Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 192, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1924 — Page 11
SATURDAY. DEC. 20, 1924
Collegians Advised to Pass Up League Baseball Unless They’re Sure of Reaching Stardom
I By BILLY EVA NS A I’A Herrin' Writer “I" _ 1 S it worth while for a 001-111 111 lege player to consider I * I the professional game?” Jack Blott. All-America center at Michigan University and varsity baseball star during his college days, put that question to me during a recent fanfest. Blott is a catcher. He was a Hit? star at college, a great hitter. Cin-
BUTLER BASKET SQUAD GOING ‘BIG' ON JOURNEY Pagemen Down Two Big Te n Teams and Blizzard During Feature Trip—Wisconsin Is .Defeated 22 to 16. !So far on its trip tin* Butler basketball team lias won three victories. Two of them have been over Big Ten net squads and the other over a good old-fashioned hliz; ard. After defeating lowa Thursday night. l2b to 22. the next battle was with an lowa storm. It was another triumph for the I’agemen, who arrived in Madison. Wis.. Friday just in rim.* to trot out on the hardwood and chalk up their third win over the University of Wisconsin. 22 to lti.
CHICAGO IS FIRST STOP FOR N. 0. Rockne's Gridders Are on Way to Far West. Hie United Pre.se CHICAGO, Dec. 20. —Thirty-two players along with Core-h Rockne and Tom Ideb, his assistant, and Student Manager Leo Sutcliffe, steamed into Chicago today. It was the first leg on their flight to the Pacific Coast, where they face Stanford. New Year’s day. New Orleans will be the next stop and the “four horsemen” will limber up Monday in the Crescent City Hockne plans to turn loos** a shower of passes against the Westerners. The one Stanford game w hieh wax scouted by the Irish showed them weak in that department, lie - tied. Captain Admit Walsh’s injuries may prevent his playing. Hurt early In the season, he was again humped in the Northwestern and Carnegie Tech games and he has been sorely hampered during practice scrimmage.
ANDERSON DELIVERS IN CONTEST WITH KOKOMO Stages’ High School Netters Win. 55 to 42—Vincennes Has Task in Defeating Shelbyville Squad. Dope ran fairly true to form in over-the-State high school basketball games Friday night. It showed the usual spectacles of some teams improving, while others were slumping. There were one-point decisions where fortune smiled on some and frowned on others and lop-sided triumphs where the main interest centered in the size of the score.
There were disappointments and pleasant surprises for the fans crowding into the gyms in spite of near-zero weather. In snort, it was a typical Friday night in the Hoosier State. Anderson came up to ihe fondest hopes of its follow -* s who have been predicting Stagg's team was steadily Improving. Kokomo met defeat at the new Anderson gym. T,', r, qj. (hop Oneal Shelbyville Vincennes had more trouble at Shelbyvilia than was expected in one of those high score games in which one team throws in bask-Hs just a little faster than the other. The score was 44 to 41. Two strong teams dashed when Rochester and Logansport get together. and only one point separated thp two clubs at the end. Roches- - r had the advantage at 23 to 22. Mancie kept going with a victoryover Newcastle, 32 to 22. Rushville stepped on it at Connersville to win easily. 35 to 23. Frankfort and Franklin The strong Frankfort crew had no trouble at Lebanon and turned in a 47 to 17 win. In an exciting contest, which was close all the way, Franklin came from behind to nose out Columbus at the Franklin gym, 25 to 23. It wa anybody’s game to the final gun. The biggest score recorded was the Greenfield S2-to-14 count over Spiceland. 'Washington swamped l'lainville in another topheavy count, SO to 13. One overtime went to Plymouth against Mishawaka. 26 to 25. One game was forfeited when Colfax left the floor at Darlington. Darlington was in the lead at the time in the second half, 23 to 13, Mariams and Aggies Hu l nitre! Press CHICAGO. Dec. 20.—Coach Nets Norgren’s Maroons fac* the Michigan Aggies tonight in the locals’ first big game of the season.
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rinnati signed him on his graduation from Michigan last June. He finished the remainder of the year with the Ileds. Blott is the property of the Cincinnati club.' If he continues in big league baseball it must be with that team. His contract was for one year only, so that he must shortly do business with the Cincinnati club if he intends to play next season.
That s a nice record, but the local collegians are not satisfied. There is still work to do. still another conflict just ahead. Marquette is next on the program tonight at Milwaukee. If another victory can be chalked up the journey will have been a veritable triumphal march. Two Stars Out The showing of Butler has been all tli>* more noteworthy because of the absence of two stars. Captain Griggs and Marker. Griggs is bothered by his bad shoulder dislocated in foot ball and Marker had a leg injured in practice which has kept him on the belli h. Both made the trip. Hal got in for a little* while at Wisconsin, hut could Pcit do much. Marker lias not been in the line-up. Keach and Oolway have taken care of the biack guard job in good style while Wakefield and Konold have worked well it cent* r. The showing of tin sophomore pair. Christopher and Wakefield, has been the encouraging feature of the victories. They have come through in great shape. Also. K-.uth has delivered in sensational form both on defense and offense. ( mile From lioliind At Wisconsin Friday Butler came from behind after trailing at the i half. 10 to 5. The Badgers always | have a great defense, but the locals managed to break through in the ! final period for the winning points. Beach and Christopher led the soor- | ing for the Irvington netters with i three field goals each. Paul conjtributed the only other goal from the | field.
Friday Basketball Results
rOLI.EGK I- ranklin IB I‘ur.lu*- a* hat e r . W - |*; v t/out* I 21 Iboivili* Normal HI. N-Itro Damp, t: Northwestern HI Mo I "'i'a' " ,i W ; (Bhliictoi* L -St. Louis. Cluk^ta*" 1 ' 4" Louisville iKv i PasUnmclllLH SC HOOL Manual. 21 . Gn-encastlr tci shortn-lcr-. 44, lir-xd Ripiiie -JO r* *-hnii ii 2y Merton < Richmond). TO. if i7i .0 Cloven!air. 0 ?*AJiuiiffton *Ttf: Centra! Catliolic (Ft. A r?“ i Scopn'lg 44 Tfamson, Ohio. 20. A: tierson. ."o Kokomo. 4Z Anderson seconds, ‘it#: Kokomo senondi. V 44 Shelhnnllc 41 hn:*nUtown. 51 Cadiz 27 J; r c -nsfounr 35: Ho:h>u.4l 54 v- -? N • -a ton. 41: ZionavilJfv .!() .lamentown. £il: Brownsbunr. 1 4 K-shvihc .‘IS Conncrsvillo 22 omi* M s * Y ‘ onds 18 Rushville rr>L/U> -l 27; Fairmomit. 25 Ko< r 2.4 Loixansport. 22 • ecunrts * 17 Rochester *ecHartf..nl Otv s#s Wabaah. 29. :!.*{ Raleigh 2J4 Munci* ;J 2: alumni. 4t>. Li funTstowii k r ina lort. 47: Ix*banon. !7 kn,V!!L! n } H c- H;t r' seconds, I♦. ;t ~nn,T ; dl • Smithvil!# 2 A V 4: ‘ D * ‘V* s umniif.vilic .24 Owe a. ate 4 ; ! Ml Olvmmis 22. L lot 2 t Montlieiirj- 15 Monrovia ,°. Moorrsviil®. ;to Li*ioK.i, 2.2 Ki.wrrg. 18. on-!!‘ f ? 0 s, ‘ 14: Darlington aae-Sw-™S on^ 2: P° lf!x - 0 HorfeUf. sw.*>iPr 7- Oae City. 15 N„>,:, s Vl |!,, .10 Tintori. 20 s ’> n, nan J 7. Bstesvlfip 54 \|n all 5, ./iti-svillr girjg 27 „ lr | s to Ci.n.T'. r ", n am4miat Tnuu!' ls" "* F,uinw ' V -'- T r 5,.:.r ..,T l4 ! ' u " : 4 L-ndleio,,. 40; Mash.nfto" 80: (‘lamviiß. 1;. -i-foniir I 11 ™ 1 * Croihrrsviiir. 16. • reenwotid. 4„: li<-p<-h drove. 27 Vr;”' I '".., 10 ,, Yarikeetown. 0. Mi-lord. 46: Bremen, is 38 Lynvllle. 10. J 2 ' Albany 1.. Lout.ivill,- -K.v l Male. Alh wr seeonda 2 s Mareneo 26 Sheridan. .12 Ci<sf*ro. 'UJ. Browntoun. T 2. Oolitic ’ 1° Plymouth. 26; Mishawaka 25 (oyerlimp, j Culver sec .nils. 16 ; Plymouth see,.nils, n I 1 *P‘Oh seconds. 20; Nobtesville eeeonda. Frankfort seconds. 17; Lebanon s-e----onds 11 . Center Drove. 24; Southport "1 Union City. 24: Portland 21 !. in oilier. 28 Columbia City 30 Seottshurg-. 28: Madison. 15 11 niton. 34 On want. 21 Flora 31 . Camden, 25. Monti--elio 2!>: Delphi. 23. Coriser. 28; Oalveston. 24 I. :- ■ - .1 W.istimuton 16 North Manchester. 29: Bippus, 10.
Nurmi’s Race /?v "w ? tPrr*tt rrriHw york. Dec. 20. I With the entry of Deo L__J of Holy Cross in the special 8,000-meter race at the Finnish American sanies in which Paavo Nurmi will meet America's fleetest distance men. the list closed for the event in which the marvelous Finn makes his first appearance here. Willie Ritola. Joie Ray. Lloyd Hahn. Jimmy Connelly and Walter Higgins are others who are in the race.
There are many IFS to the question that Blott put to me. Ability, love of the game and other business prospects must be considered, when the question of baseball as a livelihood is up for a decision. As I told Blott, I believe it is a waste of time for a player with just enough ability to stick around to consider big league baseball as a career. If a college player has all the
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SKATED. LEFT TO RIGHT—SANFORD, H.Wi.MKSoN'. ST EVENS BEHIiKNT EARLY. STAND ING IN BACK. LEFT TO RIGHT— JACKMAN, O. .1. lIKI.MIAHDT, OiACli WHITE.
mi IK Hoosier A. C. basketball team has been showing good form recently and has a heavy sehed file ahead. The f->-ture game of he local card is Do Pauw here in January. Sanford, former Indiana ITniver-
DODGER MANAGER IN BAO SHAPE Robinson Under Knife at Baltimore Hospital, 11'/ ! nitrd /'rets BALTIMORE. Dec 2". -An op.-i atl<>n was to lx* p*-rfnrm-! to,lay a, Wlllrt H. Hobinson, manager <>f tie* Brooklyn IBnig-rs, at Union Memorial Hospital to relieve a mn iliiion resulting from pleurisy, which developed dining it hunting trip in tlie South more than u mouth ago. STAR CUEIST IS ILL Lung Trouble Forres Pierre Mini'>o ■ t () ( heek l’iaying. Hll United Press i.. ... Dec. 20.—IMerre .Man pome. -ink t 'hteago billiard player, lias (teen forced to r**tire from tingame. at least temporarily, because of lung trouble. He will return to his home in Mexico City some time next week.
S' : Hiv in TV Clinton. 23. € rr Irf 1 - .{. 3 n. rrinf'ftfirii *ls on 2 it. rnwiil. i 8 Ai'Xitnir.i 28 SumniJtvJUc .’4 N-w London 33 n.v Towuii/np. 18. 13 I)c*r Cn-fit. 17 You?i*r A nu'Tirik. 4 .’; How.ml Townahip. F.*iton 3<> Dilf*vil!c J 7 Winch* 1 ?f<T 28: Saratop'i, is Brownsville. 5 Katon tOMoi 33. Hrmiuirton 50 U< naselaor 15 Dccauir. 32 : l*r*iirivill> 23 Oxford. 17 An-I'M 17 Boston it] Milton. 20. ItOA'fS.th'. 28. Mecca M 2. Van Hurt n .'l2 H ‘ 22 fV'drna 3 Mimic q 20; Chrism inn. 5 Ciav i,ii\ ,’h Gi- nn. 17. Ooalmont 22 liilrv 7 Df-sota • >5; Matthew* 27 Van ilurcn. 51. (/rwntown. 24. Whitewater. 34; Fountain City. 24. Normal 33: Prairie Creek. ]}. Franklin. 2.; Columbus, 23. Frankton 34. M;rkb vllle. 32. Centerville 31 F.irtvillc 11* Kikhart 12. Goshen. 12 fVeatur Catholic 31 St Mary3* 12 Hock Creek U: Huntington Township, 8. Carlisle 27; F rich ton, is Carlisle Girls 42 Frichton Girls. 30. Tirrw Win: cm vi \ toi itvi;v. < First Koinui ) Went Cop t 42 Honmcy. 11 Montmormci VI Jack non township IO W* a ‘.'4 (Carrier; Comer 2. Stok will, 20. Ciurkshill, 2. LEWIS TOSSES M’GILL Mat Champion Clamps on lieatllock and Opponent “Goes Out.” Up I nitrd press ROCHESTER. N. Y.. Dec. 20. The headiock of Ed (Strangler) Lewis. wrestling champion. still holds its sway. Five in rapid sue cession, damped hy L<'.vis. on itye head of Pat McGill, the Nebraskan, brought victory to the champion Friday night at Convention Hall after one hour, 38 minutes and 41 seconds of grappling. McGill was unable to continue for the second fall. Mt. Auburn Cnjs Up Times Sprrinl EDINBURG, Ind . Dec. 20. — Mt. Auburn. a rival of Edinburg High School, left town with a 42 to 26 victory over the locals Friday night. Ml. Auburn had a stellar scorer in L. Frean. who made eight baskets from the Held. Auburn had a wide margin at the half, leading 29 to 9. Three-Cushions Rowan defeated Cooper, 45 to 25, Friday night in the city handicap three-cushion cue meet at the Board of Trade parlors. The match went ninety-nine innings. Both were playing for forty-five points. Net Game Cancelled The game between the Riverside Meteors and the Edgewood Juniors, which was to' have been played tonight. has been canceled. City and State teams desiring games with the Riversides call Main 8261 and ask for Joe. Muneie Midgets, Kokomo Juniors and Franklin Juniors take notice.
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marks of being a real star then it is a different story. Playing the role of star enables the collegian to demand a fat salary, with no capital invested other than one’s physical assets. Bitting on the bench as a substitute. possessing just enough ability to fill in when one of the regulars Is out of the line-up, is a waste of time, 1 think.
•sity center, who has be-n added to the roster within the past two weeks, has increased the scoring power of tin- aggregation. Harmeson is having a good sea son and never played better
- - Net Tips Q — §— G u A -it~Q,j By (Y)ACH .1 CRAIG IU'BY. Illinois, Big Ten Squad mN* this play the bull is tipped *haKona,il> forward to the left. The right forward takes tin- ball at that point and dribbles toward the left forward, who has faked into the center and then retreated to the sideline find receives the pass fret!) the right forward. In tiic no-.intim* the center has gone ~ut of the center ring quickly ami Inis run for the basket as fist as possible, lie should arrive there by the time that the left forward is ready to pass to him. The whole play Is based on the idea that the offensive center will !*< able to get to his basket before tin* opposing center can atop him. At least three Western Con ference teams used this play or one similar during last season for scores. DANVILLE GYM OPENED SI. Louis “IV Wins From Normal Dedication Game. Hi/ Times Special DANVILLE, Ind., Dec. 20/—The new Danville Normal College gymnasium was opened here Friday night with appropriate ceremonies, hilt the St. Louis “TV’ netters rather spoiled things by defeating the locals. 21 to 12. The defense of the visitors proved 100 strong for the Normalities, The first half ended 12 to 5 in favor of St. Louis. W. Bradburn and Kite proved best for the winners, while Wall was the star for Danville. Millers Get Duncan By Times Special MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 20. —outfielder Pat Duncan, formerly of the Cincinnati Beds, has been obtained by the Minneapolis A. A. baseball team. The Millers obtained Duncan from the Washington club. Two Versatile Stars It. is a bit of coincidence that two athletes, expected to star as pitchers for Yale the coming season, Pond and Scott, played in the Blue’s hack field.
310 Yanis Hit I faited Press "jTTIKVV VORK. Deo. 20.--V Farrell, champion medal golfer of 1924, is home from Florida for the holidays with a SI,OOO hill he won by driving from the Tampa mainland to Davis Island in Tampa Bay. The wallop carried 310 yards. Duncan, Mitchell and Cruickshank failed.
For a collegian to play such a role gets him nowhere. A similar amount of energy spent in some other direction would be far more beneficial in the end. While far from pleasing to the club owners, certain college stars make the most of their “rah” “rah” reputation in an athletic way as a stepping stone for bigger things. Often players of unusual ability.
Basketball. Early is fast at the other forward. Stevens at back guard arnl Behrent at floor guard are good defensive men. The team plays the Kokomo Phi Dolls at Kokomo tonight
MIN IS NEW BANTAM CHAMP iT he Cannonball' Beats Goldstein in Decision Bout, lly ( ,u ted Press NEW YORK. D, Ahe Gold Mein. New York. Jos. las world's Uinfamw ••ight championship to IU- • ;•* War until,. *ll* .M. i • lire, kiyn, on a close .Kelson tft• r tiftt-n rounds of furious lighting tit Madison Square Garden Friday night. PRESTO NETTERS ACTIVE I’laj Turners Sunday and Two Stale Teams During Week. The South Side Turners and the Brest-,, Kite back. ' lives wil! meet Sunday afternoon in the first ,*f a ■ln ee-cane* series, tie- contest to b* staged at Turner Hall. A curtain raiser for thD s nne Is scheduled to start h t .1 * * i*l* ,*' k Both elubs have been playing winning ball this season. The P. • .. Bit* team meeting the Browns,,urg Independents tin-re Dec. 24 an i the defT.-rson 1 nd'-pnndenus at Jefferson th* following nigh? State teams desiring games write J. A M ict'rca, care Prest o Kite. COOLER DEFEATS JONES Sixth Straight for Harr> —Hew High Run Record. Harry fooler strengthened his hold on first place In the State threecushion billiard tourney Friday night at the Pooler parlors by a victory over Neal Jones, *>() to 114, in ninety four innings. Jones set anew high run record for the tournament by counting nine points in the fifteenth frame. Pooler has won six straight matches.
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H E DISPATCHES ANr’P NOTING! NG THAT COSY 1 DOLAN WAS THOWN OFT OF THE GIANTS' OFFICE FAIL TO SAY WHO WAS CREDITED WITH THE ASSIST * * * It must l>e nice to lie a schoolboy like Young Striding. When school interferes with his fighting he quits school. ... Pa Stribltiiß says he does not want tun hoy to play football and the reason n nb violin. . . You can't make much money playing football. ... WALSH, NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL CAPTAIN. IS FROM HOLLYWOOD. THIS PROBABLY EXPLAINS WHY HE RAN WILD ON THE GRIDIRON. * . * Jr— ACK JOHNSON has n watch given him hy the King of —— Spain. Many other authorities. less noted, have given him time. * • * ANOTHER WAY FOR A FOOT BALL COACH TO BREAK INTO PRINT DURING THE OFF SEASON IS TO CONDEMN THE FOR WARD PASS. * . * Tris Speaker has announced ho will continue to play ball next summer And wo suppose Niagara Falls will co rißTht. on failing as visual. ... Tlie prayers of the Praying Colonels have been answered. Tt Is said Bo McMHlian is going back to Centre College. * * The Army-Navy game will lie returned to New York next year. It is so much easier to conduct ticket scalping on a profitable scale there. * * TIGER FLOWERS IS ALMOST GOOD ENOUGH NOW TO HAVE THE WHITE MIDDLEWEIGHT.-! START DRAWING THE COLOR LTNE.
who have no intention to pursue professional baseball as a livelihood, take a fling at the game for a couple of years to get. together a bank roll. So great is the demand for players of big league caliber, that an outstanding college star is able to get a fabulous salary, when one considers his earning power in any other direction. Very often these stars tie a big
FOUR LOCAL H. S. TEAMS IN ACTION ON BASKET COURT Two Games Here Tonight— Manual, Shortridge, Tech in Victories, Three local high school teams won basketball games on Friday night and the same three play again tonight with Cathedral also swinging into action. In tonight’s card Technical plays Crawfords villa at the V. M. P. A. here, Cathedral meets Hartford Pity tit. K. P. hall, Manual is at Ben Davis and Shortridge at Seymour. Technical ami Manual were victorious over State opjxisition Friday night, invading i-ival territoryTechnical nosed out Richmond, 22-20, while Manual was downing Oreeneastle, 21-16. Shortridge snowed under the Broad Ripple five, 14 20, In the first game of the city series. With both t- ams displaying an erratic brand of basketball Technical defeated Morton High when a field goal by Hickman as the final gun sounded spelled victory. Morton ha* 1* six shots from the foul line in tie- last, few minutes of the game but missed all of them Miinu.t! "t, pp-•! out" at Greencastle. The South Slders displayed a good passing attack and led throughout the game The half ended 11 to K ,n Manual’s favor Shortridge t"*ik the Broad Ripple quintet into camp at the North Sid ers gym. 44-20. It was the Blue and White's ihir! straight victory. Shortridge displayed , fast offense as well as an air tight defense. The first half ended 23 to 7. Western I ition Wins The Western Ft >u < la-Dals tamed ?h*> Kion Tamers Friday night by a 20 to If, score on the winners' floor. For th,* Western Union. <’ohen played D-st. in the curtain raiser the Western Union seconds to the Indianapolis Midget*. For games with either team write L. < l.itatolph, 31 S. Delaware St. Rev Millildn Is Captain 11 1/ United Press DECATUR Til., ivr. g(V_R PX Minikin, relative of the founder of Millikln University, lias been elected • u plain of the local college's basketball team.
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league club to a two-year contract, which stipulates that the player cannot be farmed out or released. In other words, when they .sign they make it certain they are to get two years of big league stuff at a fancy figure. Naturally the player who takes up the game merely for the financial reward and has no great love for the profession seldom proves of any
FRANKLIN PROVES CLASS IN OVERTIME STRUGGLE Griz Wagner's Crew Downs Purdue, 36 to 32, in Hard Battle —Vandivier and C. Friddle Shine,
By Times Special 1/AFAYBTTE, Ind., Dec. 20.—8 e fore a packed gym Friday night, the State champions, Franklin College, showed why that team is rated right up at the top of the l>asketball world by defeating Purdue in an overtime game. 36 to 32. Franklin is great because it always rises to the heights when it is necessary. ! The Boilermakers gave the vi. : - itors a desperate battle, but in such ; a contest Franklin always has . proved to have just that edge which j means victory instead of defeat. Pool j and deliberate In the face of great opposition, Griz Wagner’s outfit SIX SCRAPS ON NEW YEAR’S CARD Promoter Harter Lines Up Huge Fistic Program, If you have trouble opening your eyes N<-w Year's day. think of Steve Harter's afternoon fistic card at Tomlinson Hall. Your peepers surely will open. The Washington A. P promoter already has arranged four bouts and he plans two more, making forty rounds of boxing. Bud Taylor. Terre Haute pride, will clash with A1 Ziemer, Cleveland, in the main go of ten rounds and this match already has attracted oui-of-town attention. lan fie Kavell. popular Anderson scrapper, will box Jackie Barnhart, Terre Haute veteran, eight rounds in the scrap preceding the feature. Ka veil and Barnhart will meet at 140 pounds. In a six-round affair Fighting Ferraris and Carl Schmadel will mix at 130 pounds and in four-round battle Kid Keen and Fighting Davis, heavyweight hopes, will do their stuff. Athlete Also Student Chuck Darling, Boston College star nf baseball and football, is also an honor student. He stands at the head of the senior class of 175 men in scholarship, w ith a mark of 89. tile maximum grade being 100.
great value. I repeat, unless a college player is fairly certain of reaching stardom, big league baseball in the end will simply retard his advancement in the business world. ‘• T 'rn not so sure that I am going to be a star." was Blott's modest reply. Asa result Jack has yet to make a decision as to his big league future.
proved once again its right to a place in the basketball hall of fame. I- tizzy on Job Fuzzy Vandivier, one of the bes‘, if not the best player ever developed in the Hoosier State, was a power. He contributed five field goals and two from the foul line. C. Friddle, the lengthy center, also snagged fiv,- field goals. Gant zipped in three and tossed in five foul goals. For Purdue, Robbins, speedy floor guard, was never any better. He dribbled through the opposition in sensational dashes and swished the net six times from the field, the best exhibition of basket sniping of the night, lie also tossed in six foul goals for a grand total of eighteen points. ( ramer Good Cramer. Purdue center, also was a star and added to the Purdue total with three two-pointers and one from the foul line. Taube, who substituted for Jolly late in the fray. -,-.,*- hi t" in the last seconds of the contest when he tossed in two free throws which tied the score at 32-all just before the final gun. The Boilermakers were out played in the overtime. Gant made two free throws and C. Friddle got a.field goal, while Purdue could not score. Wellman, Purdue back guard, left the *me in the second half on personal fouls, and Robbins went out in the overtime before either team ha-1 counted. The game was close throughout with few points separat,ng the clubs at any time. The half ended 21 to 19 in Purdue's favor. J Famous Catchers Hand Each Other Praise hfvTI !io is the hest catcher in the yy American League? t,I Ray Schalk, backstop of the Chicago White Sox, who has passed the peak of his game, says that honor belongs to Muddy Ruel. “Ruel is a fine receiver, uses good judgment in handling his pitchers, keeps the opposing runners on edge by throwing the ball around and is a dangerous batter if not a great one,” says Schalk. “Nice of Schalk to say those kind words," replies Ruel. “but no matter how good Schalk thinks I am. I will never reach the catching standard that he has set for the majors.” That makes it all even between the two great catchers in the bouquet league.
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