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12 INTiilLL-riii CUl'DU DilXUiiCIC. 7 TMTt'ltlUl FKANK UH.F.Y. I'lTCHKK VIC ALUlUtXfC i orTFrnLDF.n AL. wckund. catcher dickcgossett, 0 INDIANS' HAT IS IN RING AT BALLYARD Solar Plexus Punch All Set for Genial Mike's Bunch of Saints.

TWO BANDS FOR BIG PARADE Return of Herman Brenkie Means Speed to Burn Dolan Will Play in Outfield In Near Future. Attention, fans! Call the weather man and tell him to be good. Just say that you will be ofT him- for life if it rains Tuesday. That brand of talk may get his gat, and he will forget about the moisture department of his business. Today he prom? ised good behavior.

The Indians are booked to win the American Association pennant, and a fair day is needed (to enable the tribe to administer the aolarl plexus punch to the faints. Genial Mike Kellcy and his team will arrive tonight for the big opening: of the season at Washington park tomorrow. Mike in a big favorite with the but friendship ceases at the ball yard, and nothing but a. walloping for the Saints will please the fans. I'ack the hack for Mac and Jack! Tliat'K the stuff.

If you have any friends with joy carts, have them Tnd the carts at University park at.l o'clock and get In the procession of noisemongers. Bands on Trucks. There will be two bands (two). Think cf(It! Two bands on trucks will go In the- parade about the downtown streets and the players and fans will follow In automobiles. The procession finally will wend Its way out to the ballyard, where the fans will sic the Indians on the Saints.

Kelley and his bunch are In Terre Haute today for an exhibition game, after which they will set sail for the Claypool and Incidentally, the trimming that is In store for them. The Saints will be here four days, to be followed next Saturday by this Millers. The master of ceremonies forithe big parade will be iseth Klein, who is the big booster among the automobile fellows. The Ford Club of rooters is urged to get in. Every one.

belongs to the Kelly, i THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1916. HERE ARE THE INDIANS A BUNCH THAT PROMISES SPEED TO BURN IN THE RACE FOR THE A. A. PFNVAMT r- i-. i i AJ: 'N 1 I it MAN AG EH JACK HENDRICKS.

of the Ford company. Is supplying cars for the players of both teams, the imps, officials, scribes, etc. Wind Up Training. The Indiana wound up their Fpring training with games at Terre. Jfaute Saturday and Sunday, winning to 1 and 5 to 2.

They returned to Indianapolis last night and at 10 o'clock this morning all of them were uniform for' practice at Washington pairk. The training trip included two weeks of early practice at Albany. five days with the Indiana university team at Bloomington. and two days at Terre Haute, in addition to a single game played with the Pittsburg i-'ftates at-Washington park a week ago. The team is in splendid shape to start the season and owner McGill already has visions of a.

pennant flying from the flagpole in tlep center. The return of Herman Bronkie tb the club means a big! switch in the lineup. Cozy Dolan, -who has been playing third base, will go to the outfield' as soon as Hronkic is in condition to. take third. Dolan wants to play in the outfield, as he says he can hit better there than when he plays an infield position.1 This change will give the Indians six crackerjack outfielders, who will -have to light it out for the four positions.

I Two Will Be Sold. The player limit rule in the association is twenty until May 0, after. which only sixteen players may be carried on a club. The outfieldj, when Dolan gets on the Job, will Include Duke Reilly, Joe! Kelly. Jim Kelley.

Al AVlckland, Willis Cole and Dolan. Two are booked for the auction block. Guess The pitching staff has rounded into good form and the Indians are well for catchers in Iick Gossctt and Bob Schang. Taik about speed and you have it in the Indians, speed to burn. With purh baserunneis as Dolan.

Bronkie. Duke Reilly. Joe Kelly and several others the Indians should fairly burn the paths this reason. The Indians form a good hitting team, too, and it will be a difficult Job to frame up an alibi if the tribe fails to be fighting for the lead from the start. New Kind of Preparedness COLUMBUS, Ind.i April p.

Freddie Rosen. Shelbyville boxer, believed in preparedness when he came here to box ten rounds with Joe- Walters, of this city. Rosen insisted on twelve-ounce gloves, although Walters, who had a determined look in his eyes, argued for the six-ounce kind. Rosen had his way about it. and although Walters battered him all over the.

lot. he could not ma-ke sufficient impression with the- soft gloves to score a knockout. O'DONNELL WINS AT ASCOT, LOS ANGELES, April 17. Eddie O'Donnell. driving a Ducssenberff car, won the 150-mile race at Ascot speedway yesterflay by half a lan from Eddie Pul- Omar car, finished third, a lan behind I'uiien.

uonneu ume was v. 1 'I CY FALKENBERG TO PITCH FOR INDIANS Former Federal and American League Star Agrees to Indi- anapolis Terms. CONFERENCE WITH M'GILL Elongated Hurler Comes Here From Champaign, to Sign a Contract Should Be a Winner. Fred Cy Falkenberg. Indianapolis pitching star of Federal League days, js an Indian.

Not an aborigine of the type that might lay claim to being the original but one of the band that Manager Jack. Hendricks will hurl into the chase tomorrow after the American Association pennant. And there are those who will say that the tribe's chance of finishing in front is all the better with Cy as one. of its number. i After negotiations that have been going on for the last week Falkenberg came to Indianapolis today from Champaign, 111., where he conducts a billiard hall during the -off season and helps George "Huff coach the aspiring young pitchers of his alma mater In the early spring, preparatory to affixing his signature to a contract, wtuch is said to call for a liberal sum in a salary way.

Owner Jimmy McGill believes that the elongated righthander will make the Indians a real pennant contender from the start, since he has been working out this spring with the Illinois college squad and is ready to work. Saw Him Before. Indianapolis had considerably more than a passing glimpse of Long Cy before his advent as a Federal leaguer. lie was a member of the Toledo club of the American Association team in. 1912, burning up the league that year with twenty-five victories and eight defeats.

He took part in thirty-eight games. Cleveland, to which club he belonged, lost no time in recalling him in when he repeated his A. A. performance as a Nap, finishing the season witME an average of only 2.21 runs scored against him in thirty-nine games. He stood ninth in the list of winning pitchers in the league.

Falkenberg signed with the Indianapolis club of the Federal Leaeue before the opening of the season 1514, his coming being heralded as the biggest single ad OUTFIELDER JOE KELLY. dition to the club. He took part in forty-nine games, winning twenty-five and losing sixteen, his work more than any other factor enabling the Hoosiers to win the pennant. Falky went with the Hoosiers to Newark last year, but before the season opened was transferred to the Brooklyn Feds, where he was credited with winning an losing fourteen Used Emery Ball. During the exciting finish of the 1914 race, when Indianapolis won the Federal pennant.

Joe Tinker, whose Chicago club was one of the closest contenders, raised a great cry because Falkenberg used in his delivery what was known as an 'emery" ball, the "emery" merely being a rough spot on one fide of the sphere by which the pitcher obtained a peculiar grip. Several Federal pitchers tried to use It later on with the result that it was barred from the league. Several critics claimed that Falkenberg" effectiveness suffered as a result, but those who are in a position to know sav that his slump at Brooklyn was due more to the disorganized condition of the Brooklyn team. Falkenberg has about all the requisites of a winning pitcher for any league, including great speed, a good curve, cool judgment and an uncanny ability to J.ude the weaknesses of opposing: batsmen. After graduating from Illinois university he played his first professional ball as a member of' the Worcester club, of the Eastern League.

In 1903. He went to Pittsburg in 1904. but was sent hack to Worcester, w-here he played three more seasons before becoming a member of the Washington club in WW. was with Washington four seasons and then Joined the Cleveland club at the start of the season of 1912. Sport Events of the Week Baseball.

Tuesday Opening of American Association season at Washington park, Indians opposing Saints. Boxing. Monday At Newport, Frankie Mason va. Hattlinsr Chink: at Columbus. Kred Mrint v.

Jack Keed; aj. Baltimore, Hrrrnan Miller vs. Kayo Hrennsi: at Reading. Joe fr-rett vs. bid Ketoire; at Now Orleans, Jack Eritton vs.

Ted Lewis. Tuesday At Conneaut. Alvle Miller va. Fob Lively; at St. Lou.s.

Kid Herman vs. Jimmy Murphy. Wednesday At Chattanooga. Ted Lewis va. Jake Abel.

1 Thursday At Johnstown, Johnny Ryan ll. barney McGuire. NEW YORK BOCTS. Olympic A. Kddle Rradv and Artl McGovern.

Vanderbilt A. Parkey Oriffen and Leo Johnson. Military A. Al McCoy and new Ai McCoy. Tueidajr Broadway S.

Silent Martin and Leo Ben. Saturday Stadium A. Tommy Bobaon and Tommy Maloney. NEW ENGLAND BOCTS. Monday At Shubert Fa! Moore, at New Bedford.

Tuesday Matt Wella va. Eddie Murphy, at Boston. Wednesday Johnnie Wilson Bill Fleming, at Providence, R. I. Turf.

Continuation of spring meeting of Harford Agricultural and Breeders' at ilvre de Grace. Md. Thursday Meeting of Kentucky state racing commission at ieaington, Ky. OUTFIELDER WILLIS COLE. i if n.

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