| OCR Text |
Show facing w SQO-Mite Memorial Race i Y TOM3IY DEVZNE' : - ' " United Pnu SMrti WHUf ' ' ' INDIANAPOLIS, IndV May 28 w.R) Automobile ; racing'! old L fcuanL. presented a strong, front today for the 500-mile Memorial (lay race at the 1 Indianapolis speedway in an effort to preserve record that baa stood since J9?7. Experienced drivers r have won he last 14 renewals of, the rac- 12 worm tougnest grind, i, a ewcomer hasn't cracked the list f speedway -winners since 19271 Coast league. aklarid in Francisco s Angeles an Diego lollywood Sacramento Seattle ... Portland 20 Monday's Results ' ' Oakland 0-14, Portland 3-0. f , Only game- scheduled. W. 38 31 34 28 25 27 23 L. 20 22 24 32 31 33 33 36 Pet .655 .627 .588 .467 .456 .450 .397 357 when l George Sounders, fresh from the campus of Purdue flash' ed home in front He Is .one of the three freshman drivers to win In"the29""year history of the classic. - ? Rational league w. 23 20 15 16 16 16 13 B L. 10 13 14 13 17 18 16 24 .606 .517 .318 .485 .471 .448 .250 post-post- Brooklyn St. Louis Cincinnati Chicago . ioston Jew' York ..... 'ittsbureh , Philadelphia . . . londay's Results . Chicago 4, St. Louis 1. New York at Brooklyn, oned, rain. . Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, oncd, rain. f Only games scheduled. American league a W. L. Boston 29 9 ftew York 23 15 Washington 19 14 betroit 19 18 Cleveland 16 20 6t. Louis 16 21 Chicago 13 20 Philadelphia 9 27 Monday's Results Chicago 9, St Louis 2, night game. f Washington at New York, post boned, rain. f Detroit at Cleveland, postponed, Jain. Only games scheduled PIONEER LEAGUE e W. Salt Lake 13 Ogden 11 Poise 11 ocatello 12 Twin Falls 11 Idaho Falls 0 plonday's Results ft Salt Lake 13, Boise 7. i Ogden at Pocatello, postponed, wet grounds. i Idaho Falls at Twin Falls, post toned, wet grounds. Since 1927 It has been the veterans efvapeedway . duels " like Loa Meyer, "Wild B1U ' Cummin r" " Floyd Roberts, . Billy. Arnold and Wilbur Shaw-.who have grabbed, the . laurels and the accompany ing gold. " i f- Hectic last minute preparations were made to get cars ready, for today's final qualifying trials in an- effort to grab the six places remaining open in the starting field .of 33. I In the list of 27 drivers who already , have won starting berths. there are 15 who competed in 1941, the last1 year in which the race was held. - The Old timers who have taken the play ' away from the rookies of the roaring circuit are Ralph Hepburn, who set an all-time qualification record, and Cliff Bergere, the Hollywood stunt man who won the pole position. Both Hepburn and Bergere will .697be starting in their 15th speedway Pet. ! PAGE 4 ySjy. jDAILY HERALD TODAY'S SPORT PARADE Who Says Baseball Umpires v Always AViri the Arguments By JACK CUDDY ' United Press Sports Writer NEW .YORK, May 28 tli Promoter Jim Downing was in New. York today conferring with Mike Jacobs -about' the possibilities possibili-ties of staging a world heavyweight heavy-weight title fight at Salt Lake City, next year as a feature of the Utah Centennial. Downing-told reporters: "This Centennial will ,be the biggest celebration in the history of the wild west 'the Rocky Mountains Pet .763 .605 .576 .514 .444 .432 .394 .250 L. 11 10 11 12 11 12 Pet. .542 .524 .500 .500 .500 .429 Get? Q QDu GDo race Thursday Two other veterans who havei qualified for their 15th race are Chet Miller and Russell Snow berger. In addition to this quartet, other experienced stars who were in the .field for the last race five years ago and who already have qualified are Mauri Rose, Rex Mays, Harry Har-ry McQuinn, George Barrin-ger. Barrin-ger. Emit Andres, George " Robson, Paul Russo, Lou Tomei, Sam Hawks, Ted Horn and Joie Chitwood. Five other drivers who were in the 1941 race are among the entrants making bids today. They are Frank Wearne, Pasadena., Calif.; Duke Nalon, Los Angeles; Mai Nasen, Fontana, Calif.; Tommy Tom-my Hinnershitz, Oley, Pa.; and George Connors, Los Angeles. Joining this group in today's By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer - NEW YORK, May 28 (U.R) Weekend line drive on the base paths; Who said the umpire always wins the argument? The Wash ington Senators have been doing a pretty fair jod copping tne auxe over Art Passareua. Buddy Lewis, trying to beat a thrown to first, . bowled Passar ella over and out of the game yesterday. Two weeks ago at Philadelphia. Micky vernon ox the Senators dislocated Art's jaw with a -foul tip. And earlier in the month. Art was disabled by an other Senator foul Up. . . .Stop picking on the guy, willy a? Veteran Ted Lyon's first day as a major league manager was a complete success. The White Sox, who coasted for so many years on the old man's strong right arm. dished it out for him to sweep a twin bill and with Detroit. . . . The surprise casualties were Virgil Vir-gil (Fire) Trucks and Paul (Dizzy) Trout, too. . . . The Yankees are doing a good job of streak busing against the Red Sox, even if Sears Golf Joust Next On Docket The Sears low aggregate tour nament will be the next major noon-to-sunaown light lor places goif eVent at the Provo course. will be. all of the foreign drivers who have been beset by multiple' problems in attempting to get ready for' the race. A three car Italian team entered by Cororadio Fillippini of Milan, two French entries of Harry O'Reilly Schell. an English color-bearer of R. M. W. Arbuthnot of London and Rudi Carrachiola, the European champion cham-pion from Switzerland, still seek places. The Italian cars were kept from trials yesterday by the failure of their special fuel to arrive, while the French cars were too narrow nar-row to meet contest board specifications. speci-fications. Gas tanks will be welded weld-ed on the sides to meet the requirement re-quirement Fear drivers won places in r yesterday's tests. They were : Barringer at 120.623 miles per : hour: Hal Robson, Huntington Hunting-ton Park, Calif., at 121.466; Bill Seheffler of Los Angeles at 120.611 and Buddy Rush of Miami. FU., at 116.268. NEW LOCATION 60 East First North CALL 300 For Nationwide Moving Service! Agents for Bekins, Allied Van Lines. Local and long distance moving. Packing, moving, storage, crating and shipping. We can move you to any city in the world. Utah's Finest Moving Service YELLOW CAB & TRANSFER CO. CALL 300 ANYTIME directors of the golf association announced today. Qualifying cards for 18 holes must be turned in to Pro Johnny Memering by Wednesday, June 5 when the pairings will be drawn. Players will be paired so that all teams should be of about equal caliber. The medalist in the qualifying round will be paired with the person shooting the highest ' qualifying score, etc. The tournament will be a match play affair with the aggregate ag-gregate score of the partners determining de-termining the winner on each hole. It is sponsored by Sears Roebuck Roe-buck and company, and Manager Henry J. Heisch announces that attractive trophies will await the winners. Golfers were urged today by club directors to begin their qualifying play immediately. The entire membership is eligible. Sheffield Accepts Meet Invitations SALT LAKE CITY, May 28 (U.R) Fred Sheffield, Utah university's univer-sity's crack high jumper, today I was scheduled to compete in sev eral post-season track meets. Steelers Bolster Teem For. Timp . Contest Thursday ' .Teams of the Utah Industrial league have a busy midweek schedule,-with two games Wednesday, Wed-nesday, and three on Thursday, Memorial day. . The Timps of Provo, in runner? up spot in the semipro loop, battle bat-tle brigham City under the Peach City lights at 8:30 Wednesday while Murray plays. Pinney at Derks field, also under the arcs. un xnursaay, provo plays Memorial day exhibition gai with the- Geneva Steelers. bolst ered by Central Utah league all-stars, all-stars, at 10:30 a. m. at Timp.park. Also docketed Memorial day are two league games, Pinney playing at Murray and Helper at Magna. Lefty Spot Clegg will pitch against the Peaches at Bigham City, according . to Skipper- Lob Collins. In all probability. Garth Ford or Fran Dudley will be on the hill for the Memorial day contest. The Tlmp-SteelerS Same Should if fighter and snarrlnB nartnor nf give an indication as to relative Jack Demosev. who is now one of . 4 ...... v uuuai muc uu:me wesi s most success ui pru- ana lost none- pucning no- r.nti TTtv. k,n tu k . , . It , iwHiB M w VWSjMV WR4H WllVtV aft AV1V4IIU USOlt AAV, v ca iiu-in wcuw. ui "iSIp ni mart nn flf nlavm frnm:innnui4tn It doesn't fhelp them pick up any ground on the Beantown leaders. Three weeks ago they blasted Boston's all-time 15-game win streak and yesterday yes-terday ended a 13 - game home. . , But still no profit. I ' One of the big reasons is a young fellow named Early John' son. To whyla pennant a club needs a capable relief artist, and Johnson is. just that He has Avon three UtontiidQ$1bb,dp0 for-Wm Title Bout In-Salt Lake, Says Downing states. . Utah' is booming; and Hav vhthitinn .!money will be no object if we day exhibition gme i, t.k. s ia,. uy. v-casa jv vwa w jva iih uvu n iui us N ' The Utah Centennial commission, com-mission, of which Gns P. Baekman is director, would be 'Willing to guarantee a million and a half dollars for the champion t o defend against the logical contender In July next year. Even Mike Jacobs must admit that's a fine guarantee for a July fight anywhere." Big Jim, a former heavyweight straifht 11 innings against the Yanks, Tigers and the Yanks again. ..LA handy chap to have around. i r.d another the Bostons would like is third baseman Billy John Jacobs about the Provo and Orem, are planning fight at this early date for two to enter the Central Utah Jeague reasons: (1) Jacobs is a man ar their woo -aeais in iuiures, ana &i for second half play, tegm for Thursday Will strengthened by addition several of the C-U circuit's be it no "deal" can be made with 0f Jacobs by July l, steps must be ton taken to wrap up another title !?n,.curI?ntspare tire with the'players according to J. B. Ley-flht "nearly as attractive" for Yanks. The experts agree pretty ! shon president of the Provo next year- He did not mPy readUy. however, thjt if tbr eyeball club. Deb Dudley, who,thia tatement. BOSOX got mm it WOUld be JUSt r,itV. M Tl - t t UtanwhiU nnwninv eairf ho ic years, will manage the Steelers. I negotiating ior a weiierweigni like nailing the flag up right now at Fenway jpark. . . . The Red Sox hooes of getting him are list ed in the futile dreams depart ment .... I Celebration division: Ed di e Lukon's game tying homer for Cincinnati against the St. Louis Cardinals in a game the Reds went on to Win was his first hit since opening day. ... It was one well worth waiting for. . . And speaking of homers, Joe DiMagglo and Johnny Mize are hot on the bath of Babe Ruth's record-setting 60 season pace of 1927. Jolt in'; Joe belted one yes terday and Jawia John got two to square away with 10 each. On May 27 of his record-setting sea son, Ruth had just one more. . . The remaining 50 loom awfully large, though. ... Dave Ferris, the Bosox hotshot, hot-shot, needs one more victory to equal his startling debut mark of light straight wins last seasofi. The big pitcher took over! the American league lea-gue pitching peak temporarily tempor-arily by winning his seventh Saturday while teammate team-mate Mickey Harris dropped to 7 and I in losing yesterday. yester-day. . .The Sophomore jinx still seems to vacationing in Big Boo, pride of the Ferrlss clain. i Max Lanjer. who won six against no defeats before appar ently jumping to .Mexico, still leads the National league six wins and no losses. . His name still must be kept there until un-til the plotj clears. . . . Hold on to your sombrero! Seraph; Player Retains Lead i LOS ANGELES. May 28 (U.R) Lloyd Christopher, Los Angeles, retained his batting leadership in the Pacific toast league in games through last Friday although his average dropped from .410 to .390 as he rot seven hits during He has accepted invitations to i the week, Statistician LeoMori- arity reported today. Lei Scariella, of Oakland, led the league in homers with 14 circuit cir-cuit blows.! with Christopher in second with his 11 homers. There, are ostrich farms in Arizona, Ari-zona, California, Florida, and Texas. Entries For Valley Net Tourney Due Calling all tennis players! If you want to play in the Utah Valley tennis tournament tourna-ment annually Provo's ma-. ma-. jor racquet event your entry en-try must be in the hands of Fred (Buck) Dixon by tonight. to-night. Pairings for the tourney, scheduled tooopen Thursday, Memorial day, and continue through Sunday, will be announced an-nounced Wednesday. Competition will be open in five divisions men's singles,, men's doubles, women's wo-men's singles, junior singles, and boys singles. Crack tennis players from Provo and Salt Lake, with a sprinkling of netters from towns as far distant as Logan Lo-gan are expected to comprise the field. Entries may be made by phoning Dixon at 829. contenders' -bout between Beau Jack of Augusta. Ga.. and Nick Moran of Los Angeles, to be staged at the Salt Lake fair grounds coliseum this year on Pioneer day, July 24. He said that Governor Herbert B. Maw of Utah has just approved an ex penditure of $125,090 to modern ize and increase the coliseum's seating capacity. It will hold 8,000 spectators for a fight Next years big Centennial fight will be staged outdoors at the fair grounds stadium. Downing Down-ing emphasized. That stadium can be enlarged with temporary seat ing structures to hold 50,000 or more persons, he said. He explained that the Centennial Cen-tennial celebration is being staged In 1947 to commemorate commemor-ate the 100th anniversary of the historic occasion when Brigham Young and his first company of Mormons entered LEADING JOCKEY INGLEWOOD Calif-. Mav 28 Wltnp w,r-' "tw ivui m nii lywood par jockeys with six winners out of 29 mounts in the t first week of racing. PAINT Vz Price INTERIOR GLOSS Rapid-drying Enamel ' Outside Trims Firestone Stores 123 West Center. Phone 39 7 the Salt Lake valley la June, 1847. I had been handled in business like fashion. But the bout was a Downing said: "No heavv-! financial mess from the "day the weight title fight has been staged jhiatch was made, when Jack in the Rocky Mountain states Kearna never intended it to be since Jack Demnsev outnointed iheld in Shelby but to be shifted Tommy Gibbons at Shelby, Mon-jtO New York later. : tana, on July 4, 1923. That bout "Salt Lake City Is 'no little always has been spoken of as a Shelby. We have a population of financial flop, because of the '225.000." 3uu,uuu guarantee given uemp-i sey and its gate of less than $300,- 00Q. Well. I happened to.be man aging Gibbons' training camp before be-fore that bout; 'and I know that the Shelby fight even though staged in a town of about 2,500 population could have been a financial success If the tickets RENT A TRUCK Bv the Hour, Week or Month. Herts Drlv-ur Self System $10.00 Deposit - P. E. ASHTON.CO 191 So. Univ. Ave. Phone 153 so mm wqxd mtIJl 1 C6 HERFS WHY! We ccssfently need hundreds hun-dreds of cars for our used car markets throughout western America. And ire realize that we must pay high prices for them. We're able to pay more because we have a volume bssmess with faster turnover and loser operating costs. Get our offer! Do money ahead! iff .nri 50 East it? North - PfiQnratS r participate in the Rock Mountain AAU meet in Denver Friday night and in the Pacific Coast relays at Compton, Calif., the fol lowing week-end. In addition. Coach Ike Arm strong reported today that the university likely would send Sheffield to the NCAA cham pionship at the University of Minnsota June 21 and 22 and that he likely would compete in the National AAU at San Antonio, Tex. Races MEMORIAL DAY, MAY 30th at PROVO HARBOR CHILDREN'S EVENTS .12 Noon SKI and WATER CONTESTS . . . .12:30 p. m. BOAT RACES 1:30 p. m. RACING BOATS FROM COLORADO - IDAHO WYOMING and UTAH CHILDREN 25c ADULTS .$1.00 (Including Tax) Races Held Under the Auspices of the PROVO BOAT CLUB Tickets on sale at Gessford's, Firmage's, Carlson's and Hedquist No. 1 l - i I LET'S GO. BdATING We Havel a Complete Line For Immediate Delivery! Top-o'-Car Boat k No Trailer Needed! W Best j All-Purpose Boat You Ever Saw ! i Complete With Carrier f205 BOAT RACES Sjx Memorial Day, May 30th GESSFORD'S ' Inc. '' , 47 Noilh Univ. Ave. TOM CESSrORD, Mgr. 0 3 -DAYS r.mi2EiiAiL ay rv0AY3ac(t, JiiJKns ace 2:30 P. M. MEMORIAL DAY 3 P. M. FRIDAY 2:30 P. M. SATURDAY ' if ' ii u jl v i n ii Hun ftliae Woctt FA I mmm UNDER THE AUSPICES OE ; , DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS ' WASATCH CHAPTER NO. i , r TIGICETS ..:0fl.2Q ' f Including Tax c 4 |
