Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 185, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1933 — Page 18

By Eddie Aslhi American Association Heads Try Optimism m m m Baseball Scribes Form Professional Guild

Dec. 13.—Endeavoring to hold their league together, owners of the American Association held another meeting today as an off-shoot of the big’league sessions, and while the Class AA magnates tried to assume an appearance of optimism there was little to cheer about. The big bad wolf is the suggestion of lower gate admissions and whenever the sports writers, the yell leaders of the gathering, dare to touch on that subject they are staled down. The magnates held a pow-wow yesterday, the third since the close of the 1933 season. But they “had nothing of importance to announce,” they said. It was disclosed, however, that the league sinking fund is sunk in red ink and a few of the owners are gasping for the last straw. a a a nan THE club owners have succeeded in building up enough bravado and support to open the 1934 season. However, proving that they know how to promote, Louisville, Milwaukee, Toledo and St. Paul hesitate to guess at the future, but all seem to think they will be in the swim again next year, at least at the start. Kansas City is groping around searching for big league assistance, and it is believed the Blues will make the grade. a a a a a a "O ED KILLEFER, manager of the Indianapolis club, sought out several big league pilots today and hoped to arrange one or two deals that would help his team. It was a struggle for him to land the Indians in third place this year and he realizes the weak spots in the Tribe lineup will have to be bolstered if the Hoosiers are going to figure in the 1934 running. Killefer thinks well of young Vincent Sherlock, whom he obtained from the Pacific Coast League in a trade, and the guess now is that Sherlock will be started at second base, and the slugging Frank Sigafoos sent to the outfield. Sigafoos is the mighty swatter of the team, but is weak on double plays, and Killefer desires to experiment with him in the pastures. Sherlock is touted as a swift inflelder, but whether he is good enough to supplant Sigafoos at the keystone sack remains to be seen. Anyway, Sigafoos will be on hand if no major club buys him. He is too valuable at the plate to leave out of the lineup. a a a a a a MINNEAPOLIS club officials and sports writers staged a celebration Tuesday that lasted into the night. It was called “Donie Bush night,” and it was a dandy. The Indianapolis veteran finally agreed to return to Minneapolis as manager, and this led to an unscheduled fete on the part of the scribes and other representatives of the Flour city. a a a a a a INDIANAPOLIS has a full squad of representatives at the current Chicago meetings of the big leagues and American Association. Owner Norman Perry, Manager Red Killefer, Walter Riley and Dale Miller are here for the Indians. Others from the Hoosier capital are: Chuck Klein, fence-busting outfielder with the Chicago Cubs; Harry Geisel, American League umpire; Johnny Corriden and Barney Mike Kelly, Chicago Cubs coaches, and Donie Bush. a a a a a a IT was learned that Bush was bluffing about angling to remain in the majors and that he really had signed on with Minneapolis late Monday night. There wasn't a chance for him to stay as pilot with Cincinnati, under the new ownership there, a fact that was published in The Times several weeks ago. only to be denied later. It is evident that Mike Kelley, Minneapolis president, put over some smart publicity by holding up the information until this current Chicago confab. Bush won the pennant with the Millers in 1932 and is an idol up there. Other managers in the league fear him, and it is said efforts will be made to curtail drives over the short right field fence at Nicollet park. The Minneapolis park is little more than a back yard and a pop fly over the right field barrier is good for a home run. Rival clubs want the right field hits over the chicken wire cut to two-base hits. a a a a a a THE Louisville club, in receivership, thinks it will keep its head above water by applying additional economy measures. Cap Neal, business manager, is representing the Colonels. Bruno Betzel, manager, failed to show up. leading some of the experts to believe that he was put on the cuff for part of his 1933 salary. It’s a sad baseball situation in Derbytown, with debts hanging over the club from ten years back. Louisville has not announced its spring training plans, and if an angel doesn't turn up the Colonel boys may be compelled to train at home. St. Paul emerged from a bad financial season in 1933 by selling a number of players, and the Apostles will train at Hot Springs. Tne Milwaukee Brewers also will train at the Arkansas Spa, regardless of who owns the club when spring rolls around. a a a a a a INDIANAPOLIS has made a change in training plans and will go to Mineral -Wells, Tex., to “boil out” before establishing permanent quarters at Galveston. Minneapolis will go to Montgomery, Ala., Toledo to Orange, Tex., Kansas City to Lafayette, La., and Columbus to Avon Park. Fla. a a a a a a BASEBALL writers of the American Association organized a “guild” yesterday, elected officers, appointed committees and promised to be on the level. Most of it was hot air, however, but the president, Bob French of Toledo, thinks he will succeed in lining up the renegades later. The usual double dealing started even during the first session. The writer was placed on the “score committee” to iron out doubtful points in the rules. It was disclosed that some of the boys were using their own rules instead of thinking and consulting the official book. The American Association has been following the American League rules, but will be requested to be more explicit on certain plays. a a a a a a CHUCK KLEIN, the demon slugger of Indianapolis, said he had rejected a Chicago Cubs' contract of $20,000. The Hoosier Hercules believes he is worth $25,000 for the 1934 season. He has become an important figure since the Phillies sold him to the Cubs, and has the batting statistics to support him in his demand for “all that he can get." Klein has tossed off his shyness and is keeping his name in the headlines.

IRISH. TEACHERS CLASH Ball State Cagers Meet Notre Dame Five Tonight. By United Pres* SOUTH BEND. Ind., Dec. 13—In quest of its fourteenth consecutive victory, the Notre Dame basketball team will meet Ball State teachers college of Muncie here tonight. The Irish will be handicapped by the loss of Joe O'Kane and Marty Peters, forwards, both of whom are suffering leg injuries. Their places probably will be filled by Ford and Voegele. CHOCOLATE. GLICK SIGN By United Pres* PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 13— A fif-teen-round bout between Kid Chocolate, of Havana, and Frankie Glick. of New York, scheduled for Christmas afternoon, was approved yesterday by the state athletic commission. The bout will decide the juniorlightweight championship of the world. ORIOLES UNLOAD Release recently of Heiriie Sand, veteran infielder, by the Baltimore Orioles, marked him as the thirteenth player of that club to depart since the reserve list was filed in early October. Ten men were traded or sold in two days by Jack Ogden. new business manager of the Orioles. Bum GINGER ' We Specialize In 1910 m3 Steaks and Chops MR A gCND.tI DINNERS CHARLEY’S W RESTAURANT 144 East Ohio Street O’COATS ™ P ”is TS ' RELINED and Repaired I Alteration Specialists i tailoring L.ELVJRI COMPANY X3l E New York St.

HARVARD, TIGERS AGREE I By United Press PRINCETON, N. J. t Dec. 13Harvard and Princeton will renew football relations that were broken off in 1926 when they meet at Cambridge Nov. 3, 1934. The game features Princeton's 1934 football schedule. It will be the first contest of a two-year home-and-home agreement. HOOSIER RIFLEMEN WIN With Smith leading the team hit- I ting ninety-four targets the Hoosier Rifle Club team defeated the Eli Lily marksmen 458 to 455 at the Hoosier range Tuesday night. | G.IFTS S For Boys and Girls 'vj -a Electric Train SALE 5/ Steam Type Engine •> || With Track, Etc. TV/ Ke(. 54.00. now *2.50 Beg- *12.50, now 56.00 Beg. 518.55. now 511.50 ** Keg. *BO.OO. now SIO.OO JjH Roller Skates, $1 Up lop Skates 50c up Basketballs *2.95 up M {Yf Wagons . *2.95 up AV * A Vol,e T BaUs *l-0 up V* Ping Pong Setssoc Up Jg r* i Bicycles, Velocipedes 1 Wheel Toys ! M {\\ 1 Best Prices In City i't Smith-Hassler ?! Sturm Cos. 219 MASSACHI SETTS AVE. xX Refinancing ■ Lowest Rates ! 20 MONTHS TO PAY I WOLF SUSSMAN, Inc. 239 W. WASH. ST. '■■

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Tribe Dates | Are Given Indians Will Leave for Training Camp on March 27. BY EDDIE ASH Times Sport* Editor CHICAGO, Dec. 13.—Manager Red Killefer of the Indians today anI ncunced the complete spring training dates for the 1934 tune-up of I the Tribe pastimers. Exhibition games wall be played with Houston, Beaumont, Galveston, Oklahoma City and Tulsa. No exhibitions are | slated to be staged in Indianapolis. Pitchers and catchers will leave for Mineral Wells, Tex., on March 20, and the other players will go south March 27. The entire squad will gather in the Galveston camp ! March 27. Exhibition action will | start March 31. i Several tilts will be played with Houston, at Houston and at Galveston; with Beaumont at Beaumont | and at Galveston, and with thg GalI veston Texas Leaguers. The Indians will depart from I their training base April 12 and go to Oklahoma City to play on April 13. Tulsa will be met on April 14 and 15 and then the Indians will head for Toledo to open the 1934 American Association campaign on : April 17. About twenty-five' players i will be taken south. The St. Louis Browns have taken the Milwaukee Brewers off the market temporarily, and have named Allan Sothoron as the 1934 pilot of the Cream City pastimers, succeeding Frank O’Rourke. William J. | Sinek has been appointed president, succeeding Louis Nahin. Chauncey Yockey, Milwaukee business man, will be vice-president and general manager. Yockey Was trying to interest Milwaukee capital in the purchase of the franchise. Louis Nahin, who has served the Brewers in an executive capacity for twenty years, will conduct a campaign in Milwaukee and endeavor to take over the team. -However, he was unable to get a price from the St. Louis Browns today. BUSH BACKS CLUB Guy Bush, the Chicago Cubs’ pitcher, extends his baseball influence beyond the National League during the summer, for he has a club in Chicago known as the Guy Bush Gassers, named after his oil stations. The team won twenty-five out of thirty-eight games against the better semi-pro clubs of that | city and others in northern Illinois during 1933.

Detroit Champions Will Play Kautsky A. C. Cagers

One of the leading independent cage quintets in the nation will make its appearance on the local hardwood Sunday when the Detroit Champions venture against the Kautsky A. C. five on the Armory floor. The Detroiters have hung up a record of 120 victories against nineteen defeats in the last four seaFight Results Tuesday AT NEW YORK —Billy Petrolle, Fargo, N. D., won by technical knockout over Stanislaus Loayza, Chile, (61; A1 Diamond, Paterson, outpointed Joe Colucci, Brooklyn. (6); Steve Duds, Jersey City, outpointed Julius Veigh. Brooklyn. (6); Izzy Jannazzo. New York, outpointed Joe Pennmo. Brooklyn, (6). AT LOS ANGELES—Geferino Garcia, 146, California state welterweight champios. decisioed Baby Joe Gans, 146. Los Angeles. (10); Bobby Pacho, 137. Los Angeles, kayoed Kia Moro, 136, The Philippines, (2). TEACHERS ARE READY By Times Special DANVILLE, Ind., Dec. 13.—Coach Sewell Leitzman after two wins over Anderson college and Oakland City netters has his Central Normal ready for the Friday night game at Charleston, HI., Teachers. Sadler and Wilson will line up at forwards, Englehart, former Washington high star, at center, and Blanda and Gullion at guards.

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Chuck Bowls Over —Pins? And Bosses

INDIANAPOLIS’ major league ball hero, Chuck Klein, continued in the limelight of stove league gossip in Chicago today, where he is reported to be holding out for higher salary of $25,000 a year from his new bosses, the Chicago Cubs. Chuck literally knocked the pins out from under his bosses v:i h his demands for more pay for home runs he expects to blast while in a Bruin uniform

Wrestling Bout Ends in Tangle When Referee Is Knocked Out in Tumble

The lad who's known as Lou is one Plummer who didn’t forget his tools. His kit-bag was full of them, with a few extra gimcracks tossed in, when he vaulted into the ring in the Armory last night to disconnect Andy Rascher from the long string of victories that the Hoosier Adonis of the mat racket had piled up in the past three months. And he did just that, although most of the boys and girls who invested in ringside yowling space will tell you that the finale of their bout, officially declared a draw, was only slightly less squirrelly than a convention of denizens of the padded cell row would be.

sons, winning the Detroit city and the Michigan state titles. Norbert Crowe, former captain of j the Notre Dame quintet. Norman I Daniels, all-Westarn Conference center at Michigan in 1932, and A1 Shaw, another Wolverine star, will show with the Champions. Myron Schecter, leading collegiate scorer with the Detroit City college team in 1926-28, and Waldo Ashley, cxMichigan State flash, will be at forward positions. Carl Gussin, formerly of Alma college, and Julius Goldman, former Detroit Tech captain, will be on deck for relief duty. HUNK HAS TWO OFFERS CHICAGO. Dec. 13.—Heartley (Hunk) Anderson, resigned Notre Dame, coach, today had his choice of coaching jobs at Auburn unversity and the University of Texas. It was expected he would accept one of them, and friends believed he would choose the Alabama position. Anderson conferred yesterday with officials of the Chicago Bears, professional team, but no announce- ! ment was made. H. S. Cage Scores | Bedford. 29; Seymour, 25. Paoli Vrsity, 2?; Bedford Reserves. 15.

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next season. Os course, Chuck, who is bowler of note, expected to score a strike or two on the salary alleys before he left Indianapolis, and he was snapped from a couple of angles while w’arming up at the Jess Pritchett alleys before leaving for the big league powwow at Chicago. When Chuck slides to the foul line he usually heads them for a strike, but the Cubs’ management is hoping for a spare.

The first tumble was Mr. Plummer’s without much trouble. Then a series of flying tackles and crotch and slams rendered Mr. Plummer supine and the boys retired to the dressing rooms for a rest before the deciding fall. It was then that someone dropped a match in the fireworks. It all started when one of Mr. Plummer’s swings connected with Mr. Heze (the Irrespressible) Clark, the referee, and sent him reeling into the ropes. Before Mr. Clark had summoned his equilibrium back to continue with the refereeing, Mr. Rascher, charged heavily into Mr. Plummer who collided with Mr. Clark, and there was only a flash of white duck pants as the referee disappeared headlong through the ropes. Mr. Rascher’s head butt discouraged Mr. Plummer so thoroughly that the fans were willing to take up their coats and mittens and call it Mr. Rascher’s evening. That gentleman, while the mob roared its approval, sat astride Mr. Plummer’s midriff awaiting the referee’s tap. But Mr. Clark, en route through the ropes, had struck his head on the ring floor, and he was out.

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When he did crawl back into the ring on all fours he reached out and tapped the victor. Indignantly the crowd howled and pressed around the ring wherein Mr. Clark had collapsed again. It was Mr. Plummer, not Mr. Rascher that Mr. Clark had touched. In the dressing room where attendants carried him Mr. Clark, with smelling salts reviving his memory, confessed that he didn’t know who he had tapped. “I’m going to take the winner’s cut,” Mr. Rascher told Lloyd Carter, Hercules A. C. promoter, Mr. Plummer was content—and why not?—to let the matter rest where it was, but finally agreed to go back in the ring for another try. Mr. Clark remained where he was. Sam Murbarger, state wrestling commissioner, shed his coat and took over the referee’s job, and in three minutes stopped the match, calling it a draw, when both lads tumbled out of the ropes and continued their scrap on the Armory floor. Ih the semi-final Pat O’Shocker, Salt Lake City, downed Harold Metheny, a substitute, and in the curtain raiser Dutch Refner threw Milo Steinborn of Germany.

Is She Happy! ONE of the happiest persons at the news of Elmer Layden's contract as athletics director and football coach at Notre Dame was. of course, none other than Mrs. Elmer Layden. who is pictured here.

Connie Mack Dissembles Team in League Trades

Landis Renamed Baseball Commissioner for Seven Years: Six Athletics Go on Block in Conclave's First Session in Chicago. BY GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO. Dec. 13— After the biggest baseball transaction in major league annals, the American league today presented an entirely new alignment of strength, Connie Mack. 71-year-old manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, completed the wrecking of the pennant-winning machine of 1929-30-31 by disposing of five of his stars to three second-division clubs in a deal involving approximately $300,000 and eight players.

The disposal of the Athletics fol- i lows: 1. Pitchers Lefty Grove and Rube Walberg and Second Baseman Max i Bishop to the Boston Red Sox in exchange for $150,000 and Pitcher Bob Kline and Shortstop Harold ißabbit) Warstler. 2. Catcher Mickey Cochrane to Detroit for SIOO,OOO and Catcher John Pasek. 3. Pitcher George Earns haw and Pasek, who was obtain from Detroit, to the Chicago White Sox for $25,000 and Catcher Charlie Berry. Other important accomplishments at the opening day's session of the three-day major league meeting were: 1. Re-election of Kenesaw M. Landis as commissioner of baseball for a term of seven years and one month at a reported salary of $40,000. This contract becomes effective Nov. 15, 1935, the date of expiration of his present term. 2. Re-election of William Harridge as president, secretary and treasurer of the American League for a term of five years, giving him more power than any major league president has wielded since the late Ban Johnson. The National League was completely forgotten as the American League stole the first day’s show. The only definite news to come from a National League club was the fact that the Cincinnati Reds sought a manager. Donie Bush, who managed the Reds last season, has returned to the American Association to manage the Minneapolis club, a job he held in 1932. It was rumored the Reds sought Bob O’Farrell, of the St. Louis Cardinals, as manager. For the second time in baseball history Connie Mack has wrecked a pennant-winning combination with the completion of last night's deal. Back in 1914 he stripped the Philadelphia team of its stars after losing four straight to the Boston Braves in the World Series. Financial difficulties led to the dissembling of the present Philadelphia club. It was said on good authority that the Athletics finished the 1933 season with a deficit of approximately $200,000. Connie Mack put every player on his pennantwinning team of 1929-30-31 on the market except Jimmy Foxx, who was voted the most valuable player in the American League for the past two years. After the acquisition of Cochrane, President Frank Navin of Detroit announced his appointment as manager of the Tigers to succeed Bucky Harris, recently named manager of the Boston Red Sox. Cochrane’s first move after being

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Greenleaf Is Beaten Again By United Preen ' CHICAGO. Dec. 13.—The world's pocket billiard championship tournament resolved itself today into a contest to determine the successor to Ralph Greenleaf of New York City, champion for twelve of the last fourteen years. Greenleaf virtually was counted out of the tournament when he dropped his third game to Frank Taberskt of Schenectady, N. Y., a former titleholder, 125 to 98 in ten innings last night. He has won but two games. Andrew' Ponzi of Philadelphia, the favorite to succeed Greenleaf by virtue of his four victories as against no defeats, opposed Charles Seaback of New York, today. The two youngest players in the tournament, James Caras of Wilmington, Del., last year’s runner-up and undefeated this year, meets William Mosconi of Philadelphia, eastern sectional champion. Caras is 22 and Mosconi 19. officially named manager of the Tigers was to attempt to make a deal with the Athletics for Third Baseman Pink Higgins. Mr. Mack told him: “I have no more players for sale or trade.” Outfielder Chick Hafev of Cincinnati, has been placed on the block, w’ith the Boston Braves the leading bidder. The Cubs have announced that they are no longer interested in Hafey, quashing rumors that the bespectacled outfielder would come to Chicago in a trade involving Kiki Cuyler. By United Preen CHICAGO, Dec. 13.—Adoption of a uniform ball by the American and National Leagues was expected today. A decision on the matter was reached at a joint meeting of steering committees of the two leagues last night. CHICAGO, Dec. 13.—The St. Louis Browns’ American League franchise is not for sale and the club will be operated again next year in St. Louis, Louis B. Von Wiese, one of the executors of the estate of the late Phil D. Ball, said today.