Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 193, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1922 — Page 12

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Many Feature State High School Basket-ball Tilts Tonight and Saturday

By VEDDER GARD LOTS of action is promised over thè week-end for thè followers of liigh school basket-ball Many feature games are schedule! out over thè State between thè strongest of thè prep fives. Locai interest naturally oenters on Manual's tilt with Columbus tonight and thè opening of Tech’s season with Logansport at thè “Y” Saturda3 T . Cathedral plays Zionsville at thè Shortridge gym thè same night.

INDIAI TEIS PICK OP SPECO FORBII IMS Butler, Franklin and Wabash Show Promise of Strong Fives - Notre Dame Loses. Getting u’’der headwav—that’s thè word. All of thè college net teams of he State are gradually picking up -peed for thè important gair.es to ome a little later in thè winter schedule. Butler showed some of its speed and basket getting ability of last sea■;on in thè Dentai game Thursdav. whicli was won in easy fashion, 51 to 16. Griggs, Lesile and Hooker looked good and Wally Middlesworth rambled over thè floor and threw a wrench into thè Dent scoring tnaehine. Hooker got seven tield goals, Griggs six and Leslie five. That was plenty scoring for one evening. Frankhn put on steam at thè start with thè former Franklin High School i-ombination in thè game and ran up a 23-to-4 count against Hanover as thè first peri>d ended. N'umerous substitutes were made in thè final half and thè tilt ended, 37 to 15, in favor of thè Baptist?. Wabash. on its holiday trip, showed iots of class at Oakland City College and won. 53 to li*. Long Boy Chadwick at center for thè Scarlet dropped in nine baskets from thè field. Thorn helped pile up thè total with live. Xotre Dame on its Illinois trip lost .in over-time game to Illinois Univercity, 41 to 38. At thè end of thè regul&tion forty mìnutes thè count was tied at 35 apiece. Enright for Xotre Dame got five goals from thè field and tossed in six fouls. Stilwell, thè lanky center of thè Ullni, couìd not be stoppe! and put rhe ball through thè hoop eight times. De Pauw bumped into thè strong Marquette five in Milwaukee Thursday night and thè Cream City boys won, 25 to 16. Marquette previouslv had defeated Butler and apparently has a team that is going tc get somewhere this season. De Pauw beat Beloit on its Wiscon~in invasion Wednesday and tne Tiger players were somewhat fatigued when they stacked up agairist Marquette Thursday. COLORED ‘Y’ CLASHES WITH DEFENDER SQUAD The colored T. M. C. A : team will , bave its fìrst importar. .:et game >f thè honif season wh- eets thè Chicago Defenders tot; ? - • thè colored **Y.” The locals lost to thè De fender? earlv in thè season at Chicago, 23 to 20, but promise a reversai of that count this evening. Baxter has been re-elected captain of thè locals and believes he has sufficlent talent of class to capture thè colored State and Mici-West titles. The Chicago Defenders were Mi d-West •hamps last season and national ,-hamps thè vear previous.

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The really big contests are not for this city, however. The Frank - fori team, which has won nine straight games, meets one of thè toughest foes it can find when Bloomington is entertained tonight. Coach Case has developed a reai outfit at Frankfort that is worthy of thè fine new gym In which they play. Oliver at forward has been hard to stop by thè opposition and Cummins at center has plenty of naturai ability. The Bloomington team ls good year aster year and Coach

BUD TAYLOR AND PAL MOORE READY FOR SCRAP M?et On Board The C. S. S. Commodore In Chicago. Bud Taylor, pride of Terre Haute will strut his stuff against Pai Moore aboard thè U. S. S. Commodore at thè foot of Randolph St., tonight in Chi cago. Both boys are anxious to annex this bout and have trained hard. They will go ten rounds. LEfiDERS STAGE OOUBLEPBOGRANI ‘Y’ Boys to Play Mapietons and Tipton Tuesday. Doublé-header basket-ball at thè Y. M. C. A. next Tuesday night. The “Y” leaders are going to try two contests in one evening and a reai battle ìs expected in each performance. The "Y” boys will take on thè Mapietons fìrst and then will come a struggle with thè strong Tipton A. A. team. The Mapietons are made up of former high school stare who have been trained by Coach Evans of ManuaJ. This Ave has been winning by big scores and w il! be all set to give thè Leaders stiff opposition, The Tipton quintet was beateli by thè Leaders recently and thè up-Staie iais are coming lown here determined to even thè count. Last year thè Tipton players had al big season. numbering among theìr victims thè New York Xationals. Cincinnati Celta, Ft. Wayne, Bluffton, Hartford City and thè Em-Roes. The “Y” Leaders have been ciganized four years and last year won 33 out of 37 games, They were city and sectional indepcndent eh.impions and were runners-up in thè national amateur tourney at Kansas Cif'. In thè national meet they plaved five days and defeated Colorado College, Denver University, Winfield College and Cooper College of Kansas. Starbuck, forward, was chosen alltourney forward at Kansas City and was high-point man tljere. The Leaders are coached by R. B. (Shorty) Morrison. CIBBONS IS WILLING TO BATTLE CHAMPION Tommy Ready to Accept Any Terms, He Asserts. ST. PAUL, Dee. 22. —Tommy Gib- i bons, St. Paul heavyweight, has received an offer from a Xew York promoter to meet Jack Dempsey, he announced. He will accept on any terni? if thè Champion will sign. he said. Indiana-Illinois Billiards Vogler broke even Thursday in two matches with Weston of Decatur 111., in thè Indiana-TUinols ThreeCushion League. Weston won thè afternoon game. 50 to 30. and Vogler thè night contest, 50 to 29. Vogler meets Trusler at thè Occidental Parlor tonight in a State, three-cushion match.

Wakefìeld has another strong aggregation. The contest looks to be one of those thriller? that keeps thè fans on edge. Bloomington meets another reai team in Jefferson of Lafayette in that. city on Saturday. Logansport at Crawfordsville may develop into a worthwhile battle. Crawfordsville is stronger than it is generally given crdit. for and Well’s team will have Its hands full, especially as it plays again on Saturday night in Indianapolis. Vincennes, thè southern flashes,

Conine Mack Exblains Deal for Hate

Prefers to Develop Ball Players Rather Than Buy Them.

Bu XEA Service XEW YORK, Dee. 22.—Oonnie Mack, thè lengthy leader of thè Athletlcs. recently startled thè baseball world by thè purchase of Sani my Hai*, thè coast star, for thè reported price of $75,000. Mack has always had thè reputa tion of paying less for his players than any other man in big league baseball. But Oonnie is nothing if noi shrewd, and times have changeri. He saj*s: “'The days when a ball player c.ould be boughf for a songare gene forever "Conditions in thè baseball world have changed. It has become a big business. Prices of players have steadily risen. Competition between thè big league club? has be-come so keen and thè desire to put over a pennant winner with its attcnd-

TEIIS MIETO SE CLESSED BP Efforts Made to Standardize Rules at London Meet. By I nitrd Setrn LONDON, Dpi'. U2.—The last barrier to America'? participation in thè world tennis Champion ship rnay be romoved in thè presepi oonference ot thè International Tennis Fednration which is trying to standardize thè rules and effect other ehanges. The t'nited States has been unofficially represented in thè world championship in thè past and William T. Tilden won thè title of world Champion. but thè American association did not recognize thè toumament and therefore could noi recognize its own rnan as Champion. The reaaori was that thè tournament was helil perpetually by Wimbledon, England. and thè United States Lawn Tennis Association believed thè tourney should be passed around on a pian rcserabling thè Davis' cup challenge round. Henry J. Slocum. thè American representatlve at thè present conferer.ee, probably will be permttf.ed to make a plea for a change of venue which concession would bring America into thè competition. College Net Results Butler. 51; Dentajs. 18. Franklin. .IT; Hanover. 15. Illinois, 41; Notre Dame, 3S Wabash, 53; Oakland City. 13. Capital City Fi ve. 15; Indiana Central. 13. Marquette, 23; De Pauw, 1 Valparaiso. 40; Orane College, 15

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wbom Coach Adarns again has traveling at a dizzy clip, play Friday and Saturday. The “Alices” do not seem to care howr fast or hard they come. Vincennes is generally being rated as thè strongest. team in thè State at this tinte. Martinsville meets thè Wabash Ri ver boys there on Friday and then Adarns brings his club up to Columbus for a Saturday game. Both contests look Hke victories for thè team that has thè winning hablt. They will be reai struggles just thè same, The Columbus five has lots cf

■ COXXIE MACK ani proftt so great, that lt haa resulted in competitive bidding, with thè player going to thè highesT bldder. "Barri'. Baker, Collins and McInnls, thè tnilliona-dotlar infield, as

Wrestling Card Tonight Mairi Bout Jack Reynolds Indianapolis (145), vs. Walt Keegan, Rochester. X. Y. tl4B> Semi Wimi-up Malcomb Matto, Columbus, vs. Hugh Webb, Indianapolis. Preliminari H. M Mullendore. Franklin, vs. Sani Davis. Indianapolis. Empire Theater. 8:15 p. m. Y. P. C.’S FALL BEFORE LAFAYETTE QUINTET 4 lever tVork Is Feature ot 30 to 25 Game. Invading town with a passili* atrack that canied them to thè City Commercial League championship, thè Y. M. P. C. team of lnd., defeated thè St. Anthony's Y. T*. C. team on thè local's tloor, 30 to 25. The fìrst. half was fast with thè count at. thè half 20 to 7. Cairi was thè brighi light in this half. making tìve field haSkets. In thè second half thè story was different. and thè Y. P. Cs. solvod thè pass plays and with side Una drxbbles and fiashy shots ran thè score up to within one point of a tie, but Lafayette added two more and lt was all over. Grannen. with four baskets. led thè attack. AMATEUR GLOVE BOUTS Three amateur botits are to be held at thè Rroadway Theater tonight aster thè regttlar show performance. They will he three-round affaire. The program follows: Hyman Eskalto and Harry Delks. George Renson and Harold Adkins, Jack Williams and Robert Beali.

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strength, but seeras to have a habit. of playing about threefourths of thè game at top speed and then letting down. This was their downfall at Franklin, and was partly to blame in their overwhelming defeat on their journey to Vincennes a couplc of weeks ago. The score will be closer on thè home flGor. Shelbyville at Bedford is anoth er tilt tonight that brings visions of reai competition. Two of thè best coaches in thè State array their charges against one another in this fray. Campbell at Shelby-

Thinks Hale Will Greatly Strengthen Team’s Weak Spot.

it was called, cost me less than $5,000. “Personally, I prefer to d-velop my own players. The youngters are like my own children to me. I get a lot of pleasure in teaching them thè game, in helping them along. “The team of youngsters 1 have spent thè last few years in dcveloping has reached a point where 1 feel that with but ono additional man I have a pennant contender. "As my policy always has been to have my club about thè sanie age, I haven't thè tinte To go out and develop thè player 1 need “For that reason I feel that i am justified in gambling thè largo amount paid for Hale. If he should malte good, my team will let thè others know tliat they are in thè race."

TiNEY, HIGUS ARE REWIATGHEL Will Clash in New Orleans on Jan. 15. Gene Ttinney, once a Champion among thè American light heavies. will toddle down to Xew Orleans aster ; Christmas to tight Chuck Wiggtns of i Indianapolis, on Jan. 15. Tttnney re rently knocked out Ch.trlle N\ einert and probably will light Tom Glbbons ! of St. Paul soon. Tunney and Chuck tnet in Boston lecently and Tunney won thè twclveround tight on points. Wiggins is in New York now and ; fights Al Roberts next week. Sìdhey Glick, locai bf'xer. is with Wiggins. r ——~—■—-—f Independent Basket-ball The Brookstdr Mideet destre *me In thè 13-14 vear old class aith tesirui hsvinß nr -'ne to gyms. Mayer Chspet. Cnh and Troop 20 take noUes. For same cali Webster 4007. The BrlEhtwood Mtdsels defeated thè Kenvrood Mtdsets st thè Brishtwood SJ'm I *n si (wt jg:?• nif^ t 20 to 10 at th<* h*lf wv l i to fl. Hfaton and Hulse piayed best for thè utnners The vjetorr as thè sTnth consecutive \rm ror Brtshtwood For same addrees I, Sparii. 1317 W. Thirty First ?t.. or cali Kandolpu Tie Brìnhte oihl Indepenrlents lost to thè Ile Molar 32 to 24 The Independent piar thè Second Baptist Dee. .. at thè lat ter a Rjtn. Any city or Stale fesm that a ires game cali Webster OtHH and aak for eneo New Aumisia, Clayton. horttlle. Modem WoodUnen and fast city teams tane notine.

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ville has turned out one of thè best fives in Indiana for thè past few years, only to be defeated in thè sectional by thè Franklin ohampions. It is thè toughest luck t eam in this respect of any of thè prep eonter.ders. This year, if additional sections are made, perhaps thè club will have a better chance to show its stuff in thè regionals and finals. Coach Abbott of Bedford gives thè fans something to talk about each season. The team is always among thè best. They aro thè favorite over Shelbyville tonight.

OWEN IS HIGH LETTER MAN AT HARVARD Ha> Three Each in Hockey, Football and Baseball. Ri/ United Ere** CAMBRIDGE. Mass., Dee. 22. When George Owen, Harvard football star, leaves college next June he will have earned more lettera than any other Harvard man in hlstory. He will have three lettere each in hockey, football and baseball. RENEW RIVALRY IN GLASR HEIE Former Big Ten Stars With Maroons and Omars. When thè Chicago Maroons, an independent five of thè Windy City-, plays thè Indianapolis Ornare at Tomlinson Hall Saturday night net fans are going to see many former stars of Western Conferente teams in action. The Maroons are made up entirely • f former Big Ten phenoms and thè mare have Whito, Miller. Carney nel llinkle from thè ranks of Western unference schools These stars op•sed members of thè Maroons when ,iia.ving for their college fives and thè enervai of thè rivalry is expected to issure a thriller game Saturday. The Saharra Grotto and Gatilng Gun squads will play thè curtain raiser. It is plaxmed to get thè big contest of thè night under way about S:ls. The Omars are negotiating with Marquette University for a game later in thè season. Marquette has defeat - ed Butler and De Pauw this season. Manager Pnckett is endeavoring to get Marquette bere on Xew Year’s night, but. if this rati not Ite arranged Im will try to schedule thè Milwaukee Hilltoppers later In thè season. Capital Beat Central The t'apital City Uve, an independent team, defeated thè Indiana Central Collego squiul at University Heights Thursday night, 15 to 12. The score at thè half was 10 to 2 in favor of thè winnore. Davis was thè star of thè game.

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Lebanon at Franklin tonight. i There’s one to send shlvers down thè spines of thè most. coldblooded. The Lebanon team alwavs fights, and this season holds thè distinction of holding thè high-scoring Vincennes team to a 19-to-16 score. That was some achievement and thè crippled champs must watch their step. The Franklin five set a terrlflc pace last week in thè Columbus set-to. King turned thè tlde in this game, even though his knee was in a brace. But Lebanon

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JOE LYNCH FAVORITE IN BANTIE TITLE GO Champ Takos on Smith Tonight— Gainbling Talk Heard. By United Prese XEW YORK, Dee. 22.—Concemed over unusual activity among thè gambiere thè Xew York State boxing commission is throwing additional safeguards around thè world's bantam-w-eìght Champion bout tonight between Joe Lynch and Midget Smith. Bevond discussioni of this angle there is little interest in thè ftght. Lynch, because of his superior boxir.g and his stronger and more accurate punching. is regarded thè favorite. Smith is a fast worker and he generally gives plenty of action, which has brought him a largo followlng. This will he his third meeting with Lynch, however, and there is no reame to belleve he will do any better than he did in thè past The Midget fought three days ago in Jersey City and lost to Johnny Curtin. Light Heavy Scrap Off Bu lime Special OKLAHOMA CITY, Dee. 22.—The Harry Greb-Jimmy Delaney bout for thè American hght heavyweight championshlp scheduled to be held here Jan 8. has been called off at thè request of Greb, thè Champion, who is handiivapped by injuries.

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can go as fast as any of them aad there are few faster than little Devol. Owensville defeated Leb anon last week aster thè hard Vincennes game, but thè defeat must be attributed somewhat to thè hard game of thè thè night before. Anderson, that town whose carne is almost synonomous with basket-ball, has another typica! Stagg team this season and should win over Kokomo tonight. A Christmas Day struggle la jarded at Martinsville with Shel byville.

PLAYERS’ UNII EHI UP SS STRON9BODY Major Magnates Begin to Worry as List Continues to Grow. Bu RODXEY DUTCHER United Xetcs Staff Corre.spandent CHICAGO, Dee. 22.—Big leagua baseball magnates are beginnlng to lose sleep as they realize that thè Baseball Players' Union has materiallzed out of a sweet dream Into an actuality. Santa Claus, they feel, is bringing them a great big package which they never asked for at all. Ray Cannon, thè enterprislng young Milwaukee attorney, who or= ganized thè Union, has suddenly as sumed to thè magnates thè propor* tions of a bogey-man, followlng his announcement that 223 big league players had signed up for membership, and reports as to just who these members are don’t '.end any en - couragement. A lot of world’s champions are included, it is said, and at any rate, 223 players come mighty near being a quorum. Holdouts may be numerous ìf tho union can control its members, aa lt is said to have requested players to refrain from signing contracts unti! further progress is made in organization. Two holdouts already have been reported. Pitcher Dutch Reuther of Un eie Charley’s club and First Base man Jake Daubert of thè Cincinnati Red being thè most notable. Somebody told Ebbets that thè union was going to demand a $5.000 minimum salary for ball players. and Ebbets, seeing no reason to disbelieve it. denounced thè union on that basis at once. Cannon, however, denies to thè United News that $5,000 or any other salary has been set aa a minimum as yet. City Three-Cushions Hendricks downed Moore, 50 tc 41, in a city three-cushion match at thè Board of Trade parlor Thursday. Higli run was six by Moore. Brown plays Cooper tonight.