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Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30
TH|RTY-THREE
| n R ACE At
|ND|ANAPOL
BY WINTHROP LYMAN
United Press Staff Correspondent

INDIANAPOLIS, May 80. =
Thirty-three fleet little automobiles
poised at the starting line today,
ready to compete in one of Amer
ica's premier sporting eventc, the
22nd annual 500-mile Memorial day
race.
At the end of the long grind over
the treacherous, bumpy, two and
one-half mile brick oval, fame and
fortune await the winner.
Cash prizes totaling 100000 will
be distributed among the partici-
pants, with the indianapolis Speed
way offering $4,000 to the winner.
Lap prizes and subsequent adver-
tising contracts will net the cham
pion additional thousands.
Attracted by indications Of a new
speed record and the ever-present
possibility of spectacular smash
ups, the largest crowd to witness
the race in four years converged on
the newly whitewaShed speedway.
Officials prepared for 100000 per-
sons.
| Hotels and rooming-houses were
filled to capacity. Early arrivals set
up temporary camps near the speed
way, cooking their meals with blow
! torches, alcohol stoves and open
fires. Automobiles furnished uncom-
| Portable beds for hundreds who ar
rived too late to find other accomo-
dations.
Big Bill RAIDER, former race dri-
yer, was scheduled to roar away
from the starting line at 10 a. m.
| est, in his pacemaker leading the
80 cars around the track.
After one lap he will pull onto
the apron and Col. Roscoe Turner,
holder of many airplane speed rec
ords, will flag the cars into the
gruelling race.
Only one former winner. Louis
Meyer, Huntington Park, Calf, was
among the 33 drivers who survived
the stringent qualifying tests.
Meyer and Tommy Milton are
the only drivers to win the 500
mile race twice, and the present
champion is out to set an all-time
record by roaring across the finish
line first for the third time. Meyer
established a course record last
year when he averaged 104.1S2 miles
an hour.
In the front row of today's race
were Kelly Petillo, Los Angeles, who
won the pole position by averaging
119.329 miles an hour in his Red
Lion special, A Miller four: Wilbur
Shaw, Indianapolis, driving Lion
Head special, and Frank Brisko,
Milwaukee, with four-wheel drive
Miller.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30
GERMAN NET
STAR WINNER

PARIS, May 80. U.R-Cilly Aus
sem, German woman net star. de-
feated Kay Stammers of Great
Britain, Ga, 6-2, today in the
quarter final round of the French
hard court championships, winning
the right to meet Peggy Scriven
of England, defending champion,
in the semi-finals.
Helen Jacobs, American women IS
champion, and Sarah Palfrey of
Boston entered the doubles semi
finalsw hen they defeated the
French team of Mrs. Howard Me-
taxa and Colette Rosenberg, 6-3,
1-6, Ga.
Elizabeth Can, former Califor-
nian, and Simone Mathieu of
France also earned a doubles semi
finals when they defeated the
English team of Evelyn Dearman
and Nancy Lyle 8-1O, 6-3, 6-3.
Australians dominated the men IS
doubles semi-finals, the teams of
Jack Crawford and Pat MacGrath
advancing with Don Turnbull and
Adrian Quist. Crawford and Mac
Grath defeated the Italian team
of Destenani and Taroni, 6-2, 60,
6-2.
Turnbull and Quist beat Harry
Hopman also of Australia, and DR..
Daniel Prem of Germany, Ga,
So, 2-6, Us.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30
BY HENRY McLEMORE

On1ted PreSS Starr correspondent
LONDON, May 30. An Elk drum
and bugle corps had always been
tops with me as a spectacle until
today when, from perch on Queen
Victoria'S monument was about
on the gracious old lady's bustle-
I saw the changing of the guard at
Buckingham palace.
I still think the Elk drum and
buglers are swell, but I've got to ad-
init the palace guards could spot
them miles of gold braid, hundred
yards of chest expansion, and fiji
teen snare drums, and still make
'em look like the bonus army after
days forced marching.
AS a matter of fact, one Irish
guardsman saw was more impress
sive than an entire Elk lodge. He
had on everything but a live chick
en-, and that bulge under his coat
probably was a Rhode Island Red
rooster for extra special occasions.
This fellow, alone, could have out
fitted masquerade party of 200
and still had enough left to rate a
captaincy in the Mexican army. One
look at him and you knew why the
British are such good scldiers-an
ordinary bullet would be awed by
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30
Miller Winner
OUer Casanova

LOS ANGELES, May 30 U.P) -
Freddie Miller of Cincinnati, N. B.
A. featherweight champion, scored
an indisputable decision over Baby
Casanova, Mexican idol. in brisk
10-rounder last night at the Olym-
pic. Miller's title was not at stake.
The Cincinnati German scored a
clean cut victory by staging a whirl-
wind finish. The Mexican's best
round was the fourth when he
closed the champions right eye with
a two-fisted attack. Miller evened
the count in the sixth by flooring
his opponent for no-count.
1t was Casanova's first start as a
featherweight and marred his BAN
tamweight record which included
eight knockout victories in IL fights.
Miller scaled 1877 and Casanova
1861.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30
League To Open
Late Next Year

LOS ANGELES, May 80. U.P) =
Los Angeles club owners were agree
ably surprised today by the ready
acceptance of their proposal to ad-
vance the Pacific Coast league op-
ening date next year from March 26
to April 2.
Angel officials asked for the later
date to permit them to book exhi-
bition games with the Chicago Cubs
and White Sox and the Pittsburgh
Pirates, but scarcely expected other
Coast League clubs to agree TO the
postponement in view of their gen.
eral hostility to exhibition games.
Rival club owners, however, readily
accepted the later date, it was an
nOunced.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30
HOPE To CURB
PARALYSIS At
Los ANGELES

LOS ANGELES, May 30. U.p)-
City and county health authorities
united today in an intensive battle
to check an outbreak of infantile
paralysis.
With the peak of the epidemic
set at a month or six weeks away,
215 cases were reported under close
observation. DR.. J. L. Pomeroy,
county health officer, said the
peak likely will be reached between
July / and July is. So far no
deaths have been reported.
Alarmed over the outbreak, the
county board of supervisors voted
a special appropriation of $205, 200
for the employment of special
nurses, physicians and the pur-
chase of needed supplies.
Many cases were lacking hospi-
talization. DR.. Pomeroy dispatched
II nurses to remote districts in
the county and announced he will
assign 48 sanitary inspectors to
prevent accumulation of unwashed
milk bottles, to determine the
chlorine content of swimming pools
and to close all wading pools, be-
lieved to be breeding places for
the virus.
Although school authorities are
not planning to close schools at
this time. Frank A. Bouelle, city
superintendent. ordered ban
against all assemblies in element
ary schools and urged special pre-
caution in the serving of school
dinners. Some schools closed
their cafeterias.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30

his finery, and detour. Another look
and you knew why the king was
safe with such guards. Nobody
would shoot king when they could
plug one of those guardsmen. What
trophies they'd make for den!
They'd rate the PLAGUE directly
above the elephants head.
Curious to know what it felt like
to wear such an outfit, I slid down
Victoria's legs and tagged along
after the outgoing guards to their
barracks. I wanted to catch one off
duty having already learned that you
might just as well talk to sphinx
|; with lockjaw as try to talk to one
while he was giving off guarding. 1t
was one of these same guards, you
will remember, who, standing out
side st. James palace one night
watched a burglary across the street
without uttering sound or moving
from attention. And another, when
an automobile accident killed four
persons ten feet in front of him
didn't move out of his tracks.
Off duty, however, they're all
right. Soon as they reached the bar
racks, they beat it for fatigue uni
form. Fatigue is right, after carry
ing around all that haberdeshery.
find that the guards like all the
items of their equipment with the
exception of the Busby hats 1t re-
quires two adult bears and three ad-
descent bears to get enough fur for
Busby. tried one on anj they
weigh about the same as Baldwin
locomotive with medium sized en-
gineer at throttle), and would heat
like a fireleSS cooker.
1 must go now. The pubs open at
five and I must have my tea.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30
BAKERS TAKE
MEASURE Of
GOLDEN STATE

A brisk, cool wind which blew in
, over the valley from the coast last
: night failed to cool the bats of the
Cramer Bakery sluggers as they
pounded out ga victory over the
hapless Golden State outfit. This
enabled Cramers to pull UP even with
the Studebakers for the league lead
ership and gives promise of tough
: times ahead when the real battle
for supremacy starts.
The Bakers started right in to put
. the game away in the first inning
by scoring two runs when Tackett,
making his first appearance in the
iCramer lineup, smacked one out
of the lot for a home run scoring
Lynn Stewart ahead of him They
added another in the second, one in
the fourth, another in the fifth,
three in the sixth and finished off
with two more in the ninth frame.
The Creamery boys kept plugging
along in adding up their fetal Of
four runs, no two of which came in
the same inning. They tailed one in
: the second, fourth, seventh and
eighth innings, and just didn't seem
to be able to get under way with
much success.
Valverde was the big gun in the
Baker offensive with thre hits out
of four trips to the plate, while
Smith was credited with two bingles
out of four tries. For the losers,
Porte with two out of three led in
the batting. Lynn Stewart was in
excellent form as far as the strike
out totals show, 16 of the Staters
being whitfield but he issued seven
bases on balls during the contest.
Ferris, who twirled for the Cream
cry team famed eight and issued
the same number of passes.
< Tonight Cox Brothers Grocers
and Maggio's Fat Boys will meet in
the last game for this week. A VIC
tory for the former will put them
into a three-way tie for first place
and insure a real contest out of at
what at first had appeared to be a
walkaway. Teams in lower positions
have shown an aptitude to upset
the leaders and this might happen
again tonight. .f.
n Tho hOv ccOre. r.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30
ATTACK MADE
ON UTILITIES
BY STEWART
SACRAMENTO, May 90. U,p)

SACRAMENTO, May 90. U.H -
Fred E. Stewart, militant member
sof the state board of equalization,
signalized the start of his re-elec-
ton campaign today by launching
an attack on public utilities, which
he characterized as "Calf!ornia's S
most notorious tax-dodgerc."
Pledging himself to do his part
toward seeing that power corpora
tions carried their share Of the tax
burden" Stewart announced his
candidacy on a platform promising
protection of rights of common
property owners, real estate and
general property from new and
crushing tax burdens, opposition to
the advalorem tax, the single tax
and any scheme which would tend
to impose additional burdens on
the common property taxpayer"
Stewart, the most outspoxen of
the four members of the board, was
co-author of the Riley-Stewart tax
plan which shifted the load of edu-
cational costs from counties to the
state, relieved property owners of a
tax load and authorized the legisla-
ture to adopt sales tax to finance
educational costs.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30
PACIFIC COAST
LEAGUE GAMES

The ability of the Los Angeles
Angels to come from behind in the
closing innings has much to do with
the position the Angels hold in the
Pacific Coast league, In which they
occupy first place by 10 full games.
The Garrison finish the Angels
have put on in many contests this
year manifested itself again yester-
day when they found themselves
five runs behind in the eighth iu-
ming of their contest with the Hol-
lywood Stars.
without further ceremony, the
champions fell on Densmorc, Holly
wood hurler for three runs in that.
frame and added three more In the
ninth to exc out narrow 7-6 VIC
tory. Homers we're hit by Smead
Jolley of the Stars and Gillie Camp
bell of Los Angeles.
Wayne Osborne, young hurler of
the Mission Reds, displayed the best.
pitching of the day in defeating the,
San Francisco Seals, Al. Osborn
gave only five hits in duel with
Sam Gibson, veteran Seals mounds
man. Each team had four errors.
Home runs dominated the night
game in which Sacramento defeated
Seattle, and 7. Kampouris and Os-
| tenberg for the winners and Botta-
rini and Lawrence of the home club
had circuit blows.
Portland opened the new week
with a 1916 win over the skidding
Oakland club. Clabaugh, the Beav-
ers' new outfielder, hit homer in
the second inning. Blackberry dupli-
Gated the feat two innings later.
Bryan was the winning pitcher.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30
Here And There
In Sport World
BY United Press

LOS ANGELES, May 30. = Os-
car Rankins, coast middleweight
champion, and Indian Jimmy Riv-
ers of Fresno have signed to meet
in a 10-round bout at the Olympic
here June 5, matchmaker Tom
Gallery announced today.
The scrap will be a supporting
event to the Peter Jackson-Kid
Azteca feature bout.
LOS ANGELES, May 30-Wilbur
Lamoreaux, Pasadena Frenchman,
pocketed major honors in the mot
orcycle racing program at Moto
speedway last night by winning a
match race from Jack Milne and a
four lap scratch event. In the lat
ter race. he finished ahead Of Byrd
Mckinney and Milne in that order.
Mckinney won the final handicap.
ASBURY PARK, N. j., May 80.
observers at Make Baer's train
ing camp have been impressed
with his improved condition dur
ing the last couple of work outs.
His performance during an indoor
session before a large crowd evok-
ed much favorable comment from
such notables as Jack Johnson,
former heavyweight champion; j.
Hamilton Lorimer of California,
Baer's first manager; Max Wax
man, manager of Vince Dundee,
middleweight champion; Gus Will
son, famous trainer; Manager Ray
Carlin and his lightweight chal-
lenger, Frankie Klick. Make bat
tered severely four sparring mates,
Dynamite Jackson, Ciel Harris, Ray
Lazer and AL TrulmanS.
POMPTON LAKES, N. j., May
30.-Heavyweight champion Primo
Carnera worked out yesterday be-
fore several hundred spectators in
preparation for his title defense
against Make Baer on June IA.
He appeared in peak form against
Yustin Struts, Salvatore Ruggier-
clio and Corn Griffin.
LONG BEACH, Calf, May 80. =
Twelve races were on tap for Mem
orial day motorboat racing fans at
Olympic marine stadium heer today
The races we're divided into five
outboard classes and drew more
than SO entrants. Leading contend
ers for feminine honors included
Loretta Turnbull of Monrovia, Set
Rutland of Alhambra, and Ruby
Meade of Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, May 30.-Golfers
who swarm to California in quest
of winter riches each year will find
a new $4,000 prize to shoot at next
January, it was learned today.
The Oakmont club will offer a
perpetual trophy and cash prizes to
the eight leaders of 72-hole tour
nament of medal play. The leaders
will draw opponents for match play
will run three days. Winner will re-
ceive $1,000, the runner-up $3.50, and
the two losing semi -flnalists, $375
each.
w. w. Crenshaw, club leader, has
donated the trophy and guaranteed
the prize money.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30
Leuinsky Able To
Talk If Not Box

LOS ANGELES, May 80. U.p) :
King Levinsky, Chicago heavy
weight, was back in town today,
oratorically if not physically ready
to proceed with his fight with Art
Lasky at the Olympic June IL.
The fish peddler who backed out
of the scrap two weeks ago and re-
treated post haste to Chicago an
nounced upon his return that he
was fit.
II was a sick man when I left but
I'm not sick any more" said he. "I
will knock Lasky into the Pacific
ocean,"
Lena Levinsky, his sister and CO.
manager, accompanied him from
Chicago.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30
GIANTS NEAR
SECOND PLACE

NEW YORK, May 80. (U.2)-Bill
Terrys champion Giants, having
repelled western invaders 70 the
tune of seven wins and four de-
feats, advanced yesterday to within
one percentage point of the second
place Pirates in the National league
standing by shading their metropol-
itan rivals, the Dodgers, to 3.
Boston beat the Phillies, 6 to 4
aided by four run spurt in the
seventh and a triple play in the Sec
ond. It was the first triple play
made by the Braves at Boston in
seven years. Jefferies lined to Pit
cher Frankhouse with runners on
first and second. Frankhouse threw
to Jordan for the double ard Uban-
ski caught Jordan's throw to re-
tire the side.
They were the only National
league games scheduled.
In the American circuit, the Red
Sox wrested sixth place from the
Athletics by beating them 2 to l in
a game called after the seventh be-
cause of rain. Johnny WEIGH linn
tied the AS to two hits, one of
which was Bob Johnsons homer in
the first. Singles by Larry, Welch and
Werber accounted for the winning
Red Sox tally in the fifth
Leading Cleveland blanked the
White Sox, to 0, behind Mel Har-
der's five hit pitching. This gave
the Indians nine wins in their last
IL starts.
Hal Trosky contributed an Indian
homer in the fourth.
Fifth place st. Louis boosted its
percentage back to 500 by trounc-
ing Detroit, IL to z. Ray Pepper
drove in five Brownie runs with two
homers and three singles in five
trips. His mate Cliff also hit for the
circuit as did Gehringer, Goslin and
Walker of the Tigers.
No other games were scheduled.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30
Ell CENTRIC NIGHTBALL LEAGUE

Last Nights Results
Cramer Bakery 9, Golden State 4
Tonight's Game
Cox Brothers VS.. Fat Boys.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30
sonnenberg Married In Court

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. W.H =
Gus Sonnenberg, former heavy
weight wrestling champion, had
the distinction of being the first
and last man to be married in the
local superior court room. On
complaint of residents the we'd
ding and attendant publicity was
not in keeping with the dignity Of
the court, the county commission
ers banned such ceremonies in the
future.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30

Grain crops in parts of Mont
Grey county are promising but in
other sections will not be good
enough to cut.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30
Baseball Standings
AMERICAN LEAGUE
BY
ART KRENZ

Yesterdays Results
Cleveland S, Chicago 0.
Boston 2, Philadelphia /.
st. Louis IL, Detroit Z.
Only games scheduled.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30
COAST LEAGUE

Yesterdays Results
Los Angeles 7, Hollywood 6.
Portland 10, Oakland 6.
Missions 4, San Francisco g
Sacramento 8, Seattle Z.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30

The Jesus Maria ranch, Lompoc,
Santa Barbara county, has less feed
than at any time in the last 30
years.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Yesterdays Results
New York 4, Brooklyn 3.
Boston 6, Philadelphia 4.
Only games scheduled.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30

The Lindsay ripe olive associa-
ton, Tulare county, recently paid
its members $27000 on their last
years crop.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30

Glenn county has $700 fund to
be used fer control of blackbirds in
rice fields.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-30

OldHleIS ...............'Hlo tto W.
Golden State ...010 010 110-4 3 2
Struck out-by Stewart 16, by
Ferris 8; bases on balls-off Stew
art 7, off Ferris 8; homo runs
Tackett, Smith; two-base hits-Val-
verde, Smith.
Evening star., 1934-05-25
Red Ants Do a Nose-Dive.

lost of the picnickers had their
VI shirts on the Red Ants, and
the air was filled with shouts of
"vive les rougesl" and two bits to a
buck on the noir!" (These are Gallo
terms perculiar to ant-fighting) The
chagrin and astonishment of the
crowd was intense, therefore, when IL
of the Reds got in line at the sound
of the gong and marched out OF the
rink in single file. The remaining
three, after looking about them con-
fusedly, dug their heads into the sand
and waved their hind limbs, the
equivalent among ants of tossing in
the towel.
"All bets are off, announced two
of the judges.
The third voted for an investiga-
ton, and Charles Loper, owner of the
IL absconding Red Ants, was ques-
toned at the point of piece of lethal
cutlery.
You could knock, me down with a
feather" he said. Il don't know why
those ants should cross me up after
the way I've treated them. They've
been like IL children to me, honest"
Evidence was adduced, however, to
show that Loper had trained his ants
for weeks before the fight to perform
Evening star., 1934-05-25
RATHER is SIGNED
TO FIGHT FELDMAN
Newark Featherweight to Meet
Brooklynite in Feature at
Riding and Hunt Club.

TR RNIE RATHER, Newark, N. j..
l.. featherweight. will fight Lew
Feldman of Brooklyn in the 10
round feature of the Riding and Hunt
Club boxing show next Monday. The
show will be Washington's first legal
professional affair
Rather was signed last night in
Newark by Matchmaker Goldie
Ahearn, who was forced to seek foe
for Feldman after Charlie Won
Reedon. declaring his hand was too
sore to use in a bout. refused to go
through with his tilt with Feldman.
One of Ratner's victims was Charley
Conner. the hard-hitting Baltimore
lightweight. who will oppose joey
Costa in the second hereunder on
the card.
Ray Bowen and Pete Gulotta will
meet in an eight t-rounder. while Dea-
con Owen and Earl Dunlap will open
the show with a four-rounder.
Evening star., 1934-05-25

Scouts in California inform me that this
big and lovable batrachian was a 7-to-5 choice
in field of more than 20 frogs His victory
was protested on Al counts the average num-
Der. couple of years ago, when Grenouille
won the title for the first time, the rival owners
protested the decision on 56 counts, which Is
something Of a record.
Protesting the decision Is a formal and
traditional procedure in frog-jumping. ant
fighting and roach-racing, on account Of the
terrific amount of crookedneSS and foul play
to be found in all three sports. Roach owners
assert, with a pardonable pride, that no con-
test can be framed more ways than a reach
race. Frog owners. in rebuttal point out that
the crookedness, of their pastime was immor-
talized by Mark Twain in his story of the cele-
Evening star., 1934-05-25
RIFLISTS START FIRING
Small-Bore Tournament Is Being
Held at Camp Simms.

Small-Bore Tournament Is Being
Held at Camp Simms.
Firing was to open today at Camp
Simms in the Middle Atlantic small
bore rifle tournament, sponsored by
the National Capital Rifle Club, in
cooperation with the District of
Columbia National Guard Many
leading shots of the East and South
were on hand for the competition.
The tourney will continue tomorrow
and Sunday, with 10 matches and
fine re-entry events on the schedule.
Main contests carded today were
the National Capital free rifle cham
pionship and the individual woman's
title event, both listed this afternoon.
The District of Columbia Guard. un-
der the direction of Col. John w. Och
man and Capt j. c. Jensen, has
built a special range at Camp Simms
with 100 firing points. Capt. Jensen
has been named chief range officer,
with Lieut.. Everett, also of the Dis
trict of Columbia Guard, as his as
sistant. The National Capital Club
is handling the statistics. with Ralph
H Mccarthy as chief executive Off
Ger, assisted by Frank T. Parsons,
jr., and T. G. Arnold.