Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 263, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1924 — Page 9

MONDAY, MARCH. 17,1924

All-State High School Selections—Bush Gets in Shape for Shortstop Job

TWO MARTINSVILLE NET STARS ON FIRST TEAM Bedford, Frankfort and Connersville Represented Close Choice for Positions in Some Cases. By DICK MILLER Indiana, the center of the basketball universe, today proclaims i he Martinsville high school team the best net machine in the State, Liberty Center. Connersville, Bedford and Frankfort teams aside the Artesian City boys left no doubt as to their supremacy in the tourney which ended Saturday at the Coliseum.

. Thousands of fans who saw the sixteen games at the Coliseum in the two-day tournament probably will say the Martinsville team did not have he best basketball players in the State in every position. Agreeing with the las: statement it has been a difficult task to select twenty-three men from the 119 boys who exhibited their wares and separate them into three teams and a list of honorable mention positions as the Times All-State honor list. Five-Men Teams Five-men teams were selected because in our estimation they constitute the regulation number of players in any contest. Almost strict ad herence to choosing the men from the positions they played was also followed. s’elf of Bedford it will be noted jumped center, and then moved to a forward position. For Richmond Johanning jumped center, but played the back guaru position. They were regarded as forward and back guard respectively. Robinson of Connersville was probably the most finished center that has piayed in a high school tournament in years. Wherever his team needed him he played to perfection, a truly great defensive and offensive man, as well as a leader. Cummins is selected over Brown by the narrowest of margins, because of his great showing in the Richmond game Brown likewise played great ball in every game, but loses for second choice by the narrowest margin. Self and Wright Self of Bedford and Wright of Martinsville have the finesse of two great forwards. Those who saw thenwork both under the hoop and out on the floor will agree they have a margin over the others, although •slight. Wright averaged four field goals each game while Self was the offensive strength of the Stone City crew. W. Schnaiter of Martinsville gets the call over Kessler of Richmond, the Gimbel prize winner, for floor guard position because he can shoot baskets. Kessler is the better dribbler and floor worker, but can t hie the hoop. Good of Frankfort, a steady, heady player, was a main cog in the Frankfort machine, but has a very slight margin over Ridge of Connersville. Pogue of Frankfort is almost a unanimous choice for back guard. Like Skinner of Bedford, he had to stand back under the hoop and watch the eagle eye sharpshooters of Martinsville hit from the center of the floor and farther out. Under the hoop Martinsville could do little ‘with either of them. R. Schnaiter, a hard fighter and a good long shot, is placed on the third team.

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BUTLER NETTERS COME BACK HOME A. A. MiIONS Hoosier Five Defeats K. C. Club in National Tourney— Piayed Great Ball. The Butler College basketball squad is heme again and with a halo of glory about their heads —winners of the National A. A. U. championship held at Kansas City last week. Defeat K. C. Club Their last game at Kansas City resulted in a victory of 30 tc 26 over J he Kansas City Athletic Club, the runner-up of the tournament. “The versatility of the team was responsible for this victory,” said Coach Pat Page. “It was the best brand of basketball I have ever seen in my fifteen Vcars as a coach.” In the final game, with but three minutes of play left, the score was tied at 26-all. Nipper dribbled through the entire Blue Diamond team and slipped a scorer in for the Bulldogs. Jones, with a follow-in shot, brought the Butler seore to 30. National Champs The gun sounded shortly after and Butler College was the National A. A. U. champion. The Butler boys were guests of the Kansas City Athletic Club at a banquet following the game. GriggS was lauded as the greatest player of the meet. Wallie Middlesworth, Nipper and Keqch came in for many complimentary remarks.

Final Big Ten Standing

Won. Lott. Pet. Chicago 8 4 .167 Illinois 8 4 .617 Wisconsin 8 4 .667 Purdue 7 5 .583 Ohio State 7 5 583 Indiana 7 5 553 Michigan 6 6 500 Minnesota 6 7 .417 lowa 4 8 .333 Northwestern 0 12 .000

PADDOCK REINSTATED? Rumor Has Champion Sprinter Rack in Good Graces of A. A. U. By United Press NEW YORK, March 17.—Reinstatement of Charlie Paddock, world’s champion sprinter, reported as certain by the United Press several weeks ago, has been approved by the Amateur Athletic Union, according to rumor. With the exception of Verne C. Lacey, St. Louis, the members of the committee appointed to investigate and consider the changes made against Paddock’s amateur standing have voted to restore him to good standing, it was reported.

Family of New Red Manager to Remain Here

Jack Hendricks, former manager of the Indianapolis club In the American Association, who, following the death of Pat Moran, was appointed manager of the Cincinnati National League Club has his home here and his family will remain In

BABE TO BUST ’EM OUT, LAST WORD FROM CAMP

Bambino Will Disregard Finesse for Slugging Tactics of Old —Ruth Wants Additional Home Run Glory. By JOE WILLIAMS NEW ORLEANS, March 17.—Several years back the Sunday editor of a Cleveland paper sent this writer out to the American League park in that city to get a feature story about Babe Ruth. “Ask him to tell you the secret of his tremendous hitting.” prompted the genius of the editorial floor.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Times All-State H. S. Net Teams

Forward Forward ........ Center Guard Guard

Honorable Mention —Forwards: Applas (Shelbyville), Gibson (Anderson), Flannigan (Connersville). Centers: Leonard (Rochester), Hodges (Shelbyville). Guards: Ridge (Connersville), Hasfurder (Wiley), Huffman (Liberty Center).

Indianapolis, according to present plans. Hendricks is shown above with Mrs. Hendricks, and their sons, James Francis Hendricks, 9, above, and John Charles Hendricks, Jr., 24, below.

Ruth was than In the midst of his j first proat batting orgy, the one which lifted him to the top of the world as the game's most remarkable homo-run swatter. I asked Ruth ‘he question In the editor's precise words. The Rabe was knocking long flies to the outfield at the time and perspiring Yankee athletes pulled the drives down against the concrete wall In deep midfield. "I Just Bust 'Em” "I Just bust 'em.” answered the Rabe, with a laconic finality that would have shamed Maupassant himself. The reader will recall that the Babe continued to bust 'cm with groat frequency and ferocity for a couple of seasons to come. But last year and the year before the Babe did not go In for busting exclusively. Rather he took his hits as they came regardless cf size or character. Wants His Home Runs Matters may be a bit different with the Babe this year; he confides privately that he prefers busting in its crude, elementary’ forms to the higher and more polished elcmeqts of offense, known generally as plain base hitting. In short, the Babe cares not who leads the league In hitting If he may gather additional glory as a homerun hitter. Ruth has a perfectly logical notion that Ban Johnson's new policy of keeping balls slightly soiled and not too badly nicked In play will help him build up anew home-run record. Fewer Bases on Balls “I think the pitchers will pitch to me oftener with the old balls than they did with the new ones,” says the Babe. "The pitchers are supposed to attain greater effect!veness . with discolored balls and that should encourage them to take more chances with the dangerous hitters. "I am certainly willing to gamble with them. They walked me 170 times last year. Let ’em cut that number In half this year and see—well, see if I don’t get more than forty-one anyway." For the benefit of the stupid children in the back row It is repeated that the Babe made forty-one homers last year, and was tied with Cy Williams of the Phillies for the season’s honors. CITY BASEBALL LEAGUE Organization Moling to Be Held Thursday Night. At a meeting at the Ern-Roe Store, Thursday at 7:80 p. m. plans for organizing the city baseball league, playing Saturday afternoon ball, will be gone over. The following teams probably will enter the league: American Central Life Insurance Company; Martin Parry Body Corporation: John Hancock Insurance Company; Imperial Drop Forge; Traders Live Stock Exchange and ihe Ideal Furniture Company.

First Team Self (Bedford) Wright (Martinsville) Robinson (Connersville) W. Schnaiter (Martinsville) Pogue (Frankfort)

Second Team Muey x (Richmond) Holz (Frankfort) Cummins (Frankfort Kessler (Richmond) Skinner (Bedford)

State Tourney Scores

FIRST ROUND Frankfort. 24. Franklin. 18. Kl'-limnud. 41. South Side (Ft. Wayne) Wiley (Terre Haute). 35 Michigan City. Rochester. 30; Shelbyville. 21 Bedford 35: Anderson. ,4 North Manchester 34 lotransport, 26. * Connersville. 35; Otterbein. 21 Martinsville. 3b: Liberty Center. 23. SECOND ROUND Frankfort. 29. Hichmond. 24 Wiley (Terre Haute IK Rochester, 14. Bedford. 37; North Manchester, 27. Martinsville. 31; Connersville, 33. SEMI-FINALS Frankfort 19 Wiley (Terre Haute). 0. Martinsville. 31; Bedford. 15. FINAL Martinsville. 36; Frankfort. 30.

CLEVELAND TEAM COPS m. LEAD Bu United Press CHICAGO, March 17.—Herblus In- | dlans, a five-man from Cleveland, I topped the list In the American Bowling Congress tourney here today by rolling the first 3.000 series of the meet. Busting the pins for scores of 972. 972 and 1,100 for a total of 3.044 In the last shift Sunday night, the Cleveland team not only moved Into first place, but set the high score for ■ a single game. Arrow Oils No. 2. another Cleveland team, rolled 2,975 In ■ the last shift and Jumped into third ! place In the five-man competition. ! The Lincoln Idles, from Ft. Wayne, Ind., winners of the five-man event ! two years ago, moved Into eighth po- j sltion with 2,943. The other leaders 1 clung to their positions. Dingwell and Scribner, Detroit, hit j the maples for 1,307 and took first j place In the doubles. No changes were made In the sin j gles event, Billy Kalr, Chicago, still j holding the lead with his 732. BIG TEN IN TRIPLE TIE By United Press CHICAGO, March 17. —By defeating Chicago, 30 to 14, Saturday night, Wls j consin threw the leadership of Big j Ten basketball into a triple tie. A win for Ch’cago would have given the | Maroons the undisputed champion- | ship. Northwestern did not win a I single game.

Training Camp Chatter

LOS ANGELES—BiII Killefer thinks hr has made a find In Joe Kush. The recruit pitened In their game with Eos Angeles and cave just ont hit in the eight innings he staged in the game. The Cubs won 10 to 3. SARASOTA. Fla.—The White Sox and Giants wore to battle it out here today. It is the first real gams of tus season for the Chicagoans. NEW ORLEANS—Bob Meusol’s arrival from California completed the squad of New York Yankees in training here. Meusel has not signed his contract and admits “there Is a difference." CLEARWATER. Fla.—Only a few of the rookies were around the Brooklyn training camp today. Manager Robinson and seventeen of the players were in Leesburg toying with the Phils. Jack Fournier, veteran first baseman, is still missing. SAN ANTONIO—BiII Piercy, holdout pitcher, signed anew contract yesterday, malting the Boston Red Sox squad complete. ST. PETERSBURG. Fla.—The Boston Braves started today on a schedule of five straight games with major league clubs. AUG IST A. Ga.—Deciding Georgia Bine laws couldn’t interfere with nnict.ee. Manager Ty Cobb sent his Tigers through a twohour batting and fielding drill, using fourteen pitchers to feed the sluggers. BRADENTOWN. Fla.—Pour exhibition games this week will help Branch Rickey cut out some of the fifty pitchers, who have been trying out for the Cardinals The Cards will play the White Sox Tuesday, tho Giants Wednesday, the Phillies Thursday and on Saturday the Senators at Tampa. MOBILE. Ala—Shocker. Panforth and Bayne held the Mobile Bears to three hits, apd the Browns won their first exhibition game, 4 to 0. here Sunday. Shocker didn't open up with his spit ball. ORLANDO, Fla.—hie Reds were to celebrate St. Patrick’s day in playing the Cleveland Indians this afternoon at Lakeland. With the arlval tomorrow of Adolfo Luque, crack hurler the Red roster will be complete. Jack Hendricks, manager of the Reds, has decided to sign "Greasy" Neale as asrkitant and scout.

K. C. BLUES LOSE TWO Coast League Champs Win Both Gantts of Sunday Pastime. SAN FRANCISCO, March 17.—The Seals made it two for the day, when they defeated the Kansas City Blues in the Sunday afternoon contest, 9 to 8. The morning fray was won by a score of 6 to 2. The Blues drove Shea from the box early in the game, but the* local club staged a raily in the fifth and lacked but one run to tie the count. In the eighth the Seals pounded Teslte for four' runs and the visitors scored twice in the ninth when Geary showed sign of wildness.

Third Team Deardoi-f (N. Manchester) Alexander (Wiley) Brown (Martinsville) Good (Frankfort) R. Schnaiter (Martinsville)

H. A. C. BOXERS WIN THREE FIRSTS AT GARY IH SHOW

Local Athletes Make Good at A. A, U, Event —Kepner Defeats Champ, By Times Special GARY, Ind., March 17.—The Hoosier A. C., with three firsts and three thirds, made an excellent showing at the middle west A. A. U. boxing tour nament here Saturday n.ght. Gary won the team title with 23 points. The Hoosier A. C. was second with IS. Kepner w r on the feature bout by de feating Simons of Gary, the national welterweight champ. Another Indianapolis athlete. Royal Cox, Brightwood A. C., won the flyweight championship from Mike Dudac. Gary, by default. Hoosier A. C. firsts: Lawrence Pruitt, bantamweight; ‘Marion Kepner, welterweight; George Mulholland, lightweight; thirds, Allen Watson, flyweight; Ray Dodd, lightweight; Alexander Bush, middleweight. Other final results: lightweight—Jimmy Klump, Cincinnati, defeated Virgil Devault Indiana University. Middleweight—Patrick Conroy. Notre Dame forfeited to Stanley Jones, Gary. Featherweight—John Zaie. Gary "i ." defeat,si Tanaraok, Arcade gymnaisum. Chicago.

STARS MAT WIN OLYMPIC BERTHS Hu I'nited \etes CHICAGO. March 17.—Sensational performances by Big Ten track and field men in the Western Conference meet here Saturday night assure them of berths on tho Olympic teams, experts declarj. Dean Brownell of the University of Illinois astonished the huge crowd gathered to watch the events by a mark of 13 feet, % inches In the pole vault. This mighty leap broke the world's Indoor record. Mel Hall, of the University of Illinois, ran a fast indoor mile, making the distance in 4.23 3-5, which bettered the former Big Ten record of 4.24 made by A. H. Mason in 1916. Another conference record was broken by Eddie Micher, the Illinois distance runner, who made the twomile In 9.41.

Now Showing VIOLET MERSEREAU “THE SHEPHERD KING” SPAT FAMILY COMEDY “THE POLITICAL PULL” PATHE NEWS LESTER HUFF AND THE CHARLIE DAVIS ORCHESTRA Playing •'MUSICAL ROMANCE” APOLLO Another Great I.ove Romance, by the Author of “The Sheik.” “THE SHADOW OF THE EAST” With Frank Mayo, Mildred Harris ■Did an AH-Star Cast. ANIMAL COMEDY “MONKEY A LA MODE” Jack Tllson, New Songs; Virgil Moore's Apollo Orchestra.

THE LOVERS IN “BUCK OXEN" ; la * Splendid Socletr Dram* Directed In John Dillon, The Man Who Mads "Flaming Youth” A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE Overture "CHOPIN I AN A** Violin Solo by Edward Resea or BAKALEINITAOFF Conducting Other Circle Features Coming Sunday MILTON SILLS ANNA 4. NILSSON i In Rex Beach’s . "FLOWING GOLD"

TRIBE BOSS IS WORRIED ABOUT INFIELD POSITION Scrub Games on Program as Pitchers Start to Let 0 Jt — Cleveland Exhibition Tilt Tuesday, By EDDIE ASH Times Sports Editor PLANT GlT'i. Fla., March 17.—As the Indians went into their third week of spring training today Manager Bush let it be knowu that he would start using higiself on the infield often as his.duties would allow. The .Tribe boss is worried about the shortstop position and lie intends to get in shape to perform regularly on the infield in order to protect the team in case Johnny Hodapp fails to deliver satisfactorily.

EXHIBITION NET GAME Meteors-Prest-O-Lites Meet at West Side Community House. The Meteors will meet the I'rt.iC-O-Lites tonight in an exhib.tion game to be piayed at the West Side Community House. The Meteors were winners of the West Side Sunday School League. Proceeds will help toward the purchase of a pipe organ to be installed at the W. Washington St. M. E. Church. The Piralas will the Em-Roe Juniors in a curtainraiser.

ARTESIAN CITY TO HONGRCHAMPIONS By I'nited Press MARTINSVILLE. Ind.. March 17. After thirty-six hours of unrestrained rejoicing, citizens of Martinsville today started arrangements for a formal celebration in honor of the victory of the Martinsville basketball team, the dark horse of the State tourney which j galloped through to victory Saturday night. Huge bonfires were lighted in the courthouse square Saturday night while staid old residents joined the younger generation in an informal parade through the streets.' Factory whistles were blown and church bells rung. When the team arrived from Indianapolis it was the signal of a fresh outburst of enthusiasm. The boys were carried through the streets on the shoulders of the mob to their homes. Date for the formal celebration will be announced soon. All business will be suspended on that day and civic organizations, school authorities and the entire populace will join In doing honor to the team. LAKELAND, Fla.—The Cleveland Indians were to play the Cincinnati Red- here todav. Manager Speaker will use pitchers Coveleskie, Uhle. Edwards. Sbaute and Sherry Smith.

AMUSEMENTS

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Bush has not given up hopes of Hodapp developing, but he realizes the risk a club takes when It has a mere youth guarding the shortfield and he wants to be ready to jump in there at the least signs of a breakdown. Bush has improved Hodapp’s style of throwing and is confident the lad can bat, but the Cincy boy’s leg work has not been loose enough to satisfy the Tribe manager. High-class shortstops are scarce articles, but Bush is keeping his eyes on many other baseball camps and will not overlook an opportunity to snare a prospect. The Indians rested over Sunday, but were prepared to resume strenuous action today. They meet the Cleveland Americans here Tuesday and desire to give Speaker’s heavy hitting aggregation a struggle worth watching. Manager Bush is to start scrub games in practice.

GOLF SEASON IS OPENED m 1924 Bn I'nited Press NEW YORK, March 17.—While there is no such thing as an official opening of the season, the golf year really starts today with the Bellair amateur championship and the tournament at Summerville, S. C. From now until late September the schedule has tournaments in progress nearly every day. The only important change made in the schedule advanced the American open championship to June 5 and 6. The woman s championship was also advanced two weeks ahead of its usual place on the schedule.

AMUSEMENTS “RECEIPT IN FULL” A 4-art fun least, presented by the LINCOLN PLAYERS This week; twice dally, 3:15-8:15 LINCOLN SQUARE All This Week “Big Sensation” Real Burlesque ALL THIS WEEK Twice Daily—2:ls and 8:15 A Keal Treat for All I RADIO-GIRLS With That Inimitable Comedian. BILLY GILBERT B—BIG VAUDEVILLE ACTS—WHERE THE CROWDS GO! LYRICW A. ROBBINS THE WALKING MUSIC SHOP Gates & Lee McGowan & Knox “Stateroom 19“ | “Out of Gas*' ELSIE & PAULSEN DANCING ON ICE SKAIES BURKE, BARTON & BURKE THE PRINCE OF SLANG WERNER AMOROS TRIO “MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING” 4FANTINO A SISTERS “■* SPECTACULAR AERIAL REVUE BEN TURPIN COMEDY “TEN DOLLARS OR TEN DAYS” First Episode of the New Serial Production, “The Telephone Girl,'* Dancing Fn the Lyric Ballroom Afternoon and Evening;