Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1923 — Page 6
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SOME long-distance traveling records will be broken by lar-westeru goal getters anxious :o tackle mid-western State high ‘I.OOI basket-ball champions, according to telegrams received Tuesday by the University of i itieago, under whose auspices the National Interscholastic basketball tournament will be held there April 4 to 7. Inclusive. The Missoula. Mont., champions came East last year. This year the Washington State champions will battle the Mid Western fives and teams expected from the East, South and Central North. The Idaho champions also will be there. Now the University of Chicago is anxious to hear from the Passaic, N. J. t High School team, which has a clean slate. About twenty-five State champion teams are expected. All State winners in good standing with State association are eligible. The Indiana State High School Athletic Association does not permit its champion to enter the Chicago tourney as it is classed as a post-season affair. -I- -!- -IOOLT7MMA CITY WQM THE WHITLEY COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL NET TOURNEY DEFEATING SOUTH WHITLEY IN THE FINALS. -I- -!- -!- In the feature fisticuff go at Tomlinson Hail Tuesday night Jimmy Kelly wore a patch over one knee. A fan shouted: “He looks like a basket-ball player." '+ ‘l* + When Pinky Crosby left the Navy he must have taken a couple of Unde Sam’s guns along with liim. -I- -i- -!- THE BOILERMAKERS RAMBLED ALL AROUND THE OHIO STATE NET CREW -I- -!- -!* The ehonlder-shaVtmr. basket-making Quakers and Butler B’ ie Devils po to it ir , Ri.’hniond toniriit AUer that the S'ate j college net warfare will shift to Franklin. There's join? to be a lot of nervous energy burned until Butler and Franklin * decide ; who's who. • -I* 'l* -I■National A. A. U. swim championships. which will be held here this , summer, will be supervised by the athletic committee of the Chamber of Commerce. George Welbaum is ; chairman. -I- -!- -IEver Hammer, Chicago lightweight, was fined SI.OOO by Boxing Commisof Detroit for his jmor showing In the ring there Monday night. Hammer was disqualified in his fight with Sid Barbarian. t Garfield High of Terre Haute downed its chief home-town rival, Wiley HiglL, 39 to 27. .; -|. llo'Mv for th three Indiar • n p,.bli< hijh schools Friday So* Uona‘ -anas on It would be Uflci ms to have eia-e- s Th* boys and girls wouldn t keep their mind? on their books. •I-!- -I- | Reports from Vincennes say the editors of the Sun and the Commercial having lots of fun with each other. And, of course, basket-ball is to blame. -!- -I- -IFive hundred and forty-seven ! high school squads will be draped i in mourning this time next week.
Jimmy Finley of Louisville put Eddie O'Brien of St. Louis to sleep Tuesday night in the third round of a fight at West Palm Beach, Fla. *l* *1- *iFRANX CHANCE HAS BANNED GOLF AMONG HIS BOSTON BALL PLAYERS. -!- -I- -IIndlanapolis horseshoe pitchers are feeling the call of the Irons. Meeting tonight at the recreation department in the City Hall. -i- + -ISAT, SnOOTIX’ 'EM, THE SAME OUT THAT CALLED YOU ABOUT BUTLER ALSO GAVE US A RING. IVEY TO COACH TRACK AT EARLHAM COLLEGE Mowe to Give Time to Baseball Team Tltis Spring.' Ity Timet Special • RICHMOND, Ind.. Feb. 28. —Charles R. Ivey has been signed as assistant coach at Kariham College for the remainder of the year. He will have charge of the track team while Coach Mowe gives his time to baseball. Ivey Is an Earlham athlete and one of the best track men this State has turned out. His specialty was the high hurdles and he is credited with time only two-fifths of a second slower than the world’s record. ROY WALLACE WINS TWO BOUTS IN A. A. U. TOURNEY Puts EL 0. on Gotham Boxer and Beats Gary Scrapper. By Timet Special NEW YORK. Feb. 28.—Roy Wallace of the Hoosier A. C. of Indianapolis won two boxing bouts In the National A. A. U. boxing and wrestling meet at Madison Square Garden. Tuesday night. Wallace knocked out William Harris of New York In the third round and defeated Stanley Jones of Gary. Ind., in his second victory of the day. Hahn Goes to Princeton ANN ARBOR. Mich., Feb. 23. Archie Hahn, freshman track coach at the University of Michigan, has ac oepted an offer as assistant track coacl at Princetcn. He will leave here at the end of the semester, #
Baseball’s *Honest Era ’ Enters Third Year Under Judge Landis
‘SQUARE DEALS’ INFREQUENT IN oww CAMP Magnates Yelp for Fairness From Players, Then Gentiy Slip Them the Razz, By WESTBROOK PEGEER l nited Xevts Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—1n this, the third season of big league baseball’s honest era, Judge K. M. Landis, commissioner, as they call him, of the organized game. Is still waiting for the playgrs to walk into his court and ask for any fraction of a square deal. His pocket is always crowded with cases instigated by the dub-owners against Individual players, but usually devoid of appeals from the players themselves against individual magnates. Os course Landis draws his opulent salary from the club-owners and not from the players w'ho are just employes like himself. But at the time of his elevation to the baseball bench it was very plainly, even defiantly said, that the toiler in the vineyards beyond the turnstiles would be given a square deal. That was the favorite phrase of the time for baseball just then was convalescing from some very tortuous transactions of which the fake world series was only one. During the winter which is now largely stowed away in the past tense there was thunderous talk of a baseball pjayers’ union. The magnates. Charlie Ebbets, owner of the Dodgers, in louder and more strident voice than all the rest, decried this business, saying the players had neither need for nor right to join a union. Unions were evil organizations which stirred up strife nor even wrought a benefit for any man. And so the magnates formed a union of their own whose workings may now be traced in many cases of lone players. Scott’s Case * There was*Jack Sott last year. Cincinnati turned him out on ten days’ notice. If he had quit Cincinnati on ten days’ notice he would have been barred from baseball. Anyway, the Reds let him go, in pursuance of the square-deal contract which players are compelled to sign or go to work After a summer of idleness he hitched on with the Giants, won some important ban games which very materially aided them in winning their pennant, and won his game from the Yanks in the world series. The Giants did Scott no favor John McGraw would rot have taken him at all if he hadn't seen that Scott's arm was in shape again. This year Scott is offered less pay than he wants. As he “belongs" to the Giants he is not allowed to apply *o any other club for a job. He can take what he is offered or get out. There was Dick Kerr, lie was one of the few decent men the White Sox in the fall of 1919 and won two games in the fake world series, the receipts for which were nevei disgorged by the club owners, although the people paid to see a square deal world series. !:• cause Ken wanted r> >V common surate with his services h** has been barred from organized baseball. Mclnnis Shunted Stuffy Mclnnis is one of the best first basemen in the majors and a leading hitter. He had % a three-year contract with Cleveland —if he had jumped his contract he would have been barred. But after one year he is now let out by Cleveland and no other team was willing to pay the waiver price for him. He will Vie forced to reduce his terms and then he will be able to get a job. This is the third season of big league baseball’s honest era.
SIX TEAMS LEFT IN JUNiOR MEET Tourney Play to Be Continued Thursday Night, THI'R&DAY SCHEDULE 7 P. M.—Hercules and Eagle A. C.s. 7:30 P. M.—Deltas and Boys’ Club Fair Plays. . S::i0 P. M #-T.auter Leaders and Pals' Club. Semi-final.) TUESDAY RESULTS Brightwood Independents, "0: Meridian M. E.. 10 Pals’ Club. 42: Rector Juniors. 25 Lauter Leaders, 16: Brightwood. 11. Six teams are left in the city junior basket-bail tourney being staged at the Lauter gym. Meridian M. E., Rector Juniors and Brightwood were eliminated Tuesday night. The teams left in the fight for the championship are Hercules. Eagle A. C., Deltas. Fair Plays, Lauter Leaders and Pals Club. The two feature games of Tuesday’s schedule were furnished by the i: :% wood Independents, who won their first game from the Meridian M. E. five, 20 to 16, but lost In the final match of the the Lauter Leaders, 16 to 11. The Pals Club did not have a great deal of trouble with the Rector Juniors and won, 42 to 25. The tourney will he continued Thursday nitrht, with three games on the card. The 8:30 contest between the Lauter Leaders and Pals Oiub is a semi-final game. GLICK TO PLAY WITH Y. M. H. A. NET FIVE Simmons A. V. Will Be the Opponents Tonight. Sidney Gllck will play floor guard for the Y. M. 11. A. five tonight against the Simmons A. C. squad. Click is better known in the ring than on the basket-ball floor. The game will be played at the Communal building and will be precede, Iby a game at 7:30 between the j Y > # H. A. girls and the Federation j Six. 1
Harvard Gridiron Star Opens Tea Shop on Campus Grounds
By United News , CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 28. —There’s just no limit to the Shameful things a college man will do to get an education. Here now is Erwin Gehrke, Harvard half back, and otherwise a virile, strong, decent young
COLISEUM IN READINESS FOB NET SECTIONAL Change in Heating System Adds to Comfort —Surprises Are Expected, All set and achin’ for action. That is the feeling that is pervades the atmosphere at the State fairgrounds coliseum today. The local sectional high school basket-L .11 tournev will be held there Friday and Saturday. The floor Is laid, the backstops up, heaters in, bleachers built. In short, everything Is In readiness for the tourney to get awßy In fine style. Sixteen basket ball teams full of pep and on their toes every’ minute will ■be at each other's throats on those two days. The tourney management Is to be congraulatert on the change it has made 1 i the heating .system. Four soft coni furnaces with the smoke and gas piped outside have replaced the numerous coke burning, gas producing salamanders of former years. At times during the last sectional and State tourney the air was scarcely fit to breathe. Thrills galore are promised the
-CASEBALLING IN JAPAN
Big Leaguers Too Strong and Japs Fail to Profit
C-'iOLLKGE teas will do more to acquaint Japanese with baseball tactics than Trig leaguers. This is the opinion of big leaguers “baseballing in Japan” last fall, as told to Billy Evans of the XEA Service staff.
By WAITE HOYT Pitcher for the New York Americans and World Series Hero, rio HE tour of the Orient by the big I league stars did not tend to benefit the play of the Japs as much as it was hoped. The fact that the big leaguers so far outclassed the j b, t teams in Ja r' ' i >an was cause - There was a lack of keen competlA * tion in all the trtt games with the yHSHS exception of the one we lost. . £ * Uusally our team V. 1 was out in front •x. .. | inning. This very naturally kept us Ml from pulling the so-called Inside WAITE HOYT stuff, the delayed steal, the squeeze, the steal and other bits of recognized points of* strategy. The Japs would profit much better in a baseball way. for the present at leas!, by a visit from our leading college teams, provided such teams had big league players as coaches, who could impart the knowledge to the Japs not only by Instruction but by actual happenings in a game. The Japs learn very quickly. They .seem to grasp a thing much more quickly If a play involving such a situation comes up in the game, rather than by holding a meeting with the players and having someone fully explain tiie play by talk and diagrams Let the Jap observe closely a play that actually happens, and the next day he will be attempting the same thing. The Jap pitching was rather soft for our team. Our aggregation was a. hard-hitting club. Assuming a commanding lead in tho opening Inning, our club would keep slugging away. Like the American fans, the Japs like to see tho ball travel. In that respect we certainly gave them a run for their money. When a batsman reaches first base in safety, the big idea with the Jap player is to get him to second, from where he can score on a base lilt. The Japs don’t seem to give a thought to the score or the inning when using such a style of play. It is not uncommon for them to bunt with one out.
“Lovin’ Sam” that fox-trot with the come-on-and-,4 y# dance melody, was never played with greater joyousness Bp* BZ than when Ted fU Lewis and His Band gj maf * e their Columbia KW is on the reverse aide. At Eg COLUMBIA DEALERS
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student, running a tearoom. A tearoom! Erwin Gehrke, Harvard half back, manager, head waiter and prop. A lunch wagon would have been different. But this is a tearoom —the Old Rose tearoom. And apparently his fel-
‘A Sailor Made fya y 1 earn Bill Ingram, new Indiana football coach, should be able to guide the Crimson through some of the “sea of mud” battles that are usually a part of every football season. He is a real sailor man and is to have command of a Naval Reserve battalion to be organized in Jeffersonville and New Albany in the near future, A sub chaser will he stationed there.
Marion County fans at the local tourney because of the many recent upsets. Indianapolis high schools are rated as having a much better chance to cop the title than they were earlier In the season. They are certainly not worn out from being keyed up to a winning frame of mind throughout the season, hut are fresh and in perfect condition. Valley Mills, West Newton and Ben Davis may also be strong contenders for the sectional title. Valley Mills because of its showing In the county tournament, is the favorite of the high schools outside the city. Broad Ripple has been showing Improvement steadily since the county meet and may be expected to spring the un expected.
In some games we p!nyd I have seen them bunt in the last inning when <>ur team was leading fcy ter, or more runs. Our team usM the hit and run plav a great deal. Ah a result, that style i of getting runs in bunches will proha My t>e given a thorough work out now that we have left the country. A better idea of the fundamentals as gleaned from actual competition in cjosely played games, is what the Jap players need most.— NEXT: Japan's “Babe Ruth.” BATTLING 0000 TO MEET JONES Southern Welter Matched by Washington A, C. Battling Budd, Atlanta welterweight, today was signed by Match- | maker Harter as the opponent for j Frankie Jones in the feature attraci tion of the fisticuff card to be staged j at Tomlinson Hall March 12 by the I Washington A. C. ] Jones halls from the coast and ts Ia welterweight with n real punch. lie boxed at Ft. Benjamin Harrison some j time back and Impressed the fans I as a sturdy mauler. Budd is well thought of In Dixieland and Is rated the weilterweight champ of tho South ami a contender for Mickey Walker’s title. Matchmaker Harter Is negotiating with some fast lightweights to fill out the March 12 card. All bouts will be scheduled ten rounds.
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low students also have so declined in morals that they not only tolerate bus encourage young Gehrke in his terrible offense by patronizing his tea and crumpets. Gehrke' 1 worked eight hours a day to make his
Paul Castner, Irish Star, Sought by Big Leaguers
Hero of Catholic College Said to Favor St. Louis Browns, Bv NEA SertHoe pOI’TH BEND, Ind., Feb. 28 Paul Castner, Notre Dame’s allround athlete and a selection for all-America football honors by Walter Camp last fall, will enter major league baseball Immediately following his graduation In June. The big southpaw hurler, who is captain of the Irish nine, has already received offers from the St. Louis Browns, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox and the New York Giants. The Detroit Tigers are aiso reported to be angling for his services. Castner favors the Browns, and will sign with that club if satisfactory terms are arranged. While hurling for Notre Dame during the past two seasons, Costner has made a great record, which he promises to maintain this spring despite tiie fact that his team has one of the toughest schedules of any western university. Besides being a football and baseball luminary. Castner is rated as one of the best intercollegiate hockey plavers In the ebuntry. The Injury to his hip, sustained during the football game with Butler College, Is keeping him out of competition now, but he is acting as coach of the team. Coach Reck no says that Castner is one of the greatest full backs the West hus ever produced. He ranks him second only to the immortal George Gipp. Rock no Is almost as enthusiastic about Castner’a baseball ability. He believes the Notre Dame capmln has a great chance to make good right-off the reel In the hlg show. Castner’s preference for the St. Louis Browns has no doubt been influenced by the success of George B.sler with that dub. The career of
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way through college, aside from the time he had to give to classes and, last fall, to football practice. Recently he felt himself slipping and foresaw the time when he couldn’t make ends meet any more. So he has adjourned from school until
PAUL CASTNER Slslcr, who came direct from Michigan and made good, nas fired Caatrier with an ambition to equal It. Slsler, like Castner. starred in college circles as a pitcher. However, Sisler'a great speed and hitting ability caused him to bo converted into a first baseman, so his club would get the benefit of his services every day during the season. BOSTON—Dave Shade. California welterweight, won a close ten-round decision from George Ward, Elizabeth. N J.
next fall when he expects that his tearoom will support him. His friends even now are shamelessly swizzling and guzzling GeUrke’s subtle pekoe brews and debauching themselves with French pastry, muffins and other habit-forming cookies.
QUAKERS TONIGHT, THEN FRANKLIN, IS BUTLER’S TASK State Net Title at Stake in Came With Baptists on Thursday, Tonight at Earlham and then the real fireworks —that’s the way the Butler basket-ball fans feel. That tonight’s contest will be a victory for Butler Is taken for granted with all interest centered on the strugglp with the Baptists at Franklin on Thursday. Both Franklin and Butler have been playing excellent ball. The Franklin team, composed of freshmen, probably Is the fastest floor-working team in the State. Butler is not far behind in speed. Hooker and Nipper started the Wabash game at forwards. Griggs played center. Mlddlesworth and Marker were at guard. Leslie was an important factor in the Wabash game. H<> was substituted for Hooker- while the Anderson “blaze away” was off. Reserve material is one of the biggest. factors that will enter the Franklin game. Coach Page has about the strongest reserve in the State. Franklin also Is well supplied with capable substitutes. The game is liable to develop Into a contest between the coaches in psychological substitutions. Bobby Rf cords of Franklin has admitted that he is the “best substitute in the world” and he is about right. The qionde haired scrapper has pulled games out of the fire for Griz Wagner on a number of occasions this season. He may get another chance. The game will decide the State title and is the grand ciirnax of the Hoosier college basket-ball season. HARRISBI RG. Pa.—Joe Lynch, bantamweight champion, won an ciglu-round decision from Peter Husick. Harrisburg. MOTION PICTURES
Dgi!jL Feature Program i “JAVA HEAs” A wurprisingly vis id and colorful picture, full of romance unci thrills * Mi “THK MF>w\<.K OF EMILE COUE” A simple and graphic explanation of :i great theory. Overture LIGHT CAVALRY Modest Altschuler, Musical Director. POORS pp’c'.N :00 NOON, AMUSEMENTS TWICK I' \ ILY ALL W 1 ’RK “MISCHIEF MAKERS” A .1 ’inlmn'o of M ; rth end Melody To*iite I* Amateur Night Don’t misM th* fun.
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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 28, 1928
BOSTON LAO TOO SMART FOR BOXER FROMWINDY CITY Kelly Outpointed by Shep- / pard—Other Bouts Not Much, Two bantams, new to Indianapolis fans, swung some mean fists in the main event at Tomlinson Hall Tuesday night, and there was no lack of action —with Johnny Sheppard, the Boston terrier, on the long end of the points over Jimmy Kelly of Chicago. The chief bout of the night went the limit of ten rounds and Sheppard appeared to have six rounds, Kelly one, and three were of the even variety. Kelly displayd true gameness all the way, and actually fought better after being sent to the canvas for th® count of three in the sixth session. Sheppard showed veteran ring experience and won the scrap by a big margin, but he was forced to work for it. He timed his punches just right, blocked perfectly and used good footwork. In fact, the Boston boy impressed the fans with his class and they voted him a real article with the gloves. Kelly was on the receiving end of many punches to the jaw and nose and a boy with less nerve probably would have fallen before Sheppard’s expert attack. Jimmy tried hard with body punches mainly and he was still battling hard at the closing bell. The main go saved the card because the two other bouts were not much. Pinky Crosby disposed of Tommy Raymond In the first round with a Tom Sharkey attack and Bobbie Bridges finished Billy Mails in five rounds. Raymond was not in Crosby’s class and he appeared to be outweighed. As for Mails, he did not seem to he in proper shape. Raymond was knocked through the ropes for his exit when the big sailor heaved a right to the jaw. Bridges se-nt Mails c’.own in the fourth with a right to / the wind and disposed of him in’ the next round with a right to the jaw. It would please the fans if the box ing commission would have the actual weights of. boxers announced from the ringside, faying the boxers are under weight is tot enough; the fans want to know the ACTUAL poundage.
Coliege Net Scores
Purdue. 53: Ohio Stile. 30. Pertr.a. 22: Columbia. Iti. Vanderbilt. 30: Louisiaaa State. 10. Illinois State Normal. :JS: Monmouth. 25. AMUSEMENTS
f. KEITH’S America’s Vaudeville Standard a l The Blue Streak j ■ • S4I of Vaudeville | SAMUELS New and Fveluslve Son;*, MISS It. WAI-KER. Local Girl, at the Plano. BERT LEVY Popular Artist-Entertainer LORRAINE &MINTO With Margaret Davis in the Miniature Musical Comedy ■•MOTH AND FLAMES” RAY & EMMA DEAN The Laughing Stock of Vaudeville Mons. & Mms. Loyal’s Iten.arl.ahle Canine “Toque.’’ LYTELL & FANT The Chocolate lake L*Mer • SP*i i.ii Added K eaturo MRS.SiDNEYDiIEW and Her Company, Presenting “PREDESTINATION” A Domestic Comedy in One Act. Aesop's Fables, Topics of the Day P-.itlie News