Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 243, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1932 — Page 10

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Talking It Over BY JOE WILLIAMB

NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—The Earl of Sande, as the boys call him, may come back to the track this year as a steeplechase rider. And again he may not. It’s Just an urge with him now. The Earl’s put on weight and he’s too heavy to ride on the flat any more. Besides there aren’t many glories on the flat that he hasn’t already achieved. Riding over the hedges and the fences would be a new adventure for the most picturesque jockey the turf has known since the days of Snapper Garrison and Tod Sloan. The Earl sort of feels that it would be . ce take a *hot at the Grand National—that dizzv tumultuous and aitoctether incredible English tumping race. Yeah, it would be kind of nice to ton off mv riding days bv winning tha: one tust once.” Anparentlv Jockeys are like ball nlavers and fighters. They still want to ke*:o on golnr. * Sande has about all the monev he will ever need, and all the fame, and vet—well, when you spend twenty veins on a horse s back. I suppose vou miss him. .A couple of years ago Sande hung up hi* tack, announced he was through ns a rider, bought a stable and went into the racing business as trainer and owner. He did pretty well considering what he had to work with. But the adventure was too f cstlv. and when his star. Nassack, oroke down, he sold out and came back to the ■addle—a loser bv about $73,000. tt n tt THERE is no reason why Sande shouldn’t continue in the racing usiness in some capacity. He knows :>ll there is to know about horses. There is nothing wrong with his noodle. He is quick-witted, intelligent and sound. I like to talk with him about the track. From him you learn there is big money in racing from a crack rider. The year’s topnotcher will make $50,000 or better. Sonde's best year was 1923 when he collected $70,000 In fees, probably an all-time accord. That was the vear he won thirtynine stakes, including the Derby with Zr.v. No rider before or since has had buch a consistently successful season. It la interesting to learn that riders employ booking agents. All of Bande's business was transacted through a business representative, who worked on a commission basis, in the same manner that agents operate for actors, authors and prize fighters. It 1s seldom that a rider personally makes a deal for a mount. In addition, the star rider usually carries his own valet around with him. For years Sande had the same valet, one Ice Miller, a gentleman of color, who was employed the year ’round on a weekly salary. A rider must provide his own saddle, boots and trousers. Only the blouse and cap are furnished bv the stable. It is the valet’s duty to see that these habiliments are kept spick and span. as. I believe, the phrase goes. A rider must have three saddles of varying weights. In a race where the impost is 120 pounds a lighter saddle obviously is used than in a stake race where the weight may be ten or fifteen Dounds heavier. These saddles are tailored to taste and cost from S4O to $75. The boots cost S3O and the trousers $lB. After one active season .the outfit Is done for. In 1923. Band® went through three complete outfits. tt 8 tt ONLY two jockeys in history have ridden three Derby winners. Sande is one of them. He had the leg up on Zev, Flying Ebony and Twenty Grand. The other three-time winner was a little Negro boy incongruously named Isaac Murphy. Sande’s victory on Flying Ebony is worth recalling. This was the race in* which he had no mount twentyfour hours before the field went to the post. Quatrain w r as the favorite, and his owner, Fred Johnson, finding Sande available, wanted him to ride, though he already had engaged another jockey, Ben Bruening. •‘Johnson came to me and said he wanted me to ride his colt', savs Sande. “He urged mo to go to Bruening and make him an effer of $2,000 for the mount. He said he would reimburse me. I liked Quatrain and was eager to ride him. but I knew something Johnson didn’t know, or didn’t appreciate—l knew how eager Bruening. with a chance to win the Derby, was to ride the favorite, so I refused. “A few hours later Bill Duke, who was training the Gifford A. Cochrane stable, told nje I could ride Flving Kbonv if I wanted a mount. 'He’s got more than an outside chance’ said Bill, ‘and if vou get the breaks I thing you can win with him’. Well, I must have gotten the breaks, because I won with him and I think it was the greatest thrill I ever had on the track.” Just to keen the records straight it should bo added—though the Earl of Sande did not mention it—that Quatrain, the heavily nlaved favorite, was nowhere when the winning numbers were posted. Which may or may not indicate that in these big races the rider is more important than the horse.

—Stove League Chatter

WALTER RILEY, secretary of the Indians, is preparing to hand over program promotion duties and opening day ticket sales supervision to Dale Miller, assistant secretary. Riley is “pointing” for his first baseball training trip and is all a-flutter. The 1932 Tribesmen will shove off for Sarasota, Fla., one week from today and the early departures will consist of batterymen and rookies. Riley has put together

a splendid program for erry stadium games this year and ..iso has given the ticket problem a tremendous push. It; is said about 1,800 reservations have been made for the American Association lid lirter here on Tuesday, April 11. Manager Emmet McC an n will arrive in Indianapolis Saturday to assist In

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the arrangements for the month’s stay in Dixieland. He resides in Philadelphia. The slender Tribe chief is looking forward to piloting a pennant contender from the ■•utset and will bear down heavily on his pitch- during the traingrind. a a Jack Hendricks. Tribe business manager rind assistant to Owner Norman Perry, will coomvanv the first sound south. Mrs. Ilendrieks and son. Jimmy, went to Saraota last week and will remain there duiinr the visit of the Indiaas. Jack had a lirht touch of flu the first of the week nd was absent from his stadium ofice a few days. It Is rumored the battle >f player contracts has caused Jack to each snrlne traininr weisbt away ahead f schedule. a a a Hendricks has challenged Owner Pern .0 a round of calisthenics on the sidelines t the Sarasota ball park and it will be nterestlnn to note who falls down mst. ack used to be an expert at laving cm out” in the hv-lo eame but has not inken much strenuous exerc.se for a couple of vesLrs. Tribe plavers In Sarasota now rre catchers Johnnv Riddle and Tom iukiey and BUI Burwell. the veteran nehtiianded flineer. # BILL M’KECHNIE, pilot of the Boston Braves, is beginning to hand out tho “sugar” to spur on Art Shires. Talkative Arthur needs no assistance in keeping his name before the public, but the other day McKechnie issued a statement that will make Arthur take longer strides than ever. The Braves' leader said he was tickled to have picked up Shires and thinks he can turn the Texan into a demon first sacker. The Braves train in St. Petersburg, where the Yankees and Babe Ruth camPi and the natives and tourists there are sure to be well-enter-tained. The clubs will meet in a serierf of exhibition tilts and leave it to Arthur to extend himself in an effort to out-publicize Ruth.

RECORD INDOOR CROWD TO SEE DEMPSEY SCRAP

Jack Hopes to Stop Levinsky in 4 Rounds 23,000 Fans to Pay $76,000 for ‘Exhibition' at Chicago Stadium Tonight; Rivals to Wear 9 3-4-Ounce Gloves in Mauler's Major Test. BY GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Feb. 18.—Almost four and one-half years after he had Tunney on the floor for the famous "fourteen count,” Jack Dempsey will make his first appearance in a Chicago ring in fighting regalia tonight against King Levinsky, ranked No. 7 in the heavyweight division by the Natonal Boxing Association. The match is billed as a four-round exhibition, but it has all of the aspects of a real fight. Both fighters will wear 9Vt ounce gloves—3% ounces over the regulation size, but not too large to prevent either from inflicting damage or scoring a knockout.

Purdue Seeks Big Ten Lead By Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 18.—Purdue’s fast stepping Boilermakers were hard at work today, preparing for their battle with Northwestern here Saturday night. A victory over the pace-setting Wildcats will give Coach Piggy Lambert’s tossers the lead in the Big Ten cage title battle. Charley Stewart, the veteran center, still is handicapped and may watch part of Saturday’s tussle from the bench. His berth will be filled by Dutch Fehring, the husky sophomore who starred against Ohio State Monday. A feature of Saturday’s fray will be the meeting of Joe Reiff, Northwestern forward, who tops the conference scoring column, and Johnny Wooden, Purdue guard, his most dangerous contender for the point-making honors.

De Pauw Invades Ohio for Two Conference Net Tilts

By United Press GREENCASTLE, Ind., Feb. 18.— De Pauw university’s Tigers make their last invasion of the Ohio stronghold this week, the result of which will have the final bearing on the Buckeye conference champion of 1932. De Pauw holds a substantial lead in the race. By winning one of the two games on this trip the Tigers are assured of a tie and by winning both tilts have

Chuck Hopes to Qualify for Scrap With Redman

If Chuck Wiggins defeats Benny Touchstone in the main fistic go at the Armory next Tuesday night he wants to meet Jack Redman, South Bend Negro, in the near future, it was announced today by Gerald Ely, Legion matchmaker. Redman is Indiana state heavyweight champion. Wiggins formerly ruled the heavy division in the Hoosier state. Chuck has established training quarters at the Arcade gym. He will box with sparmates there Saturday, Sunday and Monday afternoons. Wiggins outpointed John Schwake at Springfield, 111., Tuesday and returned home showing no serious bruises.

BY EDDIE ASH

CHUCK KLEIN, Hoosier slugger with the Philly Nationals, shortly will pass from ten pins to horsehides. The big outfielder will depart on March 2 for spring training at Winterhaven, Fla., and after that it will be the diamond for him instead of bowling alleys until late in the fall. Chuck is an improved bowler over last setßon and has been holding his own with the stars of the town. Klein is “off” of Gabby Street, manager of the champion Cardinals. The Old Sarge picked the Phillies to finish in the cellar this year, and i* you ask Chuck he'll tell you he hopes to knock down all of the fences when he faces the St. “Looie” pitchers. # # u The holdout headache is about to ret Clark Griffith down. Ten of the Washington owner’s players have not sirned and amonr the list are many of the Senators' best bets, includinr Cronin, Myer, Snencer. Marberry, Manush. Burke and West. It will be a “swell” outfit if that | crew fails to come to terms. Twenty-seven nastimers are on Walter Johnson’s roster. tt a a Dance, Cubs, dance! The Chicago Bruins landed in California too soon and embarrassed the weather man out there. It hasn’t stopped raining yet. Asa result the advance guard of Windy City athletes was compelled to use an old dance paI vilion for practice Wednesday on the magic isle of Catalina. And oh, yes, the boys trotted up and down the beach for exercise, while the groundkeepers tried to soak up the water off the diamond. Moreover reports say the weather out there has gone screwy. A party of New York Giants was due to begin training at Los Angeles today and first squads of Tigers and Pirates are en route. Anyway, it is said rain is good for the complexion. So are carrots. tt tt tt BABE RUTH reached the finals in a golf tourney at St. Pete and was to play E. H. Cody for the Snell isle title today. It’s a great break for the St. Pete Chamber of Commerce whenever the Bambino accomplishes something extraordinary on the links, in thi Snell isle semi-finals Wedenesday R. Carson met Ruth and the match went to the nineteeth hole, which was fatal for Carson. Babe is no stranger at that spot, and it was just like entering a night club for him. The home run clouter scored a 70 Tuesday and an 80 Wednesday. Babe is out to prove it’s pie to hit an innocent, unprotected little white pellet teed up off the ground compared to socking the horsehide propelled off the baseball mound by a fast ball curve artist. CUE TITLE AT STAKE Harry Cooler, undefeated in six tourney starts, will bid to regain j the Indiana three-cushion billiard title in a fifty-point match tonight at Cooler’s parlor with Neal Jones. ; It is the final scheduled contest of the twenty-fifth annual title event. Jones has won five out of six | starts, and a Victory over Cooler would force a play-off for a cham- j pionship. i ■■ I J

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A crowd of 23,000, the largest ever to see an indoor boxing match, will attend and enable Dempsey, most popular fighter of all time, to complete the cycle of boxing records. He has participated in every million dollar gate and holds every outdoor mark. The previous indoor record is 22,430, made in 1930 by the Golden Gloves New YorkChicago bouts in the same building. The gate receipts are expected to be about $76,000, of which Dempsey’s share will be about $35,000 and Levinsky’s $9,000. Foi Dempsey, it will be the most important test of his comeback campaign. It might send him on up the rugged trail which proved too treacherous for Jim Corbett, Jim Jeffries, Bob Fitzsimmons and Jess Willard. Or it might write finis to the career of the champion of champions. Dempsey, realizing his entire future in the ring depends on the outcome tonight, will attempt to stop Levinsky. "I know Levinsky is tough,” said Jack, “But I am going to try to stop him with one punch if I can.”

the championship in their hands. The only remaining tilt will be the Wabash game here be Feb. 26. The road trip takes De Pauw to Ohio university on Friday night and Denison at Granville Saturday. Tiger fans are hoping to see the Tigers close the season with three more victories, which would give the locals a record of fifteen wins out of sixteen games. So far Miami university is the only team to down De Pauw. BUCKEYE CONFERENCE STANDING W. L. Pet.l W. h. Pet. De Pauw .. 8 1 .889 Ohio Univ.. 4 5 .445 Wittenberg. 7 3 .700 Denison .... 3 5 .375 Miami 5 3 .625 Wabash ... 2 7 .233 Wesleyan... 6 5 .545 Cincinnati.. 17.125

Heavies to Top Armory Card Joe Savoldi will return to the Armory mat some time in March, according to Promoter Jimmie McLemore. The former Notre Dame

gridman proved popular in his first appearance here last Friday. First of a series o f elimination bouts to determine Savoldi’s opponent will be staged at the Armory Friday night when Turkey Bey, husky European, takes on A1 Baffert, popular Canadian, in his first start here. Jack Reyn-

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olds, welter title claimant, meets Blacksmith Pedigo in another two out of three fall event and Black Panther Mitchell faces Jack Adams of Kokomo in the opener. CARDS DROP SCOTTDALE St Louis Cuts Off One Farm in Minors. By Times Special ST. LOUIS, Feb. 18.—The St. Louis Cardinals have withdrawn financial support from Scottdale of the Mid-Atlantic League and players have been transferred to Springfield of the Western Association. Mid-Atlantic League officials were not anxious to have Scottdale in the circuit this year, and the Cards stepped out. 4 I. U. TEAMS IN ACTION By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 18.— Four Indiana U. athletic squads will get into action Saturday. Coach Everett Dean’s cagers invade lowa City to battle the improved Hawkeye five Saturday night. The swimming and wrestling teams go to Chicago where they meet Chicago U. paddlers and Northwestern matmen. The track team goes to Champaign to clash with Illinois. OLYMPIC CHAMP PLAY By United Press MONTREAL, Feb. 18.—The Winnipeg hockey team, which won the Olympic championship at the recent Lake Placid games, will leave Montreal Friday for the United States, where they are scheduled to play a series of exhibition games.

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ATT T A T TJTTT'TA when rube waddell went to i HLY ALL LA U GriLD management had planned to frame Rube by having their big first baseman, "Candy” LaChance, engage Rube in a friendly wrestling match before the game with the Athletics to get him all tuckered out. After an hour of the most strenuous tugging and hauling, the Rube pinned “Candy.” And all he did to the Sox that afternoon was to beat them 1 to 0, allowing three hits and striking out fourteen batters. The wrestling had warmed him up! >-

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Off The Backboard BY VERN BOXELL

WHEN Edward Krauczunas and his Notre Dame gang get into action out at the field house Friday night, the filberts who shove their shekels over the till (also the followers of Mr. Connolly the OneEyed) are going to see one of the best basketball teams in these parts. Krauczunas, in case you are baffled, is the well-] nown Ed Krause, the 200-pounder who stole the show during the last Irish football season. Big Moose is a sophomore. During the early campaign he played second fiddle to Ray De Cook, the veteran. But when Big Ed got his chance, he proved he wasn’t sour Krause. He was an all-America prep cage center for De La Salle high, Chicago, and since taking over the regular Irish pivot assignment, the six-foot three-inch husky has been making a strong bid tyor all-Western and even greater, laurels. Krause was an ace grid tackle last fall in his first collegiate gridiron campaign. I wonder if the guy knows any card trick to entertain friends when he isn’t all-America-ing? tt tt tt With Krause at center. De Cook moved over to a forward Job and still is a star and scoring threat. When Bay moved o“er, Norb of the Lafayette Crowes was dropped back to a guard role, ousting Johnny Baldwin. Burns is the big boy Butler’s forwards will have to get around to get their usual under-the-basket shots, and Burns Isn’t being given the runaround by very many opponents. These are some of the seasons Mr. George Keogan’s Irish have won their last twelve games since an epidemic of illness and injuries helped In checking them twice early in the season. Keogan has had many good teams at Notre Dame. Lots of people will tell you this one if one of his best. Your correspondent has a hunch Mr. Keogan would like to have another sjiot at Indiana and Furdue—for charity or Just for fun. tt tt tt If Mr Tony Hinkle’s boys come out on top in the Irish frav, it will be an upIf 1, Y e , r Y hleasant surprise. However, Mr Hinkle s bovs have a very disturbing habit of surprising big guvs especially Notre Dame and the Bulldogs are far from beaten right now. They’re tough down here on their home pine l strips (including the ones that hop up and down and make work for the carpenters between halves). And ole Backboard is hoping that Tony Sout worJtlnK enouh to bend the ft tt tt IF you like your basketball all dressed up with thrills, it’s a good bet you’ll get your fill at Lafayette Saturday—if you can get in. Mr. Johnny Wooden and his Purdue Boilermakers are going to take on Mr. Joe Reiff and his Northwestern Wildcats, the champeens, and to the victor goes the lead in the Big Ten | race. tt tt tt Os course, Mr. Orville Hoker, the master mind of the Newcastle Trojans, has other things to worry about right now, but some of the boys are beginning to wonder if Orville intends to go through with that eharity game at Anderson on Feb. 23. Among the things Mr. Hooker Is worrying about now is Mancie. Having defeated the Bearcats at the Magic City several ; weeks ago, fandom is wondering whether ! Orville will bow to the “yon can’t beat a ; good team three times in a season” jinx, or let his Trojans go flying after the Bearcats and let that scheduled regional tournament game take care of itself. Last season. Mr. Hooker and his Trojans won a moral victory. They won the first game , and then Mr. Pete Jolly, the Mancie head man, and Orville both tried to throw the

second game. The Trojans succeeded, Muncie won the third game, the regional, so maybe friend Orville doesn’t believe in signs any more. tt tt tt About that Newcastle-Anderson thing, which is on tap for Indian town on Feb. 23. Mr. Hooker’s Trojans claim they were f;iven a very bruising shoving around n their recent tilt with the Casemen at Anderson. Thoman, the hot-shot forward, was out of the lineup for more than a week, and some of the other boys said they were toting bruises. With the sectional tournament coming on March 4 and 5, many are saying Hook will cancel the Indian tilt on Feb. 23, or let his reserves do most of the work. On the other hand, the Hookermen have been beaten twice by the Indians, and maybe they’d like just one more chance. tt tt tt Dne to the mild winter (and the fact that ole’ Backboard picked Vincennes) there is an unusuaUy large crop of raspberries ready for harvest We’ll dish ’em out some day soon. tt tt tt THE mail man who pays us a visit every morning is in for some heavy work during the next few days. Cathedral, 30; Connersville, 24. Connersville beat Tech and Cathedral beat Connersville. There’s the angle. Maybe the boys who are saying the Irish are about the best high school basketball team around here aren’t so wrong after Catholic Net Heads Named Drawings for the sixth annual Indiana Catholic high school basketball tournament, in which ten teams will participate at the Armory here Feb. 26 and 27, will be made Saturday at Cathedral, it was announced today. Officials were announced as Nathan Kauffman, Shelby ville; John Miller, Anderson, and Fred Alwood of Vincennes. All have worked in previous tournaments. Officials in charge of the tourney, all of whom have served since the first event in 1927, also were announced, as follows: Board of Control —Rev. Father Norbert of Jasper, president: Rev. P. J. Schmid, Hammond, secretary; Frank J. Holmes. Anderson, treasurer. Committee in Charge of Tourney— Thomas S. Markey. chairman; Matthew Harold, vice-chairman; Joseph McNamara, secretary; Irvin B. Egan, treasurer. Other Committee Heads—Timothy Sexton. finance; Paul Just, tickets; Dr. Joseph Kernel, trophies; James Lynch, transportation; Albert Feeney, sports awards; Edward Brennan, gym; William Mooney Jr., boosters; Julian Huffman, legal, and ! Joseph Sexton, Garrott Kerby and Harry Calland. reception. Dr. Joseph Connolly will serve as tourney physician.

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all. They play Mr. Roland Jones’ Washington Continentals Friday afternoon, and they’ll have to step at a fast clip to make it twelve in a row. tt u tt Merle Abbott, Bedford superintendent of schools, was used to be quite a basketball coach at the Stonecutter school, is going to Ft. Wayne, where he will be superintendent of schools. ... Another line on the strength of this high-powered Jeffersonville outfit will be obtained Friday night when the Red Demons come up to Bedford to do battle. . . . They’re regional rivals, unless some little guys knock ’em off before they get together. . . . Pat Malaska, Crawfordsville guard, was on the bench during the entire game in which the Athenians took a healthy tumble to Lebanon. . . . Oh, so that’s it. . . Mr. Glenn Curtis, the Martinsville coach, will have a chance to get even with Mr. Burl Friddle and his Washington Hatchets at the Artesian town Friday night and it’s a good bet he’ll erase some of the old score. . . . This guy Curtis has got your correspondent worried. ... He’s promised some big surprises for ole’ Backboard. tt tt tt The Frankfort American Legion, promoter of the Washington-Frankfort charity game Tuesday night, is loser SSO on the project, according to Chico Yarbrough, the Foul Liner.... Frankfort won the ball game, but Washington had the last laugh ....The Hatchets got their $225 cut lor Shoptown charity Yarbrough is suggesting the proselyting of fans to attend Hot Dog home encounters, with a bonus for all who pay to enter....Mr. EGB, the Alphabet Soup man of Washington, is ready to toss in the t0we1.... Already he’s talking about “other years,” and worrying about Epsom in the sectional... .Ole’ Blackboard can sympathize. ...Marion won the state championship in 1926 and your correspondent had lots of fun.... The next year, the Giants won but two games during the season, and I used every excuse from A-l to R-93 What’s in a name....Harold Moffatt of Hendrix college, Arkansas, is one of the southland’s best basketball players, scoring 300 points in nineteen games last year.... Howard Mpffit, the sensational lowa sophomore, is second in the Big Ten scoring column this year although pastiming with a tail-end outfit..., Tubby Moffett has been turning out winning teams over at De Pauw for some time, and Rex Moffett is one of Indiana’s best rah-rah forwards Mr. Orville W. Haven, Anderson columnist, writes.... .“Mr. Case is giving attention to cooking up piays to stop Lapel and Alexandria. That’s why I'm pickin’ the Redskins this year. All right, go ahead and laugh”.... Far be it from Ole’ Backboard ever to try to laugh off one of Mr. Case’s teams ....You can’t do it. EARLHAM BEATS DAYTON By Times Special DAYTON, 0., Feb. 18.—A field goal in the last minute by Bower gave Earlham college a 19 to 18 triumph over Dayton U. here Wednesday. Dayton led most of the way, holding a 12 to 9 edge at the half. Johnson, with five field goals, topped the Quaker scorers.

Two Marks Tumble in Indoor Track Carnival Venzke Runs Mile in 4:10, and Sexton Hurls Shot 52 Feet 8 3-8 Inches; Toppino Equals Record; Two Hoosiers Place Second. By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—Hopes of a United States track and field victory in next summer’s Olympic games were brighter than ever today as a result of two world record-breaking performances in Wednesday nights New York Athletic Club games. Another world record was equalled twice. Here are the new records: One-mile run: Time, 4:10; set by Gene Venzke of Boyertown Pa The sixteen-pound shot put: Distance, 52 feet 8% inches- set bv Lexo Sexton of New York A. C. • y Both Venzke and Sexton were the old record holders Sexton incidentally, surpassed the outdoor record for the shotDut The official outdoor mark is 52 feet 7% inches. P ‘ *

Indoor tracksters this season have now broken two outdoor world records, for George Spitz of New York U. has cleared the high jump bar at 6 feet 8% inches. This is one-quar-ter of an inch higher than the outdoor record boasted by Harold Osborne of the Illinois A. C. Lermond Forces Winner Venzke’s victory in the mile was a smashing one. For half the distance he matched strides with his perennial rival, Leo Lermond of New York A. C. Then Venzke shot into the lead as Frank Crowley of Manhattan, the early pace-setter, faltered. Lermond kept up the fight for another quarter mile, but Venzke, supremely confident that he had beaten his top rival, raced out to improve his own record of 4:11.2. One world record was twice equaled when Emmett Toppino, representing Loyola of New Orleans’ ran the sixty-yard dash in 6.2, in a qualifying heat and in the final. Nelson, Warne Second Percy Beard, Alabama school teacher, and holder of the world mark for the event, won the 60yard high hurdles in 7.6, well behind his record. Dale Letts of the Illinois A. C. won the half-mile run. The time was 1:54.8. Milton Sandler of New York university won the 500-yard dash in 59.6. Keith Brown of Yale pole-vaulted 13 feet 9 inches to win the event. Tommy Warne of Kokomo, Ind., was second and Fred Sturdy, Los Angeles A. C., third. George Spitz of New York university won the high jump at 6 feet 6 inches. Bert Nelson of Butler university placed second. PLACID EVENTS TO END World Speed Skating Championships Wind Up Program. By United Press LAKE PLACID, N. Y., Feb. 18.— With only about 2,000 visitors remaining for the world championship speed skating races P’riday and Saturday, this little mountain town today had almost settled back to normal as a winter resort. The curtain was rung doWn on the spectacular part of Lake Placid’s big winter show Wednesday, after Reto Capadrutt of Switzerland won the North American two-man bobsled championship. FRANKLIN TESTS STATE By Times Special FRANKLIN, Ind., Feb. 18.— Franklin college cagers, cheered by the overtime win over Wabash on Tuesday, will invade Terre Haute tonight to battle Indiana State. State scored a one-point win in the first meeting at Franklin.

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Central Squad Raps N.A.G.U. After playing the first three quarters on even terms, Indiana Central cagers ended in whirlwind fashion to thump N. A. G. U. Wednesday night, 44 to 22. With Judd and Emig, regular forwards, on the sidelines, Central trailed 17 to 14 at the half. The regulars entered the game with the count tied 20-20 with ten minutes to play, and outscored the Phy-Eds, 24 to 2. De Jernett starred on defense, but was off form on offense. Ind. Central (44). N. A. G. U (22) „ , ,FGFT PF fg FT PF 5 2 2 Ghrbch.f-c. 3 0 3 .... 0 1 0 Teckoff.f... 000 Dejernett.c 2 0 1 Segal.c..... 2 14 Swank.g... 3 5 1 3chaefer.g. 0 0 •> 2 2 0 Schreiber.it.' o O n Schaefer.g. 0 0 0 Fiemine.it.. 0 0 o Totals. 17 10 5 Totals.... 9 is Referee—Middlesworth.

High School Cage Card

W . „ FRIDAY Muncie at Newcastle. Central of Ft. Wavne at Anderson. JeffersonviUe at Bedford. i SuUivan at Bloomington. KendallvUl© at Bluffton. Clinton at Crawfordsviile. c North Side of Ft. Wayne at Columbia Rushville a Columbus. Richmond at Connersville. Washington of Indianapolis at Cathedral (afternoon). Delphi at Franklin. Washington of East Chicago at florae* Mann of Gary. Reitz of Evansville at Bosse of Evansville. Central of Evansville at Vincennes. Kokomo at Frankfort. Ejnerson of Garv at Valparaiso. Shortridge of Indianapolis at Greencastle. Jefferson of Lafayette at Logansport. Washington at Martinsville. Wabash at Hartford City. Rochester at Winamac. Elkhart at Goshen. Huntington at Marion. La Porte at Central of South Bend. Nappanee at Plymouth. SATURDAY Bloomington at Greensburg. Peru at Elwood. Central of Ft. Wayne at Emerson of Gary. Kendallville at North Side of Ft. Wavne. South Side of Ft. Wayne at Mishawaka. Franklin at Sevmour. Shortridge of Indianapolis at Garfield of Terre Haute. , Shelbyvllle at Tech of Indianapolis. Male of Louisville at Jeffersonville. Jefferson of Lafayette at Lebanon. Marion at Wabash. Washington at New Albany. Warsaw at Rochester. Wiley of Terre Haute at Bosse of Evansville. H. A. C. FACES FT. WAYNE Hoosier Athletic Club tank squad will oppose Ft. Wayne Y. M. C. A. swimmers at H. A. C. pool Saturday night at 8. Danny Zehr, 15-year-old star, leads the invaders and will swim in the 100-yard back stroke, 220-yard free style and back stroke in the medley relay.