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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1910
Page
7
The article notes Watkins will lead a Indianapolis reorganization starting Tuesday before a winter tour of big league cities. He plans six player deals and a manager to build a winning team, with Flynn linked as a potential acquisition and Carr likely to handle planning and trades.
Chicago Sept 26 Coach Stagg of the University of Chicago said he was not surprised by the lack of defense in Saturday football games as teams were unsettled at sea. He dismissed the idea that the quarterback is insignificant this year and noted that many plays would depend on the quarterback. Kansas defense by Aiwanies 8 to (incomplete).
New York Sept 26 The sixth Vanderbilt cup race entries closed at midnight with forty two cars listed and likely forty eight total as firms mailed checks before the limit. Eighteen more repair pits will be dug, bringing pits to forty six. Four new entries announced include Oldsmobile with drivers Harry Stillman and Joe Wilson along with Stoddard Dayton Hugh Harding and Houpt Rockwell Carl Limberg.
Indiana football coach Jimmie Sheldon shifts practice to end this week focusing on trick plays for the season opener with DePauw on Jordan Field. President Bryan reshapes the athletics committee with Hepburn succeeding Hogate and Sembower added. Jobson announces Phip Hill as freshman coach. Charles Tighe may join as fullback, decision pending. Cross country begins under S P Hutchins.
American League results show Milwaukee 8 over Kansas City and Saint Paul 7 over Minneapolis in initial games with Paul and Minneapolis post 13 to 1. National League had no schedule. American League nightcap features Detroit 4 over Boston and Philadelphia 8 over Chicago 1 in game one, Chicago 5 against Philadelphia 2 in game two ending after 8 innings due to darkness.
Cincinnati meets the New York club while Pittsburgh faces Brooklyn and Chicago travels to Boston. Lani appears to be scheduled in Philadelphia as part of the slate, with games listed among major league matchups.
Chicago September 26 President Ban Johnson of the American league declared that President Murphy of the Cubs is holding back the world’s championship series. He warned that unless the games start before October 16 there may be no series. Johnson noted President Robinson of St. Louis has offered to move schedule to bring dates earlier, Murphy stands as the delay. Herrmann of the National league seeks to begin October 13 with first games in Philadelphia and later games in Chicago on October 15 and 16.
Milwaukee lightweight Jack Redmond meets Young Holzhauler of Ft. Wayne in a ten round bout in Muncie Indiana next Tuesday night. A large crowd from eastern Indiana is expected and Bert Duffy and Kid Mitchell meet in the eight round semi windup.
Walter Johnson of Washington struck out eleven hitters in a game against St Louis Americans, boosting his season total to 303. He surpasses Rube Waddell’s 1903 mark and is expected to extend the record with more games remaining.
Jerome Powers, candidate for DePauw University right guard, dislocated his shoulder during Saturday practice in Greencastle Indiana. The injury will sideline him for several weeks, ending his streak as the top right guard for the past two seasons.
New York Sept 26 Definite line on the possibilities of the new football rules is looked for this week as Yale Harvard Princeton Dartmouth Brown West Point Annapolis and Cornell play their first games. Western schools start Saturday. Coaches deny that Pennsylvanias Ursinus loss proves the rules weaken the game.
Brown of the Akron club, O P lesque pennant winners, for the All Profs, beat the Atkins Sunday at Washington Park by a score of 1 to 0.
National and American league baseball games. Running Turf continues at Lexington Toronto and Ogden Utah. Grand circuit and Western circuit trotters race at Columbus Ohio. Vanderbilt cup auto race set for next Saturday at Long Island motor parkway. Bryn Mawr Pa hosts a four day horse show starting Thursday. Boxing cards dominate the week with multiple city bouts from Monday to Saturday across Pittsburg Memphis Philadelphia Manele Ogden Fond du Lac and Lancaster entries. Additional bouts slated for New England this comic week conclude the schedule.
W C Fownes revealed at Oakmont that a spectator’s white skirt guided his final approach at Brookline on Sept 17. He said caddie George Ormiston advised to “putt for that skirt,” and the ball dropped to give him a 1 up with 2 to play, securing the championship.
William Knipper in the Lanier car was thrown fifty feet after a side swipe with Robert Burman in a Buick on the Long Island motor parkway east of Meadowbrook lodge gate. Knipper suffered a cut and swollen eye, Burman was uninjured, and Knipper’s car will be repaired for Saturday’s race as spectators watched the Vanderbilt Cup trials.
Baltimore, Md Sept 26 Al Kaufman favored 3 to 1 over Al Kubiak in a six round bout at the Armory athletic club tonight. Kubiak arrived this morning from Merchantsville Pa after two weeks of hard training.
New York Sept 26 Packy McFarland could not move the scale past 185 pounds the limit for his bout with Fighting Dick Hyland at the Fairmount Athletic Club Tuesday. McFarland says weight is the only worry but expects a knockout win. Hyland remains optimistic about defeating him.
Toledo Ohio, September 26 The American association season closed with a double header. Columbus won the first game in the ninth inning. The second game was halted after the fifth with Toledo leading 2 to 1.
Boston dispatch reports Tom Leach the Pittsburg baseball figure has wed Misa Trask, a well known toe Gandy, in a domestic union that expands the sporting world’s list of marriages. The ceremony was noted amid regional interest as Leach joins his fellow athletes in married life.
The Indianapolis and Louisville clubs did not play the season finale as rain halted both games. Players headed home or to arrange baggage transport with few staying in Indianapolis. News from Indianapolis said six positions would be filled, leaving only Otto Williams and the pitchers retained. Saturday's game saw Indianapolis win 9 to 7 with Merz pitching against Richter.
Miss Erla Bowers of the Highland club in Indianapolis won the women’s golf championship of Indiana, defeating Mrs. Harry Hammond of the same club 3 up with 2 to go. The match ended at the sixteenth green with scores 87 and 88.
Riverside golf continues next Sunday with the second championship round and the first consolation round for the president's cup. Pairings include Resner versus Redwine Heckman versus Tucker Monster l versus Dow Slelin versus Van Landingham Balwin versus McNeely Lowden versus Pray.
The American Association 1910 season closed with the Millers led by Joe Cantillon posting a record of 1107 wins and 61 losses in 168 games, a pennant mark never topped in nine years of the league. Milwaukee under J Jim J McCloskey disappointed, Louisville suffered dissension, and Indianapolis fell from contenders while St. Paul and Toledo surged to the top.
St Paul and Minneapolis divided a Sunday doubleheader in St Paul. St Paul won the opener 7 to 3 while Minneapolis captured the nightcap 13 to 1. The second game, halted after five innings due to darkness, left the teams even in the series.
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