The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-11
ACROSS THE BOARD TODAY

+; ACROSS THE BOARD TODAY
Across The Board had one winner and
two seconds out of four selections on
Thursday, but did not increase the bank
roll a great deal S1O.15 winnings
were picked up, Pettibocker won, San
silk and Sam Mengel were second and
Reputation out Of the money. The
b. r.. Is now S354.75.
We will have to find another track to-
day Thursday was Coney Islands last
day. Latonia opens on Saturday. The
Blue BOnnets course looks like the best
today. GIIAETERTSG in the first race
Is worth a $40 win and place play. In
the seventh $40 goes across the board
on DEVONITE which is in under a
feather.
Again we rise to remark that no
typographical error is going to
get the best Of us. In Thursdays
column the tennis player Bill
Johnston's name was spelled
Johnson. We have known the ct"
was in there ever since we can
remember. That's that.
1ANAGER BURKE of Toledo
IMl should write a story for
one of these magazines
which feature the perseverance
always wins" articles. The Mud
Hens finally won a game from the
Louisville Colonies. 1t was the
second in eighteen starts.
The college and high school
football teams are hard at 1t
once more, but one would never
know it. There is a strange
silence in the air. The grid en-
thusiasts are cOwed as yet by
the hot weather.
~1ENNIS players must be
different. How can they
- drink all that ice-water
between sets with the perspera-
ton dripping from them-and
live. Tilden drinks ioe-tea. They
can't be human.
Haven't we. often been adj
monished by that old saying,
''Many man has gone to his
sarcophagus from pouring cold
water down a warm esOphagus."
Yet the net stars ignore the
warning with impunity.
IJATVC ~ n mama anxu-ox,o
lWI A ball player who looks
@ around when you say,
"Herschel," was responsible for
putting the st. Louis Browns in
third place, Thursday.
Herschel BENEFITS screaming
triples won two games from the
White Sox and the Mound City
club has the advantage in the
three-cornered scrap for third place
In the American League between
st. Louis, Detroit and Chicago.
from latest reports it looks
as though Mike Kelly's
IL Spartanburg club of the
South Atlantic Association has the
pennant. The team had a two and
one-half game in nid-week aver
ages. The season closes on Satur-
day.
Charlotte is the team on the
heels Of the leaders. Spartanburg
closes the season at 'Greenville, a
team sixth in the standing.
to- al
has proved a great leader for Spar
tanburg and is very popular there.
He has been playing first base.
s His hitting has been hard and
timely.
Everyone who knows Mike is
glad of his success in the South
Atlantic. Pepper, fight and vim
are Kelly's by-words and he has
impaired all of them to his team.
~OACH HUGHES of De
PAW is making a favor
S able impression at the
Greencastle school. Be believes
in plenty of hard work and real
h condition. The other day he had
some of his gridders down on the
y ground hammering them in the
wind" to see how soft or hard
they were. No flahby fat in the
Tiger camp this year!
IE last days sport at Coney
Island paid some big prices
- to those who stab the long
bots. In the first race Lola
Montez rewarded her few hackers
with $9S.S0 for 50 ticket to win.
S51.50 to place and $22 to show.
In the feature event Supremus,