The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-10
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BY VEDDER GARD

07EE where those Giants are
in the National League
race? McGraw is never
through fighting. The Gotham
club has nosed up into the first
division after many weeks in the
depths.
BY defeating the Cubs Monday,
New York tied the Chicago outfit
for fourth place with 1923 per
centage. Pittsburgh, st. Louis
and Cincy are watching the
Giants climb with some trepida-
ton.
That race is still anybody's-
and don't think Jawn McGraw
doesn't know it.
Pep Florence, former In.
dian catcher now with New
York, is back at the job he held
with the local club for a long
time. He is warming up the
pitchers in the "buIl pen" He
may have been plucked for the
majors just little too soon.
A new boy star among the city
tennis players has sprung up
suddenly. He is Emmett Lowery
of Irvington. All the youths
around certain drug store on f.
Washington ST., are watching with
INTEREST his progress in the nationy
~ meet at Chicago. He won his
first match, Monday.
Monday was typical Babe
Ruth day. He paid fine and hit
a homer.
@1HEY CALI Corbett, former
heavyweight ch a m pi on,
Ay Gentleman Jim" He evil
IDENTIFY is trying to live up to the
cognomen. The former pug is to
referee a handball tournament in
New York. There's a tip for
Dempsey, who would like to be
called gentleman" better than
anything else in the world. Jack
might umpire a tennis match-or
something.
It Is said that Princess Maria
de Bourbon, beautiful cousin of
King AlphonsO Of Spain, lost
80 in her first lesson in the gen.
tile American pastime of shoot
ing "craps." That wasn't much,
but that's the way all the games
start. One begins with dimes
and ends up with dollar bills,
trying TO get even.
Answer to "Steve's" question
He really is too busy.
*+#
Here's tip for sports officials.
If Bob Nipper, freshman coach
out at Butler, gets tough just
ask him about a certain play
ground baseball game he UNI
pired.
~-1HE United States Naval OBJ
servatory experts say that
~ falling stars in large num-
bers will be visible for three nights
beginning tonight. This is not
taken to mean, however. that the
tennis stars of the Davis cup team
will tumble.
1t looks as though Tilden, Rich
ards, Johnston and Williams are
fixed securely for another year in
the tennis armament. They chung
tenaciously to their orbits in Mon
days Davis cup trials with flash
ing young stars all about them
coming down to earth.
The big display will come next
month. French comets are sure
to collide with the Yankee lumina-
ries-and then-well, the French
meteors travel at great speed.
*#*
Ishaak Helmy of Egypt prob
ably will swim the English Chan
mel "when the sands of the
desert grow cold" His latest at
tempt lasted only four and one.
half hours. He's like some of
these big football players and
gaudily dressed gOlfers-mostly
form.
Many expect Bell to ring the bell
in national junior tennis tourney. If
the youngster from Texas plays as
we'll as he did IN the Western meet,
in Indianapolis he should down
any junior opposition. He was
plenty tough for the men at Wood
stock.
The Boston Braves are taking
good care Of the home plate.
They don't want to spoil IL by
Aspike prints. Not an opposition
y base-runner has crossed the plate
for twenty-seven innings. The
Pirates failed to dent it i'm two
games Saturday and st. Louis
could not score on Monday.