Gehrig Tops AL Sluggers With .392 Average in Strong Season
Lou Gehrig leads the American League with a .392 batting average and a 33 home run total. In five games this week he hit .478, drove in 20 runs, scored nine, and tied for the second most homers behind Babe Ruth. He nears his own RBI and single-game records as Ruth nurses an injured thumb.
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Indianapolis Times Handicap Golf Tourney Set
Times employes prep for first annual Indianapolis Times handicap golf tourney at South Grove links on August 17. Eighteen holes of medal play determine the champion with 34 entrants competing for low gross and low net prizes. Harry Schopp of South Grove assists in planning.
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Tunney Joins Southern Wheel Company Sponsor Role
Gene Tunney, the retired heavyweight champion, has joined the Southern Wheel Company makers of railroad coach wheels. Sam Pryor, a close friend, serves as company president and Tunney is understood to be permanently connected with the organization.
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United Press
New York
Gene Tunney
Southern Wheel Company
Sam Pryor
Tunney
Webb Meets Carlin In Riverside main event
Promoter McLemore announces a Monday Riverside arena wrestling main event between Hugh Webb and Johnny Carlin for a finish match best two of three falls. The card also features other bouts and regional wrestlers.
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Johnny Carlin
Riverside Sports Arena
McLemore
Local Pilot Ray Meyers Leads Fifty Mile Walnut Gardens Race
Ray Meyers, a local driver, will pilot a top car in the fifty mile race at Walnut Gardens on Sunday. Meyers has shown strong form across the Midwest this season and faces an all star field in the feature event of the Garden season. Twenty four pilots enter time trials Sunday morning with the half mile oval in top condition for a 2:30 p.m. start.
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Baseball Schedule Highlights Today
American Association features Milwaukee at Indianapolis Kansas at Louisville St Paul at Toledo Minneapolis at Columbus American League Chicago at Detroit Cleveland at St Louis New York at Boston National League Boston at New York Brooklyn at Philadelphia St Louis at Cincinnati Pittsburgh at Chicago Only games scheduled.
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Unclear scoreless baseball doubleheaders featured
Fragmentary lines mention teams and players such as Peters Deberry Autry Minneapolis Columbus St Paul Zoese and others with scattered scores and names. Difficult to extract coherent event or outcome from the damaged text.
Coast Star Favorite In Net Event Seabright Final
Ellsworth Vines 18 of Pasadena faces Sidney Wood of Forest Hills in the Seabright Lawn Tennis and Cricket Club final for the thirty seventh annual tournament. Vines earlier beat Francis Hunter in the semifinals 3 6 6 2 8 6 to become favorite for the Seabright title. Wood beat Clifford Sutter 6 3 3 6 6 0 to reach the final. The women’s final will be Saturday with Mrs L A Harper and Josephine Cruickshank.
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Ellsworth Vines
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Forest Hills
N. Y
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Clifford Sutter
New Orleans
L. A. Harper
Los Angeles
Josephine Cruickshank
Santa Anna
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Philadelphia
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San Francisco
Six Bouts on Riverside Bill Card at Riv Sports Arena
The boxing card at the Riv sports arena features six bouts led by Bronson versus Frankie Four, Jacks against Jack McCurdy, and four round matchups including Mike Hauser versus Eddie Dick. Other lightweight and junior welterweight battles include CJ Chick Hall versus Pat Cowen, Keever versus Allan Meathers, with William Bowman as referee and a 8:30 p.m. start.
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Southpaws to Hold Twenty-First National Amateur Tourney
Chicago August 1 Left-handed golfers will hold their twenty first annual national amateur tournament at Midlothian Country Club on August 7. The event runs thirty six holes with prizes for low gross and low net scores. Open to southpaw players who are members of clubs linked with the USGA or the Western Golf Association.
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Chicago
Midlothian Country Club
Western Golf Association
Purdue sale opens for Big Ten title team
Purdue ticket sales opened today under C. S. Dean for the year. The first home game is against Baylor on Oct 4 with Wisconsin on Oct 25 and Butler and Indiana on Nov 15 and 22 respectively.
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Beach City Tennis Title Tilt Set For Sunday Final
Bob McCullough the 1929 champion who was ineligible to defend will face Vincent Meunier in the city junior tennis final at Hawthorn Tennis Club on Sunday. Meunier beat Woody Du Hadway in a four set thriller 6-8 6-1 8-6 8-6. McCullough beat Jack Uhle 6-3 6-3 7-5. Ralph Thompson the Versailles 14 year old beat Charles Johnson 6-0 6-3 and meets Frank Campbell in the boys final. Campbell beat Stanley Malles 6-3 7-5 Thursday. Four junior doubles quarterfinals were staged with semi finals Saturday and finals Sunday Campbell and Kerr face Johnson and Morgan.
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Ralph Thompson
Versailles Flash
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Koli Kolo Knocks Out Verdi in First Round Bout
In New York on August 1 Koli Kolo of Puerto Rican featherweight defeated Phil Verdi of Rochester by knockout in the opening round of their ten round scheduled bout.
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