Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 259, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1923 — Page 10

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BASKET BITS • • • BOXING BIFFS • • • DIAMOND DI'ST • . • RACING and OTHER THRUSTS

SAMMY Hale, the infielder who is said to have cost Connie Mack $75,000 in money, old iron and second-hand players, has picked a place in the | first division as the goal of the | Athletics in J 923. There was no noticeable modesty about Sammy as lie spoke his mind concerning the hitting and fielding value of Sammy Hale to the Philadelphia team a short time after he arrived in the Athletics’ camp recently. He was a star and a heavy sluerger with Portland, j Ore., last year. “First division for the Athletics this year,” he announced ; unqualifiedly. “We’ll be up there fighting for the pennant. Xew York, Detroit and Chicago are the teams we have to beat. The St. Louis Browns won’t be ♦ very strong any more. They haven’t goH the pitchers.” Mr. Hale implied that the advent of Mr. Hale in the Philadelphia dugout, dining room and line-up would make a irreat irain the team. * High school hooks wer© hooks and that's all today. Young minds of th© Hoosicr State were thinking in basket-balls. The i regional* were tinder way. I- I' IClncinnati baseball fans were ready today to give Baseball Commissioner Landis a vote of confidence. They have their southpaw flipper Benton back. ' I ! Indianapolis i- glad Pitcher Benton has been ruled a “desirable.” He was horscrsdifeh to Tribe batters last season. -!- -!- Stuffy Mclnnis has signed with the Boston Nationals. Beantown Is where ' Stuffy prefers to play and It can be taken for granted he will try to earn every penny of his high salary. I- I- -IEngland is going to prepare its .-thi©;es for the next Olympic games by •■stabiishing’ a tcrjcapoiidence course. One; there was a man who took a correspondence course m swimming and when he received a diploma he jumped into a lake for a dip. His friends had to throw him a rope. -I- I- -IThe last Brewer hold-out Is in the fold. Outfielder Johnson joined the Cream CUty squad Thursday at their spring camp at Troy, Ala. -I- I- I.loyce Wethered, British woman golf champ, will compete in the American women's title tourney at Rye, N. Y. next fall. + !- + Dartmouth knocked off Harvard in basketball Thursday night in a close one. 28 to 25. I- -I- -INotre Dame Indoor tracksters hook up with Wisconsin thinly clads at Madison Saturday. -I- I- -ITh I. H. S. A. A. has a good plan in mind for next year. District • opferences ! may be held for the various officials with principals, coaches, manager and b ams in-' vited. It should be worth while. -I* I* ILooking far into the future the board of control of the Indiana High School Athletic Association has announced through Its bulletin that the sectional meets for next year will be held on Feb. 29 and March 1. It must be Leap Tear. But It’s the first time we’ve been reminded of it. I- I* -IPnrdue indoor runners and jumpers invade tfco Northwestern gym tonight and the Boilermaker (racketeers follow in there Sat- | urday. -I- -I- IPayir.g compliment to Harvard's greatest athlete, the Yale Daily News said editorially: "An outstanding athlete, a clean sportsman, a fighter all the way, bis prowess always to be j feared and admired whether on the gridiron, diamond or rink—George Owen." -I- I- + 1. F. Benjamin, manager of 'Willie ’{ ppe, billiard champion. Is seriously ill at his New York home. Benjamin was In Indianapolis recently when lloppe gave an exhibition here. KENTUCKY TEAM COMES AS LEDGER OPPONENTS Fast Colored Teams Will Battle at Dancciand. A hot battle Is expected to be staged tonight at Danceland Hall, corner Washington st. and Capitol Ave., when the Ledger Big Five, colored Independent State champions, will clash with a fast basket-ball team from Louisville. Ky. The visitors have a fast quintette with their plays being built around Whedbee, a forward who Is considered one of the best high school performers In Kentucky. Capt. G. (Hap) Hazzard and Jackson will appear at forward positions; Robinson or Edwards at center, and Bryant and Daniels at guards for the locals. Carr J and Thomas will be held in reserve. | The Bucks and Comet A. C. clubs i will play a preliminary to start at 8:15. j

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One More Day and Indian Bali Tossers Will Be on Way South

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THE DEPARTS FOR TRAINING AT NOON SATURDAY Hendricks’ Squad Scheduled to Begin Practice in Bogalusa, La., Monday. Jack Hendricks’ Indians hop aboard that high noon choo ehoo for Louisian’ Saturday. The 3 92.’; Tribe ball tossers are all set for the dive into the deep South Bogalusa bound. Hendricks will lead his athletes out of the city at 11:55 a. m. Saturday and the squad will be due at the spring reservation Sun- j day night. Monday the Indians pastimers will unpack equipment and start tossing the ball. The squad will work out in Bogalusa until March 29 and they will have plenty to do. Two-a-day practices will be held and numerous exhibition games played. The first and second teams of the New York Americans and the second team of the New York Nationals are booked for dates with the Indians in Bogalusa. Ruth to Perform There March 2l" will be the gala day in Bogalusa. Bab© Ruth and his first string mates of the Yankees are scheduled in there that day. Babe has been in training practically all winter in an effort to get back in prime form and he certainly ought to be “hitting ’em a mile" by the time hr swings his war clubs in Bogalusa. Including exhibition games at Boga lusa, at Evansville and Terre Haute and after the squad remits to Wash ington Bark seventeen exhibition erntests face the Indians before they j crack open the American Associ Rion : season here April 19 with the uouis- ; ville Colonels. It is a heavy spring card * nd will provide Manager Hendricks with a splendid opportunity to judge his "stock." New faces will be seen under Tribe caps this spring as a result of winter deals. Old favorite players who will be missing are Covington, Rehg, Sehreiber, Baird and Weaver. Numerous Changes Made Due to the big change made in the Tribe roster, the club officials are not claiming the pennant, just at present. It will be necessary to give the new talent the critical eye before judging the team’s possibilities. The first leg of the Tribe's trip south will take the squad to Mattoon, 111., over the Big Four route. At that city the Hoosler special car will be transferred to the Illinois Central line and the long journey to New Orleans started. The Crescent City will b<reached about noon Sunday. Another change of road will lie made in New , Orleans for the last leg of the jaunt to Bogalusa. which is seventy-two miles north of the Mardi Gras city. Catcher Krueger, Infielder Chrtstenbury. Pitchers Crum and Hill and Utility Infielder Yerkes will not make the trip to the camp out of Indianapolis. The three first named will go to Bogalusa direct from their homes and Yerkes will not join the team until it returns north. Hill will report at Bogalusa March 15. ARSENAL A. C. S. ORGANIZE Baseball Team Gets Ready for Coming Season—Meeting Tonight. The Arsenal A. C. baseball team has organized under the management of Martin McManamon and will book games with out-of-town clubs. The following players are requested to attend a meeting tonight at 7:30: Bhenke brothers, Wilbur brothers, liea brothers, Mall, Walfla. Katsenberger, Owne, Heller, P.affey, Dolllver, McCahlll. Griswold and any others wishing tryouts. For games call Webster 8970, or address manager A. A. C., Nineteenth St. and Arsenal Ave. Orioles Win In Overtime The Emerson Orioles defeated the Irvington Presbyterians In an overtime game, 21 to 16. The score at the end of the regulation time was 16 to 16. Ellis won the contest with two field goals in the extra five minutes. The Presbyterians meet the Orioles again next Tuesday at the Orioles' gym.

j, Day ! 2„tJ day out/ FATIMA.

GET VOI R HIGH SCHOOL REGIONAL SCORES From JFmßog Snorting Goods Cos.

TECH HIGH SCHOOLGIRLS BEAT MANUAL TEAM. 26-24 Exciting Game Won by East Siders on Home Floor. The Technical High School girls’ j basket-ball team won a thriller from ! the Manual girls’ team Thursday at the Tech gymnasium. The final score : was L’G to 24. The contest was very fast throughout and the outcome in iloubt until the final whistle. Geraldine Messier. Deukih Kealing, and Edith Hamilton .starred for Technical while Blanche Rose and Helen Ilarmecon were best for Manual. That name Harmeson, can’t be kept out of Manual basketball. INDIANA MEETS OHIO MATIN State Squad Is Doped as Strong Bunch, I Hu Times Special i BLOOMINGTON, Jnd., March 9. Indiana University and Ohio State will tneet on the wrestling mat in Bloom ington tonight. The meet was originally scheduled for Saturday night. It is the last of a series of dual wrestling meets in which tlte Indiana te'Sm has taken part. Indiana has defeated all the teams of the Big Ten conference colleges that have been on the Hoosler schedule, hut Coach Jac i Reynolds' team lost dual meets with I West Virginia University and the United States Naval Academy. The Ohio team is probably the strongest conference mat squad met by Indiana this year. The conference i meet, in which representatives from 1 the b-ading universities of the West will compete, will be held at Colunv bus. Ohio, next week. Y. P. C. FIVE WINS OVER FERNDALE TRIANGLES Battle for West Side Title Goes to St. Vnthony Squad. The St. Anthony's Y. P O basketball team won the West Side championship Thursday night when they defeated the Femdale Triangles, 24 to 12. Six hundred people watched the game. Playing a dazzling passing game, the Y. P. C. boys took an early lead and refused to © headed, fivlvester. Rnyee and Birch played good basket ball for the winners. Davis was be<t for the Femdale boys. V P, 0. <741. femdale , ICI Uranium F . . J. Turk Ttirrh F Harris KaiO Dba-k C F Turk Wester G Davis t r-i.ek (1 Jl.u-s s.• stitutfona—Have for Raitenba-k. Ka't* la-ail; tor Orannon Karst for ,1 Turk. Wolf lor Harris. Cottchlen for F Fink. Field Koala—9ylv©#t>-r 4. Jitreh 3. Rnyee I. .1 Turk l. Jtnes i. Davis 1 Foul coals — Trenck. l! out of !>. Davis, fl out of !>. JACK SCOTT SIGNS WITH N. Y. GIANTS Come-back ('nines so Terms With MeGraw. By I'nitrij .Wira SAN ANTONIO. March 9.—Jack ; Scott, the man who came back and i won a world series game for the Giants last fajl after being waived j out of the National League earlier in the season, has Joined the Giants * again, terminating his hold out. Scott I arrived in San Antonio Thursday and , got into uniform for the daily workI out. He is to sign his 1923 contract Friday. Scott stuttered in trying so express i his gratitude to John MeGraw, manager of the Giants, last fall for giving him a chance to come hack after he had been thrown away by the Cincinnati Reds. Maywood Grays Meeting Maywood Grays will Ist in the field again this year with a strong baseball club. There will he a meeting tonight at 1342 Reisner St. at 8 o'clock. The following players are requested to be present, Monday: : rinoke, Martin, McCray, Robbins. White, Hathaway, Hodge, Harmon, Lynch, MoOlune, Henderson and Burk. Others wishing tryouts are welcome. If unable to attend call j Belmont 0412. Triangles After Games The Bellefontaine Triangles want games with city or State teams. Call Harrison 1219 and ask for Tom or address Tom Carr, 2218 Bellefountaino Bt., city.

TIIE INDIANAPOLIS TRIES

Meet Toledo De Molays Saturday

LEFT TO RIGHT —GREEN BURG, CARR. CHAPMAN, NEVIUS, JEl‘ RY, M’CLINTOCK, BRAY, TURK (CAPT.), T WILBUR RILEY. R. WILBUR, MILHOUSE (TRAINER), WILSON (COACH), HARRINGTON (ASSISTANT COACH). LINK (ATHLETIC DIRECTOR).

The De Mo lay basket-ball team has made a fine record this season among independent teams Knd won the Fraternal League championship with only one loss throughout the season. In the independent apiateur tourney they were runners-up to the Y Leaders.

Commissioner Landis Gives Rube Benton Clean Slate in Ball Scandal

/?,</ I titled Xeies CHICAGO, March fl.—Branding our I rent charges against Pitcher Rube : Benton by major league baseball magnates as violating “every conception lof justice and fair play," Baseball i Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain | Landis handed down a decision Thurs- | day night declaring Benton eligible to organized baseball. Evidently resentful at the recent action of the magnetos In passing him ! the buck and whatever blame might be attached to his action one way or tne other, Landis takes the stand that the time to Investigate the charges j of'shady transactions by Renton was at the time they became known, and not two years later. “It lias never been assorted.” I,an lis points out, “that Benton has ever keen guilty of dishonest playing.” Under lentils' decision, Benton will j play this season with the Cincinnati j Beds, following a season with the St | Paul Club of the American Assooja j rion. In which he won twenty two games and lost e'even. laindls also upholds the position of some baseball authorities that If Ben ton was not "clean” enough for the majors, which whispered him from the New Yoik Giants to the minors by the waiver process, he should not be allowed to play with the minors. The standards of Integrity of these two classes of leagues, he declares, are Identical. The commissi©-©!", by taking the stand that there Is no case against Benton, has failed In convicting Charlie Herzog, who was accused by , Benton, by Inference. Herzog not I only goes unmentloned but I.andls ' decision Is such as to make no definite decision whether Benton was all right or all wrong In the first place. Recognize Two Charges Landis recognizes two charges against Benton, which were recently discussed at a meeting of the National League following the Rube’s purchase from St. Paul by Garry Herman, but were referred to the commissioner In an evident attempt, to pass the buck; fir. t, that he failed to sustain charges made against Herzog, that he received a tip on the day of the first gam© of the celebrated 1919 world's scries and failed to com munlcata his Information promptly to any responsible baseball authority. All this was fought out verbally in rho press and elsewhere by Benton. Herzog and others, and, as Landis points out. the details, were set forth In full. I "All evidence was then at hand," i says Landis. "But no disciplinary

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The Toledo De Molay team is to be played at the Y. M. C. A. on Saturday night in an inter-city match. The Ohio’ five comes here with a good record and the locals are prepared for a battle. Several former high school players are in the Toledo line-up. The roster

action was taken against Benton, or apparently even considered, by the authorities charged with baseball administrative responsibility at that time, and (so far as the commissioner Las ascertained* no charges against Benton’s eligibility were presented to ! them, nor were any objections to his < ititlnued Major League service made | by any Major league club. Continued to Play “Without objection, or any intimation from any source that ho was objectionable, Benton played the reLEADERS ENTER M.U. NET MEET 'Y' Five Off for Kansas City to Play In National Tourney. The "Y” Leaders have entered the national A A. U. basket-ball tourney, which starts in Kansas City on Monday. March 12. Some of the players have left already for the Missouri city and more were on their way today. Last year the Leaders were In the tourney and made a good record. They r t-hed the semifinals In the 1922 play. The question that came up about the various members' standing In re gard to the A. A U. eligibility rules was nil straightened out Itefnre the registration committee and eight, players will represent the local "Y ' In the coming event. The players to make the trip are Starhuck, Kempler. Strain. McClure, Hiirnum, Garrett, Smith and Rohr man. COLLINS ANNEXES TITLE Former Indianapolis Cueist Wins National Amateur Honors. 11 v Timet Special NEW TURK, March 9. —The new national amateur Class A 18.2 balk line Millar 1 champion Is Percy Collins, formerly of Indianapolis but now of Chicago. Collins defeated Francis Appleby of New York Thursday night, 800 to 237, In a match that clinched the title.

of the visitors includes: Captain Mohr and Schaver, forwards; Jitt, center; Taraschke and Fields, guards, with Dow, Walters, Schnider, Fisher and Rabb in reserve. The Toledo team will arrive here tonight and will work out tomorrow morning.

mainder of the 1920 season, arid until Aug. 1, 1921, with the New York Nationals. and the succeeding year and a half with St. Paul. “After more than two years of unquestioned eligibility, during which time his conduct apparently has been unimpeachable, these old matters are now brought forward for the first time in the form of c. arges, nothwithstanding no new facts respecting them have been s .ibmitted or developed by a thorough investigation by the commissioner. “This is at war with every conception of justice and fair play. Certainly, the time to present and to act upon charges which seek to permanently deprive a man of his chief means of livelihood Is at the tune the matter' alleged become known, not at the ob lectors' discretion upwards of two tears Inter. "Player Benton Is declared eligible, and his transfer from St. Paul to Cin cinnati is approved."

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HOPPE AND SCHAEFER AGREE ON OFFICIAL Harry Cline of Philadelphia Will Rofereo £itle Clash. Bu ( luted .YeICR NEW YORK, March 9.—Willie Hoppe and young Jake Schaefer have agreed at last upon the referee for their three blocks of 500 points each to he played here next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights for Hoppe’s title of world champion at 18.2 billiards. Hoppe announces that Harry Cline of Philadelphia has been agreed upon. Schaefer has objected to the first man named, Levis of Chicago.

FINALS SATURDAY IN JUNIOR MEET City Net Title to Be Decided at Communal Building, The final rounds of th© Boys’ Club city junior basket-ball tourney will be played at the Communal building. 17 VV. Morris St. on Saturday night. Three teams remain in the meet and a semi-final and final contest will be on tbe program. The Boys' Club Fair Plays and the Eagle A. C. will meet in the semifinal gam© at 7:30 p. m. The winner of this game will play the Lauter Boys' Club for the junior title. Th© championship contest will start at 9 p. m. A beautiful trophy goes to the winner. The Fair Plays and Lauter squads will be the guests of Frank C. Jordan, president of the Indianapolis Boys’ Club, at a dinner on March 17.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1923

REGIONAL MEETS GET UNDER WAY AT TITO CENTERS Ft, Wayne and Lafayette Tourneys Start—Manual Tackles Martinsville, Everything was in readiness today at Ft. Wayne and Lafayette for the high school regional basket-ball contests that were to start this afternoon at 1 o’clock. First-round games were on the program today and Saturday morning at Ft. Wayne and Lafayette, where eighteen teams competed. Tbe Bloomington regional, in which only twelve fives play, will start Saturday at 10 a. m. Only one game will be played by each team there. The elimination is so arranged that five teams will com© to th© finals front the two eighteen team regionals and six from the Bloomington meet. The sixteen squads will fight it out for th© State title at the Collesum, State fairground, March 16 and 17. The Indianapolis entry in the regional is Manual High School. The south siders run up against a tough proposition In Martinsville at 4 p. m. today in the Lafayette tourney. Want Basket Games Th© Henninger Memorials want a game for tonight or Saturday. Games are wanted for next week, also. The Memorials play in the 17-18-year-old class. For games call Beech Grove 156, ring 2 and ask for Joe.