Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 224, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1933 — Page 30

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By Eddie Ash Ruth Months Ahead of Major Experts u tt m Wiggins and Munn on George’s List tt tt tt Macks and Firates Differ on Outlook

"YZ'OU’LL have to go a lonj? way to match the all-star big league team coincidence of 1932 in which Babe Ruth picked an “all” major lineup that was published in The limes last September and was duplicated exactly by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America when the writers consensus” choice was announced by Sporting News Wednesday of this week. Hundreds of Indianapolis fans and baseball followers over the state participated in The Times’ Babe Ruth all-star contest last season and only one entrant, Joe Flajs, Indianapolis, picked the same ten players as selected by the Sultan of Swat. One hundred and ninety-seven sports writers in the big league cities cast ballots in the Sporting News annual event, so Joe Flajs is entitled to a lot of back patting. In other words, Flajs matched Ruth player for player and picked the official all-America team four months ahead of all of the major league experts. The Sporting News choice generally is recognized as official. In the Ruth yearly contest, the Babe bars himself as a member of the roster and he placed Chuck Klein in right field in his 1032 list of selects. He always has held to this rule, but heretofore the big league scriveners honored him with that position on the Sporting News team. This time the writers voted for Klein and the Bambino was left ofl entirely. We don’t know how young Flajs, The Times’ champion, would have handled the situation if Ruth had been eligible in The Times contest, but the fact remains that Flajs used Klein in the right garden and that move put him right up even with the professional newspapermen. It’s a tribute to Ruth that his all-star team, named in September, proved out to be the consensus of opinion of the experts several months later after they had available all of the official averages to help them reach decisions. Perhaps Babe is getting smarter as he grows older. It is the first time since Ruth and Sporting News have made annual picks that the selections were identically the same. tt tt tt tt n a MANY KNOCKOUTS CREDITED TO GODFREY IN the Everlast boxing book of 1932, listing the records of the more important fighters, it is shown that George Godfrey, Negro heavyweight, has been knocked out but once. That kayo is credited to Jack Renault, once a pretty fair second-rater, in 1923, and the verdict came in the eleventh round. How this came about was explained Thursday by Jim Dougherty, the “Baron of Lieperville," who manages Godfrey. Godfrey, just emerged from the preliminary class, iiad left his Mobile 'Ala.i home tor the first time to come north. Renault was the first white boxer the Negro scrapper had faced, and Godfrey refused to make a fight of it, and after failing to land a solid blow on Renault in eleven rounds he was declared loser via the technical knockout route by Ihe referee, though Godfrey had not been on the floor, Dougherty said. In the boxing record book, however, no mention is made of “technical knockout." George flattened Larry Gains twice, in six rounds and five rounds. Gains is British Empire heavyweight champion. In another Godfrcy-Gains match, Gains won on a foul in the third canto. In 1925 George outpointed Jack Renault in ten rounds. Incidentally, the Godfrey ring career covers over 300 ring engagements and he has more than 100 knockout victories to his own credit, including one over our own Chuck Wiggins. The huge George will meet Tiger Jack Fox, Terre Haute Negro, Indiana state champion, in the feature attraction at the local Armory next Tuesday. In 1926 Godfrey lost to Wiggins on a foul in the seventh round and In 1929 at Cleveland, George stopped the Hoosier Playboy in the seventh stanza. Monte Munn, former boxer and now an Indianapolis politician, was stopped by Godfrey by technical knockout in the fourth round in 1927. Big George's real name is Feab S. Williams and he was born in 1901 down in Alabam’. He lost to Primo Camera a couple of years ago on a foul after leading the Italian giant on points. tt a a o a tt IT’S ALL SO VERY CONFUSING CVoNNIE MACK, manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, says he had * to sell A1 Simmons. Jimmy Dykes and Mule Haas to the Chicago White Sox because business was bad and his club was in the red. This, Mr. Mack says, was partly caused by the blue laws which prohibit Sunday baseball in Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the management of the Pirates. who play at Pittsburgh, also in Pennsylvania, on any day in the week except Sunday, have been passing around raises to many of the Smoky City players. tt a tt a a a TORCHY PEDEN, the young Canadian six-day bike ace, established some sort of a traveling record recently. Hr finished a week's cycling in Germany, packed up hurriedly, caught the steamship Bremen for the United States, left the Bremen in a cab for the Newark airport and boarded a plane for Cleveland and reached the Forest City in time to Start, another six-day grind. Then he was knocked out in the early days of the race and compelled to retire. a b tt tt tt a MARSHALL BLACKSTOCK, the rassler who tackles Ralph Wilson at Tomlinson hall here Monday, learned how the stick-up hold worked Ihe other day. Springfield (111.) bandits taught Blackstoek the three-way hold-up hold and separated him from $75. “They approached me from three directions and I conceded the fall,” Blackie said. “I still think life Js worth seventy-five bucks.” tt tt m tt tt tt University of Minnesota basketball team has lost five tilts in a row and Coach Dave McMillan says further Gopher net fives won’t have permanent. captains. Dissension in the ranks has emphasized again that field goals and campus politics don't mix. a tt tt tt tt it THE New York Ranger hockey team blamed its failure to win the pennant last winter on the fact its black cat mascot strayed away. What follows is difficult to believe, but it was given out as news, although it, smacks of pressure publicity. It is said on Friday the thirteenth of the current month the cat was found snoozing in the Madison Square Garden engine room and hastily was restored to its job of putting the jinx on Ranger opponents and right away the team staged a winning streak. a a a tt a tt Add Roger Peekinpaugh's name to the list of Jimmy Foxx, Chuck Klein, Lefty O’Doul, Ownie Bush, Lefty Grove and Jimmy Dykes as baseball's bowlers. The manager of the Cleveland Indians recently stepped out and rolled a 274 game in league competition.

Sixteen Teams Open Play in Wabash Valley Title Event

/>’ii I iiitrd I’ri * TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. Jan. 27. First round play in the finals of the eighteenth annual Wabash Valley high school basketball tourney started in Indiana State Teachers’ College gym today. Cage Scores Thursday COLLEGES Oakland Citv. SO; Hanover. 23. Wofford. 26: Newberry, 25. Auburn, 25: Louisiana' State. 24 Hamline. 30: Gustavus Adolphus, 23. Carroll 35; Billings. 29. Marauctte. 3fi: Fals iCitv of Mexico'. 29 j Thursday Fight Results AT LONDON Jack Peterson. British heavyweight title holder, stooped Jack Pettifer. young giant, in the twelfth of a ■scheduled flfteen-round title bout. A T STOCKTON. Cal Babe Marino San Francisco middleweight, decisioned joe Vargas, Fresno. ilO'.

—.ENTRY BLANK @ Golden Gloves Boxing Meet laeJ) Tomlinson Hall. Indianapolis. Feb. 9. 16, 23. Auspices Bruce Robison Post American Legion Sponsored by The Times. CHEC K W EIGHT W ITH INDERLIXE 112 pound class m pound riass US pound ciass 160 pound r ass 126 pound cuss ITS pound class 135 pound das* Heavyweight ENTRIES LIMITED TO AMATEIRS 16 YEARS OF AGE AND OVER NAME ADDRESS CITY’ AGE CLUB (il any) Address entries to Thomas Jordan. 427 Madison avenue. Indianapolis Phone Lincoin 6489 Receive blanks for A. A V registration itwrmv-five centsi from Thomas Jordan or Fred De Borde. 476 South Meridian street. Indianapolis. The lin-rs and Bruce Robison Legion rost do not assume any responsibility In case of *njur to an> emW-N'ant. 11 FNIR.ES CLOSE FEB. 5

Sixteen sectional winners competed in first round games this afternoon and tonight. The eight survivors will play in quarter finals Saturday morning. Semi-finals will be played in the afternoon ancPthe championship will be decided in a night game. Bainbridge, defending champion, plays its first game tonight, opposing Dugger. 1932 title runner-up. Schedule Todav 1 P. M.—Linton vs. Fontanet. 2 P. M.—Wilev vs. Spencer. 2 P. M —Bloomfield vs. Hutsonville. 4 P. M.—Pleasant! ille vs. . Tangier. 5 P. M.—Bruceville vs. Bridgeport. 7 P. M.— Rilev vs. Rosedale 8 P. M. -Dugger \s. Bainbridge. 9 P. M.—Perrvsville vs. Clay City. TONY CANZONERI SIGNED I By Timm Special NEW YORK. Jan. 27.—Tony Can- ■ zoneri. lightweight champion, today j agreed to a ten-round non-title battle with Billy Townsend. Vancouver | slugger, at Madison Square Garden j on Feb. 3.

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La Barba Is Ring Choice | _ British Feather Champion Rated ‘Pushover’ for Fidel. By I ailed Press NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—John Mortimer, manager of Seaman Wat- ! son, Great Britain’s newest contribution to the gayety of nations, today issued the usual pre-battle predictions of victory which caused the wise boys to continue laying two to one that Fidel La Barba slaps the sailor down when they meet at the Garden tonight, i Both Watson and La Barba, former flyweight champion, will scale 123 pounds. Watson's British featherweight title will not be at stake. Mortimer was enthusiastic in telling the boys just what his man was going to do to La Barba. “Wait’ll you see a real fighting man,' he said. “He’ll be a sensation in America, mark my word. He will punish La Barba severely, and with this fight under his belt will surely defeat Kid Chocolate, the man he was supposed to meet tonight.” The boxing fraternity thinks Seaman will be a “pushover” for La Barba. To the winner of tonight's brawl will automatically go the privilege of meeting Kid Chocolate, featherweight champion, next month. The Cuban flash was originally to have met Seaman, but his deportation to Havana prevented it.

Heavy Prelim Card Planned The supporting card for George Godfrey-Tiger Fox Negro heavyweight ten-round feature fistic battle at the Armory Tuesday, practically was completed today by Promoter James McLemore. Prelim bouts signed up follow: Ten Rounds—Rosy (Kidi Baker, Anderson. vs. Frank Detlaff, Cincinnati; middleweights. semi-windup. Six Rounds—Leroy Gibson. Indianapolis Negro, vs. Pete Leno, Cincinnati; featherweights. Six Rounds—Tony Brown, Chicago, vs. Andy Newell, Anderson Negro, heavyweights. J Four Rounds—Pat Kenney, Indianapolis, vs. Andy White, Indianapolis; heavyweights. Four Rounds—Packy Gardner, Indianapoas heavyweight, vs. opponent to be named. Two Officials Named by Cats By Time* Special FT. WORTH, Tex., Jan. 27.—En- ; gagement of J. Walter Morris as business manager and of Roy Meehan as secretary of the Ft. Worth Cats of the Texas league, was announced late Thursday after a deal had been completed whereby Norman A. Perry, Indianapolis, purchased part interest in the club. Walter Holke, coach with the Indianapolis A. A. team, owned by Perry, is expected to be named field manager of the Cats. The Ft. Worth Press Is authority for the ' statement the Cats will be operated : as a separate unit and will not be J used as a ‘Tarm" by the Hoosiers. Perry and his new Indianapolis manager, Wade Killefer, left for Indianapolis Thursday night after completing the partnership deal with S. S. Lard and Ted Robinson of Ft, Worth. AMATEURS IN PRELIM ROLLER TILT SUNDAY The prelim contest preceding the Indianapolis-Marion pro league rol- ; ler polo game at Tomlinson hall ! Sunday will mark the start of play in the local amateur loop and will bring together teams sponsored by the Rolles Printing Company and Stuck Coal Company. Both clubs have been organized for some time. Stunned by two straight losses after a long winning streak, the In- | dianapolis pro quintet wyll indulge | in an extra practice session before j Sunday's tilt with Marion. Marion ; boasts two of the fastest rushes in j the game in Butler and Bradley, ! and Fred Pence, goal tender, is leading the league in stops. ATTUCKS IN TWO TILTS Crispus Attucks high school quintet takes on two foes tonight, playing Real Silk Night Hawks and a Kirshbaum center quintet. Attucks will be strengthened by the return to action of Moseby, star forward, out last week with an eve injury. Kirtley, King. Cornett and Smith probably will complete the Attucks lineup. RICHMOND UPSET VICTIM FT. WAYNE, Ind., Jan. 27.—Ft. Wayne turned in a surprise triumph over Richmond, leader of the Hoo- ! sier Roller Polo League, here Thursday, 6 to 0. Thompson tallied four goals for the wunners.

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Left to Right—Frank Tollman, Fred Dc Borde, Tom Jordan, chairman; Paul Ragsdale, John Kelly.

T TNDER the auspices of the Bruce Robison past of the American Legton and sponsored by The Times. Golden Cloves amateur boxing will be introduced to Indianapolis fistic fans next month in a tournament at Tomlinson hall that will be staged in three sections over three weeks o nthe nights of Feb. 9, 16 and 23. There will ue competition in eight weight divisions and winners

Two Games Tonight and Six Saturday on College Card

Increased activity in Indiana college basketball competition begins this week-end with two games tonight and six Saturday. Manchester is host to Western State Teachers of Kalamazoo, Mich., tonight, and Hanover plays at Eastern Illinois State Teachers, Charleston, 111.

Bill Terry Tempts Cards With I $30,000 for Pitcher Tex Carleton

By JOE WILLIAMS New York World-Telegram Sports Editor NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—8i1l Terry, manager of the New York Giants, is making another-drive for Tex Carleton, the big righthander of the St. Louis Cardinals. Terry was in St, Louis the other day conferring with Branch Rickey and Sam Breadon, and it may be that with $30,000 as working capital, Memphis Bill will persuade the Red Birds to part with the slinger. Terry held out for Carleton when he traded Bill Walker, Jim Mooney, Bob O’Farrell and Ethan Allen for Ray Starr and Gus Mancuso. Bill started the conversation by mentioning Dizzy Dean, but Rickey stopped that immediately. Then Terry talked about Carleton for something like three days, and wound up by taking Starr. Last summer it was reported that the Cardinals had offered to trade Carleton, and that they had named $50,000 in cash as an essential in the transaction. Since then the player market has slumped a bit and it is possible that Terry’s offer will swing the deal. In any event, Terry is not adopting a complacent and satisfied attitude. He appreciates that his pitching staff needs more authority. a a a PHILADELPHIA experts say that George Earnshaw wants to be traded. But Connie Mack insists that he meant what he said when, after having sold Simmons, Haas and Dykes to the White Sox he announced that no more regulars would be disposed of until after the 1933 campaign. All of which is bad news for Cleveland. For while the dope had Earnshaw headed for the Yanks, the Indians would have a better chance if Mack decided to get rid of the veteran. It seems to be the fashion around the country just now to ask, “what's wrong with baseball?” When Judge Landis arrived in Arizona for his health some days ag®, reporters asked the same old question. He had the solution. “What’s wring with baseball?” The high commissioner laughed. “If you will tell me what's wrong with industry, with the theater, with the

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in each class will be sent to Chicago with expenses paid to compete in the Tournament of Champions under the auspices of the Chicago Tribune. Victors in the. Chicago meet will battle in another Chicago tourney against the New York Golden Gloves champions. The Bruce Robison past, in conjunction with The Times, will endeavor to make the event an annual affair here. Amateur box-

Western State continues its Hoosier invasion Saturday at Ball State, while Huntington and Indiana Central tangle here. Butler resumes Missouri valley conference competition against Oklahoma A. and M. at Stillwater, Okla. Hanover plays at Joliet, 111.; Franklin mets Loyola at Chicago and Earlham plays at Dayton, O.

railroads, with the steel business, with the grain market, with wall street—well, I’ll tell you then what’s wrong with baseball. Why single out baseball?” There were crowds of 70,000 at Yankee Stadium last summer, and Cleveland had more than 80,000 at the dedication of its new stadium. Considering the big faiiing-off in other activities, including a cut of about 27 per cent in college football, major league attendance in 9132 was a boost for the game.

Central States City Basket Tourney Dates Are Selected

Dates for the fifteenth annual city tourney in connection with the Central States basketball championship were announced today by Bob Stehlin, district manager of the Central States Amateur Independent Basketball Association. The event will run from Feb. 8 to 22 at Pennsy gum, on South State avenue, one block south of East Washington street.

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ers of Indianapolis and surrounding territory 16 years of age and over, are eligible. Club, school, college and unattached boxers are invited to compete, the only charge being twenty-five cents for A. A. U. registration. Pictured above are members of the Bruce Robison post boxing committee in charge tourney arrangements. Don Smith, the sixth member of the committee, was absent when photo was taken.

Kirshbaum Five in Sunday Tilt j | Leading the fast Kirshbaunn basketball team into action here, i Sunday night, against the strong

| Indianapolis Stockyards quin - | tet will be Abe I Zukerman, veter- ; an back guard for j the north side !J e w ish quintet.. Sunday nigh'j’s ; net tilt will prej cede a dance at the Kirshbaum : gym. In the curtain j raiser game, the Kirshbaum Bull- [ dogs will clash with the Indianapolis Flashes “A” team. For several

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years, Zukerman has been recognized as one of the city’s top-notch cage guards. , Others who will appear with the Kirshbaums, Sunday night, are Al Goldsmith, Ruby Reiswerg, Harry Kempler and Seymon Brodsky, M’NAMARA, HILL WIN By Times Special CLEVELAND. 0., Jan. 27.—Veteran Reggie McNamara and Norman Hill won Cleveland's first six-day bicycle race which ended here Thursday night.

Winner and runner-up fives will compete in the tourney for the state independent title. Monday, Jan. 30, is the deadline for city entries. The city meet will last over a period of nine nights, with all of the leading amateur quintets of the city participating. There is room for more teams. Managers interested phone Bob Stehlin at Drexel 3679-J at once.

Cronin Hard at Work JOE CRONIN'S new duties as manager of the Washington Senators apparently do not worry him much. The speedy little shortstop. the youngest pilot in the big show, is busy in a gymnasium at San Francisco, taking off surplus pounds.

Two Share Cue Lead Cochran and Bozeman Top List in Title Play; Layton Is Third. By 1 nited Press CHICAGO. Jan. 27. Welker Cochran, coast veteran, defends his top position in the world's three]cushion cue tourney today against Tiff Denton, cagey veteran from Kansas City. Cochran is tied with Jay Bozeman. Vallejo. Cal., for the lead and a victory will give him the undisputed edge. With the two Californians reversing the advance dope by running away with the tournament so far, Augie Kieekhefer, defending champion, runs against Arthur Thurnblad, former champion, this afternoon. Augie has three victories and two defeats. In today's opener Frank Scoville. Buffalo, with an even break in six games played, tangles with Allen j Hall, Chicago youth who has lost all ! six starts. j Cochran proved Thursday that ; his move from balkline billiards to ! three cushions could not halt his winning ways. He stepped out ! against the veteran Clarence Jackj son, clicked off twenty-two billiards in the first seven innings and then i played easily to run out the game, 50 to 26 in 40 innings. Johnny Layton, Sedalia, Mo., had one of his good days, and took third place by defeating Otto Reiselt, Philadelphia, 50 to 36 in 37 innings. Hall came within an eyelash of winning his first match but missed : an easy shot when he needed only 1 one point. His opopnent. Thurnblad. I stepped up and ran seven to take : the match, 50 to 49 in 43 frames, : EIGHT IN SOUTHPORT FROSH BASKET MEET Eight teams will compete in the ; second annual freshman basketball j tournament at Southport gym SatI urday* Southport is the defending j champion. First-round games are carded for Saturday morning, with the semifinals in the afternoon at 2:30 and title battle at 8 p. m. The schedule: _ Sa 30 A. M.. Washington vs. Ben Davis: 9:30 a. m.. Warren Central vs Southport: 10:30 a. m.. Decatur Central vs. Center Grove; 11:30 a. m.. Greencastle vs. Anderson. SCOTTEN LOSES CROWN By Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 27. Billy Frick, local battler, today held the Indiana featherweight fistic championship. He captured the j crown Thursday by outpointing j Scotty Scottcn of Indianapolis over the ten-round route. Frick was awarded the title belt by the Indiana athletic commission. | Garfield Rice, Evansville lightweight, j | decisioned Frank Gierke of Indian- ! apolis in the eight-round semi- j j windup. 1

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Reinstated Shires and Wife Kiss and Make Up After Quarrel.

fly Vailed Press CHICAGO. Jan. 27.—Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Shires went into a hearty embrace Thursday and vowed eternal devotion. while cameras clicked, thus officially recording the fact the Boston Braves' ball player and his wife have made up. "We had a little misunderstanding,'’ said Shires. "But that's all over now." “Are you going to take Mrs. Shires to the Braves’ training camp?” Art was asked. “No wives allowed on training trip," said Shires. “Thai s what the quarrel was about.” Fishbaugh and Kolln Collide Five bouts are on the weekly bill at the Armory tonight, starting at

8:30 p. m. Undefeated for nearly two years, Henry (Whiskers) Kolln. will encounter veteran Les Fishbaugh in the two falls out of three, main event. Silent Oise n, deaf-mute veteran. returned after an absence of two years to meet Billy Love, Texas light heavyweight, in the semi-wind-up offering. Michael Angelo

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tackles Emil Firpo, Argentine middleweight, while Chief Little Wolf tackles Bill Bardo and Dale Haddock opposes Eddie Slaughter. vines is upset Victim By l nited Press MELBOUNRE. Australia, Jan. 27. —Vivian McGrath, young Australian tennis star, beat Ellsworth Vines of the United States today in the quarter finals of the Australian lawn tennis championships, 6-2, 2-6. 8-6 and 7-5. Jack Crawford of Australia beat Wilmer Allison of the United States, 6-3, 3-6, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3. TENNIS 1 BALLS 10c Tournament Grade EM-ROEr™. 209 W. Washington