Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 167, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1929 — Page 33

Talking It Over BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, Nov. 22. MAN and boy, Babe Ruth has been called a lot of things. But I wonder how he Is taking the latest, designation, uttered by Col. Jake of the Yankee bank roll, amid the inspiring scenes at French Lick, Ind. “Ruth is the soul of the Yankees,” Colonel Jake is quoted as having uttered while under the influence of the exalting and exhilirating waters of the Hoosier spa. a a tt They hare called Ruth the Sultan of Vlwat, the Maharajah of Maul, the Ble Overgrown Boy, the Kinsr of C lout. The*e h*?e attempted to rive honor and distinction to Kuth the mechanic. a m m But now comes the first really nerious attempt to honor the spiritual side of George Herman Ruth. “The soul of the Yankees!” Just, how much will that be worth when the boys gather around the colonel’s desk up at the brewery and begin bo talk turkey on the Babe's new ccn'ract? a a c IATEST advices from French Lick say that while Colonel Ruppert and Ed Barrow went there to recuperate before talking to Ruth, they are not having a very good time. “They spend their leisure hours—and they have marv—sitting over in a comer by themselves writing figures on sheet ol paper and tearing them up,” writes my own private Hawkshaw at the Spa. “Every time Colonel Jake finishes with a smile and announces, 'Well, here’s the figure we will oiler, ami here’s what we actually would pay. Cousin Ed tears up the papers and looks sour.” a tt a Cnloncl .Take's announcement that Ruth 1% ihe sou! of the Yankees presents an intrrrvtinj: studv for those who like to iel\ c Into the higher life and the new thought. Not so .on* ;ijro it became the •ad dutv of C olonel Jake to name a successor to the late Miller Hudgins. and he. picked Bob Shawkev. at the same time informing the Bahc that he wasn’t ripe enough for the job. The inference is that the §oul of a club is not the manager. The soulful >hires drove that thought home to Lena Blackburne last summer. Tit AT the annual meeting of the Giants last Saturday they voted down the idea of taking the Giants into Mexico, for a week's tour with the White Sox. John McGraw, who was very warm for the idea last summer, had become rather rold to it, and did not press the proposition. St tt tt The club dlrertor>i did not like the idea of the Giants <,pcndins: a whole week down In wet and romantic Mexico, with its hull throwers, senoritas and Chiquitas. Kor the sole benefit of those downtrodden basehall writers who have to aeeompany the (Turn to Page 34.)

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Football Fans Throng Bloomington for Purdue-Indiana Classic

Stadium Job Is Offered to Oil Man Sheldon Clark, Millionair Probably Will Accept Harmon Post. ! Bu United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 22. Sheldon j Clark, millionaire sportsman and vice-president of the Sinclair Oil , company, was expected to succeed j Paddy Harmon as president of the j Chicago stadium today. Clark was offered the position as head of the $7,000,000 building by i its board of directors Thursday and I said Thursday night that he would I give them his answer within twentytour hours. He indicated the answer would be yes. The millionaire said he considered the position a civic proposition and that if he accepted he would stipulate that he bo paid no salary. Clark explained that he. had little stock in the stadium and that he considered Harmon, a heavy stockholder, one of his best friends. His only idea in accepting, he said, would be to make the stadium a success and a “big boon to Chicago sports.” Fields Signs to Defend Crown Bis United Front NEW YORK. Nov. 22.—Jackie Fields, world’s welterweight champion, has agreed to defend his title m Madison Square Garden in January, according to an announcement today by Matchmaker Tom McCardlc. The Chicago title holder is willing to meet’ any opponent selected by McCardle for 37per cent of the gate receipts, bu* jimmy McLarnin, leading contender for the title, will not be I ields’ opponent. The “baby face” coast battler refused to accept 12 'j per cent for an indoor fight, preferring to wait until the outdoor season and larger gate receipts. BEN DAVIS IN' ACTION Ben Davis basketball team will meet the Masonic Home quintet of Franklin at Bridgeport Community house tonight. The Franklin lads are reputed to have a fast, heavy coring team, and figure to give the Marion county champions a hard Little.

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Hoosier Big Ten Rivals to End Season Before Record Crowd. CLOSE TILT EXPECTED End Workouts in memorial Stadium. Hui imet Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 22. Indiana university has become the mecca for Hoosier sports on the eve of the annual grid battle between the state’s traditional Big Ten rivals | Purdue and Indiana, which will take I place in Indiana Memorial stadium Saturday afternoon. Indiana is the only obstacle between Purdue and its goal—a claim to the national title. In defeating [ lowa last Saturday, Purdue won | the Western Conference championship and maintained its clean slate. Saturday’s game between the an- ! cient rivals promises to be more hotly contested than ever before. Indiana’s win over Northwestern, 1914, last Saturday, sent Hoosier hopes for a victory over Purdue soaring. But Purdue continues as favorite. The two teams were to hold light workouts this afternoon in Memorial stadium and were to leave Bloomington to spend the night in neighboring cities. Coach Phelan of Purdue was worried slightly today about injuries to his linemen. Red Sleight, one of the best tackles in the middle west, was suffering from an injured shoulder, and George Van Bibber and Lewis Miller, two other linemen, were carrying painful bruises, but all [ were expected to start. Their injuries are only minor, but may prove I a handicap. Page pronounced his Hoosiers in good shape. A holiday spirit prevailed here *- day as the campus and city made final preparations for the record crowd of the season which will pack Memorial stadium. Ticket Manager L. L. Fisher announced that temporary bleachers probably would accomodate all late comers. Probable starting line-up: PURDUE. INDIANA. Woerner L. E McCracken Van Bibber L. T .... Unger Stears L. G Ringwalt Miiler C Mankowski Buttner R. G Hojnacki Sleight , R. T Shields Mackle R E Catterton White Q. B Balay Harmeson ........L. H Ross Welch R. H Faunce Ynsevich .F. B Todd Officials—Frank Birch, Earlham, referee; A. R. Coffin, Cornell, umpire; H. B. Hackett. West Point, field Judge; Perry Graves. Illinois, head linesman. ' Broadcast over radio stations WFBM and WKRP.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1929

Tiger Coaches Have Warriors in Top Form

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DRILLED into top form by a coach staff of four, the De Pauw Tigers are reported in great shape for the annual conflict with their ancient Wabash rivals at Crawfordsville Saturday. In fact it is said all Tigers are in the well-known “pink” for the important engagement and followers of the old gold feel certain it will be a De Pauw celebration Saturday night.

Baltzer on Mat Card at Cadle George (Grandpa) Baltzer, Salt Lake City, will tackle Ralph Wilson former Big Ten conference wrestling star, in the semi-final attraction of the regular weekly mat program at Cadle tabernacle Monday night. They will meet in the light heavyweight class for one fall or thirty minutes. In the feature event, which will be battled under the catch-as-catch-can rules for the best two out of three falls in the middleweight division, Bobby Chick, Texas, will clash with W. H. Thom, instructor of wrestling at Indiana university. There will be one other bout on the card to be announced later, SHORTRIDGE TO OPEN Blue Quintet Tackles Greenwood in First Game Tonight. Shortridge courtmen will open the season tonight at Greenwood. Coach Messersmith has had a large squad at work for the past month. Three letter men from last season form the nucleus of the squad, which includes Shuttleworth, Case, Hekman, : Lloyd, Shaw, Sutherlin, Hornbeck, ! McLean, Taylor and Brown.

Left to right: Bucheit, Neal, Head Coach Hughes and Moffett.

Football Broadcast Saturday Compiled by United Press Purdue ys. Indiana—WKßF and WFBM, Indianapolis (1:45 C. S. TANARUS.). Notre Dame vs. Northwestern—WMAQ. Chicago (1:45 C. S. TANARUS.). Texas Christian vs. Baylor--WBAP. Ft. Worth (2:30 C. S. T.i. Minnesota vs. Wisconsin —ZTMJ. Milwaukee; WCCO, Minneapolis. KSTP. St. Paul (1:45 C. S. T.>. Stanford vs. Southern California —KHJ and KFI Los Angeles (2:00 P. S. T.l. Ohio State vs. Illinois-NBC Network: WJZ. WBZ, WBZA. WHAM, KDKA. WLW. KWK (1:45 E. S. T.l. Harvard vs. Yale —NBC Network: WEAF. WEEI. WTIC. WJAR. WTAG WCSH. WFI. WRC. WGY. WCAE. KSD, WOW. WHAS, WMC, WCAI, KOA. KSL (1:45 E. S. T.>. Harvard vs. Yale—CßS Network: WABC, WLAC. WOWO. WMAL. WDOD, WHP. WWNC- WNAC. WSAN. WJAS, WKBW. WREC. WDBJ. WBBM, KVI. KOIL. KDYL. .KFRC, KFPY, KMOX (2:00 C. S. TANARUS.). Kansas Aggies vs. Nebraska—-KFAB Lincoln (1:45 C. S. *T.),

ATTUCKS SQUAD LEAVES Negro High School Eleven Invades East St, Louis. Crispus-Attucks football team left I today for East St. Louis, 111., where | they will play Saturday. Coach Shelburne, has indicated he will start Richardson and Adams, ends; Bracken and Jones, tackles; Robinson and Brown, guards; Myers, center; Rice, quarter back; Dunn and Webb, half backs, and Stratton, full back. Others making the trip were S. Johnson, Bigsby, Cornett, Polk White, Fioh, Daniels. Harris, Burnett. Williams. Beverly and Hill.

Head Coach W. L. Hughes is confident his Tiger warriors are keyed to the proper pitch and the other De Pauw mentors, Bucheit. Neale and Moffett, feel the same way about it. The entire student body and many Greencastie townspeople will follow' the squad to Crawfordsville. Both teams have plenty of respect for each other and an exciting contest is expected.

MANDELL SCORES K. 0. Sammy Floors Joe Azzarella in Tliir* Round of Scrap, Bn United Presu MILWAUKEE, Nov. 22.—Sammy Mandell, lightweight champion, knocked out Joe Azzarella, Milwaukee. in the second round of a scheduled ten-round nontitle bout here Thursday night. CLAIMS BILLIARD MARK ST. LOUIS, Mo.. Nov. 22.—Gene Deardorff, St. Louis, claimed anew world’s record for three-cushion billiards today after making 50 points in forty innings to win a match from Earl Agniel, 50 to 15. Deardorff’s best run was seven.

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Oregon Mentor to Resign Post Ru United Press EUGENE, Ore., Nov. 22.—N0 reason was given here today for the resignation of Captain John J. McEw'an as head football coach at the University of Oregon. McEwan refused to amplify his statement that he was resigning as soon as his contract expired next year. He has made a splendid record, his team winning four conference and two nonconference games and it was understood efforts would be made to have him withdraw the resignation. He formerly was coach of the United States Military Academy. MANUAL CAGERS TRAVEL Locals Invade Pendleton Tonight iov Fourth Basket Game. Manual high schools court squad will invade Pendleton tonight for the fourth game of the season. Armour and Regenstrife, forwards; Kline, center, and Comsa and Hanna, guards, will form the locals’ starting lineup. Saturday night, the Manual freshmen will play Silent Hoosiers at the latter’s gyin.

City Elevens Decide Title in Big Game Shortridge and Tech Teams Collide in Feature at Butler Bowl. BY DICK MILLER Hit ’em high! Hit ’em low! Yea, team! Let’s go! Indianapolis today had its biggest prep football game, Shortridge vs. Technical, at Butler bowl. Enthusiasm was at fever heat at the two schools and on Thursday the final rehearsal by the rooters was held at auditorium exercises at both schols. Game time today was 2 p. m. Tech’s 5,000 pupils gathered Thursday to listen to the pleadings iof its yeil leaders. Shortridge’s 3,000 ! gathered to listen to Coach Golds- ! berry praise the twelve senior boys of the team w T ho sat behind him on the stage. As the big military band roared forth its strains of the Tech school song the entire student body of the east side school joined in a : mighty chorus. After the glee club girls, snappily S attired in white dresses, black ties j and carrying green and white paper muffs, had rendered a few songs j the team members trotted In full j uniform from the wings and sat on 'the bench in front of the girl singers. ! Coach John Meuller and his boys | were cheered wildly. | At Shortridge it was the same ; story, and the way tickets sold after the pep session ali of Shortridge was expected to be on hand today to watch the fray. Both teams were reported In the pink of condition, all of the Tech regulars being back in the harness and Shortridge boasting of the same condition. / YALt STAR TO START AI hie Booth Named in Back Field to Face Harvard Saturday. j Bu United Pres* j NEW HAVEN, Nov. 22.—Mai Stevens, head coach at Yale, announced Thursday that he would start a back field composed of Albie Booth, Don McLennan, Ned Austen and Harlen Ellis, against Harvard, Saturday. Booth's leg injury has not materially improved and coaches do not believe him fit for heavy work but believe he will fit in with Stevens’ plan for a defensive game.