Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 229, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1935 — Page 10

Donkey Business Going on in Your Own State Mischievous Mules Wearing Shoes and Playing Basketball as New Craze Strikes Indiana.

BV PAUL ROXF.LL I >ID } r< a donkey wearing hnnest-to-goodncss shoes? Did you * f eve n a donkey plaving basketball? Os course, in these days when Frank Burk and Clyde Beatty are revealing all animal -as trie arti sos the drama I don't expert you to be surprised hut. ueh thin- are happening right in your own state. Donkey basketball hi struck Indiana, and I hardly believe there is anything Commissioner Tr< -ter ran do about it. If the game keeps on spreading, he may he playing it himself before long. The donkey already have appeared in three or four Hoosier cities and iomp next at Marion. Following that engagement comes Frankfort Munrie and Indianapolis. The game in played the same as regular basketball, except that, each plater takes unto himself a bouncing burro which he must ride wherever he wants to go on the floor Much of the time he rides where he doesn’t, want to go. Donkeys have very definite and unchangeable ideas on where thev per onnlly d< -ire to go and just how long they intend to take to get there The mult wear rubbei soled hoes. It hasn’t been revealed whether that is to protect thr- hardwood, their feet, or the players’ feet. If surer sful. the move mnv revolutionize the horseshoe industry. You may expert to see old Dobbin lugging the milk wagon around in leather boots any day now. Nothing ha bfep said about the long-ears wearing jerseys and trunks, so evidently they dr, not Perhaps the mules themselves object. After all what, would folk; back on the old plantation think of such surrender to man-made modesty. Even a donkey has some pride. All she.!.', for thr basket must, be made while the player is mounted. That’s what you would call the shoot and bray system, the player shoots and the don hr y brays Seems to me it would be difficult enough to stay mounted, let alone fire at. the hoop at the same time. Pla- (I" are permitted to dismount to pick up the ball, but must climb back aboard belore tossing it The rules do not state who must do the dribbling, the donkey or the player. I would guess off-hand that the player handle" the ball-bouncing, since the burro spends most of his time bouncing the player off the floor. It all seem: like plain donkey business to me. hut when the troupe arrives in town I believe I’ll he on hand. I'm anxious to interview the mule dr-rover what they think of the three-second rule and do they believe three g: me: a da\ arc too much. Besides. I’m curious to see how a four-lrgger walks with shoes on. The dog mn ■he mans best friend and the horse his best servant, but tin' donkey is his best stooge. nun nan Alabama Pills In Dying All-Stars Here ALABAMA PITTS is coming to town, according to the management . nf the local Kautrky A C. basketball team. Pitts is the all-around athlete who graduated from Sing Sing Prison into the Albany International League baseball club, cavorted in pro football awhile, and now is touring the country at the head of an allstar hardwood quintet. The Kautsk.vs sav they have Alabama’s signer on the dotted line to appear with his All-Stars on the Sunday of Jan. 5 for a scrap at the Armory. Pitts is said to be a pretty fair basketball player. He wasn’t exactly a phenom in the outfield for the Albany baseballers, but he show’ed enough promise to get a return ticket, for spring training. a tt a ana Don't Seal) at This Onr — lt's True (~ , <AN you stand a fish story de luxe, hot off the griddle, on this raw * winter day? It's true, s’help me I’ve seen the proof of it. A man caught, a four-and-one-half pound large mouth bass in Big Barbee Lake, upstate, late last, week. Nothing so sensational in that, you say? But wait. The fisherman didn't hook this bass in the mouth, which is the customary hooking place, according to experts. I’ve never been able to hook one anywhere, so I couldn't say positively. This fisherman decided to make it tougher and snagged the critter right in the tail! Not in the tail fins, of course, but in the flesh about one-half inch removed Mr. Fish's posterior tip. What's more, tlie party on the tide end of the line was fishing for bluegills at the time and using a tiny hook. Well, Kid Bass blundered right into that barb and, probably blurting, “That’s my tale, and I'll slick to it,” proceeded to battle one-half hour before allowing himself to be hauled in. How do I know it’s trite? The fisherman W’as Fred Morgan of Leesburg. Ind. Mr. Morgan happens to be well acquainted with Walt Roeder of the Em-Roe sporting goods concern here in the city. So what docs Mr Morgan do but leave the hook imbedded in his prize catch, bundle up Mr. Bass, and send fish, hook, line and sinker all to Walt Roeder. And what does Mr. Roeder do but bring that four-and-one-half-pounder, hook and all. to this writer's nook and drop it kerplunk on the desk That fish scales the heights of finny fame, make no bones about it. I'm afraid it never will be exhibit A, however. Mr. Roeder likes his sea food well done. nan ana Tun Dozen Golden Glove Seals in the Hurt IMSTS don’t start flying in tiie annual Times-Bruce Robison Post Golden Gloves tourney until mid-January, but local enthusiasts are begin.iing to warm to the event already. Fred Deßorde, tourney chairman for the post, has received an interesting letter from Claude E. Penrod of the RKO Distributing Cos., who last, year nearly bought out a whole reserved section at the Armory. Writes Mr Penrod: "Please request the committee to put me dowm sot 12 first row seats and 12 second row seats. I could very nicely use 24 first row seats, but rather than be “hoggish" w'ould rather argue it out with mv friends, and induce them to sit in the second row’, thus permitting someone else to have an opportunity for first row accomodation.” Looks like Mr. Penrod is in for a row’ over the rows.

Rivals From Five States and Mexico Oppose Aces Evansville College Quintet Faces Variety of Competition; Centenary, Vanderbilt to Invade. Timex Special EVANSVILLE. Ind. Dec. 3.—Basketball teams from five states and one from far-away Mexico City will furnish opposition this year lor Coach William V. Slyker s Evansville College squad. The Ares' 19-game schedule includes Ohio State. Centenary, Vanderbil'. Western State, the Mexico City Y. M. C. A., and seven Indiana schools.

Centenary of Louisiana. Vanderbilt of Tennesee, and the Mexico City aggregations will come here for their games. The Aces will play Ohio State at Columbus and Western State at Kalamazoo. Mich. To meet such formidable opposition. Slyker is building his 1935-36 quintet around four letter men from a squad w hich won 11 and lost seven games last year. Colby Pollard. Evansville. 6-foot-4-inch center, is expected to again be the key man of the offensive. Other veterans include Otto Thuerbnch, Evansville, guard and Bill Bailey. Evansville, and Harold

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Seim, Connersville, forwards. Walter j Riggs, brilliant offensive star, and | Con Hartke, guard, were lost through | graduation. Reserve material, which will come chiefly from the freshman and i sophomore ranks, includes Howard i Seim, brother of Harold; Robert ■ Polk. Tell City: Melvin Seegar, Fort Wayne; Gene Mr Knight, Crossville; Emerson Henkle. Stendal, Chris Maglaris, Evansville, and Bruce and .Jack Lomax, twins, whe both play forward. Shker, president of the Indiana Intercollegiate Conference, has coached at Evansvillle for five seasons. During that period his teams have won 51 games. The schedule: Dec. 9. Oakland City; Dec. 14. at Ohio State; Dec 16, at Wittenberg; Dec. 21. Hanover; Dec. 23. Indiana University; Dec. 28. Vanderbilt. Jan. 2. Centenary; Jan. 6, at De Pauw; Jan. 9. Wabash; Jan. 11. a 1 : Franklin; Jan. 16. Indiana State; Jan. 18. at Western State; Jan. 23. Mexico City y. M. C. a. Feb. 3, at Hanover; Feb. 8 De Pauw; Feb. 12. at Oakland City; Feb. 15. Franklin; Feb. 19. at Indiana State; Feb. 23. at Wabash. New Rule Expeeted in State Circuit Hu l nitrd Prett VINCENNES. Ind., Dec. 3.—A ruling prohibiting post-season football games between members of the Southern Indiana Athletic Conference was expected to be adopted today at a meeting of league representatives here. Tire action was contemplated as a result of the past season contest between New Albany and Linton w hich enabled the former to in the conference football championship over Reitz and Central of Evansville. The conference basketball schedule fort|936-37 also will be considered at the meeting.

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City H. S. Net Action Begins on All Fronts Public and Private School Quintets Open Play This Week. Indianapolis net hopeful in four public and two private schools were j put through their paces today by ■ coaches preparing fer this week’s! games. Out at Tech. Coach Bayne Freeman is preparing to send his first Green and White squad on the Koxomo floor Friday night. The team is still in a stage of metamorphosis, and Coach Freeman substituted all his players frequently in the hard scrimmage today. Jack Reedy and Amos Childers are the only returning lettermen, the remainder of the varsity squad being composed of members of last year's reserve aggregation. Shortridge to Greenfield Mistakes made in the opening came of the season against Southport were analyzed today by Coach Kenneth Peterman when he sent his Short ridge Blue Devils t hrough a workout on offensive tactics. The Blue snipers will journey to Greenfield Friday and play Noblesville on the local floor Saturday. Continentals Play Two The curtain goes up on Washington High School basketball Friday night when the Continentals play at Mooresville. Saturday night the West Siders will return home to meet Southport. Coach Oral Bridgeford of Manual is expected to cut his varsity candidates down to 12 this week The boys were given a passing drill in preparation for their initial contest against Ben Davis Friday night. Park Faces Oaklandon Coach Lou Reichel worked eight Park School netters today in an effort to find the best combination. The team meets Oaklandon at the North Side gymnasium Friday. Ward Hackleman. forward, has been elected captain. They still are hoping for a victory at Cathedral, and Coach Joe Dienhart thinks his boys will shoot the works against Noblesville Friday night. The contest will be played on the Cathedral floor. Hoosier Arbiters Pav Final Salute %/ to Pigskin Season 34 Officials Gather for Windup Banquet. Thirty-four members of the Indiana Officials Association sounded taps on the 1935 football season last night with a banquet at Holly Hock Hills. Lewis B. Skinner, president, and Russell Julius, secretary, spoke briefly in winding up business of the past campaign, leaving most of the action for the boys around the festive board. Uniform shirts were adopted for the 1936 season and plans made for the annual clinic on rules to be held Sept. 5. with Henry Bogue, Washington High School coach, in charge. Those who attended were Heze j Clark. Harold Hungate, Robert Nipper. Wally Middlesworth. George Seidensticker, Tony Hinkle. Joe Dienhart, Abe Thatcher, Frank White. Harry Painter, John George. Earl Moomaw, A. E. Pitcher, Paul Meyers, Ed Diederich, Kenneth Peterman. Warren Cleveland, H. E. Chenoweth. John Mueller. Dana Chandler, Bert Coffin. Russell Moore. R. B Morrison. George Katzenberger. Winston Ashley, Vaughan Russell. J. R. Townsend. R. D. Van Arsdale, A1 Harris. Henry Bogue and Robert Ball. W ashington Makes Athletic Awards Six Cross-Country Stars Receive Honors. Minor letters were awarded yesterday to six Washington High School cross-country runners, w’ho j won seven out of eight contests this |season. They are Capt. Julian Weddle, i Melvin Oilman and Ray Cauble. seniors; Bill Johnson, junior, and Frank Dolan and Thomas Allen, sophomores. Johnson was elected I captain of next year's squad. The Continental harriers lost only j to the unbeaten Ben Davis runners ! this fall. Anew West Side course record of 9:53.8 was established by Oilman in a meet with Anderson. Kautskys to Test Strong Loop Foe Local Quintet Host to Pitt Rival at Armory. Fans all around the Mid-West Basketball Conference circuit will have their eyes on Indianapolis Sunday when the local Kautsky A. C.’s tangle with the Pittsburgh Y. M. H. A. quintet. Both teams are feared by other circuit members, as each boasts several of the outstanding college performers of the nation. The Pittsburghers won 36 of 40 games last season. Norman Cotton and Johnny Wooden, the two crack shots of the locals, are expected to be forced to the limit to outsc#re Ivy Brenner. Art Feldman and Claire Cribbs of the invaders. HUNTERS SEE MOVIES Twenty-five people signed membership cards at a meeting of the Marion County Fish and Game Association held in the Antlers last night. Moving pictures on trout fishing and hunting in Mexico and Africa were showti. Three hundred attended.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1935

Tm Bound to Come Back,’ Cries Paralyzed Wrestler as He ‘Works Out’ in Ward Gym

I S • 1 A; I ; - ; SfS:v £ 3g| x-xv 1 B * mm ipil§il H 4iii|L Paralyzed in the logs when his spine was fractured in a motor |||||||PllF car accident, Bill Honeycutt, a ||ll|p wrestler, tries to keep the strength > n his arms by pulling on a trapeze rigged to his bed at the Although doctors aren't sure he ever will walk again, Honeycutt exercises as many of his muscles 'x. ; as he can move and thinks of the day when he will be able to get ’ back in the ring. He has been in the hospital 33 weeks. .Bowl-ing Re i Cetll

F.Y TOM OCHILTREE BILL HONEYCUTT pinched his limp, discolored right leg today and smiled. "Did you see it jump? That shows there is a little reflex left in there,” he shouted. ‘‘Those pins will come back all right. They're bound to come back.” There was something odd about the tone of his voice. Hope and despair were all mixed up in that sound some way. For 33 weeks he has been watching those legs and telling himself that his broken back will get all right, and he will be able to wrestle again. That is how Honeycutt earned a living before an automobile accident paralyzed him from the w'aist down. He was good at it, too. Old timers say he was a fine boy, and always gave his best for the customers. It doesn't take keen observation to tell that it had been his business for 16 years. He has the usual marks of his trade . . . the cauliflower ears ... a broken nose . . . scars over his eyes that even shaggy eyebrows can’t hide. c a a THE accident occured on April 12 at the intersection of State Roads 3 and 40. near Dunreith. He and Walter Hickman, another wrestler, were returning from a match in Newcastle when the car failed to make the turn and plunged off the road. Hickman, who was driving, received a gash on the right arm and was able to scramble out of the wreck, but Honeycutt couldn’t move. Doctors discovered his spine w'as fractured between the shoulder blades, and two days later he was sent to the City Hospital. Wrestlers have to work pretty often if they want to make a living. Within a few weeks Honeycutt's earnings were gone. The city took care of him in the charity ward, but his young wife, Mrs. Benice Honeycutt, has to work to earn a living for their two children. "She just has been able to keep things going in our home at 914 N. Keystone-av.” he explained. ‘'Billy Jr., is only 7, and the girl, Betty, is 11. It has been tough for all of them, but it ought to work out somehow.” a a a WHEN his wife came to see him yesterday she seemed tired and discouraged. It worried her to see his fingers stray over the sheets as thoueh he was trying to feel the presence of life. Honeycutt has a reputation for cheerfulness in Ward A-2. Hour after hour he wheels his chair the length of the hall and talks to the other patients. It is not a very cheerful place; this ward with its clean, penetrating smell and its white unadorned walls. One man moans, another coughs and several snore. Their faces are white, deeply shadowed with several days’ growth of beard. They smile vhen they see Honeycutt, though. They must admire his courage. ana OTHER times this man lies flat on his back and pulls himself up on a trapeze that has been fixed over his head.

“I do that so my arms will be in good shape w’hen I get out of here,” he said. “Feel how solid that arm is now’. I put that on there by working those rings.” When Honeycutt was w’restling he weighed 185. Now’ he only scales 158. At that, though, he feels better than he did a month ago. “I eat a lot,” he said, “especially when an old referee friend of mine brings up some of his wife’s home cooking. “I don't w’orry much about being in here. Most of the time I concentrate on getting well. Every now’ and then someone tells me about a guy that had a broken back and

Football Death Toll for Season Mounts to 46 By United Press NEW YORK. Dec. 3.—Football killed 46 men and boys this season, as many as in the peal: year of 1931, a United Press survey showed today. Thirty-five deaths weie the direct result of football; 11 were caused by infection or internal inj .tries w’hich. w’ere, in a majority of cases, treated either too late or imprope’ ly. High school deaths formed the largest number, 26, six more than the previous high number set in 1931. Coilege football, which had three fatalities, was the only division to have few’er than last year. Two college men died as the result of direct injuries while the other's was believed to be indirectly connected with football. The fatalities by groups: Last Former Direct Indirect Total Year Peak Collese 2 1 3 t 8 in 1931 High School 20 6 26 13 20 in 1931 Sandlot 7 4 II 4 18 in 1931 Athletic Club 6 0 6 4 6 in 1932 The greater portion of high school injuries resulted from head-on tackling or inadequate equipment. The figure, however, is not as startling as it may seem because there were approximately 616.000 youths playing high school football this season as against 65.000 on college teams.

Local Boy Drubs Heavier Opponent Fuller Showers Leather on Louisville Mittman. Timex Special LOUISVILLE. Ky„ Dec. 3 Scotty Fuller, Indianapolis heavyweight. handed Tim Charles. Louisville, a 10-round glove shower in a feature boxing match here last night. Fuller, who scaled 195 as compared to his opponent's 225, held the upper hand all the way. The bell saved Charles from a knockout in the second round, and he began to wobble again in the later stanzas. The Indianapolis boy has fought in six pro-ring encounters, but this is the first time he has been given the feature spot on the card. In another 10-rounder, Freddy Eiler, Louisville, won over Bobb* Mathews, Bowling Green. Both boys topped the beam at 165. YALE CHOOSES KELLEY Time * Special NEW HAVEN. Dec. 3.—Twentyfive letter men unanimously elected Lawrence Kelley, sensational end. to the captainfy of the 1936 Yale football team ii a meeting yesterday,

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got over it all right. That sort of gives me courage.” nan THE promoters and the army of hangers-on who follow a successful wrestler haven't been up to visit Honeycutt. That puzzles him, but he is happy other people remember him. Members of his lodge drop over to see him. Most faithful of all are the wrestlers W’ho know’ him. Whenever the boys come to tow’n, they stop in. Those strange gladiators, who earn a living by knocking each other senseless, always are loyal to their own kind.

LIONS FORGE TO FRONT By l TiitcJ Press NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—The Detroit Lions, western Division leaders, are high-scorers of the National Professional Football League, according to statistics released today. In 12 games the Lions have scored 187 points, 10 more than the Chicago Bears, who had led most of the season.

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City Boys Pass Up Kickiny City-bred boys make better football passers than players from the wide-open spaces, accmdiny to Mai Stc 'ens, X. Y. U. coach. The “ sidewalk" boys lack the elbow room needed for kickiny, so they go in for throwin a the. ball, he explains. # 1

Paralyzed in the legs when his spine was fractured in a motor car accident, Bill Honeycutt, a wrestler, tries to keep the strength in his arms by pulling on a trapeze rigged to his bed at the City Hospital. Although doctors aren’t sure he ever will walk again, Honeycutt exercises as many of his muscles as he can move and thinks of the day when he will be able to get back in the ring. He has been in the hospital 33 weeks.

Bowl-ing Reports From Grid Centers of Nation U. C. L, A. Offered ‘Sugar’ Game, but Can't Accept Yet; Florida Classic in Danger. By Unit eel Press LOS ANGELES. Dec. 3.—University of California at Los Angeles has been invited to represent the West in the “Sugar Bowl” football game New Year's Day at New’ Orleans against Louisiana State but can not accept unless L. S. U. defers selection another 12 days.

Graduate Manager William C. Ackerman of U. C. L. A. disclosed an invitation had been extended by Louisiana State officials in a telephone call from Baton Rouge. The Louisiana officials said they w’ould decide today whether they could wait until after Dec. 14 w’hen the Bruins meet St. Mary's before announcing definite selection. Orange Bowl Wavers By l Hitrd Press MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 3—Withdrawal of the University of Miami as a possible combatant may sound the deat knell of the Orange Bow’l football game as an annual fixture, it w’as indicated here today. Interested persons feel that it will be impossible to finance transportation of two teams here. Others, however, are urging that plans be carried out to match two nationallyranking teams. A number of possible contests still are under consideration, these include Vanderbilt-Villanova, How’ardOhio University, Texas ChristianVillanova and “others.”

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De Pauw Loses Close Tilt to Badger Squad Wisconsin Rallies to Top Tigers. 18-16. in Net Thriller. Times Special MADISON. Wis.. Dec. 3—De Pauw s net men were handed a heart-breaking IR-to-16 defeat by Wisconsin here last night in the opening contest of the season for both quintets. A field goal by Wegner and Mitchell's free throw got the Badgers away to an early lead, but the Tigers rallied and closed the gap. A pair of charity tosses and a basket by Youngblood gave De Pamv a 12-to-9 edge at the intermission. The Big Ten combination tightened its defense in the second half and the Old Gold team was able to count only one field goal and two free throws. The Badgers tied the count at 15-all and then forged ahead. De Pauw’ was successful on four out of seven chances at. the foul line, and Wisconsin made good only two of eight free throw attempts. The summary: De Pauw 1161. Wisconsin ilßi FC FT PF FG FT PP Hickman.f ..212 PcMark.f 0 o n Mason.f .0 0 l Reinhart.f .. o o 1 Moore c . n 1 :t I liter f 3 n 1 Yoncbld.E... 3 1 1 Ronnr, f 1 n 0 Kinallv.c ,1 0 O Step' c 1 0 2 Bateman,g . 0 1 0 .Tones'c l o J Wrcner.e ... 1 l i Mtchcll.E ... 1 1 1 Totals . 6 4 7! Totals 8 2 7 Referee -John Schommrr 'Chicaeoi. umpire—H. C. Warren (South Bendt. St. Joseph Bows Timex Special COLLEGEVILLE. Dec. 3.—An aggressive Anderson College quintet upset St. Joseph's College in its first basketball game of the season here last night. 25 to 23. Anderson, ahead 15 to 7 at the half, took an early lead and never was headed. Gaffney was high point man for St. Josephs, while Frost, Falken and Byrd looked best for the visitors. guardsmen win _ shoot State Detachment Marksmen Defeat Danville Rifle Club. The Indiana National Guard team, state detachment, outshot the Danville Rifle Club, 463 to 447, in % Central Indiana Rifle League match at the Armory last night. Newlin, with 94 out of 100. was high for the Soldiers, w’hile Dorsett shot an identical score to lead the visitors.

Holy Cross vs. Holy Cross By I tiitrd Press SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 3.—Holy Cross College of Worcester, Mass., today appeared certain to get a bid as Eastern representative in a proposed intersectional football game between leading Catholic schools of the East and West Coasts, providing a suitable financial guarantee can be arranged. Ed Anderson, head coach of Holy Cross, informed local officials that Holy Cross was “very much interested.” It was presumed the Pacific Coast, team would be St. Mary’s, strongest of the western Catholic elevens. TOWNSEND BOYS PACE MICHIGAN TO VICTORY Time* Special GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dec. 3 Brothers Earl and Johnnie Townsend from Indianapolis set the scoring pace as the University of Michigan basketball team opened its season with a 42-27 victory over Calvin College here last night. Earl was high point man with 14.