Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 241, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1934 — Page 24

By Eddie Ash 22nd Year for Otto Miller at Brooklyn mam He Learned Game on Indianapolis Lots

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'£'VV EXTY-TWO years with the same ball club! That’s the record of Otto Miller, formerly of Indianapolis. Known as “Dutch” here, and “Mooney” in the big leagues, Miller soon will hit the trail for the southland and spring training. He is a battery coach now with the Brooklyn Dodgers with whom he spent his best days as a catcher. The big fellow was one of the topnotch receivers of the game when in his prime. He broke in with Brooklyn in 1910 and has been away from Flatbush only two years. Miller managed Atlanta of the Southern Association in 1923, and was reserve catcher with Indianapolis in 1924 during Ownie Bush's first year as pilot of the Indians. He rejoined Brooklyn in 1925 and took up coaching. Otto is a product of the local west side sandlots and Manual Training high school. He also played in the line with the Manual football team. Otto once caught a ball thrown from an airplane 450 feet up and going eighty miles an hour at Curtiss field, New York. Expert bombers did the throwing. Miller once tried the same stunt at Kenosha, Wis., but the aviator’s judgment of distance .vas bad. He couldn’t hit the ball park in twenty tries and Miller ran out of wind chasing across the greensward. mom m m o THE battery of Dauss and Miller was famous in local and state high school circles. Pitcher George Dauss lived on the east side and catcner Otto Miller resided on the west side, and the combination was unbeatable. Leaving school, they joined out with the Duluth club of the old Minnesota-Wisconsm League, and their brilliant play was me main factor in giving Duluth a pennant. Miller was first to reach the major leagues, and landed with Brooklyn in the National. Dauss hurled for St. Paul in the American Association one season before the Detroit Americans grabbed him. and he later went on to become one of the leading flmgers in baseball and starred for many years with the Tigers. They called him Hooks” Dauss. and it was bv ratching George's remarkable sharp curve that Otto Miller learned to handle any kind of a hook that the Brooklyn pitchers threw. o m m mam WINNERS in the final bouts of The Times-Legion Golden Gloves boxing meet at the local Armory’ tonight will be rewarded with trophies and the eight champions of the open classes will receive a splendid trip to Chicago for three days of boxing and perhaps one extra day for sightseeing. Tourney officials hope to prolong the Chicago trip one day in order to give the lads ample time to obtain a good look at the Windy City. All expenses will be paid. Open winners at the Armory tonight will receive silver-plated boxing figure trophies and runners-up will receive easel type bronze trophies. Boxing figures also U’ill be presented to the winners and runners-up in the novice classes. A Golden Glove lapel button was given to each boy who participated in one or more bouts during the three nights of the Indianapolis tourney. The Indianapolis open champions, eight in number, will be dolled up when they enter the ring at Chicago late this month to perform in the Tournament of Golden Gloves Champions under the auspices of the Chicago Tribune. The Indianapolis lads going to Chicago will be decked out with new trunks and will wear ring robes. The blankets will be colored rich red. piped in white and lettered across the back with "Indianapolis Times-Legion.” The robes and trunks will remain the property of the Bruce Robison Legion post. It will be a snappy looking group of Hoosier gladiators. m m m mum DEAR SIR lam sending you four Indianapolis baseball lineups with the name of each player beginning with the same letter. There are some plavrrs of the past whose first names I am not sure cf and one or two utility infielders. I have listed the players in my choice of batting order, as follows: C's—Bud Connolly. 3b; Carl Crandall. 2b; Sammy Crane, ss; Tex Covington, lb; Llovd Christenberry, If; Adam Comoroskv. cf; Pe.te Chapman. if; Buck Crouse, c; Cal Crum. Archie Campbell. Pug Cavet, Johnny Cooney and Joe Conzelman. pitchers. Utility outfield. Nig Cole; utility infield. Charlie Carr. B's—Dome Bush, ss; Doug Baifd or Herman Bronkie, 3b; Bruno Bet--7.e1. 2b; Eddie Brown, cf; Clyde Birnhart. rs; Fred Brickell, If; Zeke Bonura. lb; Earl Blackburne, c; Bill Burwell. Sandy Burke. Carl Boone. Leo Barnhart. John Berly, Irwin Brame. Stewart Bolen and A1 Butzberger. pitchers. Utility outfield. Hank Butcher; utility infield, Fred Bedore. H's— Fr°d Haney. 3b; Sam Hale, ss: Johnny Hodapp, 2b; Walter Holke lb; Topsy Hartsell, rs; George Hogriever. If; Paul Hines, cf; Butch Henline and Grover Hartley, c; Oral Hildebrand. Berly Horne, Lefty Hall, Carmen Hill and Joe Heving. pitchers. Utility outfieid, Fred Hoffman. M’s—Wid Matthews, cf; Lefty Morrison, rs; Joe Munson, If; Emmet McCann. 2b; Frank Metz, lb; Tommy McMillan, ss; Eddie Montague. 3b; Otto Miller, c; Frank Mulrooney, Otto Merz. Walter Miller and Guy Morton, pitchers. BASEBALL FAN, Lebanon, Ind.

Harvey Seeks Hamas-Baer Engagement in New York

BY JACK CUDDY I'nltrd Prets Staff Correspondent NEW YORK. Feb. 16.—The boxing world gasped today at a man who has been connected with fighting for fifty years snapping his fingers at the world heavyweight championship. Venerable Charley Harvey, dean of American fight managers, announced flatly that he would rather have young Steve Hamas tangle with Maxie Baer than take a crack at the title. Mr. Harvey impressed this fact upon President John Reed Kilpatrick of Madison Square Garden last night when Colonel Kilpatrick indicated that the Garden would like to groom Hamas, recent conqueror of Max Schmeling. to meet the winner of the Carne-a-Loughran title bout, slated for Feb. 28 at Miami. “It's all quite simple.” he explained. "Naturally. I'd like to see Steve win the title. But right now we are more interested in making money than in titles. Baer will draw more money as an opponent for Hamas than any other man in the ring. So why should we be interested in a match with Camera or Loughran. neither of whom would draw half as much?” Colonel Kilpatrick suggested that Hamas start moving toward the championship in a built-up scrap with the winner of the King Levin-sky-Walter Neusel bout, scheduled for the Garden on March 9. The soft-spoken Mr Harvey told Kilpatrick that he never had heard of either Levinskv or Neusel. and that he was not interested in the title. He adjusted his spectacles, tugged at his drooping mustache, picked up his cane, and the conference was over. For the garden. Hamas appeared to be the logical contender to DUild up. Baer will not do business with the Garden, and King Levinskv faded from the tintype m his recent poor showing with Charley Massera. Neusel has yet to acquire a reputation.

GOLDEN GLOVES FINALS! Times-Legion Amateur Boxing NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY. TONIGHT 8:30 Bouts in all divisions to determine champions. Novice and Open. 34 Young Fistic Gladiators in Last Roundup! Prices—sl ringside, 50 cents reserved section, 25 cents balcony.

Meanwhile promoters outside the Garden are busy negotiating for a Hamas-Baer bout. Yesterday r lim Mara, who staged the HamasLoughran and Baer-Schmeling bouts last summer in New York, offered to match Steve and Baer at the Polo Grounds or Yankee Stadium in June. Promoters in Philadelphia. Chicago. San Francisco, Los Angeles and Mexico City also are angling for the match.

Cage Draw Is Announced for City Sectional Amateur Meet

The city sectional of the sixteenth annual Indiana amateur independent basketball tourpament will get under way Sunday- in the Dearborn hotel gym, 3208 East Michigan street. The thirty-two team brackets were filled and the drawings were made today. The U. S. Tires. 1933 city champs, and the Hilgemeier Packers will not compete this year. and it is predicted there will be a frenzied scramble for the honors and the right to compete in the state finals at Crown Point. First-round games will be played Sunday, starting att 1:30 p. m. First-round action will continue Sunday night at 7 o’clock. Monday and Tuesday games, starting at 7 p. m., will complete the first round.

Fights Last Night

AT EVANSVILLE Ind.—Billy Frick, E' ansvilir. ui. Technical knockout over Billy Breed , vc, Indianapolis. 134 i.: Bob Mullen. V:ncenr,es decisioned Garfield Rice Evansville ilo>. AT YPSILANTI. Mich.—Seal Harris Chicejo. 240. ou-pointed Frankie Simms C.e. eland knocked out Paul Deirnev. Bufta o. Franklin Young Detroit. 132. outpointed Nick Carter. Ypsilanti. Mich . 127 .4 Pee Wee Gale. Three Rivers Mich 119 drew with Johnnv Succarde , Detroit. 125 if' Bobble Thomas Saginaw Mich. 131. outpointed Jur-mv Crawford 129. Detroit 1 4*.

Indianapolis Times Sports

Peden-I. U. Plans Off Indiana on Market for New Grid Coach; Consider Morfey Jennings. By Lnited Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 16 Indiana university started anew search for a football coach today as a result of Don Peaen's decision not to accept the job of successor to E. C. (Billy) Hayes, who resigned Saturday. Peden, Ohio university coach for the past ten years, was offered the Indiana job, but could not agree with Indiana officials on, the length of contract and salary terms. Peden said he would remain at Ohio university, where he was "perfectly happy.” “I am not interested in other offers unless something so much better comes along that I can’t afford to turn it down,” he said yesterday. It was reported that he was offered no mere than the $3,500 which he now receives at the Ohio school. Peden is believed to be a candidate for head football coach at Ohio State university, and observers pointed out that this fact also might have influenced his decision to decline the Indiana job. Z. G. Clevenger, director of athletics, said that he had several candidates under consideration, and that an early decision would be made to permit the new’ coach to come here to conduct spring football practice. Morlcy Jennings, football and baseball coach at Baylor university, Waco, Tex., is understood to be one of the leading candidates for the job. Jennings was formerly associated with Hayes at Mississippi A. M

Blue Natators Defeat Wabash Although Wabash contributed the : high point man of the meet, the ! Little Giants’ sw’imming team fell before the Butler natators in Butler fieldhouse pool last night. 45 to 39. Thcm3S. of Wabash, scored 12 points with two firsts and as a mem- | ber of the victorious 300-yard med- | ley relay team. Finishes were close in the 50-yard free style, won by Ochiltree of Butler, with Ewaldt of Wabash second, and the 100-yard free-style event, won by Thomas, with Ochiltree second. Jim Clark held a lead all the w’ay in the 100-yard back stroke, and Stewart of Butler was second. Butler won the 400-yard freestyle relay; Jordan of Wabash copped the 200-yard breast stroke; Ryan of Butler took an easy win in j the 450-yard free-style race; Stewj art of Butler won the diving event, and Thomas of Wabash copped the 220-yard free-style swm.

Ninety-Five Entrants Paired in Table Tennis Tournament

Play in the first state open table tennis tournament will begin at 1 | o’clock tomorrow afternoon in the Indianapolis Athletic Club, with ; ninety-five entrants pairea in the : initial rounds. The meet is sponsored by the Indiana Table Tennis j Association. Winners of the local mens and | women’s singles tourney will be sent jto Chicago to participate m the | western table tennis championships | next month. Tony Hinkle, athletics director at Butler university, will present cups j to the victors when the finals are 1 concluded Sunday night.

All second-round tilts will be played Wednesday and Thursday and quarter-final eliminations on Friday, Feb. 23. Semifinal battles will be staged Saturday, Feb. 24, with the grand finish and consolation game carded for Sunday, Feb. 25. First-round drawings follow; i TIME SCHEDULE LATER) Game 1. Indianapolis Turners vs. link Belt. 3. Eli Lilly vs. R. P. C. 3. Arsenal Bulldogs vs. O'Hara Sans Juniors. 4. Broad Ripple P. T. A, vs. Woodside A. C. 5. Flanner Buchanan vs. H. P. Wasson. P. R. Mallory vs. Peoplos Motor Coaeh. 7. L. S. Avres vs. Blue Hour Grille. #. University Heights vs. Edgen-ood A. C. 9. St. Phillips vs. Wm. H. Block. 19. Fletcher Trust vs. Indiana Inspection Bureau. 11. t'hexroiet vs. Hibbcn-Hollweg. 12. Phillips “66" vs. Maver Chapel Dixie. 13. Indianapolis Flashes vs. Midway A. O. 14. Indianapolis Boys Clubs vs. Prest-0-I.ite Batterv. 13- Leon Tailoring vs. B A O. Railroad. 16. Brightwood A. C. vs. Belmont U. B. Jones Wins in Billiard Match Harry Cooler, defending titleholder, lost a match in the state three-cushion billiard tournament at his parlors last night when Neal Jones took a 50-to-42 decision in seventy-nine innings. Jones scored fourteen points before Cooler counted, but the present titlist then rushed out to tie the match at 24-all. steadied his game and ran out on the seventyninth inning. Joe Murphy will meet T. Brooks in tonight’s game in the continued tourney play.

College Net Results

Indian* State, m Oakland Cltv. 32 St. Joseph's (Indiana'. 22. Oe Paul 'Chicago'. 47. Ranao ph Macon. 40: American University I*. Kentucky. 60: Sewanee. 15. South Dakota Wealevan. 36; Kansas State 3s. Dartmouth. 30: Colgate. 23. New York University. 21. Temple. 16. Dvquesne. 51: West Virginia. 20. Baylor. 35. Texas University. 31. Texas Tech. 33: Simmons. 32. Geneva. 48: Bethany. 25. Franklin and Marshall. 36; Drexei. 39.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1934

He’ll Scrap at Armory Tonight

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FOUR amateur maulers are competing in the Golden Glove heavyweight class and they’ll fight it out for supremacy at the Armory tonight when The Times-Legion annual Golden Gloves tourney fs brought to a close for another year. The heavies are four of thirty-four boxers listed to throw punches in the slam bang bouts tonight when tourney semi-finals and finals will be run off. Tommy Thompson, fighting unattached. is one of the boys in the beef division, and he is Marion county champion of his class. Last year, in the local Golden

Jay Bozeman Holds Lead in Three-Cushion Billiard Play

By United Press NEW YORK. Feb. 16.—Two Californians, Jay Bozeman and Welker Cochran, today held first and second places in the world threecushion billiard championship. Neither plays today. However, none of the field will be able to

Swain, Purcell, Baker, Davenport, Fletcher, Adams, Duke and Hausman Drew first-rcund byes, Pairings for tomorrow are: MEN’S SINGLES I:oo—Stout vs. Hughes. Martin vs. van Arsdal. Kindred vs Yancey. Hancock vs. Doyle. I:3o—La Fonette vs. Fa.ender Harris vs. Moore. Bart vs. R. Reasoner (Noblesville. Lunsford vs. Riley. 2:oo—HemerUng vs. Waiter. Steger vs. Zook. Stevsnson ißichmond) vs. Agnew. Ronk vs. Cook. 2:3o—Banta vs. Hamaker. Stauber vs. Leukhardt. Males vs. Dodo. Metzorg vs. Manley. 3:oo—Johnson vs. Huey. Landis vs. Miiier. J. Kaiser vs. C. Reasoner (Noblesville i. Merrick vs. G. Kaiser. Crabb vs. Eng.e. 3:3o—Green vs. Aboaiow (Kokomo). Hardy vs Sexton. WOMEN’S SINGLES 4:oo—Stevenson i Richmond I vs. Wabintz. Karle vs. Miller. Morgan vs. Duckwall (Noblesville). stern i Noblesville i vs. Zimmer, 4:3o—G.en vs. Bye. Crawford vs. Zintell. Carey (Noblesville) vs. Lauck. Mont ford vs. McCiure MEN'S DOUBLES Crabb-Manl.v vs. Sparks-Lumford. Stevenson-Stevenson vs. McNeeiy-White. G Kaiser-Oisen vs. Zimmer-Riley. Zook-Harris vs. Dennis-Stout. The doubles team of C. Reasoner-Baker, Moller-Huey. Marmalad-Hausman, DukeHamiiton* Doyle-Steger, Johnson-Agnew, Hughes-Adams, Abbalow-Davenport, Kin-dred-Engie. J. Kaiser-Burke ana ttetcherSwain drew first round byes. Helen Hicks Is Upset on Links By Times Special PALM BEACH. Fla., Feb. 16Having surprised the onlookers with s one-up victory over Miss Helen Hicks, Hewlett, N. Y„ in a semifinal match yesterday, Miss Marion Miley, Lexington. Ky., will meet Miss Maureen Orcutt, White Beeches. N. J., for the Florida women's golf championship here today. " Miss Orcutt won yesterday, four and two, from Miss Grace Armory, of Deepdale, L. I. Miss Miley upset Miss Hicks, former national champion, who had won two legs on the Florida trophy. Miss Hicks missed a putt on the eighteenth that would have sent the match into extra play, and then conceded the Kentucky girl a one-foot putt. FRICK STOPS LOCAL PUGILIST IN FIFTH By Times Special EVANSVILLE. Ind., Feb. 16Scoring a technical knockout in the fifth round. Billy Frick. Evansvillle, former state featherweight champion, defeated Billy Breedlove. Indianapolis. here last night. The battle was scheduled as a tenround main go. Frick floored Breedlove in the first, second and fourth rounds. Breedlove’s seconds flipped the towel in the ring as the gong rang for the sixth. Bob Mullins, Vincennes lightweight, decisioned Garfield Rice, Evansville, in ten rounds and Clem Reed, Indianapolis middleweight, and Johnny Davis. Corydon, Ky., battled six frames to a draw.

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Gloves event, he lost to Marshall Kealing, former Butler football player, but in the county tourney this year he knocked out Kealing. It’s possible the two will get together again tonight. Action at the armory will begin at 8:30 and will continue until nineteen three-round bouts, each of two minutes’ duration, are completed. Champions in both novice and open divisions will be determined. Thompson fights in the open class. The Golden Glove meet is open to the public and ticket prices are scaled low. A full house of fans is expected to attend.

catch up today with Bozeman. Willie Hoppe of New York, or Johnny Layton of Sedalia, Mo., can go into a tie with Cochran, defending champion, if they win. Layton is paired against Augie Kieckhefer of Chicago, and Hoppe meets Alfredo De Oro, New York, tonight. The other two matches today bring together Len Kenney of Chicago vs. Tiff Denton of Kansas City, and Kindrey Matsuyama, national champion, vs. Otto Reiselt, Philadelphia. Bozeman scored his sixth straight victory over Denton, 50 to 34, in fifty-seven innings. Cochran with a brilliant rally in the final innings, nosed out Matsuyama, 50 to 47, in fifty-eight frames. It was Cochran’s fifth triumph in six games. In the longest match of the tourney, eighty-one innings, Arthur Thurnblad of Chicago won his fifth game in eight starts by turning back De Oro, 50 to 47. Reiselt shaded Kieckhefer, 50 to 49, in sixty-four innings.

Roller Races Remain Close There will be three roller polo | games at Tomlinson hall Sunday with two contests in the amateur league preceding the professional tilt between Indianapolis and Richmond, the first prelimin starting at 1 o’clock. The Stuck Coal Company will meet the Monroe Flyers in the initial contest, and the second game will be between Geckler Red Devils and Rolles Printers. The tightest kind of a race is being staged in the simon-pure loop, with the Stuck club out in front, having won five games and lost two In a three-way tie for second place are the Geckler, Monroes and Rolles, each having won three and lost four. The Midwestern League race also is getting close. Last Monday Terre Haute defeated Ft. Wayne, which beat the Indians here two weeks ago, and the win places Terre Haute in a tie with Ft. Wayne in the second division. The standing: Won. Lost. Pet. Indianapolis 7 2 .777 , Richmond 3 2 .600 Terre Haute 4 6 .400 Ft. Wayne 4 6 .400 BROWNS BUY M’AFEE FROM COLUMBUS CLUB By United Press ST. LOUIS. Feb. 16—The Browns’ 1934 roster was increased to thirtyone today after purchase of pitcher Bill McAfee from Columbus, the the St. Louis Cardinal American Association farm. Property of nine clubs in four years, McAfee has won twentyeight games and lost twenty-six in his professional baseball career since graduating from Michigan university. He is a native of Georgia OHIOAN TAKES SHOOT By United Press KANSAS CITY. Mo., Feb. 16. Joe Hiestand, Hillsboro, 0., today held the Class A championship of the interstate trapshooting tournament, after smashing 198 targets out of 200. Hiestand’s record for two days of firing was 298 out of 300. Second place in the Class A competition was won by Frank Troeh, Portland, Ore., who broke 195 targets. R. H. Rector. Pocatello, Idaho, was third with 183, . .f . .

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Lefty Gomez Firm Holdout By United Press CHICAGO. Feb. 16. Vernon (Lefty) Gomez, New York Yankees' star southpaw, said today he had returned unsigned the second contract offered him by the Yankees. “I do not think the terms offered me are reasonable.” said Gomez, who is wintering in Chicago with his wife,, June O'Dea. one of the featured players in a musical comedy showing here.

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Brewers’ Owner Rudolph Hokanson, Milwaukee civic leader, heads the syndicate of Brewer City business men who recently purchased the American Association baseball team in that city from the estate of the late Phil Ball, of St. Louis, for more than SIOO,OOO.

City Games

Tonight Washington at Cathedral, Greenfield at Manual. Broad Ripple at Elwood. Crtspus Attucks at Smithville. Sacred Heart at Park. Lizton high school vs. Silent Hoosiers at state deaf school. $ Tomorrow Shelbyville at Technical. Bloomington at Shortridge. Cathedral at Peru. Broad Ripple at Zionsville. Ellettsville at Crispus Attucks.

N. D. Tilt in East Dropped NEW YORK. Feb. 16 —City College of New York will be unable to play the proposed basketball game with Notre Dame at Madison Square Garden March 20. it was announced today by C. C. N. Y. athletic officials. C. C. N. Y.’s regular schedule ends March 3. and coach Nat Holman thought it unfair to ask the boys to continue in training for another seventeen days.