside retain quite probable, it will be the best ing wall.

tennis record enjoyed Dy an Augus doubleheader was rained out and the sinele defeat left Washington bpangiers racer hurtled over Score: R.H.E. Enrights 003 040 07 6 3 Harvey's 710 000 8 5 3 Batteries -Velde and Len O'Brien; tana tennis team since tne ume oi Fox's machine, and landed on the with a precarious hold on second Ken Conrey. wall. Fox's car shot to the out place. The Philadelphia Athieucs, Yesterday results were as ioi- side wall where it dangled until lows: only American league team to win both halves of a double bill, woircd pulled off by a wrecking crew, i j' tLUianat ana Lannoo.

Idle Hours, Advertisers, 3. Humphrey held Van Coillie's Ad Singles: Kirby. Aueustana, No. 1, beat xx either Fox nor his mechanic was ud only half a game behind the seriously injured. Senators after beating the Boston Red Sox, 1 to 3 and 11 to 8.

vertisers to four hits with his curve Wells, Macomb, 6-1, 6-4. Matthews, Augustana, No. 2. beat Murphy, Macomb, 7-5, 5-7, 9-7. The Cleveland Indians and cm- ball and Chink's Idle Hours triumphed in a 4 to 3 game.

Score: R.H. E. VanCollie's .110 010 03 4 Idle Hours 011 000 2 4 5 3 Douglass, Augustana, No. 3, beat Collins, Macomb, 7-5, 6-4. DeFrates.

Aueustana. No. 4. beat cago White Sox broke even, Cleve- land hammering six Singers for twenty-three hits to win the second 15 to 8 after the Sox had taken the -first, 7 to 2, behind Eddie Durham's Means, Macomb, 6-4, 4-6, 6-0. Batteries Nesseler and Wells; Doubles: Kirbv and Matthews.

Aueustana 5-hit hurling. numpnrey and Barton. Blancke's, Cottage Inn, 5. Aided by errors, Detroit took tne lost to Wells and Murphy, Macomb, ODener from the St. Louis Browns, -lAi 1 fT wtA': 1 1 if 1 1 iw i 'I I iU, yi 8-6, 7-5.

Douelass and DeFrates. Augus One big inning in which five run 8 to 6, but bowed to Wally 3 to 1. In the second although the Tigers had an 8-to-5 edge in the ners crossed the plate helped RECHECK HELPS MOORE. Indianapolis, May 31. UP) Lou Moore of Los Angeles and Luther Johnson of South Bend.

profited from a recheck of the times of drivers finishing the 500-mile race at the Indianapolis motor speedway, announced today bv Chester S. Ricker, director of timing and scoring. Moore was advanced to third place, boosting his prize money by $900, and dropping Chester Gardner of Long Beach, to fourth position. Johnson became winner of the $840 tenth grize. and his teammate.

Cliff ergere of Los Angeles, dropped to eleventh, out of the money. LESTER SPANGLER, Los Angeles Driver. Mark Billman of Indianapolis and Lester Spangler of Los Angeles, drivers of cars in the 500-mile race yesterday, were killed within the space of a few minutes along with G. L. Jorden, Spang-ler's mechanic, when their cars crashed over the wall at the speedway.

tana, beat Collins and Means. Ma- Markets defeat the Cot COmD, 0-4, 4-0, o-. tage Inn team, 6 to 5. The winners hits. got only two hits, but made good Cards Take Two.

The St. Louis Cardinals, threaten use of walks and errors. Score: R.H.E. the Fitzpatrick Dairy team of Moline here yesterday winning the first game by a score of 5 to 1, and then taking the second encounter, Blancke's 005 0010 6 2 3 ing Pittsburgh's hold on the Rational league lead, won two contests frnm fho OinMrmnH Rpds whEe the Cottage Inn 100 01215 7 4 Batteries Speth, Bueche and 3 to 2, in seven innings. Bucs broke even with Chicago anf The Muskies tied the score at 1- HYP IN NS wound up only a half game beha Ruff; Brant and Tolander.

Nu-EnameL Skelly, 0. the pace setters. Four runs in the first gave ux The accident, coming within a Bill Harper's Nu-Enamelers play Cards the otener. 5 to ap all in the fourth inning of the first game after the Moliners had gained a 1-rin advantage in the opening frame, and then put the contest on ice with three runs in the sixth. Hidelbaugh held Fitzpatrick's to two few seconds after Billman had iM tosmmote Paul ed errorless ball behind the 4-hit ENGLISH DERBY pitching of Southpaw Don Erickson while Si Johnson was the victia of crashed, was one of the most spectacular in recent years.

Both Spangler and Jordan were, tossed to score the only shutout of the the late rallies that netted thea hits, but six errors kept the home tourney so far. They defeated Skel 3-to-2 victory in the second game. G. L. Jordan, 27-year-old mechanic of Lafayette, was killed and the driver, Leslie Spangler of Los Angeles, was fatally injured when the machine pictured above crashed over the retaining wan during the Indianapolis Memorial day speed classic.

A wrecker Is pictured moving away the wreckage. (Associated Press photo.) club in danger. ly Boosters, 4 to 0, in a well-played from the car and fell with great force on the brick track. Both suf The Pirates won a morning from Chlcaeo. 2 to 1.

when PM In the second game Kruska drove game. Score: R.H.E. Horse Owned by Lord Derby fered skull fractures and were so Waner clouted a home run in C-e out a home run In the sixth with the score tied at 2-all, to win the contest. disfigured they could not imme SKelly 000 000 00 4 2 eiehth but Bill Jurees led the cw Nu-Enamel 200 002 4 5 0 Takes British Classic by Four Lengths. diately be identified.

Billman met death on the south to a 6-to-2 triumph in the afternoon, hitting a four bagger ana driving in three runs. Second and Third in Big Race Scores: R. H. E. Batteries Miller and Larson; Erickson and Bohman.

east curve when he skidded into a Fitzpatrick ..100 00 0 0 001 2 1 Muscatine ..0 001030 lx 5 9 6 The metropolitan rivals, sroc- LEONARD BEATS FOE IN CHICAGO lower retaining wall and then smashed against the outside wall. and New York, decided a pair i Epsom Downs, England, May 31. Batteries: Fredrickson and Pos- His left arm was nearly torn off, mound duels by the home run roue. ton; Hidelbaugh and H. Crampton.

UP) Lord Derby's Hyperion, the second choice at 100 to 11, today won Bill Terry clouted a pinch nom the' 150th running of the English Second Game. R. H. E. Speed Boys, Sackville, 5.

Molirie Speed Boys hit In the pinches to defeat Sackville of East Moline, 6 to 5, in a thriller. The Speed Boys pushed over the winning run in the last inning. Score: R.H.E. Speed Boys 200 21016 8 3 Sackville 112 001 05 7 3 derby before a crowd of 250,000, including the king and queen. Fitzpatrick ....02 0 00 00 2 3 2 Muscatine 3 6 4 King Salmon, carrying the silks Batteries: Ruff and Poston; L.

of Sir H. Cunliffe-Owen was second and Byrne James smacked one the ninth to give the Giants the opener, 2 to 1. Tony Cuccinelto retorted by hitting his second ply wallop of the day to pro' Brooklyn's winning runs in a 3-w victory. The Phillies broke a 5-game losps streak and extended Boston's string to the same length by defeating Crampton and Kruska. East Moline Kid Outpoints Karl Ogren; Serrandos Also Triumphs.

and Victor Emanuel's American-owned Statesman third. Twenty-four ran. FRANK SHIELDS DEFEATED Hyperion, ridden by Tommy Wes IN FRENCH TENNIS EVENT ton, gave Lord Derby his third victory in the event founded by his ancestors in 1780. The last time he won was in 1924 when Sansovino Braves, 2. to 1, in a 6-inmng cou test.

They got their runs by nicsms Harry Seibold for four straight Auteuil. France. Mav 31. (JPi Frank Shields, only American en carried the famous silks to victory. trant in the men's singles of the an inning before rain wasnea the rest of their scheduled bargain The winner is by Gainsborough French hard court tennis cham both legs were broken and he suffered internal injuries.

Catapulted 50 Billman's riding mechanic, Elmer Lombard, of Indianapolis, was catapulted out of. the car. He landed outside of the track more than fifty feet away but "was not seriously injured. Meyer, $12,000 richer as the result of his victory, intends to go back to California. He may race In another event but he is not sure.

The 29-year-old Californian, driving without relief, smashed all records for the race by covering the distance in 4:48:00.75 to average 104.162 miles an hour, shattering the record of 104.144 hung up by Fredie Frame of Los Angeles in winning the 1932 race. Meyer finished nearly three full laps, about 7 miles, ahead of Wilbur Shaw of Indianapolis who had an average of 101.795 miles an hour. Lou Moore of Los Angeles was third with Chester Gardner of Long Beach, Cal fourth, and Stubby Stubblefield of Los Angeles fifth in an original starting field of forty-two. Nineteen cars survived the punishing 500-mile grind. out of Sileve.

program. pionships today was eliminated in the fourth round by Christian Boussus third ranking French play Four Lengths Ahead. Hyperion finished four lengths in Oakwood Country er. The scores were: 6-3. fi-2 2-fi front of King Salmon.

Another 6-4. Chicago, May 31. Kid Leonard of East Moline made a successful comeback attempt last night in the Western Athletic stadium by win-nine a decision over TSarl Ogren of Sweden in eight rounds. It was the Kid's first fight in four months after he was injured at White City late in January. Nick Serrandos, stablemate of Leonard, also came through with a victory, defeating Fred Hawkette of Chicago in the 4-round opener.

Buck Sarginson, manager of the East Moline fighters, said he expects to book several more fights in Chicago for his middleweight puncher who, before his injury, was rated as the best at his weight in the state. length separated Statesman from Club Golfers in Holiday Matches a i trt the Batteries Staes and Olson; Van-Bell and Gannaway. Pugs, Meadowbrook, 8. Pugs of Augustana were forced to go nine innings before they could nose out the Meadowbrook team, 9 to 8, In the only extra-inning game of the meet. Both teams produced heavy hitting.

Score: R.H.E. Augie Pugs 1201210119 10 3 Meadowbrook 210 021 1108 13 3 Batteries Marak and Lindfelt; Johnson and Efflandt. Gordon V. Goethals, 2. Pitching of Tofaneli and the hitting of Pete Lund proved the undoing of the Goethals Brothers team of Moline end Gordon Van-Tine won the final game of yesterday's long program, 3 to 2.

Lund collected four hits off Benson, one a triple, two doubles and a single. Tofaneli allowed ony three hits. Score: R. H. E.

Gordon V. T. 002 00013 10 3 Goethals 200 000 02 3 2 Batteries Tofaneli and Criets; Benson and Anderson. King Salmon. King Salmon was quoted at 7 to 1 in the betting and the American-owned colt at 20 to WRESTLING LAST NIGHT WILBUR SHAW LOU MOORE The other two American entries.

New York Jrw fiavnirfi rxvy Tha jviaay persons iook. jiam all-day family outing at the Oa-wood Country club yesterday. teen foursomes played in the sp" cial rolf matrh and many Other Oaks, threw Paul Boesch, 200, John McCormack's Franz Hals and W. M. G.

Singer's Myosotis, both outsiders in the wagering, were Lou Taylor Wins Brooklyn, 17:53. Winnipee Howard Cantonwinp Scarlet Tiger, owned by Lord Des Moines Bout; Terry Beats Foe 238, Portland, threw Carl Lem-le, 210, Boston, two straight falls. rounds of golf were played. In the 2-ball foursome event lor wbrntn, Mrs. Fred Sporrey and Mrs-Carl Isaacson were victorious.

Durham, was fourth. in the 10-round main go of a boxing card. Corbett had been expected to beat the veteran Davenport puncher, who showed improved form in his victory. Lou Taylor of Moline defeated Kenneth Crouch of Des Moines in a 5-round preliminary battle. Hyperion ran the one and one- Aiianta-f-Jira Londos, defeated Milo Steinborn.

Germanv. in two FITZPATRICK, LOSES TWO CONTESTS AT MUSCATINE In tne mens event, two half miles over the up and down hill course in 2:34 4-5, only 2-5 of straight falls. Dcs Moines Young Terry, Davenport, outpointed Tommy Corbett, Omaha (10): Steve Cronin, Des Moines, outpointed Jackie Burns, Lone Tree, la. (6). second off the record of 2:34 2-5 were tied Ray Case and C.

and Hugo Frederickson na EmT DeMoore. Des Moines, May 31. Young Terry of Davenport sprang a mild upset at Riverview park last night by defeating Tommy Corbett of Omaha Jacksonville. Fla. nnv AlVta set by Call Boy in 1927 and equalled In 1928, by Felstead.

Tte matches were at medal Pla' Muscatine. May 31. Muscatine Indees took a doubleheader from Dispatch Want Ads bring results. New York, knocked out Eddie Stewart, Oklahoma City U). and were handicap affairs.

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