Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 148, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1931 — Page 24

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INDIANA, BUTLER READY FOR HOME-COMING GRID BATTLES

Blue Warriors Plan Surprises for Wabash Bell Shifts Lineup as Bulldogs Improve Offense for Scarlet Tilt; Fairview Mentor Hints Changes May Be Made in Lineup. A revamped and battling Butler eleven will renew gridiron hostilities with Wabash in the annual Bulldog home-coming day feature at •Fairview bowl Saturday. Secret practice sessions this week indicate Coach Harry Bell and his warriors are preparing a surprise attack for the invaders. New plays have been given the Blue performers, and indications are that the local collegians may spring an aerial attack on the Scarlet footballers.

Local Ring Card Filled Two ten-round scraps will form a double-barreled windup feature lor Tuesday night’s legion mitt card of forty rounds at the Armory. Allen Mathews, St. Louis welter, who recently defeated Frankie Hughes, Hoosier state welterweight title holder, will meet Patsy Pollock, former Canadian 147-pound champ. The other ten-rounder will show well-known Roy (Tiger) Williams, Negro, winner over Joe Sekyra, Gorilla Jones and George Courtney, meeting Willie Oster of Boston. Oster fought a fast draw recently with Kid Slaughter at Terre Haute. The complete program for Tuesday follows: Ten Rounds—Rov Tl*er William*. Chieaeo. vs. Willie Oster. Boston: middleweiehts. Ten Rounds—Allen Mathews, St. Louis, vs. Patsy Pollock, Chicago; welters. Six Rounds—Rosy Kid Baker, Anderson, vs. Young: Filer, Louisville: middleweight*. Six Rounds—Dutch Baiting, Morristown, vs. Red Holloway, Indianapolis; Junior welters. Four Rounds—Young Leach. Indianapolis. Soagnolla. Panama: bantams. *?. i Ur Ro ' ,nri *—y ern Morrison. Indianter's * VS ' Renn,r Glenn, Indianapolis; wel-

Dempsey Cleans Up SIOO,OOO in Fourteen Ring Exhibitions in West

BY GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Oct. 30.—Jack Dempsey can make more money touring the country in exhibition bouts than returning to the ring at this time, figures obtained from his business manager, Leonard Sachs, revealed today. In fourteen appearances In the far northwest and west, Dempsey attracted approximately 118,800 customers and gate receipts of about $232,000 net. Dempsey’s end was slightly more than SIOO,OOO. The former heavyweight champion will resume his exhibition tour In ten days in the middle west. Sachs estimates that Dempsey will

—Stove League Chatter—

COMING to the Lyric theater here for a week’s stay, beginning Saturday, will be Pepper Martin, top hero of the fecent baseball classic, and the lad who in one summer leaped from

average fame to glorification and big money. In other words, the Pepper Pot knocked Pitcher Depression out of the box and for a row of greenbacks. Martin drew $4,500 in salary for the regular season’s play and to this was added a bonus of SSOO by Owner Breadon of the Cardinals.

Next came $4,484 representing Pepper’s world series share and he collected another thousand berries for indorsing a patent tonic, baseball glove and baseball shoe. His vaudeville tour, starting immediately after the title play, is figured to bring his total earnings for the year to $20,000. ALREADY Martin has been assured his salary with St. Louis will be hiked a-plenty next season, to SIO,OOO anyway, is the guess. Furthermore the outlook is bright for the Cardinals to repeat as pennant winners in 1932 and if this happens Martin will be in for more extra dividends. Fans, meet Pepper Prosperity Martin, the Wild Horse of the Osage (with the golden mane). During his appearance on the Lyric stage Martin will describe his climb to the big league from the sandlots of Oklahoma, the Sooner state. It is even said he started his league career playing barefooted in a tomato community circuit of cross roads towns. Well, he can order his “toe-mawt-oes” brought to him now, sliced and iced, accompanying thick western steaks. MARTIN will “go collegiate” in Indianapolis Saturday by riding in the Butler university homecoming parade preceding the feature football game with Wabash at Butler bowl. At noon the noted fly chaser, base thief and hitter will shake hands with the Chamber of Commerce athletic committee members in front of the Chamber of Commerce building. JOHN BERLY, right-handed hurler who is slated to come to the Indianapolis Indians in the Len Koenecke deal with the New York Giants, was an important cog with the champion Rochester Intemanationals of 1930. He was No. 1 moundsman in the league on low earned run average basis. Berley won sixteen games and lost eight for the Wings and during the past season with the Giants compiled seven victories against eight defeats. Harry Rosenberg, the fly chaser who was optioned to the Hoosicrs by the Giants during the closing weeks of the 1931 campaign, is tagged to return to Indianapolis as Tribe property as part payment for Koenecke. This lad can run and his performance here pleased the fans. .. .... .

Bell also has speeded up his back field, and in Thursday’s drill stressed timing of the offensive formations. The Bulldog mentor has not overlooked the defensive department, however, and has drilled his charges in methods of stopping Red Varner, the Little Giant sophomore flash, and his speedy teammates, Smith, Swartout and Lick Engle. Jimmy Stewart, the Blue sophomore quarter back, has shown improvement in recent games and probably will get the starting call. Captain Kenny Booz, triple threat ace who has been the most dependable ground gainer, as well as chief passer and punter, will be seen at one half back berth and Raber or Conrad at the other. Ray and Dayton* pony half back speedsters, also will see considerable action, with Compton as the probable full back starter. Norris, formerly an end, is making a strong bid for a tackle berth, while Kilgore, a sophomore, has taken over Ray Brock’s assignment at end. Blinn, a*, sophomore, is giving Ralph Moore a real battle for center honors. Bell indicated he may make some drastic shifts in his starting lineup Saturday to give the Bulldogs more offensive power. Wabash will be at tops for the battle, according to word from Crawfordsville, where Coach Pete Vaughan has been drilling his Little Giants dally.

draw about 150,000 persons and make himself another SBO,OOO in five middle west and two western appearances within eighteen days. “If Dempsey can draw that kind of money in exhibitions what will he draw when he’s ready to fight again?” Sachs asked. “Nothing short of a million, I’d say offhand.” Dempsey's present plans call for him to make his second comeback next summer, but it’s too far away to decide who his opponent will be and where the bout w&l be held. Dempsey himself would prefer to meet Gene Tunney, the retired champion, in a third bout, but that seems out of the question with Tunney showing no inclination to

BY EDDIE ASH

ACCORDING to reports heard in New York, the Giants also plan to obtain Randy Moore, outfielder with the Boston Braves, and send him along to Indianapolis with Berly and Rosenberg. Moore swings left-handed and throws right. He is a capable infielder as well as a pacture pastimer. He batted .258 this year. The ancient and agile Rabbit Maranville finally has reached the end of his string as a regular, Boston gossip says. Under Manager Bill McKechnie’s plans for 1932 it is said Maranville is listed for utility play, giving way to Bill Urbanski at shortstop. Urbanski joined the Braves last season from the International loop. TOM ANGLEY, bulky Tribe backstop, lost no time in the north after the American Association race ended. He played in several barnstorm games and then hustled to Florida and is spending the offseason in Sarasota, where the Indians do their spring training. Tom is keeping in shape by playing golf, swimming and performing with a team in the Sarasota soft ball league. Angley is the slugging third sacker for the Sailors team and recently set a record for distance in the play ground ball circuit by lifting the big sphere to a deep spot in right field. Ganzel and Weinert of the Louisville Colonels are other A. A. players wintering at Sarasota and they are performing with the Crackers in the soft ball loop. Greyhounds to Tackle State Handicapped by the loss of two regulars, Myers and Mouer, both half backs, Indiana Central will invade Terre Haute tonight to play State Normal. Coach Harry Good plans to start Farwick and Payne at ends, Smith and Polk at tackles, W. Moore and Whitzel at guards, Wellbaum at center, Foster or Willsey at quarter, Benson and Srague at half backs, and Del Moore at full back. TURF STARS AT LATONIA By United Press LATONIA, Ky., Oct. 30.—Four candidates arrived here today to represent the east in the $35,000 Latonia championship stake, to be run here Saturday. They included the Greentree Stable’s St. Brideaux, Belair Stable’s Ormesby and Audlet Farm’s Rocky News,

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Back Field Aces With Wabash Team

Left to Right—S. Smith, quarter back; Varner, half back; “Lick” Engle, full back, and Swarthout, half back.

These are not the four horsemen, but the “flying four” of Wabash college grid team who will perform on the Butler gildiron Saturday in the Butler homecoming attraction. The annual rivalry contest is a renewal engagement in a series that has been

Minnesota and Wisconsin Defend Unbeaten Records in Big Ten Tilt

BY ARCH EDDY United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Oct. 30. Games tinged with the bitterness of ageold rivalry mark the football program offered middle-western gridiron followers Saturday. And to heighten interest, Wisconsin and Minnesota will meet in Minneapolis in a game that may have a direct bearing upon the outcome of the Western Conference race for football supremacy. Other highlights are Michigan’s

take up the gloves again. Max Schmeling, recognized by the N. B. A. as champion, is Dempsey’s second choice. Dempsey wants no bout with Jack Sharkey, the American champion. “I don’t know who Dempsey will meet, but it won’t be Sharkey,” said Sachs. “Dempsey will let the public decide his opponent, but he's whipped Sharkey once and figures the Boston gob has no right to another match.” During the first stage of his tour Dempsey scored fifty-four knockouts against seventy-three opponents. Some of the opponents booked for next stage of the tour are George Neron, Bearcat Wright, Babe Hunt, George Manley, Angus Snyder and Pete Wistort, all experienced battlers. The paid attendance figures and net receipts on the first stage of the tour, as announced by Sachs, follow: 2; 800 o 0e , rsons - *28.000: Seattle, 13.000. $22,000: Spokane. 11.000, $21,000 Vancouver B. C.. 10.000. $18,000; Tacoma Wash.. 8.500 $14,000: Eugene. Ore.. 8 500 $15,000: Salt Lake Citv. 7.500, SI9,JOO’ 5? lse r l^ h< i'. 6 ' 500 - * l3 '°°o: Rock Springs. Wvo. 5.000. $10,000: Aberdeen. Wash.. 4.500] $10,000: Logan. Utah. 5.000. $11,000: Reno (first appearance. indoorsL 5,000. sl7 000- ?,?„ n ?,J se S? nd appearance, outdoors). H.OOO', $22.000: Wenatchee. Wash.. 5,500. $17,000. Two Purdue Quartets Set By Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 30—Purdue faces the Chicago game Satururday at its full power and ready to cut loose with its great group of backs in physical condition for the first time this season. A heavy rain chased the Boilermakers indoors for their final drill Thursday, a light dummy scrimmage in which Kizer touched up the forward passing attack and deceptive spinner plays. Coach Kizer probably will start Fred Hecker and Paul Pardonner, sophomore sensations, in the beckfield with the veterans Jim Purvis and Alex Yunevich. Jack White, Ed Risk, Doxie Moore and Roy Horstman will form the alternate quartet. PIRATES SIGN CRANDALL By Times Special PITTSBURGH, Oct. 30.—01d Otis Crandall, National League pitching star of years ago and later a wellknown figure in Coast League ball, is sure of a job for 1932. Barney Dreyfusa has given him a contract for next season to act as coach for the Pirates.

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going on several years, with Butler holding the advantage in victories. Upon this quartet of speed merchants will rest veteran coach “Pete” Vaughan’s hopes for victory. If they can not make yardage Vaughan has two other sets on the bench.

attempt to avenge a fifty-year-old defeat by Princeton and Notre Dame’s annual intersectional battle with Carnegie Tech. The Minnesota-Wisconsin affair is being watched with interest. Neither team has been defeated by a Big Ten rival and each is ranked as a possible contender with Northwestern for title honors. The Badgers will enter the game with Goldenberg, Smith and Simmons on the injured list and Minnesota will be without the services of Wells, tackle, and Burdick, half. Michigan followers hold high hopes of a Wolverine victory over the Princeton Tigers, who defeated them fifty years ago, 13 to 4, in the only other meeting of the teams. Coach Harry Kipke has shifted his back field and will start Tessmer at quarter, Captain Hudson and Fay at half backs and Hewitt at full Notre Dame left Thursday night for Pittsburgh in search of its twen-ty-third victory in twenty-four starts. Also, Coach Heartly Ander-

‘Betting Coup’ Letters to Gophers Are Believed Hoax

By United Press MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 30. The apparently fictitious offers of $1,500 each to three Minnesota football players to “throw” the Min-nesota-Wisconsin game Saturday continued to cause excitement on the University of Minnesota campus today, but they were taken to be the work of some “crank” or jokester. The letters were received by Capt. Clarence Munn, all-Big Ten guard last year; Jack Manders, giant full back, and Kenneth MacDougall, 148-pound quarter back, the three outstanding stars on the Gophers. Fritz Crisler, Minnesota coach and director of athletics, did not take the letters seriously, but said he planned to turn them over to the postal authorities today for investigation. The letters were mailed from Madison, site of the University of Wisconsin, and signed “A. W. Burzik.” The contents and signature were typed on Hotel Loraine stationery. In a telephone conversation with Coach Crisler, the manager of the Loraine hotel, revealed that no such person as “A. W. Burzik” had been registered there. The letters, all the same, read: Dear Friend—ls you will do your best to throw the game away to the Badgers this coming Saturday, and provided the Badgers win, I will present you with $1,500 in bills. The money will be in your possession late Saturday night. You do not have to answer this letter, but let your work Saturday earn you some real money. Instead of glory. Letters of a similar nature were received by two Minneapolis sports writers, asking them to use their influence in making Minnesota a

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son seeks revenge for a 19-to-0 defeat given the Irish by Carnegie in 1926 when he helped handle the team for Knute Rockne, who was absent. Notre Dame, holding an edge in experience, is the favorite. Northwestern, the leading contender for Big Ten championship, renews a bitter feud with Illinois, and with Reb F.ussell, Ken Nee.nan and Harold Weldin on the sidelines with injuries, the Wildcats face a stiff battle. Illinois' is said to have worked strenuously on a defense calculated to stop “Pug” Rentner, whose passing and end runs accounted largely for its downfall last year. Indiana spent the week developing an aerial attack to be used against Ohio State, an ancient rival, at Bloomington. Purdue travels to Chicago for a renewal of its feud with the Maroons. The lowa Hawkeyes will be host to a strong eleven ..rom George Washington university of Washington, D. C.

heavy favorite and promising each $2,500 as a reward. YANKS DROP PERKINS liy Times Special NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—Officials of the New York Yankees have announced the outright release of Cy Perkins, veteran catcher. He was with the Athletics for a long stretch previous to last season. Cy may give up baseball and try for a job as golf professional.

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Improved I. U. Eleven Hopes to Upset Strong Ohio State Rivals

Crimson to Use Air Attack Against Buckeye Squad; Sabik, Star Sophomore Back, Lost to Hayesmen • With Old Leg Injury. By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 30. —Amid the colorful gayety of homecbming day, the Crimson warriors of Indiana will begin one of the toughest assignments ever handed a Big Ten team when they battle the powerful Ohio State eleven here Saturday, starting at 2 p. m. # Four teams recognized as the cream of the western conference, will be I.*U. foes on consecutive week-ends beginning with the Buckeye encounter. Michigan and Northwestern, 1930 co-champions and pre-cam-paign favorites, and Purdue, 1929 champions and bitter rival, follow the Buckeyes in that order. Encouraged by their brilliant showing against the admittedly weak Chicago team last Saturday, the Hoosiers have high hopes of springing a prize upset of the Big Ten campaign and knocking off the highlytouted Bucks.

During the past week Coach Billy Hayes and his assistants have attempted to perfect the speedy running and aerial attack which blossomed for the first time in the Maroon battle. Butch Nowack, Hayes’ chief assistant, has had his linemen traveling at a speedy clip in workouts. He has drilled them in protecting the passer in the air raid which the locals hope to launch against the invaders. Indiana's hopes received a setback Thursday when Adolph Sabik, the accurate-passing little sophomore half back, aggravated the leg injury which has kept him out all I season. Sabik may be lost for the rest of the campaign. Rascher, Zeller Fixtures Coach Hayes has not selected a definite starting line-up. Bernard Dickey, Jack Hanson and Fitz Lyons, the latter pair first-year men, will divide the wing assignments. Rascher is a fixture at tackle, with Rhem, Anglemeyer and Kuss fighting for the other berth. “Fightin’ Joe” Zeller, spark plug of the Hoosier forwards, playing the best game of his career, is a cinch at one of the guard posts. Nylec and Kechick, sophomores, and McDonald are other guards who probably will see action. Pivot duties will be cared for by Spannuth and Beeson, both veterans. In the back field, sophomores are expected to play an important role. In the rookie class are Fuqua, the famous prep sprinter, who is showing rapid improvement in the moleskins; Bob Jones, the husky, crashing full back; Ray Dauer, the speedy back, and Sawicki, hard runner and good passer. Vet Backs Get Test Veterans will handle most of the work, however. In Saluski and Opasik the Hoosiers boast a pair of smooth-running half backs, the former specializing in ball-toting, the latter in blocking and passing. Opasik may call signals in Saturday’s game from half back. Otis Edmonds, the giant full back, has both speed and power and can kick and pass as well. Vic Dauer is a hard-running back who shines in interference, kicking and passing, while Baer is another vet half back threat. Although the under dog, Indiana warriors and backers are convinced they are capable of stopping the Ohio speeders Oliphant, Carroll, Cramer and Holcomb —to score an upset.

TOWNSEND IS ELECTED NEW YORK. Oct. 30.—George H. Townsend of Greenwich, 1926 Gold Cup winner, will head the American Power Boat Association during 1932. Townsend was elected president here Thursday.

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Otto Kuss

They grow ’em big in Minnesota. Here’s Otto Kuss, from Pine City, the biggest man on the Indiana squad, who probably will see action at tackle when the Hoosier gridmen battle Ohio State, Saturday.