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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-02
5000 Gate Expected at Chicago Hea
THOUSANDS PAY TRIBUTE
TO VETERAN WALT JOHNSON
Big Train Starts TwenyFirst Year on Mound-ShareS
in Gate Receipts of Day.

turned over to johnson for his and
his family's use when at last "Old
Barney's" right arm no longer holds
pitch.
UnveiI Shaft
A granite shaft, erected to him in
the park, was to be unveiled for the
occasion. Ban Johnson, president
of the American League, was to pre-
sent a medal, in the shape of a
Maltese cross set with twenty dia-
monds, one for every year of serv-
ice, as a distinguished service"
token to the famous pitcher.
Secretary of Commerce Herbert
Hoover has headed a committee
raising a testimonial fund for John
son. Secretary of State, Frank B.
Kellogg, speaking into a microphone
at the plate. was to present this
cash to Walter just before game
time.
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Mcintyre and Tuitte on
Top With SO Best Ball
in Pro-Amateur Match

Pro and amateur golfers had a
big day at Terre Haute Monday,
where they held the weekly pro-
amateur tourney over the Country
Club course. Forty-two competed.
In the best ball play, Neal Nc
Intyre and Jack Tuitte, both Of
Highland, won with SO. Bobby
Hess and George lance of the Ray
Park municipal course, Terre Haute,
we're second with SO and Freddy
McDermott, Riverside pro, contin-
ued in the prize money with TO.
His partner was Frank Williams.
A special pot for the first and
second medal scores, made up by
the pros, was won by Freddy Nc
Dermott with a 10. Neal Mcintyre
was second with 70.
Three prizes we're offered anna
teurs with lowest medal scores.
Johnny Simpson of Terre Haute
and Ray Jones of Avalon split first
and second prizes. They tied with
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-02
Major League
Comment

BIZ United Press
Defeating the Phillies while the
Pittsburgh Pirates were dropping
game to the Boston Braves, the Chi
cago Cubs jumped to first place in
the National League for the sixth
time this season.
The Cubs won from the Phils, 6
to 5, on two timely hits delivered
by Right Fielder Earl Webb. One
was home run in the eighth which
tied the score and the other was
single in the ninth which scored
Adams.
The Braves bumped the Pirates
out of the lead in eleven innings by
a 4-to-1 tally. Vic Aldridge, Pirate
hurler, weakened in the eleventh
after getting good start, and three
Braves waltzed home.
The st. Louis Cardinals lost some
more ground in the National
League standing when they dropped
a game, 6 to 3, to the New York
Giants. Bill Terry of the Giants
scored two home runs and George
Harper another, accounting for five
of the New York runs.
Brooklyn Robins 2-to-1 victory
over the Cincinnati Reds hoisted
them to fifth place in the National
League. DaZZy Vance had the edge
over Rixey in a pitching contest.
In the only American League
game played, six-inning contest,
halted by rain, the New York
Yankees lost to the Cleveland In
dams, to /. The Indians scored
their tallies as rain started to fall
in the sixth.
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BIZ United Press

BH Uhtted PfeSS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2%The
young westerner in a black derby,
who laid his carpet bag on the desk
of the old Regent House where in
1907 and asked as this where the
Washington team stays?" was to be
honored today as no other baseball
player ever was.
Walter Johnson was a timid
rookie then, fresh from the wildS
of Weiser, Idaho, and to his ques-
ton Joe Cantillon, Senators man
ager, replied with a grin: only the
good players stay here"
Johnson started to leave, but
Cantillon stopped him, thus saving
for major league baseball the man
who since has pitched and won
more games than any other mounds
man and has struck out more
batters.
Aug. 2, 1907
Today johnson was to start his
twenty-first year on the mound for
Washington against the same team,
Detroit, that he first faced on Aug.
2, 1907. Officialdom and fandon
were to gather at the ball park as
early as 1890, when band concert
was to open johnson Testimonial
Day" exercises.
81 knew him whens," who saw him
pitch his first ball in 1907, were
planning to greet the "old master"
in person. They were only a small
part, however, of the 100000 crowd
expected to sing "Auld Lang Syne"
TO- the veteran before the day was
over.
Every cent Of the receipts above
an ordinary gate" were to be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-02
METER ON DELAYED SHIP

BU United Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE failure
Of Mrs. Kitty McKane Godfree,
captain of the British Wightman
cup tennis team, to arrive in New
York on the Laconia Monday,
forced the team to abandon plans
for entering the competition, a. Sea-
bright. The Laconia was delayed by
a storm, but was expected today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-02
Weather Delays
Junior Meters

BH United Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-Two jun
iors and one boy completed the first
round in the opening matches of
the National junior and boys tennis
championships at Forest Hills Nom
day. Eugene H. McCauliff, Ford
ham University captain, and Frank
Shields won in the junior division.
william Jacobs of Baltimore, No.
seeded player in the boys division
was the lone victor. Other matches
were postponed because Of rain.
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Title Fight i'm September

76's. Jack Tuitte was third with rs.
Next week, with all the amateurs
in the State gathered at Terre
Haute for the annual Indiana State
championship tournament, the pros
will stage a Saratoga system meet
at Broadmoor Country Club, with
women partners. In that play all
drive, and thereafter alternate shots
after selecting the best drive to
continue play.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-02
National Rogue
Tourney Starts

BIZ United Press
WARSAW, Ind, Aug. 2.-Roque
players from all parts OF the United
States are gathered here for play
for the National rogue champion
ship, more or less a marathon event,
which is to continue for two weeks.
Games are being played on three
covered and four open courts, said
to be the finest in the country.
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State Junior
Golfers End
Play Shortly
Second Round and Semi
Finals Today and Title
Match Wednesday.
HARRINGTON ADVANCES

HARRINGTON ADVANCES
By Times Special
CULVER, Ind, Aug. 2.-SecOnd
round play Of Junior golf tourney
today: Greiner beat Simpson,
and /; Davidson beat Helminger,
2 and 1; Young beat Parker, and
s, and Harrington beat Kimbrough,
and 3.
By Times Special
CULVER, Ind, Aug. 2.-The sec
ond ROUND of match play started
this morning in the Indiana junior
golf tourney over the military
academy course here. Two Indian
apolis players continued in the run
ming, one after a sensational victory
in the first round Monday, and the
other after an easy victory.
Sam Simpson, who shot 81 in the
h qualifying round Monday, trailed to
gpthe fifteenth hole in his match with
Arthur Collar, South Bend, who
qualifying round, a a..
The break came when Sam holed
a long putt to win the fifteenth;
after Collar had driven over 300
yards. The match was even and
Simpson won the next two holes in
par while Collar got off his putting
game.
John Harrington, the other Indi-
annapolis entrant in the select six
teen who qualified for the title play,
easily disposed of William Bassett
of Ft. Wayne. Harrington shot 81
in the qualifying round.
Other first round match scores
we're:
Sterling aEeneT, s s2;i4a BENZ md defeated
Forrest Helminger. Leesburg, defeated
Andrew Kucela, Elkhart, l up, nineteen
Homer Davidson. Marion, defeated John
R; K; Young, Lafayette: .S defeated George
Edward Parker, Anderson, defeated
Carlton Mellott, South Bend. l up.
Richard Kimbrough, Muncie, defeated e!1
Francis Fox, Terre Haute' up nineteen
Today's pairings, morning round,
we're:
Simpson VS.. Greiner; Helminger
VS.. Davidson; Young VS.. Parker,
and Harrington VS.. Kimbrough.
The winners were to play the
semi-final matches in the afternoon
and the finals will be played
Wednesday.
Neville Ewing, Richard Wenzel
and George Anderson, all Junior
stars from Indianapolis, fell one
stroke short of the qualifying mark
Monday when they all shot 86's.
William Bassett and three other
players we're tied with 85's for the
sixteenth qualifying post. Bassett
won in the play-off.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-02
RAIN HELPS HENS

BIZ Unifrd Press
TOLEDO, Ohio, Aug. Emil
Meusel came home in the sixth in
ming on single just as rain began
to fall and the Toledo Mud Hens
took another game from Columbus,
Monday. The game was called short
ly after Meusel crossed home plate.
The score was 3 to 2.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-02
English Team Wins

14 EAiSSST1EBBo5URNE, England, Aug. 2.
- oxford and Cambridge's COM
bined tennis squad today had the
cup emblematic of victory in the
team matches with the Harvard
Yale combination. The English
players won eleven matches and
Harvard-Yale won seven.
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TEMPERATURES as high as 500 Fahrenheit
Il and as low as 200 below -. huge presses
and stills both filters and centrifugal separators
=. all are used in refining Tioene from the famous
Super Pennsylvania Cabin Creek Crude. Every
approved process is employed which our engineers
know will perfect the quality of the finished Tiolene
Motor OIL
Many of these operations costly but they assure
the complete removal of those elements Wilhelm
less carefully refined oils - form carbon deposits in
your motor cause thinning under heat and result in
carly breakdown of the protecting film.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-02
GRAND CIRCUIT RACES
Racers and Trotters Open Meeting
at Mansfield.

By Times Special
MANSFIELD, Ohio, Aug. g.
Becky Beall took the 2:1S pace in
an easy fashion in the Grand Cir
cult races here Monday. Rhythmic
Todd experienced little trouble in
winning the 2:14 pace, and San
Andres annexed the claiming trot.
Grand Circuit races were brought
here when a number of cities left
the big time leaving open dates
for the horSemen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-02
Baseball Big Five

BIZ United Press
Ruth and Gehrig were at bat
twice each as the Indians took a
six-inning game from the Yankees,
2 to l. Gehrig made a single and
Ruth went hitless.
Hornsby hit a single in three
times at bat.
Speaker and Cobb were idle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-02
SWIFT WITH CUE

NEW YORK, Aug. Eric Ha-
genlacher, former world balkline
billiard champion, ran 300 points
in ten innings at 1872 Monday night,
defeating George Cresswell, 300 to
70. Hagenlacher had a high run
of 100. 1t was an exhibition game.
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-23
ALASKA ACTIVITIES
 OF FEDERAL DEPARTMENT
 BE CENTRALIZED ALASKA

Seattle. Ju.y 23. (P-The Alas ka activities of the Federal De partment of the Interior and Com merce and Agriculture department will be centralized in Alaska. prob ably at Seward or Juneau, J. R. Ummel. chief of the Alaska Divi- sion Bureau of Education. said before leaving for Seward where a conference will be held with J. F. Garland, Special Representative of the Department of the Interior. who is making arrangements for the change Ummel said that only the Purchasing Department of the Bureau of Education will remain at Seattle Ummel will make d two months trip. visiting fourteen stations including Eklutna,
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-23
ARGUING WHETHER DEMPSEY F0ulED SHARKEY
DETAILS OF DROWNING OF
 DIR. HUSTON ON YUKON

Village with Mrs. Huston and oth CTS, and after short stop. proceed ed on up the Yukon River to Mar shal so that Mrs. Huston might catch lie up-river boat for Nenaua and thence to Seattle.
 supt. Mozee's instructions we're to do everything ill reason to loe- ate the body or to make 2 trip in sav three or four day then az ain in ten or twelve days with the Ark and search the banks on both sides of the river. say for twenty miles below where he went down. Otherwise if the doctor is found it wheel far below Mountain Village.
 AIr Siekles says We hear nothing but praise of the work Dr. Huston ton has been performing all along the Yukon River among the nattv- es and white people The wife has been 4 great deal of help in his work and brave little woman ill this bereavement of hers and the people along the Yukon that learn ed 10 know the doctor. sympathizA with her.
 or. and Mrs Huston wrre for merly of Hipp"ner, Oregon they Were married five years ago and lately resided at Juneau Alaska. before accepting the position for the summer on the government hospital boat
 We recommend that a doctor as efficient IS Dr Huston for he medi cal boat for the next year. or bet ter still We would suggest that a doctor and hospital corps be locat- ed at Mountain Village
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fore anyone could reach him fe was seen to go down IL was in the strong current, so in the muddy Yukon water il is q very difficult matter to know where to locate his body The vessel searched for four hours then proceeded on to Noun tain Village and Hamilton to let us know and to consult what might b., the next best move to make,
 IL was decided for the hospital boat to leave at once aitd visit eN- cry fish camp between Mountain Village and Hamilton. Mir. Town send the Fish Commissioner. who was al Hamilton. agreed To go 10 the South Mouth of the Yukon and give the news for everybody to be on the watch for the body MT Frank Dufrense the game warden, was also at Hamilton. so they and other boats were to keep on the lookout for the doctor
 Mir Sickles. the writer returned to Mountain Village at S:3o A. M. Monday and found that tie medl- cal boat had also returned. Mrs Huston the doctors wife thought she should return, that her hus- band might be found On Sun day he medical boat crew put up
 
 q marker with q flag on and had q short service close to where the doctor went down, after which Mrs Huston felt better. as she had done everything human that could be done to find her husband She left his clothes at Mountain Nill- age in case he is found so that he might be buried as best as can he under the circumstances. The medical boat returned to Mountain
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-23

New York. July 22. (P,-Rip tearing Jack Dempsey of old, "came back" to the ring yesterday in one of the most spectacular fights in the history of pugilism, winning a chance to regain his lost crown of heavyweight champion of the world.
 Rallying after his wobbly start. Dempsey bored through Sharkey's defense with terrific right hook to the pit of the stomach which doubled up Sharkey, and then with a crashing left to the jaw brought the Boston giant down.
 Suddenly, from somewhere, Demp- sey had gained new store of stamina. and approached his old speed. accuracy and. power, fiaying his younger rival with growing power.
 The telling blow to the stomach which won the fight. was so close that Sharkey and his supporters insisted that it was foul, but Dr. William Walker. of the New York
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-23
SIXTH ROUND

Dempsey rushed, both missed lefts. Sharkey landed solid right to the jaw. Dempsey missed left but came steadily on ram ming the body. They bobbed at each other until Sharkey jerked Dempsey's head with a fierce right uppercut. Dempsey pushed Shark ey to the ropes and caught three blows to his head and as Sharkey came out Sharkey deliberately poked Dempsey after the bell.
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kOTZEBUE DOING>

Kotzebue. July 23. Game War den Miukier arrived in kotzebue yesterday on the Panama and was busy gretting his many old time friendshere Mir and Mrs, Fortsons government teachers from Shung- nak arrived in Kotzebue on the gas boat The Partners. for few days visit here MT. and Mrs Sam Magids arrived in kotzebue from Deering on the Tanana. for few days visit and to look after their business interests here.
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ELEVEN THOUSAND MILE
 FLIGHT CONTEMPLATED

Detroit. July 23. (P,-An air plane flight of eleven thousand miles from Detroit to Wellington. New Zealand. Is the object of Fred erick Giles. an Australian aviator who Is here preparing for his long flight. The distance will be cov- cred in five hops. He hopes to take of early in August in time to reach San Francisco fin time for competi- tion in the Dole Honolulu flight.
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-23

Mountain Village. Alaska. July goth. Special Nugget Service) - First hand details of the death by drowning of Dr. E. R. Huston who evidently slipped overheard from the government Hospital boat on the Yukon River was furnished the Nome Nugget by Leslie C. Sick les. Bureau of Education teacher at White Mountain Following is the story:
 IL was on the lGth day of July at Imp, about 10 miles above Noun tain Village where the doctor fell overheard from the government hospital boat of which he was in charge. looking after the sick and distressed natives of the Yukon sec tion Shortly after dinner the doc or had shaved and was cleaning his teath and all the time he and his wife were having their fun fool ing and going forward and aft of tile SHlD. He tpoh anu sNuH'- .ho<- ee noted their having good time otif did not think anything of it or even note when the doctor went overheard.
 The captain of ;he vessel says he wanted to go below and called the chief to the wheel in order to get his land marks and in looking hack h. saw somebody in the water about one quarter of mile back. Thinking it was the cook he rang the bell and immediately turned the boat around and quickly the cook and Supt. Mozee had the life boat in the water and began rowing towards the doctor.
 Everybody aboard the vessel saw him struggling in the water but be
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-23
TWO NIEXIC.aNS ARRESTED
 FOR CHAPMAN SHOOTING

Vera Cruz. Mexico. July p. (PD-- Reports received from Puerto. Mexico, state that the military au- thorities there have arrested AU- rella Calparro and Generoso Cas- tro believing them to have been implicated in the recent shooting of United States Consul Chapman al Puerto. Mexico. Chapman was tion is now much improved and he is now considered to be out of danger
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-23
DEMPSEY TO REC0mBAT
 TuuNEY FOR GROWN

League Ball Park. Gate receipts were more than a million dollars.
 Jack O'Sullivan was referee.
 The cheering of the crowd broke loose and the crowd rose to it's feet as Dempsey entered. Another wild burst arose when Sharkey enter ed. The Boston boy went to Dem psey's corner and snarled into his ear something which the crowd did not hear. Dempsey barely turned his head.
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-23

PARIS, July g, (P,-FriendS close to Prince Carol said that he had not given up the idea of sue ceeding King Ferdinand to the Rumanian throne, and published an announcement which he termed "king Carol of Rumania' remained unexpla ined as it was too late for arest Detectives who have been watching the Prince have with drawn The Rumanian Legation said that he must not go to Ru- mania.
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-23

Yankee Stadium. N. Y., July 21 R-Under a blue-gray sky that apparently held some threat of rain. early arrivals began pouring into the stadium two hours before Dempsey and Sharkey were sched- uled to enter the ring.
 The first preliminary bout ended quickly when Joe Motte. of Brock ton, Massachusetts. knocked out Frank Muskie, of St. Paul. in the second round of scheduled six round match.
 Jimmy Byrne. of Louisville. Ky, won a six round decision from Tom Savers, of Detroit, as the second preliminary match.
 Sandy Seifert, veteran Pittsburgh heavyweight. won g six round decis- ion over Wyoming Warner of Chey- enne. The crowd booted the yer diet.
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-23

Belgrade, July 21. tP,-The Ru- manian Government has wired for mer Prince Carol the news of his fathers death, and telling him that the Rumanian government is firmly decided with respect to the decis- nunciation of the throne and es- tablshing the regency oi his young son Prince Michael
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key around the ring punching his body. Sharkey landed five blows to the face. Dempsey's right eye bleeding badly. Dempsey lifted Sharkey's head with an uppercut Sharkey missed an uppercut and took smashing lefts. Sharkey miss ed frequently. sharkey on the de- fensive. though plugging away to the body.
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-23

Yankee Stadium, N. Y.. July Fl R)-Jack Dempsey staged . sen- sational comeback by knocking out Sharkey in the seventh round of a scheduled fifteen round match before a mad crowd of eighty-two thousand persons. Sharkey took ten blows from Dempsey's vicious right. The sailor claimed . foul to the midsection but the referee disallowed it.
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-23
FIFTH ROUND

Sharkey jabbed to the head but caught left hook on the nose and spit blood Sharkey landed a right uppercut and straight to the head and Dempseys left cheek but Dempsey bor.i back again throw ing rights to the body. sut taking four lefts to his head The sailor wObbled when he took a solid left and was driven to the corner with another left but came out slug ging
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-23
SECOND ROUND

Sharkey drove Dempsey to the ropes with right jabs to the jaw. Dempsey fought to the body but laid heavy on the clinches and swapped jolts to the ribs. Sharkey drove Dempsey to the ropes with short right jolts to the jaw, Shar- key rocking Dempsey with blows to the chin. Dempsey landed two with the right and left as the gong sounded.
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-23

BOSTON, July g. (P)-Over eargerness to catch glimpse of Lindbergh, caused a lone death and forty injuries. A thirty-three year old man dropped dead from excite ment in the crowd at the field. were carried from the grounds and at present the hospitals are over crowded.
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SEVENTH ROUND

Dempsey weaving again. Shark ey held on as fire grew hot. Demp- sey fattened Sharkey with a right. Dempsey whipped his head into Sharkey's stomach and followed with straight right smash flat tening Sharkey to his knees. and at the count of nine Sharkey sway ed and fell on his face. Sharkey's handlers claimed that the blow was a foul but the referee disal- lowed the contention. The round lasted forty-hve seconds.
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-23
DEMPSEY STAGES RIP
 ROARING COMEBACK

State Boxing Commission, after an examination. said that it was not too low blow.
 Sharkey said: "It was all right as long as he stuck to banging me around the hips, but when he dropped them lower
 .'I'm not discouraged. I'll be fighting when Dempsey is gray haired
 Dempsey is deliriously happy over his victory. He said: "I knew I'd win. That reception when en- tered the ring lifted me up and made me fight harder. give lots of credit to Sharkey. He's very tough. rugged boy and mighty stiff boxer. He is one of the clev- crest heavyweights I ever faced. :"
 New York. July P. R,-Motion picture operators and laboratory men who developed the official motion pictures of the big Demp- sey-Sharkey fight today announced that the films show that the dis
The Nome nugget., 1927-07-23
THIRD ROUND

smarkey opened small cut un- der Dempsey's left eye. Dempsey landed long left to Sharkey's stomach. and took two uppercuts as he swayed at close quarters. Dempsey landed two rights to the chin and started a body attack. Dempsey whipped . right uppercut but caugh a wicked right to his jaw. Sharkey bored in two lefts. Sharkey slipped and fell but came up without a count
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FIRST ROUND

Dempsey started hammering in short rights in repeated attack: Sharkey started landing left hooks to the head and took a few on the ribs. The left hooks made Demp- sey groggy. and he was reeling around under the fusilade of Shar- keys smashing rights.
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BUENos AIRES.

BUENOs AIRES. July 2s. R
 Bombs exploded tonight at the base of the George Washington monument. which was presented by the American Colony, destroyed the pedastal and knocked down