Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 232, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1935 — Page 36

Boxers of Today Not Equal to Old-Timers That’s Opinion of Local Ring Veteran Who Trained Jack Dillon and Other ‘Name’ Boys/

BV TOM OCHILTREE M. GAYLOR, the gray fox of the squared circle, wouldn't give you a dime a dozen for the current crop of heavyweights, or any other weights for that matter. It is hard to understand why Mr. Gaylor goes to boxing shows any more, they make him so sad. I suppose, though, he feels like the old fire horse pulling the milk wagon—he has an urge when they ring the bell. • None of the boys learn the science of the game any more,” he lamented today as he gazed at the ceiling of his home, 2229 Shelby-st. ■‘What, do v ou see now? Nothing but a bunch of hitless, clinching jump-ing-lacks!” The only exception he makes to this general indictment is Joe Louis. Mr Gaylor admits the Negro title contender is good, but adds that this boy wouldn't have been any different from the rest is Ja<ck Blackburn hadn t brought lnm along. a a an n n NOW Mr. Gaylor isn't talking through his wrinkled brown cap when he makes these statements. For more than 40 years he taught boxing in this city to the greats and near greats of the ring, and he knew many of the champions of the past He blames the World War for the decline cf the sport. Before that time, he points out, there only were a few places in the country where matches legally could be held, and there was no great demand for fighters. The few men who did make a living out of their fists learned all they could about the trade. “In the last 15 years the sport has become popular. The promoters have begged lor talent,” he said. "To meet this demand managers picked up healthy boys, shoved them into the ring, and never troubled to have them taught the science of self-defense.” Mr. Gaylor thinks the boys now have just as much heart as the oldtimers. but he would like to see someone who could counter like Jim Corbett. u n b ana IT seems there has been a great change in the public’s attitude toward the manly art. and Mr. Gaylor knows all about that. too. He went to jail back in 1888 for meeting Peter Treeter in an 11-round match. Treeter outweighed him 31 pounds, and the mer. used gloves that had all the padding pushed back from the knuckles. The fight was carried nut with great secrecy. No one knew about it but the gamblers, saloon keepers, some 200 spectators and the newspapers. While the reporters covered the battle in great detail, the local editors viewed the whole thing with a tremendous amount of alarm. A headline of the day described the contest as ‘‘A Bloody Fist Encounter.” and in the story was the statement that “among the crowd were professional and business men, gentlemen who have a good standing in the community.” “O temporal O mores!” b a a b b b THE most startling piece of descriptive writing dealt with the garb of Mr. Gaylor as he entered the ring. “He was stripped to the waist and wore dark blue knickerbockers, red stockings and lawn tennis shoes,” it read. It was no wonder, then, that the papers finally got both men indicted by the grand jury. They were the only two ever convicted under the stale prize fight law. There seemed to be a sharp differentiation between boxing exhibitions and prize fights. For years Mr. Gaylor gave shows with his pupils and had little difficulty with the law. When the women's societies were out doing reforming, however, the helmeted police used to warn him that if any of his students drew blood in these contests of skill and science, they would all go to the lock-up. Naturally, this proved to be a source of no end of worry to both pupils and teacher. Sometimes a boy almost would be afraid to mate a pass at his opponent's nose. B B B B B B JACK DILLON, a middleweight who used to batter up bigger, heavier men for a living, and Young Saylors, a fine lightweight, were pupiis of Mr. Gaylor. His fame sread so far he was described in the Police Gazette as “the pet of Indiana sports.” That was another funny thing about fight reporting in the nineties. People who went to boxing matches always were described as “sports ” a doubtful compliment. B B B n B B OF all the great, fighters in the past, Mr. Gaylor rates Corbett as the most scientific, and thinks Bob Fitzsimmons was the best all-around man. Peter Jackson and Jack Johnson were the greatest Negro heavyweights. and Joe Gans rightly may be called “the old master.” he said. Among the little boys, he liked Billy Plimmer, an English bantamweight champion. “Yes. those were the days. It's too bad we don't have fighters like that now." he sighed. "I would like to go to just one more match and see boxers who can punch straight—boys who knew how to use their feet."

Big Ten Cagers Launch Season on Five Fronts Indiana Takes On Ball State Tonight; Northwestern and Minnesota on Edge. Bjf T'pitctf Press CHICAGO, Doe. 6—Five Big Ten basketball teams will open their 1935-36 seasons this week-end. Indiana and Northwestern inaugurate their schedules tonight against Ball state and Carleton College, respectively. Wisconsin will meet Michigan State at the same time biu. the game will be the second for th<* Badgers. They beat De Pauw last Monday.

Minnesota. Chicago and Illinois will get under way for the first time tomorrow night. The Gophers play Cornell College, the Maroons will meet De Paul and the Illini will take on St. Louis University. Michigan, with a victory over Calvin College to its credit, will tackle Michigan Normal tomorrow night. Ohio State and Purdue will wait until next week to open their schedules, the Boilermakers tackling Western State Dec. 9 and the Buckeyes meeting George Washington Dec. 12. lowa, which lost its opener to Milliken last Saturday, will not play again until Dec. 10. when it meets Carleton. Notre Dame is scheduled for a double-header tomorrow night

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| against St. Joseph's College and Milliken. The Irish have won their first three games by wide margins. CROSLY IS NAMED Tom Crosley today became student manager of > the Washington High School basketball team. He was appointed by Justin C. Marshall, Continental athletic director. Walter Bainiaka. junior, and George Oren. sophomore, will assist Crosley.

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LOU SPIVEY, one of the leaders in the state three-cushion billiard tourney, gives you a pictorial lesson on how to negotiate a masse shot. The object here is to put spin on the white cue ball so that it will circle around and strike squarely between the black ball and the other white one. Spivey, defending champion, has won three matches and is undefeated in the tourney, which is a round robin affair. He is exceeded only by Larry Shapiro who lists four straight victories. In last night’s tourney match Phil Greenberger chalked up his first victory in five starts wnen ne downed Harry Cooler, 50 to 36, at Cooler’s parlor The contest required 82 innings.

HUNTINGTON FIVE WINS Defeats Battle Creek, 27-26, in Thrilling Late Rally. Timet Special HUNTINGTON. Dec. 6.—Staging a rally in the second half, Huntington College's basketball squad nosed

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out the Battle Creek (Mich.) quintet here last night, 27 to 26. The visitors got away to an 8-to-3 lead early in the tilt, and they were I on the sunny side of a 17-to-15 score ! at intermission. Pegan paced Huntington, and Ealy looked best for the losers.

H. S. Circuit Ratings Due for Shuffle Twelve Important Games to Affect Conference Net Races. At least 12 games are on schedule for this week-end which are likely to cause a general shuffle in the standings of five of Hoosierdom’s six major high school basketball conferences. Virtually all league competition is centered in Central and Northern sections of the state, with but two southern league games—Vincennes at Washington tonight and Central of Evansville at Sullivan on Saturday—scheduled. Newcastle will entertain Ander- I son tonight in a North Central Con- j ference game. Others are Richmond at Jefferson of Lafayette, Logans- I port at Marion. Muncie at Frankfort and Tech at Kokomo. Heavy Action Up North Five Northern Indiana Conference games are scheduled. Froebel of Gary, champions of the Western Division, invades Valparaiso. Emerson of Gary, entertains Washington of East Chicago; Hammond High plays at Roosevelt of East Chicago, and Central Catholic of Hammond engages Whiting at Whiting tonight. Other games include: Alexandria at Wabash and Bluffton at Hartford City tonight are the only games scheduled in the Central and Northeastern Conferences, respectively. Other Games TONlGHT—Bedford at Seymour, Manual (Indianapolis) vs. Ben Davis, Washington (Indianapolis) at Mooresville, Clinton at Garfteld (Terre Haute), La Porte at Decatur. West Lafayette at Lebanon, Thorton Fractional at Hammond Tech, Plymouth at Goshen, Washington (South Bend) vs. Central (South Bend), North Side (Fort Wayne) vs. Central (Fort Wayne), Butler at South Side (Fort Wayne). Franklin at Columbus, Rochester at Mishawaka, Shortridge (Indianapolis) at Greenfield. Bosse (Evansville), at Petersburg, Sullivan at Brazil, Bicknell at Bloomfield, Garrett at Columbia City, Rushville at Connersville, Boonville at Central) lEvansvllle), Reitz (Evansville), at Carmi, 111.; New Albany at Corydon, Warsaw at Huntington, Martinsille at Shelbyville, LaGrange at Elkhart, Nappanee at Kendallville. SATURDAY—Ossian at Berne, Washington ( Indianapolisi at Southport (Indianapolis). La Porte at Central (Fort Wayne), South Side (Fort Wayne), at Michigan City. Auburn at Riley (South Bendi, Elmhurst at Central Catholic (Fort Wayne), Concord at Elkhart. Columbia City at Larwill. Winchester at Richmond. Linton at Dugger. Old Gold Netters „ Given Long Rest De Pauw Taking It Easy’ as Manchester Tilt Nears. Times Special GREENCASTLE, Dec. 6.—Apparently satisfied with De Pauw’s showing against Beloit and Wisconsin, Coach D. C. Moffett held the Old Gold netters’ workouts to a minimum this week as he prepared for the first home game Monday against Manchester. Wednesday was a day of idleness, and Thursday the squad went through a light offensive session. No workout was planned for today. De Pauw dropped a close decision to Wisconsin Monday, 18-16. then beat Beloit, 39-16. The offense did not click, but the rough spots should not click, but the rough spots should Moore and Mason, have been in the lineup longer, Coach Moffett believes. Manchester invades, Monday night, with a team of unknown strength. LOUIS’ KIN JAILED By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—Booker Trotter, 35, brother-in-law of Joe Louis, Negro heavyweight championship contender, began serving 10 days in the county jail today for reckless driving.

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Orlando Golfer Begin Second 18-Hole Round

By United Press ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 6. —Survivors of the original field of 156 professional and amateur golfing entries today teed off in pursuit of Tony Manero, Greensboro (N. C.) professional, who yesterday set the pace in the S2OOO Orlando Open with a sub-par round of 68. ’ A round of 18 holes will be played today, before the final 36 tomorrow’ winds up the jump-off of the rich Florida winter golf circuit, this year worth $19,000 in prize money.

Manero flashed a brilliant short game to tour the outgoing nine in 33 and return in 35 for a card of 68, three under par, topping a field which numbered most of the nation's champions. Five Tied for Second Five were tied for second, one stroke behind the pace-setting Manero. They were Roy Horan of Orlando, A. R. Thom of Lancaster, Pa.; “Light Horse” Harry Cooper of Chicago, Jimmy Thompson of Ridgewood, N. J., and Ky Laffoon of Chicago. Paul Runyan of White Plains. N. Y.; Alvin Kreuger of Beloit, Wis., and Tony Penna of Pensacola. Fla., each turned in 70s, to complete the total of nine sub-par cards in the opening round. At par figures were Frank Moore of St. Louis and A. C. Fondevin of Memphis. Sam Parks Trails A dozen golfers w’ere bunched at 72. They were Zell Eaton of Oklahoma City, who is making his debut at a pro; Claude Harmon, Orlando amateur; Bobby Cruickshank of Richmond, Va.; Billy Burke of Cleveland, Willie MacFarlane of Tuckahoe, N. Y.; Wiffy Cox of Washington, Roland MacKenzie of Chevy Chase, Md.; Johnny Revolta of Miami, Al Nelson of Hopewell. N. J.; Joe Ezar of Louisville, Bill Kaiser of Louisville, and Herb Johnson of Hinsdale, 111. Sam Parks Jr., national open champion, remained within striking distance of the leaders with a card of 74.

Old Friends Meet as Rivals at Bloomington

Times Special T>LOOMINGTON. Ind., Dec. 6. A reunion flavor will be attached to the basketball game between Indiana University and Ball State here tonight. Branch McCracken, Bail State mentor, used to be an all-confer-ence star for Coach Dean at Indiana. Marvin Stout, Cardinal sophomore, is a brother of Lester Stout, Indiana regular. Lackey of Ball State and Gunning of the Crimson used to play high school basketball together at Shelbyville.

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Every Man a Torch Slinger A lighted torch will be carried by a relag of 3000 runners from Olympia in Grrece, site of the ancient, Olympic games, to the Berlin Stadium, inhere the anchor man will arrive in time to light the giant Olympic torch for the opening of the 1936 games.

Reeves Agrees to Tug With Parker Bout Billed as Semi-Windup on Hall Program. Tarzan Reeves, of Cincinnati, signed today to meet Sailor Parker, of Parkersburg, west. Va., in the semi-final of the wrestling show at Tomlinson Hall Monday night. The main event is a rematch of last week's feature bout, pitting Eddie Pope of New’ York against Pete Sherman of Kansas City. Sherman was awarded the deciding fall in a hotly contested match that ended in a dispute. Both men requested a return bout. Gus Johnson, newcomer from Chicago, will make his bow against an opponent yet to be signed in the one-fall opener* Tulane U. Will Hire New Football Coach By United Press NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 6—The Tulane University Athletic Council today announced it would engage a new football coach, but would retain present members of the coaching staff, including Ted Cox, who has been head football coach for the past two seasons. The announcement was taken to indicate that Cox would be replaced as head coach and that he would resume his former job as line coach, which he held under the regime of Bernie Bierman, now coaching at Minnesota. CE N TRAL NORM AiTfTvE OPENS WITH VICTORY Times Special RENSSELAER. Ind., Dec. 6.—The basket snipers of Central Normal College opened their season here last night by defeating St. Joseph’s College, 33 to 22. The Purple warriors scored on long shots and held a 22-to-7 lead at half time. The local squad then came back strong, but was stopped when tne teachers’ defense tightened. Englehart, with four field goals and two charity tosses, was high point man for the victors.

Local College Rivals Keyed for Next Fray Greyhounds Point to Spring Surprise: Butler Crew Tapers Off. In a light workout this afternoon, the Butler University hardwood j squad completed preparations for its I opening game of the season tomor- ! row night against Indiana Central. | The contest starts at 8 in the Fairj view Fieldhouse. Coach Tony Hinkle stressed passing and shooting in the drill today and worked to develop more speed. A heavy scrimmage was held yesterday. and Coaeh Kinkie didn't appear entirely satisfied with what ha saw. Guard Berth Open. One guard position still is open, but only two men probably will sea action at that post tomorrow. Both players. Earl Gerkensmeyer. a jun- : ior, and Arthur Cosgrove, a senior, 1 have been matching stride for stride • and shot for shot in their efforts | to get the position. The Greyhounds of Indiana Cenj tral have played six early season ; games, winning them all by large j scores. The Butler game is their first major engagement of the seaI son. The boys have been pointing for weeks for the game and hope to surprise their city rivals. Other State Games Huntington will play Manchester at North Manchester and Taylor will meet Earlham at Richmond in state college conference games tonight. Wabash, defending conference champion, will face Oakland City at Crawfordsville tomorrow night in its first game of the season. Probable starting lineup: Butler. Batts F Quackrnbush Gerkensmeyer .... F Dorton. Armstrong C Bvers Brafford G *Sanlc Jones . G Eaton LEWIS SPILLS SZABO PITTSBURGH. Dec. 6.—Strangler Lewis, 248, pinned Sandor Szabo, 215. in 33 minutes in the feature bout of a wrestling program here last nignt.

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