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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1930
Page
2
A look at the Giants under John J. McGraw highlights limited batting champions in the era with players like Doyle Connor and Glasscock. The piece discusses aging minor leaguers and the challenge of balancing flaming youth with veteran talent in baseball.
Chicago leads the NL after Brooklyn drops a fourth straight to St Louis. The Cubs ride a five game win streak into a four game series at Wrigley Field aiming to extend their pennant pursuit while Brooklyn relies on Dazzy Vance to stop the slide.
Robert Hunt of Indianapolis technical high school claimed the state junior crown and earned a right to represent Indiana in the senior division at the national cycle events in Kenosha Wisconsin next month. Riding a stock wheel he defeated Walter Cline and Denny Duesenberg, finishing first in the half mile and mile races and placing second in the five mile and third in the ten mile.
George Godfrey the veteran heavyweight will headline an all Negro program at Tomlinson hall Wednesday night August 20. He faces Eli Lee of Chicago with One Round Boss of Indianapolis promoting the event.
A garbled OCR readout lists numerous names such as Louis Thurston Phelps Johnson Grabowski Wilson Cantwell Gronin Teechout Bartnett Philadelphia Cincinnati and others. The fragment shows team and individual captions with scattered numbers, likely indexing a national photo feature.
Leading hitters list includes Gab or Om Pet Terry and Klein with high averages and runs batted in for Giants Phillies Robins Yankees and Dodgers franchisees. Home run leaders feature Ruth Foxx Wilson Gehrig Berger with double digit totals.
Times reporter notes Malloy will meet with Johnny Buckley and Jack Conway in New York to discuss a September Chicago match pitting Primo Carnera against Jack Sharkey. Also reported, Joe Dundee drew ten rounds with Jack McTiernan in Braddock Pennsylvania.
The Times invites all readers to join Ruth's All Major Contest to name ten players and assign them to exact positions and batting order, excluding Babe Ruth himself. Entries require a short explanatory letter. prizes include cash, a Ruth autographed bat, official balls, theater and event tickets, and baseball gear.
Tonight at Ft Harrison Captain Schucker promotes five bouts totaling 36 rounds. Jimmy Lundy of Los Angeles meets George Kerwin of Chicago in a top ten rounder, with Willard Brown facing Jack Kane in another ten rounds. The card opens with a four rounder and includes four six rounders featuring Larry Payton, Young Eiler, Ted Purvis, Tony Petruzzi, Ownie Gaheimer and Ted Hunt.
Ira Hall the Wabash valley champion defends his title against Dutch Bauman in Indiana’s first night auto race at Jungle Park Speedway near Rockville. Twelve reflector lamps will light the dirt track for three five mile dashes and a fifteen mile event Saturday night.
Ray Alvis announced Young Jack Thompson will defend his welterweight title against Tommy Freeman in Cleveland at night. The decision bout is set for early September at the Cleveland ball park.
Roy Woods will meet Willie Yap in the main event on Thursday at Broad Ripple. They fight six rounds with a 118 pound weight limit. In the semi windup, Young Abbie faces Max Riley at 126. The program totals thirty two rounds.
A fifty mile auto race for the Negro championship of the We bash Valley will be run Sunday at Walnut Gardens. Entrants include Charles Wiggins William Buckner Lawrence Wiggins Johnnie Jordan Gene Smith and others. Twenty five entries expected by week’s end. time trials Sunday morning. fifteen fastest cars to start at 2 30 p m.
Gammill of Westerville Ohio set the pace in the first division at Winona Lake as of August 12 with a 302 to 5 average. Seven others sit within two points while Sterling Rounds of Cleveland Ohio trails with a 30 for eight games.
Obie Smith of Indianapolis defeated Thomas Dunlap to reach the second round at the Bay View resort tennis tournament in Ey Michigan. Julius Pinnell, also of Indianapolis, lost in the first round.
Harley Anderson of Elwood defeated Wilmer Johnson of Newcastle in the finals of the eastern Indiana tennis tournament in Newcastle Monday. The scores were 5-7, 6-3, 6-2.
Jake Hess of Texas defeated Melvin Partridge of New Rochelle in the feature men’s singles match at Rye New York as part of the eastern court tennis championships. Other results include Berkeley Bell beating Jack Tidball and Gregory Mangin facing Harry Plymire. Hess also beat J Gilbert Hall in a standout Monday match. Catherine Wolf of Indianapolis reached the third round by defeating Mrs. William H. Prichard and Mrs. Helen Ross.
In Riverside Monday Jack Reynolds defeated Hugh Webb in straight falls lasting eight and seven minutes. Cowboy Jones and Silent Olsen tied after thirty minutes. Leslie Beers beat Doc Byrnes and Chet Mc Cauley defeated Scotty Blake. At Broad Ripple Johnny Carlin beat Cliff Byrd in two straight falls. Ed Baker defeated Arch Craig, Sammy Davis won, and Claude Swindell drew with his opponent.
Advantage of experience won the decision 2 to 1 for Vernon Gomez over Oral Hildebrand in a nine inning mound duel at Washington Park. Gomez kept the Indians to three hits while Hildebrand allowed four as the Saints moved into second place behind the Colonels. A double header is slated for tonight with Logansport night set for Thursday under the illuminated diamond.
Nine local amateur baseball teams will start Saturday in the city series to earn a spot in the National Federation tournament. Two losses knock a club out of title contention. Monday’s draw pairs E. C. Atkins against Hillside Christian Riverside No. 4 Indianapolis Power and Light against G. and J. Tire Riverside No. 3 River Avenue Baptists against Colonial Theater Rhodius No. 2 Big Four against Memorial Baptist Brookside No. 1.
Vic Frasier, promising right handed pitcher who refused to join the Chicago White Sox this spring, reports to Chicago to report for duty after a conference with Sol Dreyfuss of the Dallas club. He had been purchased last season from Dallas.
Leaders in both leagues began fresh series as Chicago Brooklyn and New York chased the National lead while Philadelphia faced a tight race with New York and Washington in the American. Brooklyn fell 7 6 to St. Louis as Chicago moved up with a 4 2 win over Boston.
Danny MacFayden spun a three hit performance leading the Boston Red Sox to a decisive victory over De Toit. In Newark, Arthur De Kuh stopped Bud Gorman in the fourth round of a ten round bout.
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