Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 186, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1934 — Page 36

YORK, Dec. 14.—The srreat Larry Kelley of Yale sat in on a party given by the World-Telegram for members of its all-scholastic football team and when it was all over, the folks assembled agreed Larry was a most sensible young man. Some newspaper man with greater regard for so-called color than veracity had called Mr. Kelley the Dizzy Dean of football during the season. He resents the connection violently and proved it before a gathering of home town high school boys who have made good in a football w r ay. Larry ggve the most Interesting and intelligent talk of the evening. He forfeited a night ot rest in New Haven before a basketball game to speak before 22 high school football stars and told them the whys and wherefores of the game as he comprehends them. Kelley, who is my favorite football player of the year, put football * place in the modern college world as "incidental, but important. LarG advised the youngsters to fight mighty hard on the gridiron but harder still in the classroom. He looked beyond the brass trumpets of all-Amer-ica ballyhoo and reminded the that the business of life was a lot more important than football. a a a a a a J HAVE not the slightest Intention of going Eddie Guest on the customers. nor had Larry Kelicy, but I couldn’t help feeling this was the finest thing the talented end from Williamsport, Pa., could have told these kids just about to step into this tinselly, sometimes misleading, world of college football. In five minutes Kelley had won the confidence of every kid in that comer of the downtown A. C. dining room. He wasn’t verbose, he wasn’t tco terse—he merely had a message and spoke his piece. Fifteen minutes after the party broke up he was out for a walk around the chilly block and bound for a good nignt’s sleep. We had another message for the all-scholastics that wasn’t spoken but read by our capable Lester Bromberg, f oastmaster and the gent responsible for the entire party. It came from Bobby Grayson, Stanfords line-cracking full back, who wired it across the continent from a hospital in Palo Alto, Cal., where he is recuperating from a couple of cracked ribs. ana a a a ED MAHAN, who was Mr. Harvard’s football team in the days just before the war. gave a pleasant talk. Ed pointed out that the only reai amateur football in America today wa6 that played in the high schools. Minus enormous gates, over-elaborate training and giddy inducements, it still is genuine sport, Eddie said, because, after all, you can t subsidize a neighborhood, can you? John Heisman, erect, grand old gentleman who coached for 36 years f.fter six years as a college player at Brown and Penn, took the boys back io the long-haired days when tney battled for toques as trophies of war. Mr Herman recalled the time he saw- the first forward pass, an accidental heave in a Georgia Tech game at Atlanta. m a a a a a TED COY. who is technically known as an "Eli immortal,” spoke of his tremendous 1908 team at Yale, which ran up ”09 points to none. Ted reminisced at length and recalled that his team was known as the "over-t.he-shoulder team” because the players always were being pushed back to tht r goal line and looking over their shoulder to see how near they were. Yet they always won. George Pfann, Cornell’s all-America quarter back of 1923. spoke of the days when he was an all-scholastic himself on the all-Tennessee prep school team George to this day isn’t sure whether the selector of the Nashville Banner meant him or not. The quarter back of the team, as listed in the paper, was F-O-G-G.

Me Mill in’s Coach Tells How He Discovered Bo Youngster Who Showed Determination in Trying to Crash Gate Now Is I. U. Mentor, Meyers Says.

BY DICK MILLER LITTLE did Bo MoMillin know that 20 years ago when he attempted to crahs the gate at a Ft. Worth baseball game that he was crashing into future all-America football fame. Robert L. (Chief) Myers, former athletics director at Centre College, told friends of Indiana University at a football testimonial dinner at the Indianapolis Athletic Club last night.

Indianapolis alumni of I. U. tendered the dinner to the coaching staff, varsity and freshipan team members of 1934. The turnout jammed the banquet room and made Leroy Sanders, chairman, and his committee smile from ear to ear. Chief Myers, who has been credited by McMillin with doing more toward helping him gain football honor than any other person, told the large audience how he first met 80, why he loves him like a brother and what he has in the way of character that makes him want to win, and causes boys to play their best for him. a a a MYERS told of the day at Ft. Worth when a little Irish lad came tumbling down off the fence at the baseball park into the arms of a policeman, a couple of skinned shins his only injuries. In the ensuing minutes things happened that gave Mr. Myers the impres.sion the lad had determination, an alert mind, was elusive and liked to have fun. ho Mr Myers, who then was coach ai a high school, learned the boy’s idei/;*y and later met the lad. Mr. Myers recounted how Bo used e perfect hiplock in making his first tackle. He said Bo took it upon himself to discipline erring team members who broke training, sat on the curbstone with his coach and wondered if he would ever be a Frank j> r Dick MerriwelL a a a M'MILLIN gave a fiery speech, praising his team of the past season, particularly the seniors, for having high spiirt and detrmination. He administered a scathing denunciation to the alumnus who wrote him and called the boys a gang of "yellow Hoosiers," criticized the newspapers for always writing Bo this and Bo that,” and forgetting his staff of assistants whom he praised highly, and gave equal credit for what success Indiana had the past fall. Sherwood Blue, president of the I. U. Club of Indianapolis, introduced the toastmaster. Jack Hastings of Washington. Mr. Hastings introduced local high school coaches and some of their leading players: Zora G. Clevenger, I. U. athletics director, and Jonn W. Craven, school registrar, who formally presented the Old Bucket, which Indiana won from Purdue, for a year at least. Clevenger introduced the coaching ILV Workmanship | I I At Low | OHIO SHOE REPAIR HHHP gDMDBSiMnS *si nSX3SSNKX3Sm BICYCLES 5 Cm oar Laraway Department $ jgaatil Christmas. , A JrM QOP SPORTING I Xlfl-nut GOODS CO. 3 g West Washington Street S

By Joe Williams mam Word for Prep Grid Stars a a a Yale Ace Says Study Hard a a a Go at Football Same Way

staff. Paul Harrell, freshman coach, introduced the members of the freshman and varsity teams. One of Indiana’s first athletes, Judge Walter S. Ellis, Anderson, a member of the first baseball and football team, in 1886, challenged the boys of next year's team to be able to stand success.

George Lott, Davis Cup Tennis Star, Turns Pro Famous Netter Expresses Appreciation for Good Times Had With U. S. L. T. A., Thereby Pulling Surprise. BY HENRY M’LEMORE Times Special Sports Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—George Martin Lott of Chicago, the only man who ever played a set of tennis before Queen Mary of England with his shirt tail hanging out, formally entered the profession ranks yesterday in Bill O’Brien's offices hard by Times Square

In a room overflowing with sportswriters, photographers, beer, potato chips and ham-on-rye sandwiches, the five times winner of the nationaj doubles championship and lav is Cup star for the past six years signed a contract to barnstorm the nation with Bill Tilden and Elly Vines. When the signing was done the sportswriters, pencils poised, ears cocked, crowded round to hear Lott’s first statement as a professional. We all expected the same thing—a withering blast on the United States Lawn Tennis Association, a phillippic on the evils of amateurism. But Lott, in contrast to some of the other amateurs who have forsaken glory for gold, had nothing but praise for the amateur organization. “I wish you fellows would do one thing for me,” he said, “and that is to express my appreciation of all that the officials of the U. S- L. T. A. have done for me. 'if it hadn’t L n for them. I wouldn t be sitting here signing a contract that is liable to make 20 or 25 thousand dollars next year. - “You know. I was unable to figure out the players who, just as soon as they turned pro, let loose the heat on the amateur game. If it was so wicked, why did most of them stick in it so long? I don't mind admitting I’ll miss a lot of things that go w-ith being an amateur. Like riding the best trains, for example. This time I didn’t come from Chicago on the Century. And that free laundry- and dry cleaning was pretty nice. So were those tea hours on the terrace at W mbledon, the cocktain at Seabright, swimming at Spring Lake, and the golf at Pinehurst. Anybody that wouldn't like those things is crazy.” REDSKIN FROSII WIN Coach Romeiser’s Manual freshmen cage team downed a team of sophomores at the Manual gym yesterday, 20-5 Robinson was high point scorer for the freshies. CARD RHINIES TRIUMPH The Southport High School yearlings nosed out the Technical freshman five, 17-15, In a hard fought basket tussle at the Southport gym afternoon.

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RUTH MAY BE NAMED CLEVELAND PILOT

Yankee Owner Doesn’t Deny Report That Bambino Looms as Successor to ‘Big Train’ Manager Terry of Giants Sends Billy Meyers to Reds for Mark Koenig and Allyn Stout, Also Trades Joe Bowman to Phils for ‘Kiddo’ Davis. BY LAWTON CARVER L'nlted Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Babe Ruth remained the chief topic of discussion down to the last moment of the major league meetings, and according to final rumors, undenied by Col. Jacob Ruppert, his owner, the old warhorse of sluggers will go to Cleveland to succeed Walter

(Big Train) Johnson as manager. As ♦He December sessions of American and National circuits closed late yesterday reports and contradictions were being checked back and forth, and the Ruth-to-Cleveland movement appeared definitely to be in the making. Whether it will materialize depends upon a number of thipgs. What it w’ill take to get him figures prominently in the proposition. Ruppert was noncommittal beyond leaving the impression that, after all, Ruth is just another ball player from a sentimental standpoint, but a valuable attraction and worth all the Yankees can get for him. O’Neill Rashes Movement The Ruth question bobbed up prominently in the secret American League meetings, and owner:} are determined to keep him in the circuit. - The Cleveland situation shapes up with Ruth in as manager, pinchhitter and, occasionally, as player in his customary right field position, with Steve O’Neill leading the “we-want-Ruth” movement. O’Neill recently was signed as a Cleveland scout. He and Ruth are close friends. There would be no difficulties with Johnson over a contract, for he has no contract, other than verbal. # The Babe won’t go to the Boston Braves. Ruppert took occasion to deny this one. Broadcasts to Continue While the joint meeting produced nothing aside from routine and in this respect outdid separate meetings of the two leagues Tuesday and Wednesday, Bill Terry, manager of the Giants, who had promised a trade during the sessions, came up with his second and third last night. The three Giant deals were the only ones made. Tuesday, Terry sent Jack Salveson. pitcher, to-Pittsburgh for Leon Chagnon, veteran reT; .2 twirler. Yesterday he sent pusher Joe Bowman a young right-hand ?r, to the Phils in exchange ier ou fielder "Kiddo” Davis, and William Meyers, formerly of the Columbus club, to Cincinnati for infielder Mark Koenig and pitcher Allyn Si out, a righthander. . Major league business centered around a proposal to abolish -adio broadcasting at parks. This question will remain local option. Sunday double-headers are prohibited before June 15. An appropriation of $20,000 will be made to the American Legion Junior Baseball Series.

Stanford Gridmen Face Hard Drills By United Pres* PALO ALTO. Cal., Dec. 14.—The Stanford football team will get down to hard work next week in preparation for the Rose Bowl game, Coach Claude (Tiny) Thornhill said today. Thornhill has permitted the team to take it easy because of its hard schedule through the regular season and injuries to many varsity men. But from now on hard drills will be in order. Many fear the team will not be in shape for the Alabama invasion. Five men, Bobby Grayson, back; Monk Moscrip and Keith Topping, regular ends; Claude Callaway, tackle, and Stan Anderson, Grayson’s understudy, still are under the care of Dr. Fritz Roth, team physician. He says all will be ready for the game, but many doubt Topping and Grayson will be abie to play more than a few minutes. Henry Hook Victor in Texas Ring Mix By Times Special DALLAS, Tex., Dec. 14.—Henry Hook, 122-pound Indianapolis (Ind.) fighter, won a decision over Kid Barrilito, 124, Mexico City, in the ten-round feature bout of a boxing show here last night. Roy Stice, Gainesville, defeated Baby Colima, El Paso, in another ten-rounder on the same card. YOUNG TENNIS STAR DEFEATS FRED PERRY By United Press MELBOURNE, Australia Dec. 14. —Adrian K. Quist, 21-year-old Davis Cup star, defeated Fred Perry, international tennis champion. 6-0, 6-2. 6-0. in the semi-finals of the Victorian championships today. Quist has beaten Perry before in Australia and has won the singles and doubles championship here. He reached the filth round of the 1933 American singles championship, de-

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1934

Basketball News ana Independent, Amateur and League Gossip.

The Capital Silents will tangle with the Chicago Silents at the Deaf School hardwood tomorrow night. The Capitals eked out a 26'-to-25 decision over the Crimson Cubs when Fout tallied in the last 10 seconus of play. The Silent hoosiers will journey to Saratoga tonight for a game with the Saratoga five. It will be the last game for the Silents until the first of the year, due U. Christmas vacation. Tha Super Five playing in the 14-16-year-eld class, desire games and are willing to share expense,. Litzelman. Vaughr Craig. Villiams. Dugan. Golav ar.U Ti play on the Super squad. Call Bern .c 0354 ano ask for Tom. Results of latest games in '.ue Hoosier League are: Indiana Inspection Bureau. 33: Blocks, 23. Hibben Hollweg, 26; Avres, 18. Continental Optical. 32: Hoosier A. C., 29. Standings Ind. Insp 4 0 1.000 Continental 3 1 .800 Hiffben 2 2 . 500 Blocks •• 2 2 .500 Avres 1 3 .200 Hoosier 0 4 .000 Tfio Armour & Cos. quintet has won five straight games and would like to schedule contests with teams having gyms. The Armours are willing to share expenses. Call Dvexel 4800 between 8 a. m. and 3 p. m. and ask for Eugene Williams. The Mayer Chapel Dixies have won three games in a row and desire tilts with strong city and state fives on a home and home basis. Write L. E. Coley. 1126 Church-st. or call Drexel 4469 and ask for Louis. The O’Hara Sans dropped a close tilt to the Capital Silents. 28-26. Copper led the Silents with five field goals, and Willis was best for the Sans with three goals. The Sans will meet Eii Lillvs next Wednesday at 7:30 at Pennsy gym. and have a permit for Brookside at 9 on the same evenings. A team willing to share expenses is asked to call Cherry 1523-W. or write to 1130 N. Dearborn-st. Mayer Chapel Dixies notice. The Crimson Cubs meet the Tabernacle Presbyterian cagers tonight at the Tabernacle gym at Thirtv-fourth-st and Cen-tral-av at 8. The Cubs desire games with teams having gyms. Call Washington 1424-Ring 4.

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FANS who gather at the Dearborn Gym, 3208 E. Michigan-st, every Friday night to witness Manufacturers’ League basketball tilts, get an “eyeful” of snappy uniforms when the Citizens’ Gas players appear .ox action. The attractive suits in which the Gas pastimers are outfitted have drawn many compliments from amateur cage followers. The,Citizens’ squad is battling for the lead in the loop, and tonight will tackle the strong P. R. Mallory five in the feature league encounter at 7:15. K. S. Hile is president of the league and is vice-president of the Associated League, which consists of *8 organized Indianapolis clubs. The Citizens’ Gas cagers will oppose the Fletcher Trust squad in a curtain-raiser to the Hilgemeier Packer-Servel (Evansville) fray at the Pennsy Gym, Sunday. The United States Corrugated Box quintet will clash with the Beveridge Paper team at 8:15 tonight, and the Indianapolis Glove squad will tangle with Texaco at &:15 in other league contests.

Ripple Net Team to Invade Manual Manual’s Redskin basketeers will tangle with the Broad Ripple Rockets on the Manual floor tonight and will travel to Pittsboro for a game tomorrow night. Coach Oral Bridgeford sent the players through defensive drills, foul (shooting practice, and a lengthy scrimmage against the reserves yesterday. Earl Brand.-a and Eail Hunt, varsity forwards, looked be§t for the varsity during the session.

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3 GOPHERS NAMED ON COLLIER ALL-AMERICA By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Collier’s annual All-America announced today, includes three players from Minnesota. Ends—Hutson, Alabama; Larsen, Minnesota. Tackles—Lee, Alabama; Reynolds, Stanford. Guards —Barclay, North Carolina, Bevan, Minnesota. Center—Shotwell, Pittsburgh. Quarter Back—Grayson, Stanford. Half Backs—Wallace, Rice; Borries, Navy. Full Back—Lund, Minnesota.

Germany Building Huge Stadium Germany already is preparing for the 1936 Olympic Games, which will be held at Berlin. A maze of tall derricks, iron girders and concrete slabs dot the area where the huge Olypmic Stadiuyn is being built. Adoln ’> Hitler is credited with drafting the plans.

Franklin Netters Prepare for Aces Coach May Shift Lineup for Tilt at Evansville. By Times Special FRANKLIN, Ind., Dec. 14.—With a win over Hanover safely tucked away, the Franklin College hardwood squad will go to Evansville tomorrow night to engage the Aces in the second important game of the season for the Baptists. Although play was ragged at times in the Hanover game, Coach Tillotson was afforded a chance to look over his squad. Several rhinies were used in the game, and showed prospects of development. Some lettermen are finding themselves hard pressed by these first-year men. Moser and Irvine have been practicing at the forward berths during the week in an effort to add height to the team. Miller probably will get the starting call over Hughes, while H. Poison and Ferrell will hold (town the guard assignments.

Techmen Face Two Powerful Basket Rivals

Locals Play at Richmond Tonight: Return Here for Muncie Go. Coach Tim Campbell’s Green and White basket snipers will travel to Richmond tonight to meet Coach Elder Eberhart's Morton Red Devils and return home Saturday night to face the Muncie Bearcats for the first game at the East Side gym. Bolstered by the return of four lettermen, the Richmond quintet should supply formidable opposition for the Big Green tossers. The returning lettermen are Lybould and Rock, guards, and Squier and Logan, forwards. Richmond has a record of four wins and one loss in five contests this season. The Red Devils defeated Cambridge. 29 to 26; Southport, 27 to 17; Centerville, 48 to 21; Winchester, 43 to 22, while losing to Newcastle, 33 vo 21. The Green and White team has played only one gfcme, losing to Frankfort, 23 to 17. Coach Pete Jolly will bring nis Bearcats to the Green and White gym Saturday. The ’Cats started out fast this year, winning tilts with ease, but have been beaten by Logansport, 30 to 20, and nosed out by Franklin, 22 to 21, in their last two games. Greencastle at Shortridge Shortridge netmen concluded a week of hard drills yesterday afternoon in anticipation of tonight’? game with the Greencastle Tiger? at the Shortridge gym. Coach Petmman tapered off the Blue Devils yesterday with a light drill on fundamentals. With Stevenson and Kitzmiller both suffering from colds, Coach Peterman is undecided as to his starting line-up, Palmer, Dawson, McDaniels Meuller. Brennen, and J. Brown probably will see action. Park Tests Castleton Park School will entertain thf Castleton basketball team at the Park School gym tonight. Coact Reichel sent the Parkmen through : a long workout yesterday in final ! preparation for the tilt. Hackleman ' and Mumford will start at forwards j for the locals: Birthright at center i and Beck and Carroll, guards.