Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 230, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1926 — Page 9

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INVITES RISBERG TO^TALK Landis Sends Telegram toj Former White Sox to | Tell All. By Clark B. Kelsey Unit'd Press Staff Correspondent i CHICAGO, Dec. 31.—An invitation j to Charles “Swede” Risberg to tell j all he knows about crooked baseball has been extended to the former : White Sox shortstop by Baseball Commissioner K. M. Landis. Risberg, in an interview, charged he could implicate twenty prominent major leaguers in conspiracies to “throw” ball games. Judge Landis sent a telegram to Risberg in which he offered to pay “fair compensation for time and expenses," if the man who was ousted from big league ball in 1920 would I come to him and tell him what he knows. The commissioner’s telegram ! follows: Charles Risberg Rochester, Minn. Papers print statement purporting to come from you to the effect that you can give “Information that will implicate twenty big leaguers, who never before . have been mentioned in connection with crookedness.’’ Assuming that you made the statement. I earnestly request you to oome hero with the facts. Fair compensation for your time and expenses guaranteed. Wire collect when you may be expected. The earlier the better. KF.NESAW M. LANDIS. Risberg, working on a farm near Rochester, will be forced to come or j iidmit that his charges were a fairy' tale, it is believed here. Aside from sending the telegram to Risberg, Judge Landis has refused to make any other move in connection with the baseball scandal. He conferred for some time with Frank Navin, owner of the De. troit Tigers, Thursday, but neither man could be induced to talk. MUNCIE FAST Fast Passing Attack Overwhelms Defiance College. liti Time's Special MUNCIE, Ind.. Dec. 31.—A fast passing attack coupled with an inpenetratable defense spelled defeat for Defiance College here Thursday night, and gave Muncle Normal its sixth successive victory, 45-12. The Buckeyes were unable to cope with the vastly superior local quintet and the game was devoid of features. The Teachers held a 23-1 lead at the half. Summary: Muneie (45). Defiance (12) Fulmer F Hutchins Crossley K Mulholland Renner C Batt Schooler (I Fox Scliievley G Smith Substitutes —(Muneie) Wade, Smith Harper. Setiunim: (Defiance) Coach. Field goals—(Muneie) Fulmer 5. Wade 4. Schooler f). Renner, Shively: (Defiance) I Fox 2, Hutchins. Balt. Foul goals—(Muncle) Renner. Schooler, Shively 3: (De- ■ fiance) Hutchins 2. Fox 3. I

CITY BOWLING GOSSIP By Lefty Lee

The games in the Elks League Thursday night resulted in a clean sweep for the Hides and Shinbones over the Teeth and Eyes, while the Hoofs were pulling two out of three from the Tails. Weisman continued the good work he has been doing and carried off high honors on games of 206, 202 and 223, for a total of 631. Other 600 scores were: Scearce, 600; Hanna, 614, and Gregory, 603. Peachey demonstrated the high-low features of bowling when he rolled games of 121, 226 and 209. The Door Hangers were the victims of the Molders in the Robbins Body League, Thursday night, and dropped all three games. The opponents of the Trim Shop will roll against their scores later. Earl Patterson again led the field in this loop, having games of 178, 245 and 172 for a total of 595. In reviewing A1 Ktriebeek's last week’s bowling of 1926 it was found that this boy had a total of 1,371 for his six games, three in the Recreation and three in Capitol No. 1. This is an average of 228J4 pins per game. Al’s New Year’s resolution should be: “Get the wood!’’ Eddie Meyer will resolve not to give away or throw away any more bowling balls.

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Both Outfits Primed to Send Full Strength Into Grid Classic. Bu United Press PASADENA. Cal., Dec. 31.—Alabama's Crimson Tide and Stanford's Cardinals polished off training today for their New Year's battle in th© Rose Bowl, which will decide the mythical football championship of the world. The Dixie champions reeled off an hour of signal drill, displaying rare form, physically and mentally. They were followed by the Cardinals in a brief practice of signals which j showed the Warner combination was I In peak shape also. Aside, from a few minor Injuries among the reserves, both outfits axe primed to throw their full strength Into the football classic tomorrow. Coach “Pop" Warner’s pessimism has given away to a feeling of satisfaction. He believes his players are prepared to give an excellent account of themselves and he has abandoned his gloomy attitude of j several days ago. Execute New Plays He has given his versatile team a complete set of now plays, which the crafty coach declares were executed almost faultlessly during the practice sessions. At the same time, Warner is not overlooking the defensive ability of the southern outfit, which boasts a forward wall that outweighs the j Stanford line eight pounds to the man. Warner saw Alabama defeat Georgia on Thanksgiving day and he has some well formed opinions about the Dixie outfit. "They have a more versatile attack than any team Stanford has met in past season and on defense the Alabama Eleven is one of the most powerful in the country,” Warner said. “My boys had a tendency at first to under-estimate the strength of Alabama, but I believe now they are ! in the right frame of mind and will put up the kind of battle they are capable of.” Wade Is Proud Coach Wallace Wade is proud of the showing of his team in the rose bowl rehearsals. He is counting on Archie Taylor, the "Savannah Flash,’> to rip through the Stanford defense for at least one touchdown. Taylor has been on the side lines with an Injured hand most of the past season. Captain Emil Barnes will start at quarterback for the Southerners. "Red” Brown and Johnson or Caldwell are slated to open at the other back field posts. DETROIT SELLS JOHNS Detroit has sold Pitcher Gus (Lefty) Johns to the Hollywood Club of the Pacific Coast League. Johns pitched •with good success at times for the Tigers, but lacked consistency. He went to the Detroit Club from the Texas League.

Frank Hueber has been nursing a sore thumb. Our advice to Frank is to cut it off and use the other one. We think the left thumb is best for bowling, any way. , Bill Reltzell thought he had lost all the stuff from his ball. However, after seeing how Mort Lindsay does it, Bill came back and rolled 640. The smile is now broader than ever. Three straight ruled In the Cap!ton No. 2 games Thursday night, the Mineralite, Eastman Cleaners, Gregory & Appel and Broad Ripple outfits winning their series with the National Refining, Standard Grocery, Postoffloe and Kahn Tailoring teams. F. Rugh was high man in this loop, with a total of 605 on games of 212, 206 and 187. Rhine had an even 600. Twentythree games topped,the 200 mark, the 237 of Krotner being the high spot. In the Universal League the Paper Package and East End Milk were three-game winners over the St. Cecilia and Polks, while Tiffany and I’itman-Moore were winning two out of three from the Eli Lilly and I. U. Railway outfits. Harmon of the Pit-man-Moore team was high in this circuit, with games of 177, 215 and 214, for a total of 606. In the Printing Craft* League two out of three was the rule, the Indianapolis Engraving and Allies winning over this route from the Queen City Inks and Wright Electrotype teams, Reynolds, with games of 199, 219 and 221, a total of 639, was high. Spurgeon almost reached him when he finished with 236 for a total of 626. Sam Light just missed the charmed circle when he reached 598 on games of 213, 182 and 203. “Nan” Schott has resolved to quit rolling the one game which hae been holding his totals down. With that famous 160 game “Nan” can only reach 650. Did you notice the Em-Roe team was without a captain? They say they do not need one, as they have a Sargent on their club.

Fights and Fighters

NEW YORK—Frank Houlihan, featherweight. won from Jimmy Kelly, twelve ronnde. dectaion. SYRACUSE—Eddie Bumbrook. Baltimore welterweight. knocked out Bucky Lawleng of Auburn in the third round of a scheduled six-round go. BUENOS AIRES—JuIio Moeoroa. Argentine boxer, gained the decision over Antonio Rule, featherweight champion of Europe In a twelve-round bout. NEW YORK—-Change in the data of the Phil Rownberg-Bunhy Graham bantamweight championship bout to Feb. 4 led to the signing of Edaie Roberta of Tacoma and Joe Dunde* of Baltimore for a fight at Madlaon Square Garden on Jan. 14. The men are welterweights. HOCKEY RESULTS Montreal —Les Canadians, 1; Pittsburgh, 0, Toronto, Ont.—Toronto St. Patricks, 4; Boston Bruins, 1. Windsor, Ont. —Montreal Maroons, 2; Detroit Cougars, 0.

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A. A. U. SCORED IN SPEECH OF GEN. PALMER PIERCE Participation of 90 Per Cent of Nation’s Athletes in 1928 Olympics Left in Doubt.

Bu United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—Participation of 90 per cent of the nation’s amateur athletes in the 1928 Olympic games has been left in doubt by the action of the National Collegiate Athletic Association in withdrawing from the American Olympic Association. The N. C. A. A. is represented in 200 or more of the American colleges and universities. Its with* drawal followed that of the Navy and the National Amateur Athletic Federation. Power Seized The cause of the defection lies in resentment against the power the Amateur Athletic Union is alleged to have seized by unfair methods in the last quadrennial meeting of the Olympic body. Brig. Gen. Palmer Pierce, president of the N. C. A. A., read a report on the Olympic meeting to his organization Thursday. “It is my belief,” General Pierce said, “that/he A. A. U. can not succeed In its efforts to perpetuate its system of control upon amatuer sports. It is un-American and out of date.

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Off the Backßoard By NORMAN ISAACS

“Doe’' Meamvell, diminutive 'Wisconsin net coach has revolted. The wily little cage mentor at the Badger school apparently has decided his team shall no longer be a mark for Indiana college fives. “Doe” probably lias decided that he doesn't give a hoot if none of the other Big Ten teams revolts, but lie for one is going to stand pat. The Badgers took their first stej) toward redeeming themselves in the eyes of their followers and took clown DePauw Thursday night at Madison.

The Tigers were expecting to take home the spoils, no doubt, but clashed "head on” with a stone wall. Butler and Notre Dame, however,' managed to come out on the long end of the score, which after all is the most important part of the game. Reports from Chicago state that the Maroons were rather wearied in the last minutes of the game. What caused the Midway five to weary so soon? The Bulldogs were the ones that should hate been weary—playig three games in as many nights. Korean's Notre Dame basketeers play the net game as Rock lie's Notre Dame gridders play football. The most, dangerous part of an Irish football team is it's last half rush. The same evidently is true about the Irish net teams. ( A few college games are on the book again tonight. The one most, of us are Interested in happens to | be the Franklin-Evahsville tilt at Evansville. The Baptists and Aces will ring out the old year and ring in the now one with basketball that is basketball. Evansville has been poison to a number of the State teams for the past two years ami the Baptists are in no way fostering a Itenevolent and brotherly love attitude towards the Purple Aces. In fact, as we have if, nothing would | please GHz Wagner and his boys any better than a pair of victories over Evansville. We sort of figure Wabash would like to seo the Franklin crew turn to trick, too. soine one asked us this morning if we had forgotten Igansi>nrt, Martinsville and Bedford. No, we have not We could swing Into action and hammer the typewriter keys for hours writing of those three teams. High school teams that can play ball as those three quintets do aie something to talk about. la'gaiispiH't'* hoys act as if they had been born with a basketball in each hand. And Martinsville's Arlesians aren’t veryfar behind. , The city series clash between Shortrldge and Tech is but a day off. Naturally Shortrldge followers will rise up in anger and cry. ‘ No! No! That guy's all wet!" This guy may he sopping wet and dripping.

but it still goes down in black and white. The Green and White have a better organization; more rugged, faster thinking and more accurate shooting aggregation than the Northsiders. Os course, that’s our opinion. We may turn out to be all wet yet. We’re the chump this time. In Thursday's column Off The Backboard stated that Bombard deserved the prize for being the first, outState college five to defeat an Indiana quintet this season. One of those birds who delights in taking the joy out of life and in making a newspaper man’s work a burden delved into records and statistics and came up witli the information that we were all wrong and that an Indiana team had suffered defeat by an out-State team on Dec. 10. Miami beat Earlham 26 to 17. Gr-r-r-r.

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COLLEGES Tlutler. 30; Chicago, 28. Wueoiigin. 24: D<* Pauw. 20. Muneie Normal. 45: Defiance. 12. 5 ale. 28; Holy Cross. 15. Notre Dame 28: Northwestern. 20. Wilmington. 4(5: Florida. 18. Illinois. 36: North Dakota State. 28. HIGH SCHOOLS Bedford, 45: Franklin. 27. Elkhart. 43: Alexandria. 24. l'nion. 70: Trafalgar 17. ( nion seconds 30: Trafalgar seconds, 5 Waldron, 49: Columbus, Ohio; 17. Tipton. 56: Frankton. 39. Tipton seconds. 19: Frankton seconds

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TENNIS MEET National Junior Net Tourney in Final Rounds. 1,1 BALT [MORE, Dec. 31.—Three national tennis championships of the younger generation will be decided here today and Saturday. The New Year’s battle is the singlet final between Julius Seligson, New York, junior champion, and Frank Shields, New York, in th® junior tournament here. f Today Wilbur Coen, Kansas City, boys’ champion, meets Sidney Wood, New York, in the boys’ singles finals. The junior doubles final will be held this afternoon between A. Smith and B. Jacobs, Baltimore, and H. Johnson and M. Hill, Boston. Seligson defeated E. Jacobs, Baltimore, 6-4, 6-7 and 6-4, in the junior semi-finals yesterday. SHELBY CUEIST LEADS Tinker and Williams in Pocke* Matcli—l’lay Tonight. In the first block of a special 300ball pocket billiard match at the Claypool parlor, C. A. Tinker, Shelhyville, defeated H. H. Williams Indianapolis, 150 to 144. Tinker had high of 25 and 24. Williams, had runs f 21 and 19. The na t block of 150 will ba played toi/ght. Tinker last week made a ’ gh ruq of 182 at Shelbyville. These special matches are creating much interest and drawing large crowds. Admission Is free.

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