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SALO LEADING
BUNION DERBY
\nklei Into Mesa, Ariz.,
Hour Ahead of Other
Pyle Runners
MESA, Ariz., June 6.—f.^PI—With a
ead of more than one hour over Ira
jearest rival. Johnny Salo, of Pas
aic. N. J., today took up another
iotch in his belt wifh the firm in
ert ton of increasing his advantage
n the Pyle bunion derby.
Today's hard-rock trail was to
Buckeye, Ariz., a distance of 55
niles.
Yesterday Salo beat Pete Gavuzzi
[talian from England and No. 2
nan In rjjpsed time. Into Mesa,
torn Superior by 59 minutes and {
>3 seconds, increasing his lead In
•lapsed time to one hour, 13 minutes
ind nine seconds.
Gavuzzi tied with Ram Riehtmn
)f New York for fourth place.
The contestants and their elapsed
ime:
1— John Salo. Passaic, N. J.,
133 39:39.
2— Pete Gavuzzi, England, 434:
3— Giusto Umek. Italy. 449:15:18.
4— Sam Rlchman, New York.
[68 50:48.
—Paul Simpson. Burlington. N.
478:04:16.
6— Phillip Granville. Hamilton,
Dnt.. 507:52:00.
7— M. B. McNamara, Australia.
20:47:22.
8— Herbert Hedeman. New York.
30:52:10.
9— Harry Abramowltz, New York.
33:51:41.
10— Mike Joyce, Cleveland, Ohio.
[69:32:39.
11— Guy Shields. Picher. Okla,
68:03:25.
12— Elwin Harbine, Santa Rosa,
'al.. 006:41:58
13— Elmer Cowley, Clifton, N. J..
26:20:31.
(By the Associated Press)
PHILADELPHIA.—Kid Chocolate,
"uba, outpointed Vidal Gregorio,
Spain. (10). George Courtney,
Oklahoma, outpointed Jack Hovey,
Jew York, (10). Joe Gans. Cali
omla, outpointed Pinkey Kauf
nan, Hartford, Conn., (10). Billy
Wallace. Philadelphia, outpointed
Jruce Flowers, New Rochelle, N. Y..
10),
Association Plans
Campaign Against
Boomerang Checks
Plar.vt tor an intensive drive on
Tiot cnWks’’ are being formulated
s the result of the credit meeting
f the Retail Merchants Association
eld this week.
Records presented by the assoc!- !
tion showed that $5,43798 worth
f “hot checks” was in its hands for
ollection. These checks have been
athering since Jan. 22. It is esti
tated that more than $1,000 has
ten collected on similar checks
uring the period.
A committee composed of E. Tay
>r, 8. Bishop and H. G. Weincrt
as appointed »-> seek complete en
ircement of “hot checks * laws.
The following businesses have!
lined the association this week: j
io Grande Gas company. Gulf Re-;
ning. Snow Queen Creamery, i
idler’s Battery Service, Harry’s
igar stores, and the Cloetta Harcl
are.
Bracey, Rice Flash, to Race
With Nation’s Best Friday
Claude Bracey, sensational Rice
sprinter who has done the century
in 9 4 seconds, will match his flying
heels against the best the nation
has to offer at the national col
legiate track and field meet to be
held in Chicago tomorrow and Sat
day.
Bracey has performed so well in
the Southwestern conference that
he will enter the sprint competition
with the crack speedsters of the na
tion as favorite.
The prestige of the Southwestern
conference will be supported by a
galaxy of stars from A. Sc M. Texas
and Christian University. The Ag
gies, Southwetsern champions, are
entering Ed Thompson. Jr., in the
half mile, J. G. Floyd in the Javelin
throw, R. K. Farmer in the broad
jump and Don Slocomb in the
hurdles.
Challenging Bracey will be a
classy field led by George Simpson
of Ohio State, who twice has tied
the world record for the century,
and Eddie Tolan. Michigan's short
legged negro star, who equaled the
record at the recent Big Ten meet.
Others in the long list of entries
will be Borah. California; Elder.
Notre Dame; George, Whittier;
Wilcox. Kansas; Topplno. Loyola
| (New Orleans); Treps. Marquette,
and Cy Leland. Texas Christian
university, the only collegian ever to
defetat Bracey.
More than a score of the entrants
in the big meet, including 11 of the
15 champions of the record-breaking
1928 program, have been flirting
persistently with world marks.
The pole vault Is another event
that may produce a new' record. En
tered are Williams. Southern Cali
fornia; Pickard. Pittsburgh; Warne.
Northwestern; Canby, Iowa, and
Ottemess, Minnesota, who. have
been shooting at records all spring.
Steve Anderson of the University
of Washington skimmed the high i
hurdles in world record time and I
may have to repeat his performance
to beat Kane of Ohio Wesleyan.
Beard of Alabama Polytechnic,
Sentman of Illinois, Grant of Utah.
Harlan of Texas. Rockawav of Ohio
State and Lamson of Nebraska.
Seven athletes who have done 24
feet or better are entered in the
broad jump. They are Paul. South
ern California; Goreon. Iowa; Ut
terbach, Pittsburgh; Humes. Wash
ington; Striff, Oregon State; Lar
son. Wisconsin, and Farmer. Texas
Aggies.
Ed Moeller, Oregon, who recently
hurled the discus 160 feet 1 inch in
a dial meet, is the outstanding fa
vorite in that event, while Wilford
Ketz, Michigan, and Don Owinn.
Pittsburgh, anticipate a lively duel
in the hammer throw.
The distance and middle-distance
events also have attracted a flock of
great performers, including Martin.
Purdue; Walter, Northwestern;
Baird. Iowa; Kiser. Washington;
Orlovich. White and Abbott. Illi
nois: Sivak. Butler and Manning of
Wichita university.
HURLERS STRIKE
* * *
OUT 24 BATTERS
* * *
BUT LOSE 4 TO 5
ATLANTA, June 6.—Talk about
your hard luck, a couple of high
school pitchers here had it.
Methvln and Matthews, twirl
ing for boys' high against Marist
college, struck ou tevery batter
that faced them from the last
one up in the first through the
ninth, but lost the game. 5-4.
Passed balls and wild throws
cost boys' high the game.
IU* S. Tennis Stars
Off on Attempt to
Regain Davis Cup
—
NEW YORK. June 6.—<A>t—
America’s plans to bring back the
Davis Cup from France are being
carried out on a large scale, at
least so far as the number of play
ers who will engage in the attempt
is concerned. •
Three players and the non-play
ing captain. Fitz-Euvene Dixon of
Philadelphia, sailed today aboard
j the Berengaria. The delegation now
at sea consists of the three young
stars who carried the United States
through the American zone ties,
John Hennessey of Indianpolis.
John Van Ryn of Fast Orange. N.
J., and Wilmer Allison of Fort
Worth. Texas.
The veterans of past years. Big
Bill Tilden and Frank Hunter, have
been in Europe for nearly a month,
while the sixth playing member.
George Lott, has been detained by
his studies at the University of
Chicago and will follow the team
next week.
Out of his wealth of material, all
of it good although several of the
players had no Davis Cup experi
ence before this year, the combi
nation or combinations which will
oppose the winner of the European
zone competition in the interzone
final JJuly 19, 20 and 21. and
France in the challenge round a
week later must be choeen.
Richardson Seeking
Support of Railway
Heads In Fly Fight
O. C. Richardson, manager of the
chamber of commerce Wednesday
was writing a letter to H. M. Lull
and H. R. Safford. executives of the
Southern Pacific and Missouri Pa
cific Lines respectively, in which
they will be asked to thoroughly in
vestigate the report that train
butchers are selling Florida fruit in
this state.
Richardson stated that the dan
ger of infestation of Valley citrus by
the Mediterranean fruit fly from
this source perhaps is greater than
any other, because pathologic fruit
might be thrown from car windows
directly into citrus fields.
Additional support was promised
the Valley in its fight on the pest
Wednesday morning when Porter
Whaley, manager of the San An
tonio Chamber of Commerce, called
at Richardson's office and declared
his organization is ready to co-oper
ate to the limit in any way it can to
alleviate the situation.
WINTER KILLING DUE
TO LACK OF POTASH
HOWARD CTTY, Mich., June 6.—
f**'—Winter-killing of alfalfa on
light rolls may be the result of too
weak a solution of potash in the
humus, experiments on the Penn
sylvania railroad’s sand land demon
stration farm indicate.
Plots receiving liberal applications
of potash in combination with su
perphosphate came through the
winter in perfect condition, whereas
other plots treated with 18 and 20
per cent superphosphate and with
complete fertilisers were badly
thinned by winter. Some plats re
ceiving complete fertilizers of low
potash content were thinned almost
as badly as the stands on unferti
lized tracts.
Alfalfa receiving potash with
superphosphate was the first to
show green this spring and prom
ises to cut twice as much hay per
acre as any of the other plots. Best
results were obtained from applica
tions of 300 pounds of potash to the
acre. '
PURDUE AGAIN
IS DENOUNCED
• •
Star Adda His Allegations
To Those of High
School Coach
DES MOINES. Is.. June 6.—*
The Des Moines Register in a
copyrighted story today quoted
Robert Spradling. Iowa basketball
star, as saying he was offered all
expenses by a "friend of Purdue"
if he would enter that school and
play basketball.
Spradling, whose home Is In
Frankfort. Indiana, said he was
willing to make a frank statement
of his relations with both Iowa
and Purdue should the Big Ten
call upon him to do so. the news
paper said.
CHICAGO. June 6 —</*—'The Big
Ten conference volcano today rum
bled and seethed with indications
of a second major eruption.
Purdue university was In the
glare of the searchlight, following
charges yesterday by Coach Everett
Case of Frankford. Ind., high
school, that the Lafayette institu
tion was as guilty as the Univer
sity of Iowa, in proselyting and
subsidizing athletics.
Case today was to bare his
charges to Major John L. Griffith
Big Ten athletic commissioner.
Case made his charges after he
had been accused, presumably by
Purdue, of trading some of the
members of his Indiana champion
ship basketball teams, for summer
school credits from the University
of Iowa.
President Edward C. Elliott of
Purdue, and Nelson A. Kellogg, di
rector of athletics, said they would
welcome an investigation of Case’s
charges.
INTERNATIONAL GAMES
FAVORED BY AGGIES
(Special to The Herald)
COLLEGE STATION. June 6—A
new record for the number of par
ticipants in intramural athletics at
the A. & M. college of Texes was
established for the year just closed
with a total participation of 2.66o
as compared with 2.203 last year,
the report of W. L. Penberthv. di
rector of intramural athletics at the
college shows.
Playground ball, which has proven
the most popular spurt virtually
every years since the establishment
of the intramural department, re
tained its «upremacv with 559 stu
dents taking part. Two leagues,
composed of 20 teams each, were
necesscrv to handle the large num
ber of participants In the sport this
year.
ST. EDS AWARDS 10
BASEBALL LETTERS
AUSTIN. Tex., June 6.——Ten
members of the St. Edward's Uni
versity baseball team have been
awarded letters by the athletic com
mittee.
Players receiving 'EY* fer par
ticipation this year are: Captain
Sam Dyer, Shreveport. La.; Milton
Scott. Hoston; Waters James. Julius
James and Dan Rivas. San Antonio;
Henry Parma. Ennis; Abdon Bomba.
Yorktown; Tony Burger. Aberdeen.
Wash.; Harold Jansing, Lott; Al
bert Loran, Munday.
VACHEL LINDSAY IS
BACK IN OLD HOME
SPRINGFIELD. HI. June 6.—(JP>—
Fame attained. Vaehel Lindsay, the
poet, is back to live In Springfield
because it is "every man’s business
to come back to his home town to
live.” For years he has lived else
where.
Poet of Abraham Lincoln's home
town. Lindsay says:
"All my books repeat my belief
that it is man's business to come
back to his home town to live, to
his birthplace, as I have done, if
possible. Here I intend to stay
until the cows come home.**
The poet's household consists of
his wife and two young children.
SPORTRAITS
.£aj?l Combs
Recently Earl Combs, New
York Yankee center fielder, cel
brated his 28th birthday.
He has been in the harness for
Miller Huggins since 1914. when
he came up from Louisville for
a reported sale price of $50,000.
Due to a broken ankle, he took
part in only 24 games his first
year, but came back in 1925 to
establish himself as a Yankee
fixture.
No pitcher has been able to
consistently puzzle Combs. One
may "handcuff" him temporar
ily. but his keen eye. in a short
time, solves any delivery.
He hit below .300 only once In
his big league career. That was
in 1926. when he missed the
mark by one point.
Schmidt to Teach
At 3 Basketball
Schools In South
FAYETTEVILLE. Ark., June 6.—
—Francis A. Schmidt, former
University of Arkansas coach who
piloted the Razorback basketeers to
four successive Southwest Confer
ence titles, has announced he will
serve as basketball director at three
summer coaching schools.
The School or the Ozarks will
open at Hollister, Mo.. July 8 nnd
close July 20. Furman College.
South Carolina, will claim the men
tor July 22 to Aug. 3 From Aug. 5
to 17 he will be at Corpus Christi.
In the fall. Schmidt is to go to
Fort Worth, to assume the position
of athletic director at Texas Chris
tian university.
I . . - -
Pirates Idle Into
Lead as N. Y. Downs
Cardinals By 6-4
By WILLIAM J. CHIPMAN
Associated Press Sports Writer
Alter compiling a losing streak of one consecutive game, the Athletics
returned to the winning column yesterday as their fellow Pennsylvanians,
the Pirates, climbed into the National league lead without lifting a bat.
The Buccaneers turned this trick by sitting Idle in the rain while the
Giants thumped the Cardinals by 8 to 4 at 8t. Louis.
The Athletics defeated the Browns:
by 5 to 2. and gained a full game
over the St Louis contenders, who
fell Into third place. The Yankees
worked arduously for 12 innings to
defeat Cleveland by 6 to 5 at the
Ruppert stadium. Both the Yan
kees and the Browns now are six
and one-half games behind the Ath
letics, but the champions have an
edge over St. Louis in percentage
because Dan Howley's men have
played more games and lost more.
The Red Sox ran up the amazVig
total (for them> of 23 hits and 17
runs to defeat the White Sox by 17
to 2 at the Fenway. The fans were
further amused by the sight of Lena
Blacakburne pitching the last third
of the final Boston Inning.
Washington continued its Im
provement by defeating Detroit. 8 to
to. Fred Marberry halted the fa
mous Tiger attack with five hits,
and had a lead throughout.
Action in the National league was
diminished by rain which prevented
Pittsburgh and Boston from play
ing. but things moved rapidly along
the rest of the front John McOraw
employed his old device of making
two second string pitchers do the
work of one first-line man. After
the Cardinals prodded Carl Mays
for three runs. Bill Walker was sent
in to oppose Clarence Mitchell. The
relief man hung on until the Olants
gave him a lead, and then held It
The chief item of interest in Cin
cinnati's 21 to 4 decision over the
Phillies was Chuck Klein's four
teenth home run, which enabled this
hard-hitting Philadelphian to re
tain the inter-league lead.
The Cubs seemed ready to lose
another one when a sudden rally for
four runs In the ninth gave them a
decision over Brooklyn by 4 to 3.
If
manager of the chamber of com
merce announced today.
A letter from Blake declared that
he had been asaured by railroad of
ficials in Fort Worth. Dallas, Hous
ton and San Antonio that special
trains would be run to Brownsville
for the event, and added that ha
also expected to have Inaugurated
the first air travel excursion tn his
tory.
Doubts fare been expressed, hew
ever. that such an exhibition could
be properly staged, because of the
fact that promoters would have less
than a month to advertise the went.
HOW LONG A KISS?
PARIS. — Owing to complaints
made to the police, they are to de
cide how long a kiss In a current
drama may last.
Officials Planning
Heeney - Stribling
Fight Due Sunday
P. H. Blake, physical director of
the Fort Worth athletic club will
be here Sunday to announce final
plana for a Stribling-Heeney bout
and what he terms the greatest box
ing card ever offered In the south,
which he plans to stage In Mata
moros July 4* O. C. Richardscn.
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