Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 182, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1928 — Page 12

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Cruising in ♦ ❖ S Portland WITH EDDIE ASH

flying fists of Ace Hudkins A known in the squared circle as the Nebraska Wildcat, may reach

out the night of Dec. 28 and punch holes in the bankroll and aspirations of the Philadelphia m i 1 lionaire, Drexel Biddle. The “money bags” paid big dough for a slice of Rene De Vos’ contract, and it’s De Vos, the burly Belgian, who fights Hudkins in New York on the .twenty-

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eighth. Biddle was attracted to De Vos because Biddle happens to be a millionaire with a hobby for boxing and he figures the Belgian is going to be the next world's middleweight champion. What a chance for Hudkins! If he flattens De Vos, it would be a good guess that some other millionaire with a prize-fight hobby would slip him several grand to be known as his co-manager, so: Drexel Biddle appears to have set a fashion among the smart, sporty and rich set of the east. tt tt tt Hudkins won’t enter the ring the favorite, but he has two good . hands and a whale of a kick, and anyway the rule in the tin-ear game these days appears to be for the favorite to, get tipped over. Hansen, Griffiths. McLarnin and Sangor are gxamples, and even pudgy Jim Maloney stopped Apdy Mitchell and outpointed Johnny Risko. a tt tt UPSETS THAT DOTTED THE 1928 FOOTBALL SEASON. “'THE BIG YEAR OF THE UNDER DOG,” LOPPED RIGHT OVER INTO THE INDOOR BOXING SEASON AND ANY" ’OLD HAM NOWADAYS MIGHT BLOSSOM OUT AS A NEAR CHAMP OVER NIGHT.

BASKETBALL teams are going in for “bear” stories this season. Reported sick and on the verge of delirium one night, players get into the lineup the next evening and perform in the best of health. “Rut” Walter, Northwestern ace, reported seriously ill with the flu Monday, tossed in a very important field goal against Notre Dame Tuesday night. The boys must be using Old Doc Munyon’s tonic. tt tt tt Tex Rickard denies he’ll abandon the management of Madison Square Garden, Jan. 1, saying “he’ll spend the rest of his life there.” Anyway he’ll stick around so long as he can stage an annual heavyweight “elimination” tournament and sell it to the customers. tt tt tt COLLEGES WILL CLOSE SATURDAY FOR THE HOLIDAY VACATION PERIOD AND MORE THAN LIKELY THE STUDENTS WON’T BE SICK WI*TH THE FLU A SINGLE DAY DURING THAT TIME. WON’T HAVE TIME TO SNEEZE AND COUGH. tt tt tt Hanover collegians changed their name from Hilltoppers to Panthers and went out and licked Bethel (Ky.) college by a lopsided score. Must be something in a name at that. tt tt tt Suggestion for next season’s baseball advertisements: “Indians vs. Colonels—With Sound Effects. See Warstler! Hear Warstler! Eye and Ear. You Get It All. And No Advance in Prices.”

Turners Oppose Kansas Outfit Olsen’s Original Nordics will invade the South Side Turner gym Sunday afternoon for a battle with the Turner five. The team play out of Coffeyville, Kan., and boasts a record of eighty victories in eighty-seven starts. Turners have been going through strenuous practice sessions in preparation for the game. A curtain raiser at 1.45 Sunday will precede the feature tilt.

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FRIDAY Technical at Lebanon. Shortridge at Cathedral. Broad Ripple at Washington. SATURDAY Manual vs. Tech at Armory. Connersvilte Reserves at Cripus Attucks. VALPO TAKES GAME By Times Special ** VALPARAISO, Ind., Dec. 20. Valparaiso university defeated Lewis institute of Chicago here Wednesday night, 25 to 21. The two teams were tied at the half, 11-all. Van Buskirk was best for Valpo with 12 points. Newman was best for Lewis. O’CONNOR RUNS SIX Leo O’Connor defeated Joe Murphy, 50 to 39, in a state threecushion tourney game at Cooler’s parlor, Wednesday night, in ninetytwo innings. The winner had a high run of six and the loser four.

Do You Know That— THE Brown university subs roared when only the eleven regulars got varsity football letters. . . . And they were so hot they ate the grub at the annual dinner under protest. . Paul Block, the big newspaper publisher paid $360,000 for the Newark International League club. ... It came out in court. . . . . Joe Dugan may coach the Princeton baseballers. . . . Judge Landis is 62 and says he is going to live to be a hundred. . . All that dough is worth living for ... . Hornsby through McCarthy through Veeck through Wrigley helped get his pal, Allen Sothoron, the job managing the Louisville Colonels. J

Butler and Purdue Go Through Final Drills for Game Here

Bulldogs in Good Shape for ’ Important Friday Night Battle. HARMESON MAY PLAY Boilermaker Ace Recovers From Flu. The Butler and Purdue basketball squads were to go through their final workouts this afternoon in preparation for the conflict Friday night at the Bulldog field house. The blue and white are in good physical conditio nand Head Coach Paul Hinkle has his men tuned for the fray. Reports from Lafayette where the Boilermakers are putting the final touches on their preparatory work indicate that Glen Harmeson, star forward, who has been ill with the flu, is likely to see action with the Purdue team Friday. Harmeson was discharged from the St. Elizabeth hospital Wednesday and although he will be unable to go the whole route Friday night he may be able to take part in some of the action. The Purdue starting lineup probably will be composed of Cummins and Welch, forwards; Murphy, center; Schnaiter and Sleight, guards. Lyle and Boots also may get into the contest. Although Hinkle is having trouble deciding on his starting lineup it appears that Butler will take the floor with Chandler and Captain White at forwards; Hildebrand, center, and Hosier and Bugg, guards. Christopher, Caskey and Hinchman also are carded to get into the game. The game will start at 8 p. m. and Butler authorities today announced that tickets are still available.

DePauw Humbles Normal Quintet By Times Special TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Dec. 20. The powerful De Pauw university basketball team battled its way to a 37-to-25 verdict over State Normal here Wednesday night. Tigers flashed into an early lead and were ahead at half-time, 20 to 15. Loveless scored twenty points for the victors. The teachers threw a scare into the Methodist ranks late in the second half but the Tigers spurted and put the game out of reach of the ambitious Normalities. Summary: DEPAUW G FTP! NORMAL G F TP Stone, f 2 1 5 Horton, f.... 12 4 Loveless, f... 9 2 20 Scheid, f 4 1 9 Mountz, c... 0 2 2ißeese, t .... 0 0 0 Crawley, g.. 4 1 BlTeanv. C .... 13 5 Stunkel, g... 0 1 liMartin, g.... 2 3 7 Albright, g... 0 0 0 Total 15 7 37! Totals 8 9 25 RANGERS IN ACTION By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—The New York Rangers, leaders of the American group of the National Hockey League, face a formidable foe tonight at Madison Square Garden in the Ottawa Senators. New York’s other sextet, the Americans, goes to Pittsburgh to meet the Pirates, and Les Canadiens of Montreal go to Detroit for the other game of the evening. NONE AWAY FROM HOME Luther Roy, Birmingham pitcher, didn’t win a single game away from home the past summer. He won nineteen on the home lot.

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Heavyweights Battle in Feature Ten-Round Scrap on Cadle Card

Larry Gains, Seal Harris, Giant Negro Boxers, Meet Tonight: Five Other Matches on Program.

Fight fans wl.o crave heavyweights will get their fill at Cadle tabernacle tonight when two of the best known Negro scrappers in the ring game clash over the ten-round route. Larry Gains, heavyweight champion of Canada and claimant of the world’s Negro title by virtue of his Catalina Links Tourney Has Big Field of Stars lin United Press AVALON. Catalina Island, Cal., Dec. 20.—Ted Barnes, young Los Angeles professional, leads the unofficial and incomplete list of qualifiers in the $2,500 Catalina open championship golf tournament. He turned in a 127 for the thirty-six-hole qualifying round Wednesday. The official list will not be compiled until all shot their qualifying round today. Championship play will start Friday with a field of 100 golfers, including many international stars, the latter escaped the qualifying round by having qualified in the national open or the P. N. G. A. championship. Illini Engage Flickertails at Urbana Tonight By Times Special URBANA, 111., Dec. 20.—North Dakota’s touring basketball players, who will traverse many miles before they return to Grand Forks, will engage the Illini on the local floor tonight in the last home game until Jan. 8. The Flickertails, champions of the north central conference last year, have a veteran outfit. Coach Ruby of Illinois will stand pat on the same lineup used against Bradley and Lombard, which calls for Captain Dorn, Mills and How, three veterans, and Harper and May, two sophomores. REDSKIN AS CAPTAIN DALLAS, Aex., Dec. 20.—Henry Jackson Sanders of Garland, Tex., Choctaw Indian guard of the Southern Methodist university, will captain the 1929 Mustang football team.

Cincy Returns Two Hurlers By United Press CINCINNATI, Dec. 20.—The Cincinnati National League club Jate Wednesday released Pete Jablonowski and Dick Wykoff, pitchers, to the Columbus club of the American Association in part payment for the release of Joe Stripp, who joined the Reds last summer. Jablonowski and Wykoff were recalled from Columbus this fall. Their releases this time are outright. Outfielder Bernie Neis also has been turned over to Columbus.

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three-round victory over George Godfrey, will battle Seal Harris, Chicago giant black, in the main go. Worked With Loughran Harris aspires to become a “second Jack Johnson” and it is said old Jack himself will come down from Chicago to'act as chief second for Seal. Only recently Harris acted as sparring partner tor Tommy Loughran and surprised Chicago fight critics by his good work with the gloves. He has a victory over Chuck Wiggins and two years ago knocked out Jack Leslie, local Negro heavyweight. Gains needs no introduction for the records show he has met many prominent heavyweights. He has been fighting since the war wiien he went overseas with the Canadian army and took up boxing behind the lines. Cox and De Rose Five other bouts are on the card tonight, the first at 8:30. In the

semi-w ind u p of eight rounds Tracy Cox, Indianapolis, will try to advance another step in the fistic sport when he faces A1 De Rose, Newark (N. J.) veteran. Cox, developing rapidly, has built up a following here and has his heart set on scoring a win over the more experienced De Rose, whom fans have seen in action at

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the Armory. De Rose has been doing most of his battling in the east. The six-bout show, thirty-four rounds in all, is being staged at popular prices. It’s a mixed card. Negroes being engaged in two scraps and white battlers in the other four. Tonight’s complete card follows: Tfn Rounds—Seal Harris, Chicago vs. Larry Gains, Toronto, Canada. Negro heavyweights. Eight Rounds—Tracy Cox, Indianapolis vs. A1 De Rose, Newark, N. J. Featherweights. Four Rounds—Ray Hurtz vs. George Smith. Indianapolis, Negroes, 145. Four Rounds—Frank Gierke vs. Late Wells. Indianapolis. Four Rounds—l,indy Camden vs. Jack White, Indianapolis. Four Rounds—Buddy Watts vs. Ed Manning, Indianapolis.

Shortridge and Cathedral in Rivalry Clash

High school basketball supremacy of the north side will be at stake Friday night when Shortridge and Cathedral clash at the Cathedral gym at 8:15. “B” net fives of the two schools-will meet at 7:15. This is the first time Shortridge and Cathedral have met on the net court and the rivalry that started in football is expected to attract a capacity crowd to the game. Both teams are reported in top shape.

College Basketball

(Wednesday Games) Indiana reserves, 51; MJaml (O.), reserves, 34. Hanover, 51: Fethel (Ky.), 11 De Pauw, 37: State Normal, 25. Valparaiso, 25; Lewis institute (Chicago), 21. Eastern Illinois Normal. 36; Rose Poly. 24. Army, 37; Columbia. 30. Navy, 33; William and Mary, 19.

Babe and Lou Lead League With 142 Runs Ruth Also Tops A. L. With 135 Passes During Season. Hll 1 n il< and Press NEW YORK. Dec. 20.—Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Miller Huggins' pair of super hitters, were responsible for more runs driven in than any other men in the American League during the season of 1929. Official records released today show Babe and Lou at the head of the list, each being responsible for 142 runs. Ruth also led the league in the number of times he was awarded a free ticket to first basetribute to his ability as a slugger. The records show he received 135 passes. A doubtful honor also was claimed by Ruth in having struck out more often than any other man in the league. He has fanned eightyseven times—seventeen more than Ralph Kress, St. Louis, who was second. Bob Meusel, another Yankee, was third in the list of "runs responsible for” with a total of 113, giving the New York club a clean sw r eep of the first three places. Bing Miller, Philadelphia; Oswald Bluege, Washington, and Earl McNeely, St. Louis, were each hit eight times by opposing pitchers. The Yankees as a team drew more bases on balls than any other. They drew 562 passes during the year. The records also show that the Yankees struck out 544 times during the season w'hile the last place Red Sox were second with 512. Rose Poly Loses to Illinois Team Hi/ Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Dec. 20. Eastern Illinois Teachers sent Rose Poly down to a 36 to 24 defeat here Wednesday night. Rose got away to a slow start and the fast passing attack of the Illinois five swept the visitors to a 25 to 11 advantage at the half. Rose came back strong in the last session, but was unable to overtake the clever Teacher squad. Hanover Swamps Kentucky Five By Times Special HANOVER. Ind., Dec. 20.—Hanover college basketball team romped to a 51 to 11 triumph over Bethel (Ky.) college here Wednesday night, in an uninteresting fray. The Hanover earn show’ed a decided superiority over the Kentuckians in every department of play and the score at the half was 30 to 5. Hammer and Telle led the attack for the locals. BEN DAVIS VS. GREENWOOD Ben Davis five will meet Greenwood tonight at the Ben Davis community house. It will be Ben Davis’ last game until Jan. 4.

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-OFF the BACKBOARD €g§, By NORMAN E. ISAACS

FROM the young fellow who keeps us in touch with the athletic activities at Butler we learn that to Bill Bugg and Oral Hildebrand will fall the no mean task of guarding the extremely tall and useful Charles Murphy of Purdue, who will appear here Friday night, in person, along with his Boilermaker teammates. The event is to be the Pur-

due-Butler basketball game and some ten thousand persons, we understand. are expected to view’ the hostilities. Bugg, a sizable young man, w r ho hails from Ba Abridge, appears to have clinched the back

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guard berth with the Bulldog squad, and if he actually is to prevent Purdue’s human skyscraper from going wild under the Butler goal, both Bill and Charles are in for some fun. Murphy stretches into the atmosphere to a height of six feet, six inches and, naturally, is not blessed with an overabundance of flesh. Bugg, on the other hand, is slightly over six feet, weighs about 200, and is built like a battleship. There should be come action when those tw'o meet. Verily, brethren. tt tt a Anderson and Kokomo battle at Kokomo Friday night. Battle is the correct word. Rivalry between the Indians and the Wildcats is like the Indiana- Purdue and WTa-bash-De Pauw feuds. a tt tt Martinsville. Ind. Dear Backboard—This is one city that rarely boasts about its teams prematurely. I want to inform you, however, that Coach Curtis again has a great team lined up and Martinsville W’ill be represented at the state finals Just as surely as there are little green apples.—A. N. tt a tt MARTINSVILLE, by the way, performs at Logansport Friday night, and in view’ of the Berries’ recent performances, the Artesian City snipers are heavy favorites. Cliff Wells is having some tough luck with his squad, but when tournament time rolls around Logan very likely will be hitting on all “eight” and making it tough for many a team. a tt tt BLOOMINGTON, IND. DEAR BACKBOARD—CAN YOU PROVIDE ME WITH SOME OF THE OFFICIAL FIGURES ON LAST YEAR'S BIG TEN BASKETBALL RACE? I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE OFFICIAL FINAL STANDING AND THE LEADING SCORERS WITH THE NUMBER OF FIELD GOALS AND FREE THROWS. THANKS. J. A. T. tt tt tt The official final standing of the 1928 western conference basketball race follows: w. L. Pet. T.P. OP. INDIANA 10 2 .833 474 331 PURDUF. 10 2 .833 445 309 Wisconsin 9 3 .750 328 286 Northwestern .... 9 3 .750 396 344 Michigan 7 5 .583 406 364 Chicago 5 7 .416 266 314 Ohio State 3 9 .250 330 448 lowa 3 9 .250 356 441 Minnesota 2 10 .166 340 410 Illinois 2 10 .166 310 413 Bennie Oosterbaan, the famous Michigan football, basketball and baseball star, snared the individual high point honors of the season by dropping 57 field goals and 15 free throws through the hoop

for a total of 129 points. “Rut” Walter,' of Northwestern, Branch (Ace) McCracken of Indiana and Charles (Stretch) Murphy of Purdue all tied for second honors with a total of 123 points. Walter got 48 field goals, 27 free throws; McCracken connected for 46 field goal--and 31 free throws, as did Murphy. No other player in the circuit scored over the century mark. Dale Wells. Indiana’s present captain was the nearest to it. He amassed 95 points. n tt u Wendell Ballard, who not so long ago was one of the big stars down at Franklin, is coaching at New' Albany, and from what we hear Wendell is developing a great hoop-sniping outfit, tt tt u GEORGE KEOGAN. the crafty basket mentor at Notre Dame, is having his worries these days—

and nights. Something is missing from the Irish court team and the South Bend mentor is striving to remedy the fault before the I. U. clash Friday night at the N. D. floor. Our guess is the absence of John Colerick, the six - foot center, who has been out of the lineup because of a football injury. The

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1927-28 combination of Crowe and Jachym, forwards; Colerick, center; and Bray and Smith, guards, was a nifty outfit and when Colerick comes back to the fold the Irish netters probably will strike their stride and commence hitting the iron band. tt tt tt ASIDE from the annual allstate high school basketball team picked for The Times from the teams participating in the state finals tourneys by Dick Miller of The Times sports staff, Off The Backboard this season will name three all-state teams, consisting of eight players on each of the first, second and third squads. Whether or not a player’s team competes in the state finals tourney he will be eligible for consideration. Off the Backboard will be assisted in his selection by The Times sports staff, coaches and officials, Write Backboard, telling him of your big star. We’ll look him over. Some persons who know their basketball have told us it can’t be done. We’re trying it, at any rate. tt tt tt Don Ha finer, Crawfordsville's enlongated center, again starred for the Athenians Wednesday night as that young man led his team to an easy 64 to 25 victory over Waynetown. Crawfordsville remains in Backboard’s list of the state’s ten best teams. TRIP FOR WRESTLERS CHICAGO, Dec. 20.—The University of Chicago wrestling team will make an eastern trip this winter. Matches have been scheduled with Syracuse, Franklin and Marshall and Mechanics institute at Rochester.

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John Layton ; Beats Hoppe * for Cue Title Taberski, Greenleaf Resume Play Friday for Pocket Billiards Crown. Ha I nili it Press CHICAGO, Dec. 20.—Johnny Lay-,, ton, Missouri cue wizard, held the world's three-cushion billiard chain-' pionship toady, having defeated Willie Hoppe, veteran ol the green cloth. 50 to 23. Wednesday night in the finals of the international tournament here. The pocket billiard title still was undecided. The Greenleaf-Taberski ‘ match which ended Wednesday when Taberski quit the final game . because of what he called unfair tactics, is scheduled for replay Friday night from the point where it-, was stopped. Layton began his championship match by winning the bank and making one three cushion from the spot. He followed with a run of seven and scored in each of the next nine innings, only two of them being singles and one a run of nine. After the first ten innings Hoppe, who was out after the only billiard honor he has not held, didn’t have a chance against the deadly accuracy of the Missourian. Hoppe played what ordinarily would have been championship billiards, averaging almost one each inning in the twenty-five innings. The standings: THREE CUSHION w. L. Pts. Opp. In. HR Lavton 3 0 150 111 107 9 Hoppe 2 1 123 127 120 6 Reiselt 1 2 125 137 125 7 Coputos 0 3 125 150 125 11 POCKET W. L. Pts. Opp. In. HR. Greenleaf .... 2 0 250 190 50 55 Taberski .... 1 1 212 239 38 43 Natalie 1 2 352 337 106 29 Rudolph 1 2 334 373 88 42 Tex Names Five Leading Heavies Hy United Press NEW YORK. Dec. 20.—A meeting of the Muldoon-Tunney trophy committee to make rules and regulation for the selection of the next heavyweight champion will be held Friday. The committee is composed of Tex Rickard: Herbert Bayard Swope, newspaper editor: John McEtee Bowman, financier and hotel owner; Bernard Gimbel, merchant millionaire, and Judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney. Rickard named Stribling. Paolino, Sharkey, Loughran and Heeney as the five outstanding heavyweights today. I. U. RESERVES WIN, * Crimson Display Fast Attack and Thump Miami Scrubs. By Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. Dec. 20. Indiana university reserve team defeated the Miami (O.) reserves here Wednesday night, 51 to 34. The crimson displayed a fast attack and held a 26 to 16 lead at the half. B. Miller led Indiana while Douglass was best lor Miami.