Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 134, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1928 — Page 10
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Talking It Over WITH JOE WILLIAMS
NEW YORK, Oct. 25—Broadway was whispering today that Tex Rickard has promoted his last big civic enterprise. This may easily be the truth. To begin with there are few big civic enterprises lying around to be promoted these days In a general sense the fight game, ks it is laughingly described, is pretty well shot, with especial stress on the heavyweights. tt tt tt Mr. Rickard has always been a big shooter. Only the battles of the century interested him. Hun dreds of minor matches have been staged under his suave auspices but 99 per cent of these were contrived by his matchmak er or other matchmakers. tt tt tt * WHEN THE DEMPSEY FELLOW WAS BEATEN AND MB. JAMES JOSEPH TUNNEY SUBSEQUENTLY RETIRED MR. RICKARD, TO ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES. WENT ALONG WITH THEM. NOMINALLY, HE IS STILL THE MAIN FGURE AROUND WHICH THE CAULIFLOWER ACTIVITIES OF MADISON SQUARE GARDEN REVOLVE. BUT ACTUALLY HE ISN’T GREATLY INTERESTED. tt tt tt TODAY Rickard is just as much a millionaire as either Dempsey or Tunney. Probably more so. In short, Mr. Rickard has about all the money he will ever need; he is in the fifties; he has experienced an eventful and thrilling life; the fight game has little left to offer him. unpss—and here the Dempsey fellow, ao usual, is lugged back into the picture. a tt tt Should the old champion change his mind, as some of the boys who are close to him say he will, and fight again Mr. Rickard will be in j there walking arm-and-arm with the man who made him what he is today—the gate god ballyhoo. a a tt THOUGH BEATEN TWICE BY TUNNEY. DEMPSEY IS THE ONLY MAN IN OR OUT OF THE GAME, EXCEPTING OF COURSE THE PERMANENTLY RETIRED CHAMPION. WITH SUFFICIENT APPEAL TO LURE ANOTHER MILLION-DOLLAR HOUSE. AND THESE ARE THE ONLY SORT OF HOUSES MR. RICKARD IS INTERESTED IN. tt O tt DEMPSEY has flopped as a stage attraction. The answer to this is that there are any number of persons who can act as badly as the man mauler, but none that can fight as well. Dempsey is pretty well heeled, and if he*is content to settle down and live a fairly quiet, ungaudy life there will never be any j unmuzzled wolves sniffing around his doorsteps. tt a tt I was among those who cheered , when Dempsey finally decided to j retire. I still hope he stays re- | tired. He was a great champion j —one of the greatest, and he was beaten by a great boxer, precisely | the type of man who figured to beat him from the start. YALE IN HARD DRILLS Bp United Press NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 25.—A last hard scrimmage was scheduled j for the Yale football team today be- I fore Saturday’s Army game. Wednesday head coach Mai Stevens drilled Garvey, Hubbard, Dunn and Cruickshank in drop and place kicking after it was learned Oldt, left end and only reliable point kicker on the team, would be unable to play Saturday because of a bad knee.
No Affiliations forN. Y. Board Bv United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—William Muldoon. New York state boxing commissioner, will oppose any attempt of the New York commission to join a national boxing organization as long as he is on the present board. “I am against New York state becoming entangled with any other boxing organizations,” he said. “If another state needs our help and appeals to us we will try to help them. If New York needs help we will ask for it. We will never join a national organization. It is better to have two or three big boxing bodies working separately. A big organization is too unwieldy.” END BREAKS LEG RI ANNAPOLIS, Md.. Oct. 25.—Hard luck continues to dog the Navy football team. Oscar E. Hagberg big end, who was expected to start against Pennsylvania Saturday, broke his leg in practice Wednesday.
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The Hare Chevrolet turned out to he lust another team for the Silver Flash in their match at the. Pritchett ; Recreation. the Gas boys winning all three Tills game was scheduled as a thriller, but the fact that Jess Pritchett was far below his usual form had its effect. The 3-F Coffee and Marotts also won three from the American Central Life and Aut °. Equipment as the Hukle Specials, KirshnerLovlck and Falls City Lager copped the odd game from the Halgren Peoria Life. Meridian Garage and Coca-Colas. The 3-F Coffee boys had the best total over the three-game route with scores of 1,03 f 978 and 988 for a count of 2,998. High single game went to the Hukle Specials with 1,076 in their last try. Fifteen totals of better than 600 were turned in. Fonnie Snyder leading the field wivh gan.es of 225, 232 and 226, a total of 683 Westover had 631: Bohne, 633; ScHeSmer 636: Kemper, 613; Darnaby, 631; Hargitt. 629: Weisman, 613: Bowen. 635; Lovick. 660: Charlie Schott, 606; Haislup, 623; E. Striebeck. 608; Hornberger. 611, and Holtz, 612. Bill Bowen put up the high single game mark with a score of 275 in his second try. Sam Lovick got the syrup for his hotcakes with a fine 256 in his last game. The first doubles sweepstakes of the season will be rolled on the Illinois al eys Sunday Oct. 28. Each team will btlinMti to an average of 350 pins. Play will start at 2 p. m. and continue until all who wish to enter have rolled. Thi.. class of nlay was very popular last season and a large entry Is expected. The Nina and Pinta teams were handed a three-time trimming by the La Salle and Columbian boys as the Santa Maria and Marauctte clubs won two from the Isabella and Calumet in the K. of C. League at the Century alleys. Schmitt rolled 231 in his last game to get the high score of the night. Two-out-of-three was the rule in the Stafford Engraving League games at the Elk Club alleys, the Lions, Bears, Wildcats and Buffaloes taking the Foxes, Wohcs, Panthers and Tigers over this route. Fahrbach rolled a 258 in his second game, anew record for this loop.
Jimmy Phelan s Purdue Squad Primed for Fracas With Chicago
Nurmi Starts Training for 1932 Event Great Finn Aims for Marathon Triumph in Next Olympiad. Hu United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—Paavo Nurmi will be a full-fledged marathon runner by 1929, but contrary to the expectations of American promoters will not turn professional. Instead, the marvelous little Finn will devote three years to preparing to win the marathon run at the Olympic games in Los Angeles in 1932. If Nurmi has an outstanding quality in his athletic greatness it is thoroughness. Now he has set his heart upon making the 1932 marathon the climatic triumph of his career, and those who know him believe he will be successful. Nurmi has a goal upon which his heart is fixed, arid the fact it is nearly four years away does not trouble him a bit. It would not be surprising if the Finn, when he finally tackles the full marathon route of 26 miles 385 yards, shattered all existing records, professional and amateur. STARS STILL UNDER BAN Hu United Press MADISON, Wis., Oct. 25.—Dismissal of Gene Rose and Joe Kresky from the Badger football squad has been modified somewhat. Coach Glenn Thistlethwaite denied they had been dropped for the rest of the season, and said they might be called back at his discretion. No reasons were given for the dismissal.
Important Week-End for Big Ten Teams
BIG TEN THIS WEEK Ohio State al Indiana. Purdue at Chicago. Minnesota at lowa. Wisconsin at Michigan. Northwestern at Illinois. BY DICK MILLER “Crucial” is the way most of the Big Ten football mentors refer the Saturday football games. They are right, because a glance at the schedule of the conference elevens impresses one that hopes of more than one of the teams doped to have a chance at the Western Conference gonfalon may be blasted this week-end. For instance, take the headliner, Minnesota at lowa. The appearance on the horizon of western
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TWO members of the Wisconsin football squad have been suspended indefinitely for “disciplinary reasons,” with no fur /her comment forthcoming. Oh, well, that tie with Purdue was bound to result in something. The Badgers thought they had that one in ihe bag. tt u REPORTS PROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE COUNTRY TELLING OF POOR ATTENDANCE AT BOXING SHOWS EVIDENTLY HAVE MOVED THE GLOVE THROWERS TO TAKE A HEFTY PUNCH ON THE BEAK NOW AND THEN. FISTIANA RIGHT NOW IS IN A TOUGH SPOT AND IT’S UP TO THE DANCING MASTERS TO LEARN HOW TO GIVE AND TAKE. nun Aren’t the marathon dancers bothered with charley horses? Some of the spectators are taking more punishment than the slow shufflers. Have you joined the afternoon “Yap and Yawn’ Club?” tt u a Advertised as the “battle of full backs,” that Minnesotalowa game Saturday would be funny if some unimportant second stringer pounces on a fumble and scoots over the white lines for the deciding points. a tt Dr. Spears, Minnesota coach, must have a tough time these days trying to register pessimism, in which every football coach must be a past master. a a LOS ANGELES FIREMEN AND NEW YORK FIRE LADDIES MET IN A FOOTBALL TUSSLE SUNDAY, AND EIGHT OF THE SMOKE EATERS ARE STILL OUT RESCUE SQUADS IN FOOTBALL COME TO THE RESCUE ONLY AFTER TIME HAS BEEN CALLED AND THE DAMAGE DONE.
Boots Buddies lost the iid i The Times loop when the Sam x v y team took them for three games. Ma. Hooples are now in front and "egad how they are strutting their stuff.’ The Tag-a-longs were the Majors’ victims Wednesday .night. The Pop Gunn team also won three from the Freckels as the Bull-o-the-Woods took two from the Lighthouses. Boots Buddies made a hit when they stepped on tne alleys with ribbons carrying names ot “Bub.’’ "Ferdie,” “Horace, ’ “Jimmy and “Pete.” The Marmon and Furniture Leagues have entered the city association which swells the list sixteen more, as the Furniture League boys have added two new teams to make their loop an eight club outfit. The two-out-of-three rule was in use in the Bankers League at the Delaware alleys. The Marion County. City Trust, Maple Road and Fletcher Savings and Trust nosed out the American Central Life Farmer Trust, Continental National and Fletcher American. Pearson led this loop with games oi 224, 202 and 199, a total of 625. Moore was next with 603 for his three games. ' In the Uptown League games the Metalcraft and Denham Oil won three from the Coca-Cola and American Linen while Cook Bros, and Hanna Register copped two from the Indianapolis Candy and Uptown Theater. The Ideal Cleaners rolled games at which their opponents will roll later. Miller turned In a wonderful series with games of 242, 226 and 214 for a total of 682. Kimmel had 628: Schonaker, 625; Burnett, 608; Hoyt, 638, and Wuensch, 602. Hoyt tied Miller’s 242 for high single game. STAR STILL OUT HANOVER, Oct. 25. Freddy Breithut, Dartmouth’s left-handed half back, is still nursing a leg injured in the Columbia game and may not be able to start against Harvard Saturday. If Breithut is unable to play, Shepp Wolff will take his place.
‘Pest’ Welch All Set to Cut Loose on Saturday. HARMESON BANKED ON 5,000 Boilermaker Fans to Accompany Team. It,!/ Times Special - LAFAYETTE. Ind., Oct. 25.—Head Coach Jimmy Phelan was to put the finishing touches on his Purdue university football squad today and the Boiler Maker mentor was all set to pronounce his charges fit and ready for their encounter with Chicago university at Stagg field. Chicago, Saturday. Phelan has spared none this week in his endeavors to get the Engineers in the best of shape and it is no secret on the Purdue campus that Jimmy is doing a, good deal of “fearing” over the encounter with Stagg’s Maroons. Ralph Welch, the husky Texan, appears to be in great shape and it is understood that the “pest of Purdue” is all set to cut loose against Chicago. Purdue also is banking a lot on the elusive Glen Harmeson, who is quite apt to break loose with some sensational open field running Saturday. Remembering the past history of the Chicaga-Purdue battles, interest nere has reached a high peak and the student body and citizens are planning an invasion of the Windy City by special train and automobiles. Close to 5.000 tickets have been disposed of in Lafayette. NEW STAR POPS UP 111/ I nitcil Pi ins AN ARBOR. Mich., Oct. 25—A new star has appeared on the Michigan firmament. Jack Wheeler is his name and he appears proficient in all departments of the game. He probably will do most of the kicking against the Badgers Saturday.
football of the big Indian *. full back, McLain, gives to lowa universitypower that stamps it as a “dark horse.” However, it is a team mo r e likely to wreck the hopes of some other team than to crash through and win the title themselves. It will be a battle between the big Indian and Nagurski, the crashing full back of the “Bone Crushers.” No doubt these two big line punishers will be out there Saturday trying to outdo the other in performance. Their supporting team members will be trying harder than ever to aid them in thei grab for glory. Minnesota, no doubi you have heard, is the choice of almost any first-class football diagnostician to go through the conference season undefeated. Illinois is also doped to do the same. However, if
WHEN the crippled fire boys recover they’ll probably choose to go and fall down a few ladders and grope through some smoke when they feel the need of a little exercise. tt <t a ITS MANAGER HOLKE NOW'. THE BIG AND POPULAR FIRST SACKER OF THE INDIANS IS GOING TO PILOT THE QUINCY TEAM OF THE. THREE-I LEAQUE NEXT SEASON. ALL OF WHICH IS BAD NEWS TO THE PITCHERS IN THAT CIRCUIT, FOR WALTER STILL CAN SMACK g'HE SPHERE. tt tt tt Ilolke came to Indianapolis Wednesday, conferred with owner Perry of the Indians and Secretary Clauer and it was then he accepted terms to pilot the Papooses. tt tt a Walter has a great background for a successful manager, having had long experience in the majors and Class AA. He joined the Indians in 1926 and played an important part in their pennant drive the past season. It’s a good move for Holke to make, for the past two seasons he has found the 168-game schedule in the A. A. tough to go through on account of ailing underpinning.
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Gophers and Hawks Ready for Big Tilt Key to Triumph May Rest on Nagurski and McLain. Up Times Special lOWA CITY, la.. Oct. 25.—The key to victory in the impending struggle betr/een lowa and Minnesota here Saturday is likely to rest on the ground-gaining abilities of the two great full backs, Mayes McLain cf the Hawkeyes and Bronko Nagurski of the Gophers. The highly touted line smashers undoubtedly will be at their regular positions when the opening whistle blows. And then will start the battle! Nagurski is one of the greatest, natural line plungers the game has known in recent years. He carries a tremendous amount of drive and just how well the lowa line will stand up under his battering is a problem. Westphal, another burly “bonecrusher” of the Gophers, also is likely to see some action at the full back post. While Nagurski will confine his activities to smashing the forword wall, McLain will be hitting the line, passing and kicking. Although lowa City fans are insistent the Hawks will triumph over the powerful Minnesota aggregation Big Ten critics are leaning ever so slightly toward the Gophers, whom they regard as one of the most powerful teams ever developed in the conference. MAY FACE MIDDIES PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 25.—Ralph Monk, regular Pennsylvania left guard who has been nursing a boil on his arm, may be able to play against Navy Saturday,
the two teams met, no doubt the majority would favor the Gophers. Ohio State and its 1928 Wilcemade machine will be the guests of Indiana at Bloomington. Many Hoosier fans were disappointed when I. U. failed to upset Illinois last Saturday. Now Ohio State, after its impressive victory over Michigan, is rated as another conference “dark horse" candidate along with lowa. If the Buckeyes defeat Indiana then they will be rated a team with a chance to upset the Illinois hopes Nov. 24. Badgers Cautious Wisconsin, with her hopes for a “no defeat" season, still running high, but somewhat dampered on account of the tie game with Purdue last Saturday, will proceed cautiously into Michigan Saturday. That Michigan team is likely to get on the war path one of these days and when they do, somebody is likely to be sorry. Michigan is now shooting to lower high hopes of others. Northwestern has just an outside chance to defeat Illinois Saturday. This game will be watched with interest by Butler fans because of the game Nov. 10 here between the Illini and Bulldogs. Butler lost to the Wildcats 14-0 and while both Northwestern and Illinois are strong now, Butler also should improve. Purdue Is Favorite It is the one big ambition of Hoosier fans to cheer Purdue and Indiana teams on in their conflicts with Chicago. The Staggmen are not what they usually are this fall. They have taken a couple of jolts in the defeat line and Purdue will invade the midway with a strong club. The Phelanmen were disappointed in not getting away with that Wisconsin game last Saturday. Twice they held point advantages, first of twelve points and then seven, and were unable to hold either. Football teams hardly can be all offensive machines and no doubt the Purdue defensive play is undergoing a terrific lot of coaching this week, especially the forward pass defense. Purdue really goes to Chicago this week-end a dope favorite.
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Edwin Allen Coming to Butler from Westfield high school, Ed Allen, back field ball toter, made good on the freshman squad last fall and this year sees him performing with the blue and white varsity in the new stadium at Fairview. He has good weight for a back, scaling 171, and there’s a good chance he’ll see some action here Saturday when the Washington university Bears of St. Louis tangle with Potsy Clark’s Bulldogs. Injuries at times, have bothered Allen, but he figures he'll be set to go in Butler's first home feature tilt. Washington played a 7 to 7 tie with the Kansas Jayhawkers this season and Coach A1 Sharpe and his warriors are coming to Indianapolis well-touted as a grid machine. MAY' NOT FACE YALE WEST POINT. N. Y., Oct. 25. Capt. Bud Sprague, who injured his nose in the Harvard game, is still unable to practice with the Army football team and it is doubtful if he will be at his regular tackle post when Army fc,ces Yale Saturday. HUMBECK LOSES NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—George Hoffman, former national amateur champion, won a decision over Jack Humbeck of Belgium, six rounds, Wednesday night. Hoffman weighed 191, Humbeck, 199 Vi.
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Hold Your Nose! lip I in ted Press NEW YORK. Oct. 25.—A New York golfer has discovered a self-finding golf ball While playing at the Briai Hills country club. Charles A. Laurino drove one of his tee shots into the wood. When lie found the ball, it lay about two feet from a skunk brought down by the shot. He continued to play the ball, and no matter where he drove, the scent always led him straight to the ball.
MAY START AS BACK It y l nited Prt ss PRINCETON, N. J„ Oct. 25.--Mayland Wheeler, who was a member of the Princeton scrubs last week, today found himself in the position of probable starter in the Princeton back field Saturday against Cornell. In scrimmage Wednesday against the freshmen, Wheeler broke away for a seventy-yard run to give the Varsity a 6-6 tie with the first year men. ATTUCKS PLAYS GARY Fifteen members of the Attucks high school football team will make the trip to Gary Saturday to play the Negro high school eleven of that city. It will be the first out-of-town game for the Tigers. Coach Shellbourne sent the Tigers through a long drill Wednesday and another hard session was planned today. DAVEY ABAD WINS t',ii Times Special CINCINNATI. Oct 25.—Davey Abad, Panama, defeated I'huck Feldman, Toledo, ten rounds here Wednesday night. Jack McTiernan, Pittsburgh, defeated Fred Middaugh, Detroit, six rounds.
Hanover Loses Buck , Injured During Practice B,a Times Special HANOVER. Ind., Oct. 25. The Hilltoppers of Hanover college lost one of their mainstay gridders Wednesday when Buck, quarter back, was hurt In practice and examination disclosed a broken ankle, and he will be out for the season. Hanover meets Indiana Central of Indianapolis here Saturday and Coach Money faces a task in filling Buck’s shoes. Anderson is the likely choice at present. Hammer and Whitcomb will be at half back and Campbell at full. The roster of the line will be Rockwell, center; Holmes and Easton, guards; Telle and Dill, tackles, and Ryall and Strothman, ends.
IRISH PROSPECTS NOT VERY BRIGHT AS FOES THREATEN Notre Dame May Go Through Worst Season Since Rockne Took Hold in 1917.
Bp Times Special NOTRE DAME. Ind., Oct. 25. With a record of two defeats in four games played now behind them, the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame now are earnestly preparing to stage a come-back that will save them from going through the worst season N. D. has had since Knutc Negroes, Indian and Hawaiian Shine on Grid Bp I nitcil Press PORTLAND. Ore.. Oct. 25. The picturesque appearance of two Negroes, an Indian and a Hawaiian, have featured the early games of Oregon’s two teams of the Pacific coast football conference. No small measure of the glory of University of Oregon's smashing 27-to-0 route of University of Washington here last Saturday belongs to Bobbie Robinson, Negro quarter, and Chuck Williams, Negro half. And at Oregon State college they have a native Hawaiian, Henry Hughes. Hughes, 21, weighing 170 pounds, is playing his first year of varsity football. Chief Hus-Heigh, registered on the books as Coquille Thompson, a full-blooded Coquile Indian, and a chief in his own right, has seen action at full back in each O. S. C. game this year. He weighs more than 200.
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Hagen Plays John Farrell in St. Louis Deciding Match for Pro Title to Be Staged Saturday. Bp United Press NEW YORK. Oct. 25.—Johnny Farrell, national open golf champion, was to leave today for St. Louis, where he will meet Walter Hagen, British open champion, in the fifth and deciding match of their series for the world’s unofficial golf championship. Hagen won the first two matches and Farrell the next two. The fifth match will be played Saturday.
Rockne became head coach, back in 1917. From the looks of things now the Irish are due to take one or two more defeats before the season ends. Army has one of the strongest teams in its history. Out on the coast the Trojans of southern California are gleefully preparing to give the Rockmen a beating that will entirely compensate them for the two games they have lost by one point margins in the past two campaigns. And Carnegie Tech is plenty strong. In the Wisconsin and Georgia Tech games, Notre Dame was defeated fairly and decisively. The task of developing a scoring punch is now occupying Rockne. The loss of Fred Collins early in the season deprived him of the one man who could be counted upon to crash the line for touchdowns, and lie’s now looking more earnestly than ever for a hard-hitting back to take Collins’ place. Mortenson, tackle, is the leading candidate, though inexperienced in the back field. Murphy, end, was injured Wednesday and probably will be missing Saturday when the Irish face Drake here. TO USE PASSES lip United Press EVANSTON. 111.. Oct. 25.—Northwestern looks to its aerial attack to turn back the Illini Saturday. Intensive drill on passes has been on the Purple menu all week. Captain Holmer, best flipper on the eleven, is expected to lead the attack.
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