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By Eddie Ash Mel Ott Is Veteran Big Leaguer at 25 b a m He Joined N. Y. Giants as Schoolboy

JTACIXG his ninth complete season with the New York Giants, Old Man Ott, just turned 25, thinks he will knock the cover off the new lively hall this year. This remarkable “young veteran” will go down in baseball history as a marvel. He reported to the late John McGraw in September of 1925, which makes 1934 actually his tenth year in the majors. It’s hard to fathom, that a player only 25 years old, has played regularly in the big show for eight full campaigns. A Louisiana sent Ott to New York when Melvin was 16, introduced him to McGraw and said: “Watch him grow. He’s a comer.” John J. was skeptical at first and was inclined to chastise his friend for robbing the cradle. However, the Giants’ boss let the boy take hitting practice, liked his style and decided to train him as an outfielder. Ott had been a catcher on small town nines in Louisiana. It was an exhibition of rare judgment on the part of McGraw. Melvin developed rapidly and soon became one of the most feared sluggers in the majors. lie takes a terrific swipe at the ball and possesses more power than his stature denotes. lie stands five feet, nine and one-half inches and weighs 165. Fans will recall that Old Man Ott of 24 summers broke up the World’s series last fall with a home run. a a a a a a DIRECTORS of the Brooklyn Dodgers are getting nowhere in their campaign to change the name of the team. The directors don’t care for the Dodger tag, but the fans seem to be satisfied and evidently aim to continue calling their favorites by that name. Years ago the Brooklyn club was known as the Bridegrooms. Later it was changed to Superbas and then to the Trolley Dodgers. The Trolley part was dropped and Dodgers stayed on despite the fact the name Robins went over big for a few years. Two years ago the name Kings was tried and fell flat. The club directors say: Just call us the Brooklyns.” But Dodgers it tvill stay. Five National League cluhs have held to their original names. Giants, Pirates, Phillies, Cardinals and Reds. The Boston Braves used to be the Beat Eaters and the Chicago Cubs started out as Anson’s Colts. a a a a a a THE late John McGraw was in the prime of his playing career when an injury' received in action virtually put him out of starring action at the age of 29. He tried the game for a couple of more seasons, but was unable to display the old skill and finally retired to the bench for good. A spike wound on the knee shortened McGraw’s days as a crack third baseman. It was a bad cut, requiring six stitches to close, and the knee never recovered its former strength. Moreover, it w’as a lasting injury and troubled McGraw in later years. A runner, stealing third, put John on crutches and eventually on the side lines. a a a a a a OFFICIALS of the Indianapolis Amateur Baseball Association are stressing the fact that ball players are invited to the big meeting to be held in the council chamber at the city hall Wednesday night. Heretofore officials and invited guests have been prompt, but the players have been absent. F. Earl Geider, secretary-treasurer, has launched a “drive” to urge the players to turn out Wednesday and an entertaining program is promised. The city amateur leagues went over in splendid fashion last year and 1934 is expected to see more and stronger circuits in the field. A. E. Carr is president of the Indianapolis Amateur Association, John Sullivan is vice-president and Ross Richards is counsel. A series of talks will be made Wednesday by men prominent in baseball and civic affairs. The time is 8 p. m. a a a a a a THE Hoosier Athletic Club has experienced difficulty in keeping its girl swimmers and in the past the coach seldom was sure his feminine team would be intact for the next meet. Dan Cupid made a habit of watching for “talent” at the H A. C. and visits by Dan resulted in the girl swim squad losing one or more members “to w’edded bliss” at different times. Bud Sawin. coach, finally conceived a bright plan He marreid one of his best swimmers. Miss Ruth Gertz, a star in swimming and diving events. The wedding took place yesterday. Now Coach Sawin is certain Dan Cupid won't cripple his team entirely in future meets. a a a a a a Beaver Dam is in again. The Beaver boys compet 1 in the state basketball sectional at Warsaw and it was somebody else’s Waterloo. Fact is, it was Waterloo for the Warsaws when they hooked up with the Dam lads in the finals. a a a a a a A total of 773 teams competed in the state sectionals, but Santa Claus was not in the list. It has a postoffice, but no basketball team, which is a situation calling for an investigation in Hoosierdom's basketball hot bed. For instance, Beaver Dam has no postoffice but boasts of a crack five. a a a a a a Sixty-four high school teams remain in the title running, leaving 709 quintets to think it over until next season—giving the boys plenty of time to do the chores. a a a a a a A big league baseball player, spring training at Miami Beach, was struck in the eye by a thrown ball. It's a difficult matter to keep your eye on the ball with so many bathing beauties strolling by. The Cincy Reds trained in Miami one spring and are not over it yet. a a a a a a With Powell Crosley. Jr., serving as new president of the Cincinnati baseball club the rookies who fail to make the grade will have another chance to make good—as radio announcers.

Two Qualify in Outboard Races By United Press NEW SMYRNA. Fla., March 5. Jean Depuy. of France, and Horace Tennes. of Chicago, have qualified for the finals of the international Class ••X" outboard motorboat championships to be held soon at Miami Beach, Fla. The next three qualifying races will be held Saturday and Sunday at Palm Beach. Dupuv drove his F-53 racer to victory in the last race of the qualification series here yesterday. The Frenchman beat out Tennes by about 100 yards when the latter's motor balked.

Medal Basket Dates Chosen Dates were announced today for the junior and girls’ gold medal tournament of the Central States Basketball Association by Wayne Emmelmann. secretary. The junior meet will consist of sixteen teams of players not having reached their twentieth birthday. The girls’ invitational meet will consist <">f eight quintets. Both will be played at the Dearborn hotel gym. 3208 East Michigan street, the junior division getting under way Sunday. March 11, and the girls elimination starting on March 12. Trophies will be awarded to the four teams reaching the semi-finals along with the all tournament team, high point, sportsmanship and “dead shot” medals. Entry blanks mav be secured at the hotel or by calling H. G. Engelhart, tournament manager. Cherry 5554 or Cherry 7550. FIVE MAT TEAMS ARE ENTERED ON I. U. BILL By Time* Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 5. Teams to be represented in the Big Ten wrestling championships here Friday and Saturday rose to five today as lowa and Northwestern added their entry blanks to those of Chicago. Illinois and Purdue. All entries are expected to be in within the next few days. lowa has entered the following men: Robert Larson. 135; Clarence Johnson, 145; Earle Kielhorn, 165; Frank O'Leary, heavyweight; Captain John O'Leary. 175. and Pat Righter, 155 Five Northwestern wrestlers will compete; Perden Handley. 145 pounds: Dan Kaufman. 155 pounds; William Horsungs, 165 pounds; ’ames Bueschel. 175, and Chilly itton, heavyweight.

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NOT a few of the captains and the kings of Hoosier prep basketball departed from the lists of contenders for state championship honors in the sectional meets last week-end. although Backboard's hardwood knights from Tech weathered the old three-game jinx and the oft-voied threat from a southern suburb of the city to crash through with a sectional title. There were more upsets in the sixty-four sectional battles over the state Friday and Saturday than there would be in an amateur canoe race down White river in a tornado. The old dope bucket today is nothing more than a battered receptacle for the scorn of the prophets who fared badly as the scores roiled in.

JUST about the time Backboard was feeling swell about, missing only one game in his predictions on the local sectional meet, he glanced over a cup of coffee at the list of sectional winners. Only thirty-sev-en of the sixty-four he named came through for him. So he sought out the sectional games, one by one to find out why. In the first place, there was Battle Ground's startling victory over Jeff of Lafayette. And the Broncs had so long been heralded as one of the outstanding quintets in the state. Their elimination greased the path for West Lafayette to step in with a 23 to 19 victory over Jackson township for the sectional crown. It was West Lafayette that put Battle Ground out of the running. 24 to 23. a tt tt \ NOTHER of Backboard's pets X\. went down, but only by a slim margin. That was little Yorktown. the sensation of the Muncie district. Art Beckner’s five was one of the most serious dark horses at the post—and they almost put Muncie back in the stall. Pete Jolly's men finally eked out a 24 to 23 win over the Tigers late in their semi-final tilt at Muncie. Beaver Dam repeated last year’s upset with a final game victory over Warsaw, a quintet that had ruled that part of the hardwood territory all winter. An example of the weirdness of some of the sectional meets is the Kendailville affair. For years Kendallville has taken the sectional meet for granted, having very little competition, although the Kendallvill five rarely gets past the regional. Saturday little Avilla downed Kendailville. and paved the way for a fairly strong Ligonier team to cop its first sectional title. But Ligonier meets Angola in a regional battle Saturday afternoon. a s a THE people's choice east of Meridian street today is Otha Dobbs, a diminutive, black-haired netter who pulled the game out of the fire for Tech against Shortridge in a semi-final battle Saturday afternoon. A close second is Harwood Hair, who was of material, as-

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Purdue, Notre Dame End Home Season With Wins Boilermakers Surpass Big Ten Scoring Record With Victory Over Indiana: Irish Turn Back Ohio State Cagers at South Bend. Indiana’s two premier college basketball teams pointed their supremacy in Saturday night battles with victories that stamped them as contenders for national cage honors. Purdue, defeating Indiana 55 to 28 in a return game at Lafayette, broke all modem Western Conference scoring records, and still has another game to play, meeting Illinois in Champaign tonight.

Gene Downed in Golf Meet By United Press MIAMI, Fla., March s.—Horton Smith of Chicago and Paul Runyan of White Plains. N. Y.. were matched today against A1 Watrous and Mortie Dutra of Detroit in the second round of the $3,500 international four-ball golf tournament. Other second-round pairings brought together Walter Hagen, Detroit, and Tom Creavy, Albany, N. Y., vs. Phil Perkins, Cleveland, and Ralph Stonehouse, Indianapolis; Willie MacFarlane, Tuckahoe, N. Y„ and Johnny Revolta, Milwaukeee, vs. Denny Shute, Philadelphia, and A1 Espinosa, Akron, O.; Bill Mehlhorn and Wiffy Cox, Brooklyn, vs. Henry' Ciucci, Flashing, N. Y., and Mike Turnesa, Elmsford, N. Y. In yesterday’s opening play two of the four seeded team favorites were eliminated. Ciucci and Turnesa dow’ned the first choice pair, Tommy Armour, Chicago, and Craig Wood, Deal, N. J„ 2 and 1, over the thirty-six-hole route. Gene Sarazen of New York, national P. G. A. Champion, and Joe Kirkwood, New York, succumbed to Perkins and Stonehouse, 3 and 1. DODGERS BEGIN WORK By United Pres* ORLANDO, Fla.. March s.—Manager Casey Stengel launched his first campiagn at the helm of the Brooklyn Dodgers yesterday w'hen he opened spring training. Nineteen players were in uniform for the two-hour workout.

Giants Pass Up Gaiety of Swank Florida Resort

BY DANIEL (Baiting for Joe Williams) Times Special Sports Writer MIAMI BEACH, March s.—lt is an opulent picture into which the Giants have been tossed for their spring training. The swank enveloping the world champions at their hotel on Biscayne Bay, where an old-fashioned ball player's cap would cause a temblor, and at their palm-fringed park once given over to polo, would have warmed the heart of John J. McGraw. As you know, McGraw transplanted the pre-season exercises of major league clubs from second-rate boarding houses in tank towns on the kerosene circuit to hostelries where once they met with refusal and suspicion. With the New Yorks of 1925 Mac even achieved the social citadel of Palm Beach for a stay of four days in which, for the first time in the history of the world, ball

sistance in winning that game. The regulars wouldn't seem to get going against the Blue Devils, and half time found their early lead erased, and the north siders’ four points out in front. Dobbs and Hair each connected with three from the field in the second half. The promise that Southport gave against Manual of giving Tech no end of trouble in the final game blew up as Townsend and his mates put on pressure Saturday night. Few of the five thousand that crammed the Tech gym doubted the outcome of the battle after the firgt few minutes. Townsend was on, and there was no denying it. Everything he did worked as smoothly as if he were in a practice session without opposition, and he counted thirteen points in the game, besides being the key man on most of the other scoring plays. nan POINT-A - MINUTE TEAMS are pikers compared with the Bloomington Panthers. With only five minutes remaining in their sectional battle in Bloomington Saturday morning, the Panthers trailed Martinsville. 14 to 23. Then the Panthers dug in and clawed Glen Curtis' Artesians into bits. East and Worley sniped free tosses, and Wahl sneaked under the hoop for two points. East picked off another field bucket, and Cook tallied from far out on the vflobr. Watson missed a free pitch for Bloomington, and Dittrich took it off the backboard, flipped it to East and, with seven seconds to go, East flung the ball at the hoop from midfloor. It swished through the net to put the state champs back in the stove league for another year. Until that rally, the Artesians had led handily all the way. 0 s c IN the regional meet in Anderson next Saturday. Tech draws Plainfield in the first battle, and (for they should win easily) probably will play Anderson in the final game Saturday night. Anderson has to meet ML Comfort, win-

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1934

Notre Dame continued its remarkable season with a 33 to 21 win over Ohio State at South Bend. The Irish still have to meet Marquette in Milwaukee next Saturday night, and Minnesota in Minneapolis a week from tonight. Saturday night's game added Purdue’s total points in Big Ten competition this year to 486, topping the 1928 record of 474 set by Indiana. The Boilermakers cut loose in the second period, after leading 21 to 10 at the half, to smother the Hoosier defense. Norman Cottom, Ray Eddy, Ed Shaver, Dutch Fehring and Emmett Lowery' all functioned in the second half drive. Shaver took high point honors of the evening with five field buckets and four free throws, while Vern Huffman, Crimson pivot man, carried off the largest portion of the Hoosier honors. Captain Ed (Moose) Krause, Joe Voegele, and Leo Crowe concluded their home performances with Notre Dame’s cage squad Saturday night as the Irish downed the Buckeyes. Between them they netted twentyeight of the thirty-three points. Notre Dame built up an early 8 to 0 lead, and ran it to 17 to 9 at half time. The Irish came back in the second period to tighten up against a Buckey'e rally that once carried the invaders to within two points of Notre Dame, and as Crowe sank a long shot the Irish attack settled the outcome of the fray. FANS SEND OFF PHILLIES By l imes Special PHILADELPHIA, March s.—Several hundred fans crowded the railway station here yesterday as Manager Jimmy Wilson packed his Philadelphia Phillies aboard a train bound for Winter Haven, Fla., their spring training headquarters.

players ordered pate de foi gras—and got it. In 1920 the Cincinnati Reds, who had risen to a championship in the soiled series with the Black Sox, trained in Miami and found the distraction of the city so engrossing that they did only meagre training and finished a poor third. When William Harold Terry, the big oil man from Memphis, selected Miami Beach to train his Giants he was warned against this metropolis’ appeal to the light side of life and the playboy instinct inherent in every male right up to the age of 100. tt tt tt r I "'ERRY laughed at the warning, and the first ten days of training have vindicated his sense of humor. In the midst of beauty, distractions, excitement and untrammeled fun, the champions of the world find themselves marooned

ner of the Greenfield sectional, in its afternoon game. Backboard still thinks Tech has jumped the highest barrier in the path to the Butler fieldhouse. Shortridge was determined to stop the Green and White—and almost did. Southport was a potential threat—but, nothing in the state could have stopped Tech Saturday night. With that spirit the east siders shouldn't lose to any one. tt tt t> GREENCASTLE comes back a winner after an overtime game with Bainbridge .. . you, with good memories, will recall that Backboard some time ago said Bainbridge would be the problem of the Tiger Cubs .. . Bedford's Stonecutters will have to wait until another year, and Mitchell is the reason . . . Bluffton had a surprise when Union Center rang up a 24 to 17 victory over the favorites . . . Anderson's 14 to 11 victory over Elwood may mean much or little , . . probably much ... a recent dopester from the Indians' wigwams said the Chaddmen are tired out from their strenuous schedule after they were reinstated in Mr. Ihsaa’s family Feb. 1 . . . Greenfield’s mouth was all set for the fruits of sectional victory, but Mt. Comfort performed a little dental work . . . and, while I think of it, this morsel of info is available to the critics who contend that athletes have nothing between their ears but a part in the hair; Ray Eddy and Dutch Fehring. Purdue cage aces, are rated as distinguished students (the requirement is a mere 90 per cent average) and Norman Cottom missed the select list only by a few hundredths of a point. FISH. GAME MEETING TO BE HELD TONIGHT Marion County Fish and Game Association will hold its regular monthly meeting tonight at 8 in the Washington hotel. Don King, district sales manager for the Johnson Outboard Motor Company, will show moving pictures of the production and will address the club on “Salt Water Fishing for the Poor Man.’’ Cannonball Baker will tell some of his thrilling experiences in breaking speed records. All sportsmen are urged to attend. BADGERS DOWN HAWKS MADISON, Wis., March s.—The University of Wisconsin's basketball team rallied in the second half to win from lowa in a Big Ten tile here Saturday night, 35 lo 32.

Champs Must Train, Too

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BILL TERRY'S Giants can’s rest on their world series laurels won last year—so here are several of the boys going through their spring training paces at Miami Beach, Fla. Above Boss Terry is showing rookies A1 Cuccinello, Dutch Prather. Harlan McClendon, and Clyde Castleman how to handle a bat; lower left is A1 Cuccinello, rookie infielder, whose brother, Tony, plays second for Brooklyn; and lower right is Frank Healey, rookie catcher who may get a chance if Gus Mancuso's typhoid has any lingering effects.

on an island of calm and even pastoral existence. You see. even if the Giants were built that way—and as drinkers they are, rank bushers—the prices are too" steep, and nothing is on the cuff. No matter how grand a salary a ball player gets, the instincts of his minor league schooling, and recurrent thoughts about the shortness of major league life, make him the apothesis of financial caution. No, sir, nothing is given away around here, and the folks are crazy about it. Miami Beach, which has guaranteed the Giants SIO,OOO for ten exhibition games, is charging two bits to watch the boys go through their daily training exercises. This is an innovation in baseball and it is hoped that it will not be picked up at other training quarters. Everything is going on a big scale. I saw 25,000 at the Hialeah races on Saturday and the play at

‘Y’ Swimmers Split Two Meets By Times Special CINCINNATI. March s.—The Indianapolis Y. M. C. A. swimming squad split two dual tank meets here this week-end. losing to the University of Cincinnati, and winning from the Fenwick Club. A1 Rust, 15-year-old star of the Indianapolis team, was high point man in both meets, scoring eleven points against the collegians and twelve in the Fenwick Club contest. Against the university natators the Hoosiers collected three firsts in eight events; against the club paddlers they picked up five first places in seven events.

Stalwarts of Wrestling cn Program in Armory Arena

A clever Russian grappler who is an exponent of mat skill and science, and a powerful Texan whose ring tactics are of the rough and tumble order, are reported in readiness for their main go bout on the Hercules A. C. wrestling card tomorrow night at the Armory. The two huskies are Matros Kirilenko, 225. who is ranked as a topnotch foreign wrestling artist, and Illini Thinlies Defeat Indiana By Times Special CHAMPAIGN, 111., March s.—lts first dual meet loss in seven years, Indiana university’s track squad was defeated by Illinois here Saturday night. 49 ! 2 to 45^. Ivan Fuqua established anew Western Conference record when he paced off the 440-yard dash in 49.3 seconds. Charles Hornboestel, of Indiana, set up anew Armory mark of 1.56.2 in the 880-yard run. Fuqua and Hornboestel are co-captains of the Crimson thinly squad. Indiana won six firsts in eleven events, including the mile relay, but Illinois’ successes in second and third positions decided the meet. STUMPII SHOOT VICTOR Breaking fifty straight targets. C. Stumph won the weekly feature event at the Indianapolis Skeet Club yesterday. Kerner cracked forty-two out of fifty to win the .410 gauge shoot. A. Giroud broke twenty-two of twenty-five targets, and G. Ball had a perfect score in a ten-target shoot in two trapshoots Staged at the jtub.

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the windows was terrific. That night I visited two dog tracks and the Jai Ali Fronton, The greyhound merry-go-rounds had at least 30,000 attendants between them, with some 10,000 at the place where they demonstrate Basque handball. , t tt t> "KTIGHT CLUBS flourish as they must have flashed luridly in ancient Rome’s seaside Ostia. Women who make Cleopatra of old Egypt look like a poor picture of Queen Elizabeth, who as queens went in those days, was Class C for sex appeal, dazzle the male eyes from Coral Gable to Deauville. There is gaming and there is drinking, and altogether a rich enjoyment of life under the new deal blazes under a hot sun and under a romantic moon. But from ail this pomp and pageantry the Giants are as sequestered as some of the kindly old dowagers who play bridge for an eighth in the lobby of their hotel. For a lot of vCorld champions, the New Yorks set anew low in the swelled head league. They claim nothing, belittle nobody, and sit around wondering what that new ball will do the race. VICTORY IS CELEBRATED By Times Special PLAINFIELD, Ind., March 5. Plainfield school boys and girls frolicked through a vacation today as this city continued celebration cf its first sectional basketball championship since 1918. Plainfield won the Danville sectional Saturday night, and celebrated with bonfires, parades, pep meeting in the high school gym and the vacation from school today.

Dick (Thunder) Raines, 230, the highly touted “Texas Tornado.” Their tussle is billed as an affair which promises to produce action of the “fireworks" brand. The same pair staged a thirty-minute no decision engagement here two weeks ago. It was one of the roughest bouts of the indoor season. Their match tomorrow will be for ninety minutes and two falls out of three. A strong supporting card of two bouts has been arranged by Matchmaker Lloyd Carter. Four former college athletes will provide the action. One match brings together Lou Plummer, Baltimore, and Sol Slagel, who was a grid acs three years ago at Kansas university. Slagel has gone undefeated in four Armory tussles, while Plummer hopes for a comeback after losing here last week to Abe Coleman. In the other bout, Frank Speer, former all-American football hero at Georgia Tech, tackles Roland Kirchmeyer, who w r as an all-rcund athlete two years ago at Oklahoma A. and M. DODGE ENTERS CRAFT By United Press NEW YORK, March s—Horace E. Dodge of Detroit, who resigned last November from the American Power Boat Association- and an, nounced he would not compete in the international regatta in Florida, has reconsidered and will compete against Italian craft at Palm Beech this week end. He announced last night he would drive his Delphine VI in the two-day regatta starting Saturday. The Delphine VII, which is owned by his sister, Mrs. Delphine Dodge Baker, will be entered and driven by William Mek. Horn.

Indoor Champion A 22-YEAR-OLD New Yorker now holds the women's indoor tennis crown, having won it in her first national indoor tournament in Gotham. She is Norma Taube.e, who recently won the title by defeating Helen Pedersen of Stamford, Conn. Miss Taubele ranked fourth in the east.

Riding on Throne, Tech Grooms for Next Step Eastsiders Prove Supremacy in Sectional and Gird for Action in Regional; Southport Downed in Local Finale; Otha Dobbs Surprises Shortridge.

Indianapolis All-Sectionals First Team Second Team Third Team Fnru'ird Schaefer Hutt Parker (Southport) (Technical) (New Augusta) F . , Berns Finchum Abbott forward (Shortridge) (Ben Davis) (Actoni Townsend Wagener Howard Center (Technical) (Manual! (Washington) r and Woerner Stull Kleine * (Technical) (Southport) (Warren Central) r , Goins Hobson Pagach ouara (Southport) (Shortridge) (Technical) HONORABLE MENTION Forwards —Sowers (Castleton); Myers (Acton); Hohlt (Southport); Dcbbs (Technical); Fais (Technical); Yovan (Manual). Centers— Merrill (Shortridge); Anderson (Southport); Drullinger (Broad Ripple); Fults (New Augusta). Guards —Constantino (Manual); Ticen (Beech Grove).

BY DICK MILLER Victors in the Indianapolis sectional title clay of the state high school basketball championship, Technical high school netters today launched preparations for their second step, the regional tournament games at Anderson next Saturday. The Green and White five captured the final tilt of the local sectional with a 30-17 victory over Southport in Tech gym Saturday night and became one of the sixty-four survivors of the tournament play over the state last week end that reduced the contenders for the 1934 Indiana State High School Athletic Association title from 773 teams in the field Thursday. Following the grueling grind that required the Tech five to dispose of Washington, Warren Central, Shortridge and finally Southport, Coach Tim Campbell ordered rest for his charges today with a “skull” practice only to point out errors in the tournament play.

The final tilt found big Johnny Townsend. Tech center, in rare form and he connected with five field goals and three free throws for thirteen points, ten in the first half to aid Tech in gaining a 17-8 lead. Two field goals from the center of the floor by Stull and four free throws represented the Southport Cardinals’ scoring efforts for the half. Southport Halted Tech defense was well nigh perfect in the last half and one field goal by Schaefer was all that Southport could get from the field, the other seven points of the half coming from the foul line. Hutt, Fais. Townsend and Pagach each scored three points in the second half for Tech and Woerner one free throw. The big test for the locals, however, came in a semi-final tilt against Shortridge Saturday afternoon. It was in this game that coach Campbell turned on the bench and gave a young substitute, Otha Dobbs, the nod, and waved him into the fray with his boys behind 11-8 midway of the third quarter. Sinks Three Fast Ones That the choice was a wise one is unchallenged. This mite of a lad had a magic control of the ball. Three times in succession he fired at the hoop and each time the ball swished the net for field goals. By this time Tech was in the lead, 1413, Stevenson having scored a field goal for the Blue Devils while Dobbs was on his rampage. Before the northsiders could recover their composure, big Johnny Townsend had a field goal and a free throw added to the total and Tech led, 17-13, at the three-quar-ter post. A free throw by Dobbs added another point to Tech's total and then Hobson sent in a charity toss and Berns a field goal to give the losers hope as they pulled up to 18-16. Hair Delivers At this point the Tech five cut loose with some dazzling pass work, and while Shortridge kept Townsend covered, Hair, another Tech substitute, slipped beneath the hoop for two passes from Johnny and two easy field baskets. Southport had an easy time with New Augusta in the other semifinal tilt, leading 16-3 at half time with Schaefer hitting the hoop from all angles and finally ending up winners, 33-11. CHAMPION HOPPE WILL VISIT COLUMBIA CLUB Willie Hoppe, master of the cue, will give an exhibition in the Columbia Club billiard parlor tomorrow at 12:30 p. m. He is the world’s champion cushion carome and 18.1 balkline pastimer. Judge J. M. Milner, chairman of the Columbia Club billiard committee, is in charge of arrangements and will introduce Hoppe. Harry Cooler of this city will play against the champion. The exhibition will last about fifty minutes. Columbia Club members and guests are invited. Name McClure Club Manager Jimmy McClure, Western open ping-pong champion, has been named manager of the Paddle Club, headquarters of the Indiana PingPong Association, on the eighth floor of the Test building. The club is open to the public daily from 11 a. m. to 9 p. mIn addition to his western title, McClure holds the city, Indiana ana Ohio titles, and next month will compete in the national ping-pong championship tourney in Cleveland. He is entered in the Michigan state open at Detroit next week-end. Big Ten Statistics TEAM STANDING W. L. Pet. Pts. Op | Purdue 10 1 .909 486 297 Northwestern 8 4 .667 389 348 Wisconsin 7 4 636 340 310 Indiana 6 5 545 321 333 Illinois . 6 5 .545 297 308 lowa 6 6 500 397 383 7>{innesota 5 6 455 340 364 Ohio State 4 8 333 356 406 Michigan 3 8 .273 282 380 Chicago 2 10 .160 318 397 FINAL GAMES TONIGHT Purdue at Illinois. Indiana at Michigan. Minnesota at Wisconsin.

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Kautsky A. C. Netmen Lose The Savoy Big Five Chicago Negro basketball team snapped the winning streak of the Kautsky A. C. quintet in the armory yesterday afternoon, downing the fast local pro five, 35 to 20. Dazzling passes and amazing ballhandling gave the Windy City netters at 23 to 15 lead at the half. Stevens netted six from the field in the initial period. J. Wooden collected five field buckets and seven free throws to lead the locals. The Kautsky's played without Parmenter, star guard, who is ill with influenza. Summary: Kautsky A. C. (29 1. Savoy (35i. FG FT PF FG FT PF Wooden, f. 2 2 liFord.f. ... 4 12 Sale.f. ... 1 0 0 Stevens.f. .620 Murphy,c. I 2 2 Mann,c... 2 14 Christp’r.g 0 0 3 Mayer,g... 2 0 5 Schultz,g 0 0 0 Young.g... 0 0 0 J.Wo'd'n.g 5 7 2 Slocum,g.. 114 Totals .. 9 II 8 Totals .15 5 15 Referee—Floyd. Umpire Bender. Ping Pong Loop Leaders Listed Leaders in the five local ping pong leagues are as follows: Indianapolis League, Paddle Club; Circle, Security Trust; Monument, Hoosier Athletic Club; Capital. Power and Light; Hoosier. Uneeda Bakers. All matches are played at the Paddle Club, eighth floor. Test building. This week's schedule: Indianapolis League Dodge Corporation vs New York Life. Wm. H. Block vs. Paddle Club. Jacobs O. S. vs. Indiana Bell. Circle League L. S. Ayres vs. Power and Light. Security Trust vs. Indiana Bell. Prest-O-Lite vs Indianapolis Water. Monument League DeMolay vs. Roosevelts. Link Belt vs. Tabernacle Hoosier A. C. vs. Oak Hill. Capital League Indiana Bell vs. Power and Light. Wm. H. Block vs DeMolay. Brink's Express vs. People’s Outfitting. Hoosier League Meridian Heights vs. Uneeda Bakers. H P. Wasson vs. T-Club. University Heights vs. Travelers Insurance. I. U. MAT MEN WIN By Times Special CHAMPAIGN, 111., March s.—lndiana university matmon won six of eight bouts to defeat Illinois university grapplers in a dual wrestling meet here Saturday night, 21 to 6. The Hoosiers took five events with time advantages, and Kuss, of Indiana, heavyweight, threw Kosteck with a half-nelson. Gentlemen’s Fine Clothes MADE TO ORDER KAHN Second Floor, Kalin Bldlf. SJugcr!^e E' cii am &R.W.fUBNAS ICE CREAM© TH| CWIM or qUAUTV—O’COATS RELINED and Repaired I Alteration Specialist* I CriM TAILORING LtvJlN COMPANY 131 E. New York St. Rates 20 MONTHS TO PAY gl WOLF SUSSMAN. Inc. 239 W. WASH. ST. F Opposite Statehouce Js|