Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 163, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1927 — Page 12

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PLAYING the FIELD With Billy Evans

r—iN the return of Babe Ruth O and Lou Gehrig to New i ___J York, after a tour • that smarted at the close of the world series and carried them as far as the Pacific coast, someone asked Gehrig how much money he ex-

pected to get next season. There is no need to recall that for almost the entire season of 192 7, Gehrig pressed Ruth to the limit in the battle for home run honors. Not until after both had passed the forty did Ruth

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begin to draw away. • Ruth received $70,000 last season for playing right field and making sixty home runs to break his former record, of fifty-nine, aside from doing innumerable other things that contributed to the winning of the pennant by the Yankees. • Gehrig, I understand, drew $lO,000 for playing first base, making forty-seven home runs, batting .374 and contributing many fielding feats to put the Yanks over for a pennant. Ruth hit .356. a tt a Naturally a lot of folks are interested in what Lou Gehrig will draw down next season after the greatest year of his career. ' DUE FOR BIG* RAISE HOPE to get a raise, of course,” was Gehrig’s answer . to the query as to what his salary would be. “However, I am not worrying about that, for I am sure Col. Jake Ruppert will pay me what I deserve.” That was a mighty smart reply on the part of Gehrig and shows that he is something of a diplomat aside from Ruth’s greatest rival as a slugger. Colonel Ruppert, who pays the Yankees’ salaries, always is eminently fair. Ruth’s salary will be the same as last year. Prior to the opening of the J 926 season he signed for three years for the sum of $210,000, making his yearly stipend a measly STO,OOO. Not hard to take. While it is a cinch, Gehrig’s increase won’t bring him even close to the Babe in money matters, it is certain to make him one of the highest priced players in the game* tt There Is only one Babe Ruth. He has more color than a paint shop and is the only player who daily packs them in at the gate. He is not only a great player but the game's greatest drawing card. Indiana Women’s Golf Play Goes to Terre Haute The 1928 tournament of the Indina Women’s Golf ''Association will be held at the Country Club, Terre Haute, July 16-20, according to an announcement made today by Mrs. C. A. Jaqua, Indianapolis, president, and Miss Mary Gorham, Frankfort, secretary-treasurer. Miss Elizabeth Dunn, Alavon, Indianapolis, who is State champion, will defend her title over the Terre Haute course, one which taxed the men players the past summer in the Indiana State amateur meet. The awarding of the event to Terre Haute is expected to stirrnlate the game among women players In southern and western Indiana and aid in the growth of the organization. Credit for the invitation to play on the beautiful links goes to Mrs. W. B. Sparks and Miss Helen Benbridge, both of Terre Haute.

ON CONFERENCE GRIDS By United Press ■

v Maroons Fear Crofoot CHICAGO—PIays designed to stop Capt. Toad Crofoot of Wisconsin, Saturday, comprise much of the work in the Chicago football practices this week. ON GOLF LINKS BLOOMINGTON, Ind.—Coach Pal Page has his Indiana team practicing ,football on the golf links instead of in the stadium as a result of rain and mud. Ringwalt will be out of Saturday’s game with Purdue, as a result of an ankle injury. lUini Confident CHAMPAIGN, 111.—Bad weather has interfered with Illinois practices this week. Timm and Wolgast still are out of the Illini line-up, but otherwise the team is in good shape. The players are confident of defeating Ohio Saturday. f GOPHERS HAMPERED MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Hampered by bad weather. Minnesota's football team is concentrating on an offense for Saturday’s game. Coach Doc Spears is hopeful his team will reach the end of the season undefeated, despite the fact Illinois seems destined to beat himout of the championship because of his team’s tie with Indiana.

FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS

LOS ANGELES. Cal.—King Tut, Minneapolis. won from Pedro Amador. Panama; ten rounds, decision; lightweights. MILWAUKEE, Wls.—Joey Sangor, Milwaukee, won from Mickey Cohen; ten rounds, newspaper decision; leatherweights. Phil Zwick, Kaukana, Wls., won from Billy Bonillas, Calllornia; newspaper decision; three rounds. # KANSAS CITY. Mo.—Sergeant-Sammy Baker New York, won from Billy Hall, Chicago; ten rounds, newspaper decision; welterweights. ST. PAUL. Minn. —Jock Malone, St. Paul, won from Maxie Rosenbloom, New York: ten rounds, newspaper decision; 165 pounds. PORTLAND, Ore. —Georgie Dixon. Portland middleweight, won a ten-round decision from Del Fontaine, Winnipeg. Tiger Thomas. Philadelphia middleweight, and Tom Moore, Idaho, fought a six-round draw. CLEVELAND. Ohio—Eddie Shea. Chicago featherweight, won from Johnny Hill, Chicago; foul, eighth round. Harry Crisp and Steven Nugent fought a draw. In the preliminaries, Eddie Ruttman and Johnny RedeUi drew. Arvin Spence knocked out KlUlard Fann and Johnny Kopka won a decision from Charlie Bailey. , —* READING. Pa.—Jimmy McAllister, Reading, and Ray Maxwell. Philadelphia, middlewelghts, fought eight rounds to a draw. JU oe Newman, Philadelphia lightweight,' won the decision over Frankie Nelson. Wilmington; eight rounds. NEW YORK—Benny Touchstone, MiaiiiiFla.. and Jack Dorval, New York, will

Brisk Activity as Tigers Prepare for Fray With Little Giants

Five De fauw Regulars to Close College Play Against Wabash. DEFENSE IS STRESSED Methodists May Uncork New Formations. By Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind., Nov. 16. Brisk activity is the word at the De Pauw University football camp this week as Coach W. L. (Bish) Hughes is drilling his Tiger gridders for their annual rivalry tilt with the Wabash Cavemen at Crawfordsville Saturday. It will be the Little Giants’ homecomihg and the Methodists undoubtedly will do their best to give the dope bucket another smash. Veterans End Careers The game will mark the wind-up of five De Pauw regulars’ collegiate gridiron careers. Capt. (Swede) Anderson, end; Bid Taylor, ex-captain and center; Lloyd Messersmith, end; Dave Shoup, tackle, and Bray, a guard. Tiger scouts at the Butler-Wa-bash fray last week brought back some dope for Hughes and his, staff and the local outfit is receiving some detailed instruction on defensive tactics to halt the Wabash attack. Cripples Return Some new plays have been passed out and the Tigers are hoping to surprise the Crawfordsville collegians. The return to the lineup of Captain Anderson, Brandenburg and Si Gunn, out because of injuries for some time, has strengthened the De Pauw lineup. A big demand son tickets to the game has been reported in local circles and the Methodists are certain to have a large following at Crawfordsville Saturday. Horween Retains Job at Harvard Bu United Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 16. Arnold Horween will continue as head football coach at Harvard next year. Announcement he would return for his third season in that capacity was made Tuesday night by William J. Bingham, director of athletics. Since Horween, who is only 28, succeeded Bob Fisher as head coach, the Crimson has won only seven out of fifteen games played during two seasons, but in announcing Horween would be retained, Bingham said he realized several years were required to perfect a football system.

Purdue-Indiana, De Pauw-Wabash Conflicts Grip Interest of State Galaxy of Battles Carded as Curtain Falls This Week for Most Hoosier Grid Macfjines.

BY DICK MTLT.ER With two exceptions, Indiana college football teams will f-ing down the curtain Saturday and place the old moleskins in the moth balls for another year. Two games will outshine any other contests on the cards. The In-diana-Purdue rivalry fray at Bloomington will find the new stadium

Prepare for I. U. LAFAYETTE, Ind.—Designed especially for use against Indiana, new offensive formations are the center of interest in the Purdue football practices. Coach Jimmy Phelan has the team going through the longest practices of the year. nAWKEYES GET REST lOWA CITY, la.—Fearing staleness, Coach Burt Ingwersen has sent his regulars through only light practices in preparation for the Northwestern game, Saturday. The Hawkeyes are in good shape. Six on List EVANSTON, 111.—Hoping that the cripples will recover by Saturday, Coach Dick Hanley believes he may be able to put a team of regulars in the field against lowa. Six members of the varsity still are on the injured list but may be able to get in the lowa game. SECRET OHIO SESSIONS COLUMBUS, Ohio—A new forward passing attack, to be used against Illinois Saturday, is the center of Ohio State football work. For the first time in the memory of present day fans, Ohio is holding secret practices.

meet fn the feature ten-round bout at Madison Square Garden Friday night in a substitution for the Sharicey-Heeney bout. FRESNO. Cal.—A fight card here ended in a near-riot Tuesday night, when Johnny McCoy, recognized by the California boxing commission as the flyweight champion of the world, was given a knockout victory over Freddie Imperial, Filipino, on what doctors and sports writers claim was a foul blow. t ELEVEN END CAREERS Bu United Press PITTSBURGH, Nov. 16.—Eleven members of the Carnegie Tech football squad will make their last home .appearance when they meet Detroit University at Forbes Field here Saturday. Five of the graduating group are regulars.

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Above are pictured two of Purdue’s best forwards, the boys who do most of the ground work, charging, wrestling, blocking, digging in and general rough tasks during a grid smash-up. And are

Heavy Hitting In A. A. Made It Bad Season for Averages* of Pitchers ‘Earned Run’ Figures Give Lead to Zinn; Sheehan Won Most Games; Malone Strikeout King.

Some seventy .300 hitters played havoc with pitching averages in the American Association daring the 1927 season and few pitchers were able to show anything good in the way or an earned run average, official figures disclose. Joes Bush of Toledo produced the best record, 2.65 earned runs per game, but Joe received credit for working in only six games, winning four and losing two. Jimmy Zinn of Kansas City was second with 3.08 and he is the real leader as a result of working in forty-five games. He did not have the best won and lost percentage but was well up in the list with twenty-four won and twelve lost. Tom Sheehan, Kansas City, who always has been a big winner in minor league baseball but for some reason or other failed to make an impressive showing in the majors, won the most games, twenty-six. However, he lost half that number and wound up the season with a percentage of .667. The leader, from a standpoint of won and lost percentage is Orwoll, Milwaukee, who turned in seventeen victories against six defeats, for a percentage of .739. Palmero of Toledo was a close

seating capacity taxed. At Crawfordsville another large crowd will gather to watch the Wabash-De Pauw scrap. Develops Fast The Indiana team which developed faster under Coach Pat Page than expected, pulled its big victory of the fall last Saturday when it trounced Northwestern by a twotouchdown margin. Predictions on the outcome eof the State feature Saturday are hard to make. Purdue, an aggregation which before the season opened was doped to hold a high rung in the Conference standing, fell heir to a lot of tough luck. Only recently have they hit th’eir stride. Notre Dame goes to Des Moines, lowa, for a tussle with Drake which should be a workout for the boys whom Rockne expects to deliver for him in 1928. In Balance Wabash came to Indianapolis last Saturday with a fine season record, only to be tripped up by the Butler Bulldogs. Now the fray with De Pauw, which appeared to be in their favor, hangs in the balance. Butler goes to East Lansing, Mich., to take on Michigan State. Pepped by their victory over Wabash, the Bulldogs will give the Aggies a tough skirmish. Rose Poly and Hanover will play the Rose homecoming tilt at Terre Haute. The Rpse team has an opportunity for victory in Its final clash. Evansville meets Kentucky Teachers College at Evansville and Indiana State Normal plays host to De Kalb (111.) Normal College at Terre Haute. Muncie Normal meets Defiance (Ohio) College at Muncie and Valparaiso goes to St. Viators.

CRIPPLES BACK Webster, Hoben and Garvey to Play Against Harvard. Bu United Press NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 16. Captain Webster, Hoben and Garvey, all injured in the Princeton game, were in uniform for practice today and Yale coaches said they expected the three to start against Harvard at Cambridge Saturday. GRADES COTTON IN TEXAS Pete Donohue, Cincinnati pitcher, grades cotton in Ft. Worth, Texas, during the winter months.

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they ready for Indiana? Yes, and eager for the trip to Bloomington Saturday to collide with the ancient Crimson foe. Hook, Indianapolis, formerly played with Tech High School.

second with .737, as a result of fourteen victories and five defeats. Os the seventeen pitchers who led from an earned-run standpoint, six lost more games than they won —certainly definite proof that the won and lost column does not give the true effectiveness of a pitcher. Malone, Minneapolis, was the strikeout king of the league with 214. Jonnard, Milwaukee, passed 136 men to 16ad in that column of figures. Sheehan was the hardest worked pitcher, with 331 innings to his credit. Zinn followed with 330 and Malone hurled 319, four less than Meeker, Columbus, who had 323.

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Purdue Hero in Last Tilt Against I. U. Wilcox, Wonder Ball Toter, Ends Grid Career; Versatile Star. Bu United Press LAFAYETTE, Ihd., Nov. 16.—One of the most colorful figures in Big Ten athletics, Chester (Cotton) Wilcox, captain of the Purdue football team, will close his collegiate gridiron career next Saturday when the Boilmakers meet Indiana at Bloomington. “Cotton’s” last year of football competition had in it a touch of tragedy. For two years he had been the outstanding half back for the Boilermakers, and seemed destined in 1927 to approach new football heights. During the second half of the Purdue-De Pauw game Oct. 1, however, he hurt his ankle. Injury Handicaps An examination the following day revealed a chipped bone. An operation was performed. In spite of his injury he played for a few minutes against Chicago, somewhat longer against Montana State, and really made a sparkling comeback against Northwestern when he helped Purdue win, 18 to 6. Against' the Purple, Wilcox carried the ball sixteen times, gaining 183 yards for an average of 11.5 yards per attempt. Against eight Big Ten teams in 1925 and 1926, Wilcox gained a grand total of 1,070 yards in 147 tries, or an average of 7.3 yards an attempt. Missed Record Chance Had Wilcox been in condition for all of Purdue's games this year, and been paired with the great Ralph (Tex) Welch, he probably would have set a remarkable record for ground-gaining. Wilcox has before him seasons In basketball and baseball. He has starred as floor guard for the past two seasons on Coach Lambert’s quintet, and at second base on the diamond nine. Barring injuries, “Cotton” will have earned nine major sport letters by the time he graduates.

Sammy Mandel Jabs Way to Win Over Spug Myers Bu United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 16.—Sammy Mandell jabbed his way to a decision over Spug Myers here Tuesday night, but failed to show the knockout punch his followers claimed he had developed. Mandell, holder of the lightweight championship, did not defend his title as both he and Myers were above the lightweight limit. He mixed freely with Myers for tfti rounds in an effort to disprove the contention he is a powder-puff champion, but his attempts to floor his opponent were pitifullv futilp. The best fight on the supporting card was a six-round welterweight battle, in which Pete Bjross, Rockford, 111., won the decision over Billy Showers, St. Paul, Minn. In other bouts, Bias Rodriguez, Cuban flyweight, took a decision over Tommy Milton, Chicago, ten rounds; Ralph Mendoza and Jack Feldheim, Chicago lightweights, fought six rounds to a draw.

Wins or Loses in Short Order

A strong supporting card has been arranged by the Atlas A. C. which will promote the Roy Wallace-Red Fitzsimmons bout of ten rounds

at Tomlinson Hall, Thursday night. One of the local favorites who has the reputation of giving an opponent a quick licking or taking one himself is Billy Meyers, the fighting railroader. Meyers, who scraps in thi neavyweight division, is, slated to meet Soldier

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Cornet in one of the six rounders. The card will be made up of a tenround main go, a semi-windup of eight rounds, two sixes and a fourround opening prelim. SEVERE GRID LOSS Michigan will lose seventeen members of the present football squad at the end of this season.

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Looking ’Em Over WITH EDDIE ASH The little brown jug is at stake in the Minnesota-Michigan game. . . And also some football reputations. tt tt tt The jug oame into existence in 1903, when it was more important than prominent. It was merely a water jug then. . .' . Now it is more prominent than important. ... It has reached the trophy, stage. tt a it In other words this is one jug that can high-hat the pewter products. tt 'tt tt And £he man who handled the making of it probably got a dime a dozen for his labor. j tt tt The court battle between the two Jacks, Dempsey and Kearns, has opened in New Jersey. . . . Get out the mud guards! tt tt tt Hell hath no fury like a prize fight manager scorned. tt tt tt If the football season continues much longer the sport writers are going to run out of adjectives. LA PALIN A IS WINNER Bu United Press BOWIE, Md., Nov. 16.—The Belair Stud’s three-year-old filly La Palina won the Glenburnie purse, a gallop of a mile and a sixteenth, on the second day of the autumn meeting of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association. The time was 1:46 1-5. The winner paid $5.70.

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Blue Eleven Prepares for Final Clash Butler Grid Squad to Close at Michigan State Saturday. Butler University’s 1927 football season will come to an end Saturday against Michigan State, at East Lansing, Mich. The Bulldogs, elated over their 13 to 6 triumph from Wabash last Saturday, expect to end the grid year with a victory. The Michigan State squad is a tough outfit and the local aggregation is expecting stiff opposition. Coach George (Potsy) v Clark is drilling his men on defensive and offensive formations for the contest. The work of the Butler line in the battle with the Little Giants was pleasing ta, the Butler coaches and work this week in centering on getting the backfield to move with precision. All preparation at the Irvington field this week is not devoted to the varsity. The freshman team will play the Lake Forest Military Academy team at Lake Forest, 111., Saturday, and the yearlings are giving the regulars some strenuous workouts. LA COSTE HONORED PARIS, Nov. 16—Rene La Coste, singles tennis champion of France and the United States, was awarded the Grand Prix des Sports, the annual prize given the outstanding French athlete of the year.