Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 109, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1929 — Page 13
SEPT. 16,1929
Rockne Sees Three-Cornered Fight for 1929 Grid Title of Big Ten
Famous Mentor Leans Toward Illinois, Gophers and Wisconsin in Race Knute Rates Northwestern and Michigan in Darkhorse Class, With Purdue, Indiana and lowa as Threats; Zuppke Well Supplied With Talent.
BY KNUTE K. ROCKNE, Member All American Football Board (Rett. U. 8. Patent Office) A perusal of the canned publicity sent out from most of the middlewestern universities would seem to indicate that practically every school is looking forward to the football season with unusually bright prospects. That is, every school with one or two exceptions. In these days of strenuous schedules, uncertainties regarding injuries to star men. and nip and tuck competition, it Is well night impossible to state that any team, regardless of how promising its outlook, will come through with an undefeated season. It just isn’t being done any more. In the Big Ten it looks like a three-cornered fight for the championship between Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, with Northwestern and Michigan the dark horses. Indiana, Purdue and lowa will have good teams and will give a good account of themselves sixty minutes every Saturday afternoon, but just now their prospects do not seem to indicate championship possibilities. Ohio State may show unexpected strength later on, but her prospects are very ordinary. Chicago just has not the material and that’s all there is to it. Veterans at Illinois I pick Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin to be the leaders because they have the material. Illinois has a fine veteran squad back and of last year’s men will miss only Captain Nowak at tackle and a couple of ends. If Zuppke can replace his ends, and he already has one good one in Jolley, he may again grab the Big Ten championship, especially as he is not playing either Minnesota or Wisconsin. Crane and Weitz at guards and Gordon at tackle are as fine a trio of star linesmen as you will find on any eleven in America. Zuppke still has the same fine collection of backs he had last year with the addition of Lanum. This chap is an exceptional punter and passer. The only thing that can stop Illinois seriously is overconfidence. Wisconsin and Minnesota have fine groups of rugged material, with weight, speed and versatility. Which ever of these two comes through their annual game unscathed will challenge Illinois for the honors. Weight at Michigan Michigan had the finest freshman tea in the middlewest last year and indications are that this fall they j will be represented by one of the j heaviest lines in the Conference.: Roach, anew freshman tackle, is! said to be a phenom who can well! take Pommeraning’s place. The only man lost last year from the back field was Rich. If Michigan can get by the Purdue game, which comes rather early in the season, they may prove more dangerous than can generally be expected of sophomore material. Northwestern had some fine heavy freshman line material with Moore, a good full back prospect, to replace Holmer. If Dick Hanley can replace Holmer. Northwestern will be a real dark horse, but I suspect that replacing Holmer will be a considerable job. However, Hanley has some
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other good backs, in fact, in Bruder, he will have one of the star backs of the year. The Purdue back field will match any in the Big Ten. However, the big problem at Lafayette is line material. Jimmy Phelan lost most of his last year’s line with no outstanding line candidates in the freshman squad. However, any back field that has such men as Welch, Caraway and Harmeson, with a freshman coming along by the name of Yunevitch, is going to be dangerous. But the lack of line material will hurt in the long campaign. It is rumored Phelan may try Caraway at end. Indiana’s prospects are the same as last year, possibly better in allround strength, but the loss of Bennett will be severely felt. Page’s line from end to end looks unusually good with the back field more or less of a gamble. Page will win some football games this fall and particularly when it is least expected. lowa, under Bert Ingwerson, would have had fine prospects but for the loss of McLain at full back and Schlensner, the giant tackle. The latter was lost by ineligibility recently. Ingwerson's big job will be to develop tw new tackles and a full back. If Bert can do this, he will have a pretty fair team, but hardly of championship caliber in a circuit where the competition is as intense as the Western Conference. Buckeyes Need Talent Ohio State was dealt several hard blows this summer. First of all, some freshman guards and tackles were flunked out, and Holman, star quarter back, was declared ineligible. Ohio State will be strong at center, ends and the back field. But no football team can go very far without guards or tackles. The Ohio State folks will have to wait another year before Coach Willaman will have any real chance to see what he can do. This fall they will just have to hope that it won’t be too bad. Stagg at Chicago starts out with very discouraging prospects. I would like to see the Old Man trot out this fall with some real material so that he could put on the closing touches to his coaching career with a finish that would do him justice. As far as I know, everyone I have ever talked to would like to see the same, but I guess it isn’t in the cards. Athletics at Chicago will be strong off and on, but never again will she be up among the great as she used to be. polcTseries to open First of a three-game series will be played between the cavalry and artillery polo teams at Ft. Benjamin Harrison next Sunday at 3, Close matches were played at Rolling Ridge field Saturday and Sunday. Miami Valley defeated Rolling Ridge, 4 to 0. Saturday, Dayton Hurricanes tied Rolling Ridge 1-all, and Hurricanes and Miami Valley were tied 2-all at the end of the last chukker in the play-off. Sunday, Miami Valley defeated Rolling Ridge, 3 to 0, Hurricanes tied Valley, 2-2, and Rolling Ridge and Hurricanes tied.
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Billy Rockne, 13-year-old son of Knute Rockne, the famous Notre Dame football coach, is a candidate for the football team at Pembroke school in Kansas City, Mo. Pembroke is a preparatory school.
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The dream of local boosters of organized bowling, a 100 per cent, organized city association, appears possible this year. With the new ruling or the A. ■ c„ which prohibits any member of a sanctioned club from performing wnth any outlaw team, the outlaws are being automatically forced to join or disband. Fay Bailey reports all leagues bowling on the Uptown drives enrolled, and before the season is long under way every house In the city should have the same. The 290 game rolled by Fay Bailey last Wednesdav night in the Uptown League series, should withstand the assault of this loop’s pin topplers throughout the season. Bailey was in great form during this game, as reports received showed each strike in the on-three pockt. The uncertainty of the bowling game was well illustrated during this same series. Bally left the drives with 70r>, thinking he had high three-game total sewed up. but Linton continued to strike and finished five minutes later with 119. The Oeftering-Litzelman Coal team turned in the week's best total with a fine early season 2,972. The Meridian Oarage boys were a close second with 2,968. Ten teams were over the 2.800 mark during the week as follows: Meridian Garage, 2,930; American Linen, 2,911; Hanna Register. 2,900: Prima Beverage. 2,862: Wagner Radio. 2.836; Falls City Lager, 2,868; CocaCola, 2,808, and Roosevelt Marmon Built, 2,809. The Wednesday Afternoon Women’s League, rolling on the Uptown aliens, have several vacancies. Any woman bowler who wish to join this loop is requested to see Mrs. Harry Kries at the Uptown drives. Paul Kramer, secretary of the Recreation League, stepped over to the Pritchett drives to roll with the Vonnegut Hardware in the A. C. E. S. League, and came away with the high single game score of 234. Frank Faust, Jr,, after a lay-off of six years, displayed some of his old time 'skill bv dropping 5280 to tie for the in-
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Bill Tilden, With Seventh U. S. Net Title, Threatens Retirement Champion Loses Gate Attraction; Shamelessly Toys With Hunter in Finals at Forest Hills.
BY FRANK GETTY United Press Sports Editor NEW YORK, Sept.- 16.—Having sung his swan song some months in advance of his ultimate triumph in the national tennis championships, there seems nothing for Bill Tilden to do but live up to his promise and retire from competition. Tilden won the singles title at Forest Hills, toying shamelessly with Frank Hunter in the finals, but Bill is a good enough trouper to know the old act isn’t going over as it ■ used to. The U. S. L. T. A. even had to call in a couple of professionals to bolster up the show on Saturday when Tilden and Hunter, to the accompaniment of soft music, went through the farce of competing for the national singles championship. Vinnie Richards and Jan Kozeluh, shunned for so long by the tennis authorities, took the court in a doubles match with Dick Williams and another perfectly spotless amateur. As far as the spectators could observe, the professionals conducted themselves blamelessly. They didn’t spit on their rackets for luck nor did they serve when their opponents were not looking. Tilden is now 37, and and has won seven national singles titles. But as a gate attraction he is getting passe, and those who do not think organized tennis is designed with an eye to the receipts have another guess coming. The champion took time by its forelock some months ago and announced his impending retirement. The fact that he sold the announce-
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dividual lead with Hand in the A. C. E. S. loop. Early season form in all leagues leads one to’predict a banner season for the ten pin game locally. High scoring in all loops is easily the feature of the early play. Carl Zernike slipped in a surprise 263 for the boys of the Fountain Square loop to shoot at. Charlie Cray, after a start of 146: figured he needed about 250 to bring his average up to normal, and then rolled 255 to top the bowlers in the city league. Bob Wuensch has finally hit his stride, and the pins can be sure of a real walloping for the rest of the season when this boy takes the drives. Milt Wimberly still uses the palm ball when a 4-6 or 8-10 split appears. Milt certainly has control of this peculiar delivery. Larry Cobler, the veteran Marott Shoe Shop captain, seems to have trouble Siting started. Larry showed a flash of oldtime form during one game, however, and walloped the Maples for 247. The fourteen team Commercial League seems to be more evenly matched this stason. Any team in this loop is capable of giving the last year champion Citizens Gas outfit a battle at any time. The Reformed Church League is another loop capable of putting up some real scores. Many real bowlers are scattered throughout the line-ups in this loop. HIS HANDS HARD Jimmy Smith, the noted bowler, has an “iron mike,” which is a term denoting hardened hands. He has bowled an average of five games daily for the last twenty years and never has been troubled with sores on his fingers.
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rr.ent to a magazine should not have made it any less binding. Tilden, of course, is still so much better than Hunter that the finals at Forest Hills fell as flat as the welcome on the club house mat,at the notoriously hospitable West Side Tennis Club. Bill could have won in straight sets, but he allowed Hunter to take two. This failed to fool any one. It may be that Tilden w’ill hang on until he totters off in defeat at the hands of one of the youngsters, who will have lots to learn from the old master. Certainly, Bill has cried “wolf” on the subject of retirement so often that his announcements receive scant attention. GRIMM GETS IN FORM Cub Captain and First Sacker to Play “Before Long.” CHICAGO, Sept. 16.—Charlie Grimm, Cubs’ captain and first baseman, who has been out of the lineup because of a broken left hand, indulged in a little practice Sunday. Grimm expects to be back in the lineup “before long.”
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Quincy Drops Three in Row Canton Needs One Game to Win Title. Bu Times Special QUINCY. 111., Sept. 16.—Quincy’s hopes for the Class B championship of the mid-west were slighlty dimified as they prepared to take the diamond against Canton, Central League title winners, in the sixth game here today. Four victories decide the series. The Three-I champions have lost three straight tilts to the Buckeye nine and trail In the series, 3-2. The Terrier sluggers pounded Ambrose for eight runs in the first four
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Duray Is Forced Out; Loses Race Bu United Press MONZA. Italy. Sept. 16.— After Leon Duray, American race driver, had been forced out twice by engine trouble, Achille Varzi of Italy, driving an Also-Romeo, won the famous Grand Prix De Milan Sunday, averaging ’.89 kilometers an hour. Tazio Nuveleci of Italy, in a Talbot, was second, and Monberger of Germany, driving a Mercedes, third. Duray, who haul made the fastest time during the elimination runs, was leading when forced out on the twelfth lap. MYERS, WILSON CLASH CHICAGO, Sept. 16.—Herschie Wilson, Danville, 111., and Spug Myers, Idaho, meet in a ten-round bout here tonight.