Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 187, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1927 — Page 13

DEC. 14,1927.

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The week-end approaches rapidly and with it a number of important college and high school scrambles to be settled on the hardwood court. The “big game” Friday will be the ButlerWisconsin tangle at Madison. Coach Paul (Tony) Hinkle has a well-balanced club at the Irvington institution and it appears as if Doc Meanwell’s Badgers may be forced to take a trimming. Hinkle’s outfit easily might be termed a “starless” ball

club. Saturday Wabash and Indiana will mix it up in a dou-ble-header at Bloomington while De Pauw will stack its best wares against Purdue at Lafayette. Butler, on the way home, will stop off at Ft. Wayne to meet Concordia. * tt IN high school circles there are many top-notch games on tap. Outstanding among them will be the Anderson-Frankfort battle Friday and the Martinsville-Kokomo engagement Saturday. * tt tt GLANCING over scores of recent games it was noted that Blackboard’s pet outfit of 1926, Logansport, was knocked off by John

Adams’ Vincennes club. It brought to mind the fact that Vincennes is another of those Hoosier cities where it is a rare occasion when a high-class team is not turned out. The same batch of re-

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cent scores show that the Alices, however, lost two tough ones in a row. Fuzzy Vandivier’s Franklin squad nosed out the Alices, 23 to 20, and Bloomington turned the same sort of performance with a 32 to 30 score. The Alices will play at Greencastle Saturday. ft m m MIGHT be well to inform the radio bugs who share their dial twisting enthusiasm with basketeering, that the Purdue-De Pauw affair Saturday will be broadcast from the Lafayette station WBAA at 7:30 p. m. tt tt tt INDIANAPOLIS high school quintets also will see plenty of action this week-end. Friday night, Castleton will be at Broad Ripple, Washington at Fairmount, Ben Davis at Manual, Shortridge at Elwooa, Technical at Muncie, Oaklandon at Cathedral. Saturday, Greenwood will come here for a clash with Technical, Beech Grove will be at Manual, and Washington at Broad Ripple. Os the local squads seen in action, Shortridge and Technical appear to have the “cream." tt ft ft THERE was a slight argument out in the composing room. Ed Hall was out in full blast singing, as usual, the praises of his township high school team, Warren Central, and Harry Alexander, the verbaltornado of a make-up man, was arguing just for the sake of talk. Alex happened to be wrong this time. Warren Central does happen to have a trim outfit that has the goods. tt tt n BUTLER has a pair of brothers on its varsity squad this year. Tony Hinkle may have a hard time finding out whether Clarence Cristopher can hold down his floor guard post in the face of such stern opposition from Marshall Christopher. Both, by the way, played against Danville last week. Clarence injured his ankle Monday and was absent from Tuesday’s practice, which gave Marshall a little chance to keep the Christopher family flag still waving on top.

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A BASKETBALL columnist in the Marion Daily Chronicle pulled a fast one on Gene Thomas, Marion coach, the other day. The scribe offered one alibi for the Giants’ fourth defeat of the season, at the hands of Greenfield. It seems the Tigers marshalled a squad of feminine candy vendors who in the

words of our Marion basketball contemporary, “represented the verj[ height of feminine pulchritude. The Tigers were hardened to the charms of these sirens, but our poor Giants—no eyes for the basket had they. And even Coach Thomas, to our horror, was not immune. Did we

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not see that worthy gentleman spending his hard-earned pennies for confections? And were our eyes deceiving us, or did Mrs. Thomas rescue him.” # ft St JOKING to the side for the moment, Gene Thomas is having his share of the tough breaks this season in the shape of four setbacks in a row, at the hands of Winchester, Columbia City, Central ol Ft Wayne and Greenfield. According to Marion sports writers, as soon as Gene gets his defense sharpened up a trifle he will have a faststepping aggregation. BACKBOARD LYRICS Here is the third of the series of Backboard lyrics by the Old Settler: Y. M. C. A. and Y. P. Cs. play basketball in their B. V. Ds.. While H: N. S. make an awful mess of the well-known S. S. Ts. Y. M. H. A. have it all their way with the tough old H. A. C. Off the Backboard looks like the alphabet Kids Ret on the Christmas tree On the old sport pae it seems quite the rage To abbreviate any old name, And we’ll have to confess that sometimes, we guess Basketball is a Capital game.

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Gene Puts Jack ‘On Pan’ Before Huge Crowd in Chicago. TELLS OF 1928 PLANS / Announces He’ll Fight Twice Next Year. By CLARK B. KELSEY United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Dec. 14.—Gene Tunney, making his first appearance in Chicago since he battered Jack Dempsey at Soldiers’ Field, Sept. 22, turned his attention again to his veteran ring rival Tuesday night and assailed as “unsporty” criticism of the famous fourteen-second count in that fight. Tunney did not mention Dempsey by name, but he left no question as to the object of his attack, which came at a dinner devoted to raising a Christmas fund for needy Chicagoans. The champion and Billy Gibson, his manager, were to leave today for Grand Rapids ,Mich., to discuss boys’ welfar * work with Governor Green. “Not in refutation or response or retort to anything that has been said elsewhere, but in my own behalf, I wish to vindicate the ring and higher officials of the contest at Soldiers’ Field,” he said. “Charges reflecting on the honesty of those officials are ridiculous and a grave reflection on the high caliber of the men who sponsored the event. “If ever a contest was fought on its merits, it was that of Sept. 22. At no time was there the slightest deviation from the rules. “The unfortunate conduct of certain individuals cannot but go down as most unsporty. , “I have no use for poor sports. Man’s greatest virtue, in my opinion, is good sportsmanship. And I admire it most in a loser. It has not fallen to my lot in this connection to admire this virtue.” i Everywhere Tunney went Tuesday thousands gathered to sheer him. Billy Gibson, Tunney's manager, reiterated his statements that Tunney would fight twice in 1928, probably once in Chicago and once in New York. “We feel that Promoter Jim Mullen of Chicago, wasn’t treated properly when the Tunney-Dempsey fight was held here and I know Gene wants to fight under Mullen'r direction next year,” he said. Gibson decried the apparent lack of heavyweight challengers, saying that outside of Jack Sharkey, Jack Delaney and possibly Tom Heeney. -there were no heavyweights who stand out.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Title Cue Match at Cooler’s

"The first national billiards championship match ever obtained for Indianapolis will be played at Harry Cooler’s parlor, Dec. 19 and 20, with Dr. L. P. Macklin of St. Louis, threecushion titleholder of the American Amateur Billiard Association, resisting the challenge of Frank Fleming of Champaign, 111. The match here will be for 150 points in three blocks, total score dethe 'dinner. The American association was formed a year ago in competition with the National Amateur Billiard Association, which also has a champion. BIG SIX LEAGUE GAMES Kay Jewelry, Strauss Says Teams Win; Phi Delts Forfeit. Big Six League games were played at the Beech Grove High School gym, Tuesday night. Kay Jewelry swamped the Gibson five under a 52 to 29 count and Strauss Says downed the G. and G. quintet, 29 to 25. in a hard-fought conflict. Phi Delta forfeited to the Beech Grove club. Games in the Big Six League are played every Tuesday night. TURNER GAME FRIDAY South Side Turners are going through hard workouts in preparation for their game Friday night at the Turner gym against the Buffalo (N. Y.) Lincolns. It will be the only game in Indiana for the Eastern quintet. Ray J. Fisher, manager of the Buffalo squad, reported he has one of the fastest Eastern independent outfits. The teams are expected to employ contrasting styles of play.

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Local Optimists on Top in Radio Bowling Feature Indianapolis Optimist Club bowlers landed on top in the first tenpin match reported by radio In which a local team has figured. Stations WFBM of Indianapolis and WSM of Nashville, Tenn., broadcast the results of an inter-city Optimist Club affair. The Indianapolis squad won, 2,789 to 2,575, a margin of 214 pins. Monday night’s local Optimist League counts of members of the official Indianapolis Optimist Club team were collected and pitted against the scores posted by Optimist bowlers, Tuesday night, in Nashville. WSM broadcast the Nashville results Tuesday night and WFBM followed with Indianapolis scores. The locals won two of three games and the match. Frank Fox was high for three games with 606 and Charlie Gray crashed the maples for two high counts. Match statistics follow: NASHVILLE Wallace 157 146 172 Clark 172 187 182 Bhwhan 177 184 193 Huthance 165 165 156 Parrish 172 180 167 Totals 843 862 870 Grand total, 2.575. INDIANAPOLIS \ Mundt 190 197 139 Blue 147 183 181 McNeely 167 178 163 P. POX 160 226 220 Cray 160 200 228 Totals 824 984 981 Grand total, 2.789. NATIONAL H. S. DATES CHICAGO.’Dec 14.—The University of Chicago today announced the national interscholastic basketball tournament would be held April 4 to 7 and the track meet June 1 and 2.

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The weather man was responsible for many postponed games Tuesday night. In the Commercial League but three of the eight matches carded were bowled, the Murray Body and Citizens Gas taking three from the George J. Mayer and Dlllings. as Ballard's Ice Cream copped tne odd game from the Hollenbeck Press. Earl Patterson of the Robbins Body rolled In the form that classed him among the speed boys a few years ago, turning In games of 229, 192 and 244, for a total of 665. Smith of the Ballard team was next with 601 for his three. At the Central alleys the Lutheran League held their weekly session, the St. Peter Grays, Emmaus Browns and Trinity Browns taking three from the Trinity Grays. St. Peter Grays and St. Peter Browns. The St. Paul Browns vs. Emmaus Grays resulted In a two-time win for the former. Hanslng had high single game In this loop, with 228 In his first try. The Office and Construction teams won three from the Warehouse and Pumping teams In the Indianapolis Water League games at Pritchett’s Recreation. Riggs, with a count of 215, waa high for the night. The Faultless team was the only outfit able to win three games In the Armour League, the Shield boys being the victims. The Devonshlres, Supreme, Star Hams and Luxors took two from the Star Bacon. Veribest, Silver Nut and Melrose. Dugan had 545 on games of 214, 177 and 154 for the best total of the league. The Bids and Offers copped two from the Longs and Bulla In the Board of Trade games, while the Shorts were putting over a three-time win on the Bears. O’Brien m Offers had a total of 567 on games of 210, 163 and 194, which was high. The Automotive League also fell short of their usual eight-team affair, but two matches being played, the Hoosier Motor Club and Auto equipment taking the odd game from the Marmon and C. H. WalTerlch boys. Klein was In the 200 class each game, having counts of 204, 203 and 200, for a total of 607. Three-time wins featured the Ladles' Social League games at the Elk Club alleys, the Silver Slash, Nancy Hart and Komstohk girls taking the Indiana Recreation, Polk's Milk and Ida Mae Lunch over the route. McKinnon of the Nancy Hart team led the field with games of 199, 222 and 168. a total of 589. Johns had 527 1 McDaniel, 502f Burnett, 553, and Alexander, 556. The Ropes, Bucks, Indian Clubs and Boosters copped three from the Ballroom, water Dogs. Dumb Bells and Tumblers In the H. A. C. games at the Elks Club alleys. Landis was high oveT the threegame route with counts of 183, 225 and 218 for a total of 626. “Woody” Holtzhauer was next with 611 on games ol 211, 188 and 212:

The Broadway League games at the Uptown drives showed the Flying Clouds and Oldsmoblle to be three-time winners over the Wolverine and Hudsons, as the Chrysler and Whippets copped the odd game from the Mormon and Rolls-Royce. Kemp, with games of 171, 189 and 174, a total of 534, rolled best. With more than 600 bowlers participating in the "F s’ Gold Pot” on Friday, Saturday and -.unday, anew record for team entries for the city will have been established. The credit for an entry of this kind must go to the arrangement committee members who have worked tirelessly from the time the Idea of a meet of this kind started. All captains of teams not entered will have until midnight tonight to turn in their line-ups, after which the entries will close and a schedule of the meet arranged. ■ The opening squad will find the Optimist League as a whole on the drives, at 7 p. m. At 9 p. m. the City League will do their stuff. This meet proves that the lower average bowler will test his ability against the speed boys If given an even break.

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Big Four A. A. defeated the Martinsville Artcslans at Martinsville, 22 to 17. Railroaders were trailing at the half, but came back strong. Modlin and Roberts Silayed well. Saturday Big Four will ourney to Danville to play the C. and !. I. champs of that city. College Cuds will play the strong St. Philips A. C. five Thursday night at the St. Philips auditorium. Game will start at 8:15. Following Cubs are urged to report at 7:30: Lien, Jesse. C. Adams, C. Commons, Evans, Tonnis. Hickman, Payne, Richards and R. Crowe. Cubs will play the Greenfield Alumni Monday night at the Cubs' floor. Thirteenth and Alabama Sts. For games with the Cubs call Lincoln 3198 or address Did: Growe. 1421 College Ave. Payne and Richards are requested to call the above numbers. Manager of the College Cubs is requested to call Harrison 2662-R in regard to a game to be played Friday at the Cowboys floor. SUIT AGAINST MICKEY Bfl United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Mickey Walker, middleweight boxing champion, has been sued for $25,000 for alleged breach of contract by the Stadium Pictures, Inc., The motion picture company charged Walker broke a contract to act in twelve two-reel fill is.

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Tigers Triumph Over Central in Close Contest B "giTeENC ASTLE, Ind., Dec. 14. De Pauw University basketball squad, weary and tired after a gruelling fray Tuesday night, was to go through a light warm-up drill here today and swing into hard work Thursday in preparation for the game with Purdue Saturday, The Tigers fought their way to a 43 to 41 triumph over the Indiana Central netters here Tuesday. The Methodists had it easy during tIK -■'pening half and piled up a 24 to -2 advantage. The Greyhounds launched a savage rally in the final half and the De Pauw lead quickly was erased. Byram and Mountz were best for the locals. Bailey and Kranke starred for the Indianapolis five. New Members in Sport Federation Four new organizations were elected to membership at the December meeting of the Amateuf Athletic Federation cf Marion County. They are the Indianapolis Council De Molay, Severn,h District American Legion, composed of thirteen posts in Marion County, Indianapolis Soccer League and the Employes A. A. of the Service Spring Company. The county organization is the local unit affiliated with the National Amateur Athletic Federation. R. L. Konecke of the local Y. M. C. A., is president of the Marion County division.