Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 209, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1924 — Page 9

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Another jUSUAL FLOCK OF TILLERS CARDED BY COLLEGE FIVES Indiana Gets Second Chance With Badgers Butler Faces Week of Toil. Another busy week is at hand In Hoosier college basketball with Butler leading the way with three hard contests. The Irvington outfit starts out with Oe Pauw at Greencastle Wednesday night, takes on Hanover at the Butler gym Friday night and then plays the Omars at Tomlinson Hail Saturday night. Quite some assignment—three tough ones in four days. Ind.ana University, on its northern trip, plays a return game with Wisconsin tonight at Madison. The Badgois defeated I. U. by two points id the Crimson would like nothing better than to .. . in. Aleanwell’s quintette. The I. U. squad plays at Chicago on Saturday. Purdue Tackles Gophers Purdue, after a week’s strenuous kdrill, will travel to Minneapolis to play "the Minnesota five Saturday. Franklin, State college champs. Is at Earlham Tuesday and at Notre Dame Saturday. Dire threats are being made by both of the Baptists’ opponents about what they are going to do to the Champs, but these things have been heard before. Notre Dame, besides its Franklin battle, goes to Loyola College on Wednesday for a return engagement. Loyola, which lost at South Bend by only one point, doubtless will be “all set” for the Irish One Big Game for Tigers De Pauw's only game is the Butler affair at Greencastle Weincsday Probably the Methodists think that is enough for one week. Huntington takes a trip into Michigan. Detroit College is to be met on Thursday and St. Mary's at St. Mary’s, Mich., on Friday. On the way home Central Normal is met on Saturday night. Hanover meets Wabash early in the week at Hanover. Rose Poly plays at Central Normal on Tuesday and St. V.ator’s comes to Terre Haute on Thursday. In other Saturday affairs Manchester meets Indiana Central College at the University Heights gymnasium and Evansville is at Vincennes. Independent Basketball YOBKTOWN, Ind.. Jan 14—The De J!o j,-s o' Indianapolis defeated the Yorkkown Independents Saturday night. 44 to WZ'-t. It only the th'rd defeat of the locals this feeasno. The visitors played flashy ball. Harmrson was high scorer trith seven fif’d goals and Riley was a star at floor guard. Koons and Dykins were best for the looers. The Communal Five will hook tip with the Oaklandon Independents Tuesday night. The Commun es have been strengthened by the return of Abe Needleman and the addition of Feltman, formerly of Tech High. There will be a final work-out tonight. The De Molays will be met on Wednesday and St. Joe on Sautrday. Games are wanted out of town for the latter part of this month and in February. Write Max G. Goldsmith. 1022 Union St., or call Stewart 2693 after 6 p. m. The Emerson Orio’e Midgets have victories over the Woodruff Baptist Juniors. Shadeland Juniors. Pioneer Club of the Y. M. C. A. and others. The team plays in the 13-14-year-old class and wants games. Call Irvington 1258 and ask for Howard. The Cat’s Paws have won six out of seven starts this season. The team wants games in the 14-16-year-old class. Call Webster 4855 and ask for Manuel. Boys Club Cuba, Pirates and Turquots take notice. BEN DAVIS. Ind.. Jan. 14 —The Indianapolis Y. P. C.s won from the Western A. C.s here Saturday night. 34 to 12. The winners substituted often, using eleven men In the game. Kaltenbaok was high scorer for the winners with six field goals. Turk get four. The various Christa more basketball teams added more victories to their strings Saturday. The A. C.s defeated the High’ahd .Pcks 19 to 17; the Triangles defeated the O-Hara Sans. 23 to 13; the Juniors defeated the Ramb'er Midgete, 25 to 17. For games with the Christamores call Belmont 1175. The O-Hara Sans want games with the W. A. W.s. Communal Cub=. Spades. First United Brethren. Temple Baptist. Hoosier Triangles and Indianapolis Pick-Ups. Write Harod Ransopher. 1207 N. Olney St., or call Webster 1081 and ask for Howard. H The Prest-O-Lite girls' basketball team Fwants games with city and State teams. Address R F. Eddy. ‘’24o W. Washington St.. or call Belmont 4045. The Hottentots girls' basketball team will play the Prest-O-Lite girls’ team Thursday. Jan. 24. A curtain raiser, to be p’ayed by two boys' teams, will start at 7 o’clock, and the girls' game at 8v The games will be played at the Y. W. 0. A.

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Week of Feature Net Games — Wills 9 Manager in Mood to Sign

INDIANA AND BUTLER GO BIG ON FOREIGN FLOORS Crimson Shooters Down Strong Gophers and Pagemep Give Maroons Decisive Defeat —Purdue Is Beaten, The best the Hoosier Big Ten representatives could do on Saturday was get an even break when Indiana “U” defeated Minnesota and lowa won over Purdue, but Butler gave this State the edge by taking Chicago into camp on the Maroons’ own floor.

Yale Captain CAPTAIN HAAS j. / ALE. Eastern intercollegiate I Y j basketball champion last seaI son, hopes to maintain the prestige of the Blue. The Yale five is led by Captain Haas, who also performed in clever fashion on the gridiron for Yale’s great 1923 eleven. TWO CONTESTS ON IN THREE-CUSHION LEAGUE The Lawrenceville (111.) representative in the Indiana-Illinois ThreeCushion Billiard League, Clyde Storer, is in this city for two games. At 3 p. m. today he was to meet Harry Cooler and at 8 p. m. he will play William Curtis at the Cooler No. 1 parlors. Indianapolis needs only one more victory to clinch first piace in the league. Only two more matches are scheduled at the local parlors. The standing Is as follows. Won. Lost. Pet. Indianapolis 20 4 .821 Lawrenceville 14 12 .541 Decatur 1” 14 .463 Champaign 12 16 .427 Tprre Haute 8 20 .287 BILLMIP KEEPSHISCROWN Hoppe Defeats Challenger in 1,500-Point Match, By Times Special EOSTON, Mass., Jan. 14.—Willie Hoppe retained his title of world's champion at 18.2 balk-line billiards Saturday night by defeating Welker Cochran of Los Angeles, 1,500 to 1,189. The champ won the final block by a score of 500 to 346. Hoppe entered the final night’s play with an advantage of 157 points. The title holder at no time in the match was ever behind. He started out strong on Thursday night and won each of the 500-polnt blocks. Billiard Meet riay Off The third-place tie in the State three-cushion billiard tourney will be played off Wednesday night at the Cooler No. 1 parlor between Merrlken and Rubens. Both players finished the meet with six games w r on and three lost. The match will decide third and fourth places.

Leap Year Don’ts

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The Boilermakers ran up against the Hawkeyes when they were having one of those “on” nights and the lon,, shots were whistling through the net The defeat was decisive enough, 3* to 26. Janse and Funk, those two fin lowa netters, tossed ip ten baskets be tween them. The first named wn the high scorer, with six field goal and three from the foul line. Spradling Off Form Gullion bore the brunt of the Pu due offensive with five from the flel Robbins got three two-po nters an two foul goals. Spradl ng could no connect and got only one field goal He dropped in four from the fifteen foot line. The I. U. players needed shave, very badly so they could look pre sentable on Sunday after their threat not to apply the razors until they had won a Conference game, and Minnesota went down at Minneapolis, 29 to 23. The Crimson started off with a rush and piled up an 18 to 8 lead at the end of the first half. The Goph ers came back and played I. U. on even terms in the last half, but it was too late. Ny kos, Logan and Lorber led the assault. Ecklund was the outstanding performer for the losers with six field goals and three fouls. Logan was high-point man for the Hoosiera with nine of the total. Butler surprised Chicago and won, 26 to 15. The locals show’ed a vast improvement over the form shown

TRAGEDY FOLLOWS GOTHAM TRIUMPH OF INDIANA BOXER Frankie Jerome, Beaten by Bud Taylor, Dies, Leaving Widowed Mother, By HENRY L. FARRELL, United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK. Jan. 14.—While the body of Frankie Jerome, young bantamweight boxer, was being removed today to the home of his \y!dowed mother, the youngster who may be held responsible for his death was sleeping peacefully at his apartment. Bud Taylor, blond, skinny youngster from Terre Haute, Ind., with his bride, has been living In the clouds since last Friday night with the feeling that he had delivered in New York and a fortune was theirs. Sorrow With Success

T r p until a late hour this morning he did not know that tragedy went ;uong in step with him when he arose to a position near the top of his class In the big money of New York. “I don’t know how I’ll tell him. He doesn't know It yet," Eddie Long, his manager said. His voice was heavy and It was apparent hlB heart was also. Last Friday night in Madison Square Garden young Taylor got his “first shot” at the big money when he went Into the ring with 24-year-old Frank Doherty, who had made good In the ring under the name of Frankie Jerome. Three pounds heavier and more experienced by far, Jerome was the favorite, but he was beaten down and he collapsed In the twelfth round when the contest had only a little more than a minute to go. Dies After Operation Jerome’s seconds could not revive him and he was rushed to Bellevue hospital. It was thought at first he was merely exhausted and that he would recover after a good rest, but an operation became necessary Sunday and he did not recover. There was a general tendency In official circles today to absolve Taylor of responsibility. Tex Rickard, grieved because It was the first fatality that had happened In a bout under his direction, said Taylor was not to he blamed and that It was just an unfortunate affair. Police are waiting for the official Inquest before they axe to take any action. Jan. 21 Fistic Card The Army and Navy Club has announced Its complete boxing program for the show at Tomlinson Hall Monday night, Jan. 21. Six bouts have been arranged as follows: Main Event. Ten Rounds—Young Strlblinsr, Macon. Ga.. vs. Harry Fay, McKeesport, Pa., at 106 pounds. Semi-Wind-up. Ei<rht Rounds—Eddie Dyer, Terre Haute, vs. Frankie Beal. Muncle. at 128 pounds. Prelim. Eitrht Rounds—Merle Alte, Indianapolis. vs. Midget Guery, Latonia, Ky.. at 124 pounds. Prelim, Six Rounds—Gene La Rue. Montreal, vs. Fighting: Ferrarls, Ft. Thomas, at 118 pounds. Prelim, Six Rounds—Rapid Waters, Ft. Thomas, vs. Bobby Lee, Indianapolis, at 147 pounds. Prelim, Four Rounds—Jazz Harmony, Ft. Ren'amin Harrison, vs. Gene Risk Indianapolis. at 135 pounds. Why Pay More? Hair Cut, 35c None Better at Any Price CURRY’S BARBER SHOPS 120 S. Illinois St. 140 N. Illinois St.

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Golf Fashion T"TI R. AND MRS. GOLFER: ivl You want to be fashionable, don’t you? Well, here is a suggestion that may save you untold an-, guish and embarrassment on the links. Never, never, refer to your iron clubs by such ordinary names as mashie, midiron, pitcher, niblick, etc. in our best golfing circles tjhls is deemed to be poor form. Numbers have come to take the place of these plebeian names. Hence a No. 1 iron is a driving iren, No. 2 a midiron, No. 3 midmashie, No. 4 mashie iron, No. 5 mashie, No. 8 mashie niblick, No. 7 pitcher, No. 8 jigger and No. 9 niblick. Remember in the future the correct form Is as follows: “Boy, my No. 9 Iron, if you please.”

reviously and kept the Maroons way from the basket by a tight dense that forced the losers to try >ng shots. Nipper led the Butler scoring with hree field goals and two free throws, iveach, Hooker and Griggs each .ropped in two from the field. Close One to Irish Notre Dame won another of its onepoint victories over Loyola, 24 to 23. The Irish did not exhibit very good form. Reardon, with four baskets, was high point man for Notre Darqe. A rally In the closing minutes saved the South Bend team from defeat. In this city Central Normal College defeated the N. A. G. U- five, 31 to 24. In other State games Earlham won over Muncie Normal, 33 to 15, and U. of Louisville nosed out Rose Poly, 18 to 16.

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mS the baseball of today faster than the standard of play twenty or thirty years back? That is a question often asked me. While I cannot authoritatively go back thirty years and draw a comparison. I can answer the first part of the query, since last season was my eighteenth year as an American League umpire. • • • To be truthful In my deductions I am forced to declare it a draw. My answer would be yes and no. • ••’** mN a great many respects the gains has Improved, while in others it has retrograded considerably in my opinion. The standard of baseball, like stocks, rises and falls under certain existing conditions. Just off hand tt strikes me that the best ball I have seen in the Jors covered a period extending from 1909 to say 1915. The majors boasted some great teams over that span of MSIBLK COIMGJO CITY Dixie Boxer's Mother to See Fay Bout Here, "Ma" Strjbllng, mother of Young Stribl.ng, Georgia high school phenom, who is matched to box Harry Fay of McKeesport ten rounds at Tomlinson Hall the night of Jan. 21, will come to Indianapolis for the bout, it was announced today. “Ma” Stribling takes an active part in the training of the young Georgia flash and is said to be responsible to a great degree for the excellent condit.on Young Str.bllng always is in when he steps Into the ring. During his fights she takes her position immediately behind his corner and not the slightest move escapes her. She Is said to take a very' active part in directing his r.ng tactics.

Some One Wants Your Service During the coming year many people will be looking for help— { that is, they will want someone To build their new homes for them. To finance them. To furnish them needed information. In fact, there will be a daily demand for service of some sort. Every evening many people will be reading The Times Business Opportunities Columns lookCa | | nig for the man who can Li Lj give them the service they IV/I A * So, if you have a serviVljr\lil ice to offer you will do w T ell OC AA im^er the proper OOUU classification on the Want - Ad Page of The Times.

GREB TO DEFEND TITLE FRIDAY IN NEW YORK SCRAP . Pittsburgh Battler to Meet Johnny Wilson, Former Middleweight Champ, By United Hews NEW YORK, Jan. 14. —An unadulterated fig}*t champion, tor the first time this-season, will defend his title indoors when Harry Greb. the middleweight regent, elects to take potshots next Friday at the enormous nose of Johnny Wilson, from whom he won the title last summer. Both boxers are in-and-outers of the most uncertain caliber. There are times when each loads his punches with tons of punishing power; and there are other times when they seem to fight with their elbows, manacled and Invisible chains dragging their feet. When Wilson lost his title the story was that his too speedy reduction to make the 160-pound limit had sapped his vitality, and that he had about the zest of a soggy buckwheat cake. Wilson has, however, trained carefully for this return fight, and fans are expecting one of those bloody soirees when the two biggest noses In the mldddleweight ranks become rival targets. Greb, however, is given a bit more than an even chance to emerge victorious by the more sophisticated of the dopestrs.

years. Pitching dominated the play and most games were low-score affairs, battles between the twlrlers. • • • Play for n run was the system that most clubs adopled. since the deciding margin in a great many games was a single marker. • * mT always has seemed to me that playing for a rqn brought out more real baseball than trying to get them In clusters. The latter system calls for a slam bang style In which ability to hit them safe is the sole object. Trying to get a run calls for the steal, the sacrifice as well as the htt-and run. The element of take a chance, in an effort to get out In front, called for brainy baseball. In those days base running was one of the big features of the national pastime, • • • Trying to steal a base in the modem game is almost foolhardy, since a run means little or nothing. Nowadays a team doesn’t feel safe with a four-run margin. • • • ABE RUTH, the lively ball, and the system of getting runs in cluster has changed the style of play considerably. The play of today Is entirely different from the policy of twenty years ago. Perhaps the standard Is just as high, but in justice to the stars of those days, and they were real stars, I hardly would say it was better. ; City Billiard Tourney THIS WEEK S Tonbrht —8 o clock, Alh-r. va Thomas. Tuesday—B p. tu.. Wolf vg. Mitchell. Wednesday—o p m.. Rouse vg. Thompson; 8 p. m.. Mitchell vs. Thompson. Thursday—B P- m., Rouse vs. Wolf. Friday—B p. ra.. Lewis vs. Frye. STANDING Won. Lost. Pet. Shane (50) 0 1 .900 Allen 150) 7 2 .777 Frye (6l>l .....,•*••• 0 3 .607 Mitchell (50) 0 3 .667 Wolf (45) 0 8 607 More (40) 7 4 .030 Rouse (46) 5 3 -625 Thomas (401 ..MB 6 5 .500 Johnson '45) 4 7 .363 Lewis (45) . 2 8 .200 Thompson (40) ...... 1 8 111

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ONE OF CHICAGO’S MOST NOTABL E CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SKATING WORLD, HARRY KASKEY, H OLDER OF BOTH THE AMERICAN AND CANADIAN NATIONAL CHA MPIONSHIPS. WILL REPRESENT THE UNITED STATES IN THE OL YMPIC EVENTS AT CHAMOUNIX, FRANCE, THE LATTER PART OF THIS MONTH.

THREE CLUBS IN wee™ deals Red Sox, Cleveland and Detroit Involved, Big baseball deals over the weekend Involved three major league clubs, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland and De troit. First Baseman George Burns, Second Baseman Fewster and Catcher a1 Walter, all of the Red Sox, were traded to Cleveland for Catcher Steve O’Neill, Second Baseman Wambsganss. Pitcher Boone and Outfielder Connolly. Outfielder Bob Veach. sold by the Indianapolis Club to Detroit about eleven years ago. figured in the week end baseball news when Detroit transferred his contract to the Boston Red Sox. Veach is threatening to quit organized baseball If he is not paid $3,000 for changing teams. INDIANS CLAIM PECHOUS Charlie Pechous, Toledo shortstop, was claimed by the waiver route by the Indianapolis club late Saturday. The waiver price is $3,000. Pechous’ strong point is fielding. He accepted more chances than any ether A. A. short stop last season. His batting average was .245.

Healthy Inhabitants Are City’s Most Valuable Asset HEALTHY HUMAN BEINGS, living a full span of active, productive life, are the most valuable capital any city can have. The climate may be pleasant; the scenery may be beautiful; transportation may be good; there may be favorable markets for industry—but unless the people who live in the community are healthy, the value of the other assets is greatly decreased or altogehter lost. PUBLIC HEALTH AUTHORITIES assume a figure of SIO,OOO as the average value of individual human life. Indianapolis, with its population of approximately 350.000, may claim a collective value for its inhabitants of $3,500,000,000, or three times the value of all real and personal property. Length of Human Life Prolonged TWENTY YEARS was the average span of human life in the Middle Ages. The mortality among children was tremendous, and only the strongest were able to run the gantlet of the various forms of death that beset the child. FIFTY-SIX YEARS is the average span of life in America today. Sanitary science has taught the world how to save the child and to prolong the productive period of men and women. TUBERCULOSIS, while still far too great a cause of death, is constantly diminishing. SCARLET FEVER AND DIPHTHERIA, that formerly took a terrific toll of child life, are less prevalent. I ’ ’ ‘ Reduction in Typhoid An Achievement of Sanitary Science THE TYPHOID death rate in Indianapolis, in 1923, was less than 3 per 100,000, the lowest in the history of the city. THIS MEANS that the garbage removal and street cleaning are preventing fly breeding; that f the milk sold in the city is protected by pasteurization, and that the public water supply is amply protecting the health of its users. INDIANAPOLIS WILL DO BETTER, through the removal of privy vaults, and more strict attention to housing conditions, continuing the effective work now being done by the City’s Hea’th Department. Indianapolis Water Company

Saturday Basketball

COLLEGE Butler. 26: Chicago. 15. Central Normal 31: N. A. G. U- 24. lowa. 30: Purdue. 26. Indiana. 29; Minnesota, 23. Wisconsin, 25; North*.estern, 10. Illinois. 27: Ohio State 24. Earlham, 33; Muncie Normal, 15. Notre Dame. 24: Lavo.a. 23. C. of Renn.. 34; Navy. 28. U. of Louisville, 18 Ros- Poly, 16. Army. 31; Swarthmore, 24. Michigan State Norrnai. 29: Detroit. 24, Penn State, 47; Carnegie Tech, 25. Cornell. 17: Dartmouth. 12. St. Joseph's. 28: Culver, 18. Canisius College (Buffalo). 19; John Carroll College (Cl‘ t ■' ' 1 HIGH SCHOOL Newcast’e, 37: Tech. 2",. / Wiley (Terre Haute). 39/Cathedral, 24. Muncie. 53: Kokomo. 33. Bosse (Evansville). 24 Ehberfield, 14. Gr.tnsburg. 55: Kniphtstown. 32. Valley Mills. 19: Southport. 18. Monrovia. 38: Mooresville. 23. Thorntown, 34: Rochester 26. Webb 29; Fountain City, 20. Greenfield, 29 Wilkinson, 20. Mt. Comfort. 30; Lawrence, 27. Jefferson ' Lafay-tt-) 39: Franklin, 22. I.opftnsport. 33; Peru. 26. Elkhart, 35: Goshen. 23. FortvlPe. 17: Daleville, 15. TIPTON COl NTY TOURNEY Winslow, 11; Kempton 5. Sharpsville. 24: Prairie. 9. Windfall. 31; Goldsmith. 16. Kempton. 24: Prairie 18 Kempton. 9 Goldsmith. 8. Sharpsville 23 w • 0 'll 14 BROWNSBCRG TOURNEY Short ridge. 21: Ben Davis 19. Brownsburg. 25; Hopewell. 18. Brownaburg. 40: Shortrldge 30. Ben Davis Girls. 13: Brownsburg Girls, 9 Annual Skating l>rby CHICAGO. Jan. 14.—The Alverno Athletic Club won the thirty-second annual skating derby of the Northwest Skating Club Sunday with 150 points.

FIRPD, DEMPSEY OFFERS ATTRACT PADDYILLINS Believes Bout Between Harry and Luis Would Prove Enormous Card, By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—Offers made by Tex Rickard to Harry Wills for bouts with Luis Firpo and Jack Dempsey, said to total $300,000, have not been rejected and probably will be accepted, Paddy Mullins, manager of Wills, said today. “I am holding out for a percentage rate of pay instead of a flat guarantee.” Mullins said. “We are to have several meetings this week, after which - I feel sure we will reach an agreement.” Mullins feels, he said, that Wills would draw as much against Firpo and Dempsey as Dempsey and Firpo drew at the Polo Grounds last st.mxn ■ and that he could get more money for Wills if he worked on a percentage. DEATHS OCCUR IN THREE DIFFERENT SPORT LINES Boxing, Hockey and Steeplechase Racing Collect Toll Over Week-End. The week-end collected a death toll of three in the spoil world, the fatalities occurring in three different athletic branches. Frankie Jerome, New York bantam boxer, died Sunday of causes resulting partly from his losing the bout with Bud Taylor of Terre Haute, Ind., in New York Friday night. Harold Reese, Asheville, N. C-, a member of the Princeton University freshmen hockey team, died Sunday from an injury received during a hockey game Saturday. Capt G. H. Bennett, England’s leading steeplechase rider, died in London Sunday from injuries received in a fall from his horse during a race Dec. 27. Capt. Bennett last year rode the American horse, Sergeant Murphy, to victory In the grand national steeplechase, England’s hurdle classic. OLD-TIMER DONS GLOVES Harry Gilmore Celebrates Title Bout of 37 Years Ago. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 14. —Harry Gilmore, champion of Canada forty years ago, gave an exhibition bout here today to celebrate his championship battle with Jack MeAuiiffe thirty-seven years ago. Gilmore will be 70 years old March 9.

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