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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1925
Page
3
The article weighs fan reverence for champions like Tilden Dempsey and Babe Ruth against their flaws. It notes public fickleness, the rise and fall of heroes, and the idea that some stay revered by balance and humanity. It also covers racing bets, Packard front-drive talk, and evolving auto design.
The Saint series ends with the Indians 2 1 down and prepare to face the Louisville Colonels in Washington Park Friday. Carmen Hill started for St Paul as they fell 11 8 in a game featuring late rallies and tight plays.
In Atlantic City New Jersey the international track meet between Oxford Cambridge and Princeton Cornell featured the 120 yard hurdles. Lord Burghley won the race with Flynn of Oxford finishing second. Left to right Flynn Howell Scattergood of Princeton and Burghley.
A B C S busy Prest-O-Lites will host the colored league club A B C s at Washington Park this afternoon with a 430 start. The twilight contest opens a three game set and draws large Prest oso supporters. After Kokomo trip on Thursday, A B C s won’t return to Indianapolis until August 22.
Tarzan Grattan, bought for 6500 dollars by Walter Candler of Atlanta, won the American pacing derby at Kalamazoo, taking the first and final heats from sixteen starters. He earned 15000 dollars of the 25000 purse with Nate Ray, former steeplechase jockey, as his trainer.
The national swimming championships at Broad Ripple pool Aug 13 14 15 expand to thirty six events director Paul R Jordan announced. Added on day one are 100 yard breaststroke and 440 yard freestyle with Miss Agnes Geraghty of the Women's Swimming Association of New York City aiming for a new 100 yard breaststroke mark. Aug 14 adds a 220 free style and Aug 15 final program includes a 220 yard breast stroke and an open 880 yard free style. Charlotte Epstein says her team of ten stars will attend. Geraghty is confirmed. Teams from Chicago Detroit Columbus Cincinnati Louisville St Louis Memphis New Orleans and others expected.
Ring death in Louisville prompts manslaughter charge against Harry Fay after he floored Mickey Shannon of Chicago in the fourth round of a Tuesday match, Shannon dying from head injury presumed instant by doctors.
Finnish welterweight Gus Kallig signed with local promoters to headline five Broadway Theater shows in July and August. The first bout is on July 30 with four more in August following his decisive straight fall victory over Ali Hassan.
Reading shows Ta Kalamazoo track listed Grand Circuit events with three heats of trotting and pacing races. Purse details include $1 000 for trotting heats and a $25 000 pacing event, with multiple horse names and drivers noted but specifics are unclear due to OCR errors.
Independent baseball notes list Belmont A Cs vs Kokomo Red Men Sunday at Kokomo with 2:30 p m start. Acmes meet Cardinals at Odious Park, 2:30 p m, second meeting this season after 15 inning 5 5 game halted by closing law.
Ray Schalk of the White Sox set a new major league record for games caught with 1 576, surpassing Jim McGuire. Schalk began in 1912 and posted 100 plus games for twelve straight seasons, exceeding earlier marks once held by George Gibson.
American Association features Indianapolis at St Paul with Louisville Minneapolis and Columbus at Milwaukee. In the American and National Leagues no other games are scheduled. Philadelphia and New York are noted but no contests listed.
Readable lines indicate two scheduled games with players such as Gaston Messenger Koupal Shin and Grant Johnson Gaston Schaack Snyder in a Boston Louisville context. Various inning scores and player lists appear, but the OCR is garbled and hard to decipher.
Kid Kaplan featherweight champion and Babe Herman of California signed to fight for the title in Waterbury Connecticut on August 27 in a fifteen round bout. Kaplan will receive $15,000 while Herman is to get $5,000.
Helen Wills national women's tennis champion dominated Mrs J Dallas Corbiere 6-0 6-1 to advance to the semi finals of the invitation tournament at Essex Country Club Chester Mass July 22. Other matches listed include Marion Zinderstein Jessup versus Eleanor Goss and Mary K Brown versus Martha Bayard in following stages.
Promoter Floyd Fitzsimmons announced a possible title bout in September between Harry Greb and Jack Dempsey to be staged in Michigan City. Greb and manager James Mason discussed the plan, with Greb heading to Kansas to continue negotiations. If the Greb bout falls through, other Michigan City options include Bartley Madden and Jack Renault.
Gertrude Ederle, famed Yankee swimmer, will depart Cape Gris-Nez today to finish training for the English Channel crossing. Her trainer notes she is nearly ready but tends to swim too fast, a fault to be corrected in the coming days.
Majors features Tuesday veteran pitcher Lawrence Mitchell and four Pirates hits help seize early lead as Brown 6 reaches milestone. Williams drives in two runs for a 4 0 win while Athletica and Meuse provide late scoring as the White Sox suffer a costly loss.
Eddie Shea of Chicago meets Charlie Rosenberg defending the bantamweight title for the first time in a championship bout at the Celedrome. Backers from Chicago push Shea as a likely winner while Rosenberg seeks to end a jinx that has seen seven bantamweight title changes in five years. The fifteen round bout benefits a Jewish relief fund with doubtful morning weather conditions.
Illin ois State tennis tournament at Skokie Country Club Glencoe Illinois July 22 William T Tilden and George Lott Jr reach fifth round after wins over Ted Mertz and Peck Griffin Lott advances after beating Sandy Weiner and Art Kaiser several top national players survive third round and proceed to fourth round Play in men's doubles also begins today.
Readable fragments indicate a local St. Paul item involving Patasf and Grew with noted forms and possibly a public or school event. No clear outcome or date beyond Tuesday context.
Tiger Flowers, a Camilla Georgia middleweight, began training in Chicago for his July bout with Lou Bogash of Bridgeport Connecticut at Aurora next Friday night. Bogash arrived today.
Reuben Borsch, bound for Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, signed to play baseball this summer for Bloomington Three-I in Illinois. A former Illinois Wesleyan star athlete and student, the yearold joins the team as he prepares for academic pursuits in England.
Michigan loses two great athletes by graduation De Hart Hubbard and Charles Reinke Hubbard dominated the century and broad jump while Reinke excelled in the half mile In the 1925 Big Ten meet the pair accounted for about one third of Michigan’s score with 15 points.
John Hennessey, the American tennis player from Indianapolis who competed at Wimbledon, arrived in New York Tuesday. A night letter to his mother says he has been invited to play in the East West matches on August 1 and will not return before then. He also notes he cannot compete in the Indiana State meet beginning July 27.
Memphis infielder 22-Pat Kelly was fined 100 dollars and suspended indefinitely after striking umpire Pique during the Mobile versus Memphis game on Monday.
Eddie Ash reports a July 28 program at Fort Harrison with five bouts and many mixers. Last night’s main event saw Jack McDonald, battered by Risko, toppled in the third round, while Eddie States halted Larty Sen in six, Pat McCullough and Joe Walters drew, Charlie Shine stopped Charlie Null, and Ray Dodd outpointed Johnny Lewis. Referee George Grammell oversaw all bouts as threatening weather kept attendance down but a large crowd remained.
Omaha reports the New York Yankees have bought catcher Ray Luebee of the Omaha Western League team. He is 21 years old and will report next spring.
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