The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-25
Wimbledon Tourney Opens;
Two Boxing Bouts At
tract Attention.
RISKo MEETS GODFREY
Loughran, Emanuel ir
Scrap Thursday Night.
BY GEORGE KIRKSEY
United Press staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, June 25.-This
week will be a comparatively
quiet one in the sporting world
as compared to last week S
dizzy succession of events.
The all-England tennis cham
pionships started at Wimbledon, to-
day, with Helen Wills defending her
women's singles title and William
T. Tilden striving to detrone Henri
Cochet, the former ball boy of
Lyons, France, as mons singles
champion.
The twice postponed George God
frey Johnny Risko heavyweight bout
will be held Wednesday night at
Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, and Tommy
Loughran, light heavyweight cham
pion, will meet Armand Emanuel,
the young San Francisco barrister,
in a non-title bout at Madison
Square Garden Thursday night.
Aside from these events and the
usual baseball battles, this week has
no other noteworthy sporting events
on the program.
A resume of last weeks happen
ings reveals one sensational per-
Torrance after another in all
branches of sport.
Two Crew Champs
Two new champions were crowned
in rowing. The University of Cali
fornia won the intercollegiate row.
ing championship. of America by de-
feating Columbia, 1927 champions,
in a thrilling race at Poughkeepsie,
breaking a 27-year-old record for
the four-mile race. The new record
set by California is 18 minutes 50 As
seconds.
Yale defeated Harvard on the
Thames at New London by ten
lengths in Americas oldest inter
collegiate sporting event.
Johnny Farrell, long-famed as
COLTS best dressed player, won his
first open golf championship by de-
feating Bobby Jones one up in the
36-hole playoff at Olympia Fields,
Chicago, Sunday, after they had
tied with 294s for the tournament
proper.
Walker Keeps Title
Mickey Walker, middleweight
champion, retained his title by win
ming the decision from Ace Hud-
kins in a fierce ten-round bout in
the rain at Comiskey Park, Chi
cago.
Jimmy McLarnin scored another
sensational one-round knockout
and jumped back into the spotlight
as the leading challenger for Sam
my Mandells lightweight crown.
McLarnin knocked out Phil Nc
Graw for the first time in the De-
troit Greeks career, the referee
stopping the bout after minutes,
As seconds. McGraw was knocked
down four times.
The New York Yankees lest their
first series of the year and their
first double-header since May %,
1926, when the Boston Red Sox
beat them twice Saturday. to
and to l. Babe Ruth hit home
runs No. rs and q Saturday and
home run No. % Sunday. putting
him far ahead of his 1927 record.
He did not hit No. % until July 9
last year.
ROush Jumps Giants
Ed Roush, veteran outfelder,
Jumped the New York Giants, VOW
ing he would retire from baseball,
rather than be spied upon. Roush
claims that Roger Bresnahan, act
ing manager of the Giants, had him
Swallowed by hired sleuths. McGraw
has been away from the Giants
since his accident at Chicago.
T'ilden won the all-London tennis
title by defeating Francis T. Hunter
in three straight sets.
F. J. Cuhel, University of Iowa
track captain, bettered the worlds
record for the 200 meter hurdles by
running that event in 53.4 seconds
at Iowa City, Saturday. The record
is 53.8 seconds, set by Peterson of
Sweden in 1925.