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7 Harry Heilmann Is a Most Formidable Figure at the Home Plate BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1930. fer to play lone hands. Then SIGNED BY YANKS there's Leon Duray, the 223-pound veteran, whose principal difficulty is in finding a mechanic small enough so his machine won't be 1 over-weighted." No other classic of the auto rac 'J J-'? StRVt-S MANY PIRPOSES Golf clubs serve a variety ot collegiate purposes. They are good places to take a football team for rest tlie day or two before a big game, when some seclusion is desired, says the Associated Press. During a round of the links or In the locker room, the coaches can find congenial atmosphere for master-minding before-hand.

postmortems afterward. School Athletes Must Have Exam. O. K. New Haven OP Central Connecticut League officials have decided that public school athletes must be examined physically before competing on the track in tlie longer dashes and runs.

The decision was made following a two-year discussion on the dancer of overexertion on the track for youths in the formative years. Cincinnati Slugger Is One of Great Batsmen Despite Lack of Speed By THOMAS HOLMES (Staff Correspondent 0 The Eagle) lng world can equal the drama of the famous 500-mlle Memorial Day 5 0vM--fV' boxing and bag punching that goes In the places of humbler clientele. And In the town's larger clubs and associations from the Y. M. C.

A. and the Young Men's Christian Union to the University Club and the Tennis and Racquet most of the excitement settles itself down to setting up exercises given In rhythm. The Post concludes: "The humbler gyms are the hardier type, because for the most part they get young men who have professional boxing and wrestling ambitions. One of them on the lower end of Dartmouth St, the South End district, has for Its symbols nothing but a collection of battered whirl at Indianapolis. Annually It draws the biggest crowd of any Speed Demons Of the Present Tyros of Past Drivers Already Preparing for 500-Mile Auto Race at Indianapolis It may not mean so much to the publio at large, picking Its hazard sports spectacle In America, if not In the world, for close to 150.000 or more ran pack up a lunch, crank up Philadelphia, May 17 Until Brooklyn's recent series at the old petrol wagon and find a place to anchor somewhere In proximity to the five-mile race trark.

Many of the old favorites are old boxing gloves tumbled around gone now, some dead, others retired, In its front store windows. An but the names of Ray Harroun, other In the Back Bay Massachu Cincinnati, your, reporter had never before had the pleasure of a close-range view of Harry Heilmann at bat. As an enthusiastic observer of gentlemen who can step up and put the wood to a baseball with great elan, I feel that I have missed something for many years. What a figure Heilmann cuts when he wheels into position! Big and broad-shouldered, fairly reeking with power, the veteran slugger from the American League is one of the Louis and Gaston Chevrolet, Ralph Mulford, Tommy Milton, Dario setts Ave. has a series of photo ous way through traffic at Broadway and 42d 6t hut It la highly significant to the automobile racing rri Jr graphs showing some of its puplLs, Resta, Frank Lockhart, Joe Boyer mighty men of valor, in various poses that reveal enormous muscle and Ray Keeck remain linked with the most exciting moments of the roaring road.

Still In the spotlight development. most formidable appearing gentle- are McDonough. De Paolo. Duray and Lou Meyer, the 25-year-old na 'DIKES' NOW Bl'KFALOES' men who ever laced a pitcher. world that the roar of two-seated machines, Instead of the waspish buza of single seatera, now can be distinctly heard around the brick speedway at Indianapolis.

We have it on the word of Steve, Hannegan, the Indianapolis kid himself, says Alan Gould of the Associated Press, that the restoration of two- Heilmann stands near the center tional chsmpion for the past two ot the batter's box. His feet are close together, almost touching each other. Waiting for the delivery, his The nickname of the Allentown club of the Eastern League has been changed from Dukes to Buffaloes. Last year the team was called the Dukes in honor of Erne.U (Duke) Landgraf, the first owner bat rests on his shoulder, as motion. Brooklyn Fans Fast Joining Rooters' Club less as a soldier's rifle at attention.

He grips his club on the extreme seated racing machines to the famous 500-mlle sweepstakes this May means a Renaissance In the automobile speed world. of the Allentown franchise. handle and keeps his wrists in close "Where were the future drivers to his body, so that the bat is almost trained In the old days?" demand perpendicular. His torso is bent for. 1 ed Mr.

Hannegan. "Why. right be ward slightly from his hips and his Into the Country By Buicl Vour weekends this tummer will be all the more pleasant if fait, safe, and un a i I i 3 transportation is yours. Thousands of miles of "get there" in our reconditioned Buicks. A wide selection of good ptcd cars Irom which to chooie.

Fair prices, trades and terms. Kings County BuickiNc FOW-Wmw aaa iiwi years, winner of the 1928 race, runner-up last year to Keech. The 1928 Indianapolis race was a thriller. Meyer came from nowhere to win It and beat a flock of great drivers. Meyer had never driven a big race but he was part-owner of a garage, a good mechanic and bitten by the racing bug.

Just before the race, he got a chance to buy a car from Red Shafer, who had two hlnuelf and wanted to part with one of them Meyer sold his Interest In the garage by long distance telephone, bought the car and won the race. Says Bfbt City Gyms Are the Rougher Flares An old trainer says that the best gyms In town where exercises are not of the cream-puff variety, are the hardier, rougher places. And Boston Is full of an enormous variety of them. Now the shuttlecock Tommy Byrne of 9418 Park Lane Pennants to Be Distributed for the Game With the Giants on May 25 South, Woodhaven, has been signed by the New York Yankees. Tommy, who has been playing third base for the Roosevelt Savings Bank Qf ALWAYS 0 D1SIT.AT AT Of ITTOMM ITOBC LARGEST DISPLAY IN M.

T. CITY tTK WIT ai'NABOITS THOMPSON Ol lBOARIIS Mi i i in sirti, BOATS Ol.n TOWN ANOI Chester A. Marshall, grand or team, which captured the indus ganizer of the Brooklyn Robins trial, commercial and banking Cham Rooters' Club, reported today at his pionship of the Oreater City last season, worked out at Yankee Sta tide the speed kings of their time In the mechanic's seat. In the past seven years of single-seated racers, the result has been to reduce the number of first-class drivers. The boys either had to go out and with the chance of being bumped off through lack of experience, or remain 'on Ute "Pete de Paolo learned the racing game as a mechanic for his uncle, Ralph de Palma, Pete became national champion In 1925, when he set the Indianapolis record of 101 miles per hour, and repeated In 1927.

Now he has two ears entered for the 1930 race, one of which he plans to offer to Uncle Ralph. "Some of the drivers, like Bob McDonough, don't want to be bothered by mechanics. They pre headquarters, 381 Fulton oppo dium for ten days. With Ben Chap. smi, boats, cape con row-boats.

DINGHIfcS, Agl API ANH. KI.OA1S AND BOAT KOI IPMI.NT AIIMakUMlOutlwMtfMolarMnlitock Dr.E WITE DEMONSTRATION ON BEQl'ESI WITHOLT OBLIGATION site Borough Hall, that the club progressing with a speed that sug Jaw Juts out aggressively toward the pitcher. He is the picture of prepared determination. HEILMANN ISA LINE-DRIVE HITTER With the windup Heilmann's wrists waggle the bat two or three times, like the twitching tall of an angry cat. With the pitch his left foot takes a long step forward and his bat is cocked to hit.

Everything goes into the drive wrists, arms, body and leg power. Heilmann is a stugger. Harry hits balls on the line. He doesn't hit those long fly ball carries that result in home runs, but no one with the possible exception of Babe Ruth hits a ball harder. Heilmann's American League batting record demonstrates that he is one of the great hitters of all time.

But, from one angle, Harry's hitting ability is even more impressive than is indicated by his great string of averages ranging from .360 to .400. gests Glenn Wright going for ARMSTRONG grounder. man and Lyn Lary available 'for third base duty the Yankees have decided to send Byrne to Chambers-burg of the Blue Ridge League where he will get plenty of work. It Is believed Byrne will be at the far turn for Chambersburg when the Blue Ridge season gets under way game of badminton Is a hard day's Ealra tlH. Fraatlia A 1U1 FklM al Stk 1 7M Flalaaaa Faatar Ana.

MaaahaM MM Fiha Ork Si, AHaaltt MM AriaatkatGniat Arafraaaatt 7MI RaaklfaiSl.airaaa'nr.Staft 7M1 CaaarMaaaAfEapUaaaatM Yes," said he, slapping his work for the town average run of Uptown Iter Opea Ivanlligf. 79 BARCLAY 373 FOURTH AV. capacious chest, "the boys are glad to show their colors. The article in executives, magnates and gouty rich men with imperfect digestion, says the Boston Post Car. w.

I SSth St. obwt Bar. 37S4 I Bo. 6323 Saturday's Eagle has done us But it's the honest old wrestling, world of good. We feel solid ground under us now." One thousand pennants are being Costly Tins' Cause Worry gotten ready for distribution for the Robins-Giants game on Sundav, May 25, instead of next Sundav as previously planned.

Each pennant win De a loot long, attached to ALWAYS HANDICAPPED BY SLOWNESS AFOOT In Two Clubs cane about two and a half feet long Anybody calling at Mr. Marshall For Heilmann was never much faster than an ice wagon on the headquarters will get a pennant. He will then be asked to join the basepaths. Without doubt, he ciud. -mere are no dues required Ruth and Hornsby, High the slowest moving great hitter who ever lived.

Ty Cobb, Nap Lajoie, Each pennant will bear the words "Robin Rooter." Membership cards Tris Speaker, Eddie Collins and Honus Wagner were all fast afoot are being printed and will be ready est Salaried Stars, Have Weakened Legs The late Joe McGinnity once re in a day or so. and capable of a lightning break "Yes, sir, things are coming along away from the home plate. lamousiy." continued Mr. Marshall ttflne Stat off (CsallnffdDmfia (DIlnaDS "Why, after Saturday Eagle's article That meant infield hits. When Cobb was batting .400 his speed brought him In the neighborhood marked, in connection with a pitching assignment at the age pi came out a Brooklyn theater notl tied us it was ready to set aside a of 50 hits a year.

Hornsby, about 52: night In the week of May 25. a sec "The arm's still pretty fair, but right-handed hitter like Heilmann, got away from the plate like a flash, tlon of the theater being reserved my pins ain't what they were. When That long stride into the plate as tor members of the Rdoters' Club. WAR ON SPECULATORS the pins start to crack up a ball the Rajah swings starts him in the direction of first base. In my opln player's about through." Letters are flowing in on Mr, ion, Hornsby was as great a hitter Measured by the salaries their Marshall at a great rate, thanking him for lining up the rooters.

This last season as he ever was, although owners collect, two of the most ex he turned in average of .380 is a sample letter from two Brook while in 1924 he hit a cool .424. lyn rooters, Michael Esposito and pensive pairs of "pins" In the major leagues are the cause of no little concern this spring. Reference is The answer to that loss of 44 naroia Feterson: "We have read vour Dlan of or, to the under pinning of Babe Ruth, ganizing a Brooklyn Club who at $80,000 receives pertiapsvthree percentage points is not loss of power at the plate not reduced keenness of batting eye. It Is to be found in the vanishing speed that Hornsby has left scattered along the times as much as any other Ameri can Leaguer, and Rogers Hornsby, ui oaiuroay uagie. we are very glad to find someone who does a thing like this, as we feel we may whose $40,000 salary probably is trail of the last six years.

G) fheat double that of any other National De ame to get to the games when we want to in this way and root League performer. Heilmann never had the speed that Hornsby lost. When Heilmann was at his best practically all his base hits were hit right on the for the Robins. We are applying To be more, specific, says the As ior memDersnip cards and promise to oe loyal Robin rooters." sociated Press, Ruth's Charley-horse and Hornsby's ailing heel may hasten the reluctant but none the buele. He never averages more tha The reference In the letter to one Infield hit a week.

Given a fair getting to the games suggested this less marked physical decline of these mnunt. nf (need, the VPternn new question, which was put to Mr. two super-stars. In spite of diffi romer to the Reds might have set Marshall: the ereatest batting mark of all "Does the club guarantee tickets to all its members?" culties, these two still may prove to be well worth the remarkable sums paid them for a single season's work. Under any circumstances, they will give opposing pitchers a lot to worry about.

"Certainly," said Mr. Marshall, time. RIXEY'S NAME IS NOT EPPA JF.PTHA "But, of course, they will have to be paid for at the regular bx-offtce Onlv last week did I learn that rale. We shall, however, see to it that members won't have to be Emm Rixev's middle name is no: Us 100 Perfect Score PARALLEL CAREERS Ruth and Hornsby have curiously gouged by speculators." Jeptha, but Is merely James or John parallel careers, though they are as or something prosaic like tnat. i ne MORE NEW MEMBERS Among those who have been add lnntr-leeeed eentleman irom vir e-inia.

suh. who has been left-hand ed to the list of members of the ins- for the Cincinnati Reds for different in personality as they are a contrast in batting types. Each came up to the big show about the same time. Ruth broke In as a pitcher with the Red Sox in Rooters' Club are the following years and years, received the "Jep. j-on adore, former Robin pitch tha" from the late Bill Phelon years er; Abe Dr.

N. t. Beers. aeo. 1914, landed a regular job In 1915 and began his real switch to the Charles Straub Michael S.

Regan, Richard A. Foster. Daniel W. Mr. Rixey is not the only athlete whose name has been distorted by outfield in 1918.

Hornsby went up Dixon, Customs Inspector S. Z. Ep. to the Cardinals In 1915 as a short baseball writers with a quaint sense stein, William F. Hall.

Harold M. of the fitness of things. Jonathan Powell, Stanley P. -Bellows, Mr. and stop, landed a regular Infield job in 1916, but did not settle down to second basing until 1920.

Thompson Zachary, the moniker Mrs. j. he Veque. T. J.

Co eman of the veteran left-hander who re. Stephen C. Devine, Thomas T. Each was obtained for the pro Neary, J. S.

Neary, P. J. Griffin, cently passed from the Yankees to the Braves, struck some Washing verbial song, Hornsby costing only William Cantwell, Louis Rosa. A. ton writer as not so hot and, $500 although Ruth's sale price of $2,900 was fair-sized for his day.

Fileccia and Mrs. Fileccia, Miss Dorothy L. Bruce, Jane Whalley. Prank a consequence, Jonathan became Each deve'oped Into the greatest known as Jezebel Tecumseh Zaclv v. nara, frame uaicaterra, Joe Mc Hudson's Great Eight, with 100 score, overwhelmed all competition in tests conducted in the purchase of cars for the department of Highway Control of the State of California.

Nearly all makes submitted bids. Eight cars, including Hudson, were chosen for these exhaustive tests in Speed, Acceleration, Reliability, Stability, Flexibility, Operating Ease, Steering Action, Freedom from Vibration, Shimmying and Freedom from Overheating. The cars tested ranged in list price from $1050 to $1500. Hudson's Great 8, one of the, lowest in price, was the only car to finish with a perfect score. Penalties incurred by others included failure to finish; motor trouble; overheating, shimmylug, excessive vibration, shock on steering wheel; jerky performance at "low speed after finish; failure to long range ctouter of his league.

ary to the baseball world. Dermott, Warren Finnerty, Royal Ruth's mighty mauling outdid any Five years have passed since Wild aiadaen and William r. Duncan. Bill Phelon passed along, but they "I am particularly pleased with sustain speed; loss of acceleration at high speed and only fair" brake efficiency. Hudson's Great Eight finished these trying tests without a single criticism.

And against all these well-known and higher-priced cars it received the highest awards by the experts, and was purchased for the Highway Control department. The experts called special attention to Hudson's "remarkable high sustained speed" and "clean and to the fact that after the tests it showed the lowest speed of any competitor without jerking. Attention wa9 also directed to Hudson's superior acceleration and the fact that at 60 miles an hour "it still had a wallop for acceleration far exceeding any other car long range work of the Rajah, but Hornsby. over a five-year stretch the names of the women In the from 1921 to 1925, excelled all rec still relate amusing talcs of Wild William's 'Wit and his exhilaration over a Cincinnati victory and his list," said Mr. Marshall, "as it should be understood that both sexes ords-by averaging better than .400 a season.

are welcome in the club. We are planning to give a dinner cold rage at a Cincinnati defeat. BILL TIIELON UNPARALLELED AS A WRITER-FAN 1 GREAT BATTING RECORDS Hornsby's 15-year major league to the Brooklyn players at the end of tlie season and only members of the Rooters Club will be invited. You batting mark is .363 only four points lower than Ty Cobb's life can understand that at such a func una aiternoon the Reds were slaging a brilliant rally with 4wo out in the ninth. They were a run time mark for 24 years.

Ruth's tion Mr. Marshall uttered this 16-year percentage Is .348. word in upper case) the fair sex behind and had a couple of men Each is a league leader In home would receive a special welcome." nn the bases. Eddie Roush hit run totals, although Hornsby's ag Mr. Marshall enthusiasm was in gregate of 278 pales by comparison spiringly contagious as he couclud I err 1 no smash out toward the center-field fence.

Billy Southworth tore for the line drive like a shot ed: ith Ruth's 516. Hornsby has lrd the National That should be some dinner. from a gun. At the very last mo. League seven times In total bases.

Think of the thrill the diners will ment he lunged out with his glove hand and mad a spectacular circus get out of shaking the hands of the Ruth had equaled Ty Cobb's record of six In the American League. mignty vance, the impressive Uncle Make These Proofs Yourself. We Will 9 Send a Car To Your Door iQP5(D) for the coacii raten, turning a couple of hand The records of Ruth and Hornsbv spriiiES as he lost his balance and KODDie, tne far-hitting Babe Herman. and' but the emotion aroused by this distant prospect was too run parallel on page Bfter page of the famous "Little Red Book." They crashed Into the turf. Up in' the press box the exasperated Mr.

Phelon, sending his play- much for a cold category of cogno monopolize the marks for long distance ba-sehlttlng, no matter how they are figured. oy-piay account of the game, dicta Nine olbrr models just as attractively priced. Wide range of colors. All prices f. o.

b. Detroit, Factor. mens and Mr. Marshall ended on the- high repetitious note of "Some dinner, some dinner." Only by riding in or driving Hudson's Great 8 will you appreciate its delightful operation. You are invited to take a trial car and test it for snioothne8, peed, acceleration, power, easy handling, comfort and economy.

A telephone call will bring Hudson's Great 8 to your door. Each figured In record deals. uth's release from the Red Sox in iea in a voice of ice: "Roush popped miserably to Southworth, ending the game." On another occasion the Reds won Stengel Suspended 1919 cost the Yankees $135,000. Hornsby's sale to Chicago by Boston was reputed to involve a game the ninth and Bills en- For Protecting Manasrr Casey Stengel of the iea mm into classical ln 00O in cash, besides four players, In 1928. Toledo Mud Hens was Indefinitely guage He wound up his play-byplay dictation thus: "Fonseca sln- eut0 rlgnt and Breler gamboled right merrily over the plate, even suspended by President Tom Hickey Golf Growg in Favor lor ins part in the near-riot which took place in Toledo on April 27, gamDoietn at even tide.

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Tarry VtOODMEKE. Zl a Umit, laa. Rue decided that the actions of the Toledo reserves had hindered Outfielder Bennett In fielding the ball. As a result, Ernie WIngard. Eastern League Rule Opposed by Manager The Eastern League ruling which prohibits teams from training in the South in the future has not hit a copular note with at least one manager in the circuit, who gave out the itory with the understanding that his name was not to be used.

"What will the penalty be if some team goes South for training and remains there in. spite of the rule?" he asked. "I think teams should be allowed to condition for the race in any manner they see fit." the United States is the rapid growth in the number of college courses, says the Associated Press. Y'ale has one of the finestand hardest layouts in the East, also one of th costliest. Stanford has spent $100,000 on its links at Palo Alto, California.

Cornell's original nine-hole layout at Ithaca was Increased to the regulation 18 holes as undergraduate interest developed. Bucknell has begun work on a new course, designed free of charge by Emil Loeffler, professional at Pittsburgh's wealthy Oakmont Club, ho had crossed the plate with what as believed the tying run, was sent back to third and the side was re tired with Milwaukee winning, 6 to Stengel's vigorous protests over the ruling stirred up the crowd which swarmed on' the field after the game and threatened Rue..