Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 147, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1927 — Page 26

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PLAYING | AFIELD —With Billy Evans SHE business of being a football coach for one of our leading universities is anything but a soft job. With the terrific overhead that goes with the modern football star dium, it almost is a necessity that , the coach turn

.out a winner each year if he is to get financial as well as artistic results. A poor team means .empty seats and since foot bail takes care of all other major sports, as well as intramural athletics, the grid coach carries many added responsibilities.

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Aside from the failure to produce big financial returns to take care of the stadium overhead, as well as the other sports that lost money, there also is the wail of the undergraduates and roar of the disgruntled alumni to face. This football coaching business has reached the stage where it is a survival of the fittest, with big names going into the discard annually. * * * JONES WINNING AT YALE r —l Rioit to the opening of the I D 1 present season, Tad Jones of I * I Yale tendered his resignation to take effect at the close of the season. Apparently Jones decided he wasn’t satisfying some of the critical, as well as more prominent, alumni. When Georgia defeated Yale in the first game of the year, it created the feeling that possibly Jones, knowing what he was up against, beat ;the wail for his retirement by his early resignation. Then came a victory over Brown, followed by a glorious triumph over the much vaunted Army team. Which makes it seem that Yale is in for a pretty good year after all. If such proves to be the case, football fandom, as fickle as any other variety, will, no doubt, be asking Jones to reconsider and continue as head coach at Yale. It would be a great year for Jones if he could top off the season with victories over Princeton and Harvard. V * ♦ * TWO DISAPPOINTMENTS (AST, West, South and North, E there is the same clamor for ___ the heads of the various footnaii coaches, who are not delivering as it is believed they should. Ohio State, with most of last year’s stars back, figured on a good season and hoped for the Big Ten title. Early defeats by Northwestern and Michigan have ruined all chances. Dr. John Wilce, head coach, is now the target for much criticism. In the East last year, Brown and its much touted “Iron Men” were the sensation of the country. Coach Tuss MoLaughry was being hailed as the miracle man of football. Much the same Brown team of 1927 already has been thrice defeated, the worst blow being a trimming at the hands of the almost unknown Lebanon Valley College team. MdLaughry is now experiencing the bitter woes of a loser after the glory of a winner.

Semipros and\ 13 — J FOOTBALL Acme A. A.s will practice tonight at Rhodius Park. All players desiring to play Sunday must attend. Acmes play at Sunday afternoon at Ellenberger Military Juniors will practice at 9 a. m. Sunday. All players please report. Brookside Cubs will play the Lawrence Athletics at Lawrence Sunday. Cubs will practice tonight and Sunday morning at the park and all players are urged to attend. State teams desiring games with the Cubs address H. L. Hustedt, 1130 N. Dearborn St., or call Cherry 4252-W. Gosport and Connersville please note. Polkadots have a permit for Willard Park. Teams playing in the 17-19-year-old class desiring games call Lincoln 8576 and ask for Howard. St. Clairs please note. BASKETBALL All managers of girls’ basketball teams ift Indianapolis are requested to get in touch with Charles B. Mason. 460 W. South St., Frankfort, Ind. St. Phillips basketball team will hold tha regular practice session at the gym at 7:30 tonight. Royse. Kelly, Mullin, Connally. McCarty. Gerlach, Fletcher, starlln, Stehlin and Rickey please attend. Saints will open the season Nov. 4 with the Lawrence Merchants. Clubs wishing games address St. Philips A. C., 535 Eastern Ave., or phone Redmond at Cherry 5838-M. ____

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Yale Urges Pro Coaches Be Released Old Cry Is Heard Again in Alumni Weekly at Eli. Bu United Press NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 28. Return to unpaid coaching by Yale and other colleges is urged editorially in the current edition of the Yale Alumni Weekly. The editors of the weekly believe the resignation of Tad Jones gives the college the chance to return to the system which formerly was the rule. “There is much to be gained in spirit and in undergraduate selfreliance by such a course,” the editorial says. “The greatest obstacle to such a course is the public opinion which demand victories and that considers the only way to get them is to hire the best coaches. “This is putting the methods of outside business competition into undergraduate sports. “We would like to see a return to the older conditions. If one university were to take the lead in such a change, others, we believe, would follow.” Southpaw Team in State Battle Grid warriors of the Indianapolis Southpaw A. C. will invade Kokomo Sunday with high hopes of upsetting the strong American Legion outfit of that city. The locals have been drilling diligently and are in good shape to give the Kokomo State title claimants a hard battle. Southpaws will hold an extra practice session Saturday afternoon. The team also will practice this evening. Dick Crozier will be at his old position of tackle in the game and Stewart will work at center for the locals. Southpaws have an open date Nov. 13 and desire to get in touch with a fast team. Address Eddie Dempsey, 404 Massachusetts Ave. Kenny Williams, quarter back, has recovered from his injuries and will call signals Sunday. STATE TITLE SOUGHT Bu Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., Oct. 28.—The Kokomo American Legion football team today prepared for the invasion Sunday of the Indianapolis Southpaws. If the Capital city team is defeated everything points to a sixth State championship in seven years for the local independent eleven.

1927 Football Captains

It i/ NEA Service r=f-| ITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 28. P I One of the sensations of li I eastern football for the past two seasons is leading the Pittsburgh eleven of

Coach Jock Sutherland in battle this year. The Pitt leader is Gib b y Welch, a West Virginian, and he is a back well worth remembering when you get ready to pick your All-Ameri-cah team this fall. Welch’s admirers tell two tales which

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stamp him as a great back. The first is that Welch gained 1964 yards one season against a schedule that included Colgate, Georgetown, Lafayette, Carnegie Tech, West Virginia and Penn State as foes. Tne other is that Welch last season gained more ground against Carnegie Tech than the entire Notre Dame team did. More power to Welch. He is one of the most dazzling open field sprinters in the collegiate ranks today, and his sensational runs are aided by his excellent use of twirls and pivots through an open field. He weighs 170 pounds.

City H. S. Grid

Games Today Shortridge vs. Technical at Irwin Field. Manual at Lebanon. Saturday Wilkinson at Boys’ Prep (Prep field, Riverside.) Cathedral at Jasonville. Washington at Carmel. Thursday Scores College—South Carolino, 6; Citidel, 0. High School—Cathedral Freshies (Indianapolis), 12; Shortridge Freshies, 0.

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Plenty of Grid Action on Tap From Coast to Coast. FEATURE IN INDIANA: Headline Act Between Irish and Georgia Tech. BY NORMAN E. ISAACS Mr. Football Fan, present reigning monarch over the kingdom of sport, has before him the Saturday gridiron pie, which, when opened, should contain the proverbial four and twenty blackbirds, all set to sing. The blackbirds, in this instance, happen to be outstanding grid contests, scheduled to be played.in different portions of the nation. The “head man,” most certainly a wise bird, happens to claim his residence in Indiana and will do his singing in the city of South Bend. Has National Interest Notre Dame and Georgia Tech will do the performing in the outstanding football encounter of the week-end. Fans from one end of the nation to the other are regard ing the contest with interest as it bids fair to bear heavily on the awarding of the 1927 mythical national honors. Over in the East ardent followers of the fall pastime anxiously are awaiting the whistle for the YaleDartmouth and Indiana-Harvard affairs. Dartmouth, undefeated in the East, faces a stem opponent and rivalry is running high. The intersectional scrap between the Hoosiers and Harvard is expected to add further to the WestEast controversy. Illinois and Michigan In the Middle West three of the most important grid blackbirds will do a little acting on their own hook. The Michigan-Illinois tangle at Urbana is exciting the major portion of the Big Ten interest while the Chicago-Ohio State and WisconsinMinnesota clashes are occupying their share of the spotlight. Out on the Pacific Coast two allimportant conflicts are expected to muddle still further the already topsy-turvy Far West scramble for grid honors. The University of Southern California team will face the California squad while Oregon will meet Leland Stanford in another all-important smash-up. Montana at Purdue Hoosier devotees of the grid sport will not be disappointed at the week-end’s card as dished out from the pie. Butler and Lombard will tie up at Indianapolis while Purdue entertains Montana State in another intersectional game. Franklin and De Pauw will mix at Greencastle. Seven other contests will be put on, with Hoosier clubs very much in the limelight. The Cedarville-Earlham fray, originally carded at Cederville, will be staged at Richmond. In the East more or less important conflicts involve Cornell and Columbia, Temple and Brown, Princeton and William and Mary, Boston and Fordham, Navy and Pennsylvania, Bucknell and Army, N. Y. U. and Colgate. In the Middle West other Important games are between Northwestern and Missouri, Denver and lowa, and Detroit and Michigan State. In the Southland, Dixie followers are all “het up” over the KentuckyVanderbilt, Georgia-Tulane, Vir-ginia-Tennessee and Alabama-Mis-sissippi Aggie titles.

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Cathedral freshman team defeated the Shortridge frosh, 12 to 7, Thursday afternoon at the Blue and White field. McGlincy and McCreary scored the touchdowns for the Irish rhinies while Zims counted for S. H. S. Bu Times Special CARMEL, Ind., Oct. 28.—Upon the request of local high school athletic authorities the game with Washington of Indianapolis has been postponed until Saturday afternoon. The game was to have been played here today. Boys’ Prep School grid squad is in good shape for its tilt with the Wilkinson eleven at the Prep Field Saturday afternoon. A long scrimmage was held Thursday. Bv Times Special LEBANON, Ind., Oct. 28.—The Manual of Indianapolis and Lebanon elevens were to meet this afternoon on the local gridiron. The Capital City squad arrived here early this afternoon. GLENNA COLLETT WINS ✓ Takes One-Day Women’s Golf Tourney at Westchester-Biltmore. Bv ifnited Press RYE, N. Y., Oct. 28.—Miss Glenna Collett of the Greenwich Country Club won the final one-day tournament of the Women’s Westchester and Fairfield Counties Golf Association. at the Westchester-Biltmore Thursday, with a score of 76, four strokes under the women’s par for the course.

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With Butler Bulldogs

Here is a Lafayette (Ind.) product who has been doing good work for Potsy Clark’s Butler gridders and he is expected to see his share of action against Lombard at Irwin field Saturday. He scales 167, slightly light for a guard, but

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youngster is conceded to be the most promising championship candidate for years. Started In Ohio Beginning on a small time circuit in Ohio, Hardy took his first winner past the post during the summer of 1926. With enough success to encourge him in building a turf career, he trained last winter at Havana, Cuba. Then early in the spring, Col. Phil Chinn, discovered him and bought his contract. At Washington Park and Lincoln Fields, Illinois tracks, he made a lasting impression on C. E. Dumell, representative oL W. T. Waggoner, millionaire Texls turf fan. Asa result—the youngster found himself sold to Waggoner, for a figure that was reported to be $30,000.

Blue, Green Mix in City Series First Local v High School Rivals in Annual Clash at Irwin Field. Indianapolis was to get a taste of inter-city football rivalry this afternoon when Technical and Shortridge clashed at Irwin Field at 2:30. The east side and the north side were to be well represented at the Irvington field when the opening game of the annual city series got under way. The Blue and White gridders were favorites at game time but the odds had come down a notch and were hovering at 2 and 3 to 1. The “point” boys were not anxious to run wild and “six to twelve” was the general range. Technical supporters were feeling more hopeful as reports circulated that the Green and White line had been bolstered for the fray and that the team was in perfect condition. Interest at both north and east camps Thursday centered on the probable starting backfields and how they would line against each other. Shortridge was expected to start Zimmerman, quarter, Skinner and Rose, halves, and Miller, full, while the Techites were to line up with Conner, quarter, Saleba and Virt, halves, and Helms, full. Card Completed for Negro Show, The complete program of bouts for the boxing show to be given by the Indiana Colored A. C. at Tomlinson Hall next Thursday night was announced today as follows: Ten Rounds—WlUle Yap. Honolulu, vs. One Round Bess. Indianapolis. Ten Rounds—Eddie Johnton. Louisville, vs. Johnnie Milton. Indianapolis. Eight Rounds—K. O. George Smith, Indianapolis. vs. Kid Williams, Louisville. Six Rounds—Shifty Calloway. Indianapolis, vs. Marvin Guildford. Marlon. Four Rounds —Young Marshall. Indianapolis. vs. Rav Smith. Indianapolis. The headline attraction is causing plenty of discussion, with most of the Negro fans predicting that Bess will wallop Yap decisively. Three weeks ago in Chicago Bess knocked out Kid Blackburn, and a week later at Frankfort stopped Frankie Russell.

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Pro Golfers of Nation on Hand for Dallas Play Bu United Press DALLAS, Tex., Oct. 23.— One oi the most difficult and picturesque golf courses in the South will be the scene of the national Professional Golfers’ association 1927 tourney next week. . . , . , Cedar Crest Country Club, located just outside Dallas, has had additional hazards perfected this fall in anticipation of the tournament, which opens Oct. 31. Recent rains have put the greens in splendid condition. Early arrivals for the tourney, which is attracting all the leading professionals of the country, are predicting a duel between Waltei Hagen, present title holder, and “Light Horse” Harry Cooper, runner up in this year’s national open. Tommy Armour also is rated high by the forecasters.

Looking ’Em Over WITH EDDIE ASH This is the tough part of the season for the coaches of losing grid teams. . . . Sweet Alibi Time has ended and there’s several more games to play. * * t They can’t even get a rainy Saturday to help ’em out. . . . "Juniper” Pluvius, the Big W r et Ran, evidently is saving his stuff for winter golfers. # • • Are all cheer leaders human? . . . Yes, unfortunately. • * • In the numbering of basket ball player next season, the numeral I will not be used, by order of the rules committee. . . . How is one to tell who’s captain? The average fan will think the hero has been benched. * • • Australian sportsmen are demanding American baseball be given a chance for a foothold in their country. . . . Bruno Betzel has a few players he’ll give ’em. • * * The Brown gridders, undefea'ed in 1926, have lost three straight. . . . Their coach blames “mental staleness." ' . . . That’s the first time we’ve heard of collegians running out of brains. .

OCT. 28, 1927

Legion Ring Bill Filled for Tuesday Only One Indianapolis Pug on Next Program at Armory. The four-round opening bout and the first of the two six-rounders on Tuesday night’s Legion' boxing program at the Armory have been arranged by the matchmaker, completing the card of five scraps. The “top" six and the semi-wlndup were announced Thursday. In the six-round number arranged Thursday night. Jackie Blatt of Evansville will tangle with Jimmie Brown of Cincinnati, while the cur-tain-raiser will bring together Bruce Britt of Terre Haute and Joe Lynn of Princeton. In striking contrast to recent cards, there is but one Indianapolis fighter on the Legion program for Tuesday night, Reamer Roberta having the honor of representing this city in a six-round go with Dudley Ring of Cincy. Fans are evincing not a little interest in the semi-windup, as Jackie Reynolds, Muncie, who meets Irving Goldberg of Brooklyn. N. Y., in that number, has many friends here. Meyer Grace, Philadelphia, and Johnny Tillman, Minneapolis, are to battle in the main go of ten rounds. THOM BEATS MYERS Bu Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Oct. 28. Coach Thom, Indiana University mat mentor, won two straight falls from Billy Myers, Mississippi, in the opening wrestling match of the season here Thursday.

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