Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 248, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1935 — Page 18

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By Eddie Ash TRIBUTE TO FAMOUS PLAYERS Mom PICKING FIRST TEN IS TASK

JX Cooperstown, N. Y., the cradle of baseball, it is planned to establish a baseball museum and hall of fame where the names of the diamond “greats” are to be emblazoned. The first group honored is to consist of ten players of the last 36 years and five names are to be added eacn year, giving the current idols a chance to be listed later. Baseball writers throughout the country are to be asked to vote on their favorite “first ten.” It’s a difficult task and it's going to be interesting to see what names are to be “first home” at Cooperstown. The writer thinks Tv Cobb is the No. 1 pastimer since 1900, with Babe Ruth No. 2, NDth outfielders. Honus Wagner, shortstop, looks like the No. 3 choice and Nap Lajoie. second baseman. No. 4. Then four pitchers, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson. Cy Young and Grover Alexander, followed by Rogers Hornsby, second sacker, and George Sisler, first baseman. Limiting the first selections to 10 is a rather odd fashion of inaugurating the tribute. Among others worthy of the honor are Rube Waddell, Ed Walsh. Chief Bender. Rube Marquard. Mordecai Brown, Roger Bresnahan, Eddie Collins, Tris Speaker. Jimmy Collins, Ed Delahanty and Willie Keeler. Perhaps in later years, the names of all of the truly famous will appear on the historical list at Cooperstown.

tt tt tt AFTER the diamond aces performing since 1900 are chosen for the Hall of Fame, a vote will be taken on the heroes of the early baseball era, the "pioneers." Five are to be named and we suggest the following: A. G. Spalding and Amos Rusie, pitchers; Mike (King) Kelly, catcher; A. C. (Cap) Anson, first baseman, and John McGraw, third baseman. tt tt tt MOON MULLINS. Vincennes boxer, is going to get a chance to w’in the featherweight championship of Illinois. He is matched to battle Young Rightmire over the 12-round rcute in Chicago next Monday. A titular belt is to be presented the winner by Barney Ross, world welter champ. tt tt a JOE LOUIS' next victim is named Charlie Retzlaff. They are to square off in Chicago on Jan. 17. One thing to Charlie's credit is that he docs not describe himself as a "white hope." All he hopes is -hat when he hits the deck it won't be on his kisser. tt tt u When Southern Methodist tackles Stanford in the Rose Bowl on New Year’s it will he the thirteenth game for the 1933 Mustangs. The superstitious may get a hunch out of that. The Mustangs ai undefeated and untied. a a tt The Boston Red Sox won 28 games by one run last season and lost 17. That’s where Jimmy Foxx’ big bat is sure to give the Beantowners a bigger bulge next year. a tt tt CHARLIE GRIMM, manager of the Chicago Cubs, is in a pickle. He'd like to play Santa Claus, but it would be at a cost of S6OO. When three of his players were fined S2OO each for fussing with Umpire Moriarty in the World Series, Good Time Charlie said, “It’s outrageous. I’ll pay the fines myself.’’ Woody English, Bill Jurges and Billy Herman still are waiting for Santa Claus to come around the bend. tt tt a Harry Kruskamp. the rassler, is spending Christmas on the “down under" side of the world. He is in Melbourne. Australia. a tt tt Cheerful news for college gridders. Stars from the campus who are selected to play in the AllStar game in Chicago next August are to be paid $250 each instead of the usual SIOO. Peacock Entered in K. C. Feature Temple Negro to Compete at New York. Bit r nited I’n*s NEW YORK. Dec. 25.—Eulace Peacock, Temple University Negro sprinter, who won the national 100meter title last July, will make his 1936 indoor debut at the Columbus Council. Knights of Columbus track and field meet on Jan. 4, it was announced today. Peacock, who whipped Ralph Metcalfe and Jesse Owens, Negro stars, in the nationals, probably will meet his stiffest opposition in that meet from Sam Maniaci. last year's winner when Peacock placed third. The K of C. meet will open the important pre-Olympic indoor season.

Bambino Wants to Get Back in Baseball, but Can’t Find an Opening.

tiu Unit ad Press NEW YORK. Dec. 25.—Babe Ruth would like to get back into baseball in some capacity “but right now I don't see how I'm going to do it.” the one-time New York Yankee home run king said today. “Nope, I'm not considering any good offers right now,” he added somewhat disconsolately. “I have no plans. Don't know what I'm going to do next year—probably just play golf.” What about that proposed trip to England to make the British baseball conscious? The Babe didn't think he would make that trip. “I wasn't so hdt for it. anyway.” he explained. What about rumors that he might oecome sort of a baseball czar in Japan? “Just rumors.” he said. Despite his unfortunate experience with the Boston Braves. Ruth said he still would like to remain connected with baseball. “Baseball's been my life. But right now I don't see how I'm going to do it.” Ruth said he intended leaving for St. Petersburg. Fla., on January 14. YEAR-AROUND PARK With night baseball assured for next year. Engel Stadium in Chattanooga. Term., is likely to become a 12-month amusement center. The park will be leased for boxing, wrestling and other forms of summer sport when the club is on the road and for football in the fall and winter. HARNESS HORSES INCREASE The list of harness horses in the 2:10 class increased by more than .T>o during the last season. Most of them were two and three-year Q'.ds.

’WHOOP M HITS MrVNjQF LEADING coaches BY EDDIE CAMERON Coach, Duke University THE groundwork for this play, used against a man-to-man defense, is laid as offensive players, X-l and X-3, pass the ball back and forth once or twice on their way up court. As the play proper starts. X-l receives the ball from X-3 and passes quickly to X-2, who fakes giving it to X-l as the latter goes past him, X-2 passes backhand to X-3, who has pulled over to the right of the court. < J-x-i,o\ “ io\ ; X*@ jJ * > g X-3 passes to X-l, who is breaking toward the basket. X-4 shifts away from the play to take his defensive man with him, getting ready to follow the shot if X-l misses. Success of this play depends on X-l and X-3 drawing attention of the defense to their slow passing back and forth before start of play. (Copyright. 1935, NEA Service. Inc.)

Discovery Outstanding in Livelier Year at Tracks Horse Racing Enjoys Most Prosperous Season Since 1930; Vanderbilt Stable Is Rated First. BY THOMAS H. NOONE United Press Racing Editor NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Thoroughbred racing in 1935 enjoyed its most prosperous year since 1930 when the depression all but crippled the sport by the withdrawal of several prominent sportsmen from the game, a

survey of records discloses. While there were no Man O’ Wars to capture the imagination of turf followers, the various divisions produced creditable representatives, and a 21-year six furlong world's track record was broken. A record number of dead heats, numerous disqua’ideations and many deaths were written into the records, and attendance and belting figures at the various tracks throughout the nation showed marked increases. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt’s Discovery, 4-year-old son of DisplayAriadne, was the undisputed champion thoroughbred of the year. With the enforced retirement of Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Cavalcade, Discovery’s nemesis in 1934. the Vanderbilt colt had a clear path to the title, winning 11 of his 19 starts and purses amounting to $102,455. Discovery Slow at Start Discovery was late coming to hand. He finished out of the money in his seasonal debut in the Toboggan Handicap at Belmont Park on May 15 and also was beaten in four subsequent races. On June 22 the stout-hearted champion found his stride at Aqueduct and won his first race, beating the fleet King Saxon and Omaha without effort. His winning string of eight, including the Detroit Challenge Cup, the Stars and Stripes, the Butler Handicap, a handicap at Suffolk Downs, the Arlington Handicap, the Wilson Stakes, and the Merchants and Citizens Handicap at Saratoga, was not broken until Aug. 21. when A. A. Baroni's Top Row beat him at Narragansett Park. Aug. 21. He returned to winning form in the Whitney Stakes at Saratoga and added the Hawthorne Gold Cup to his record before again meeting defeat by Top Row in the Massachusetts Handicap on Oct. 16. On Oct. 22 he won the Cincinnati Handicap by 12 lengths in the mud and returned to Maryland, his native state, where he finished out of the money in the Washington Handicap at Laurel before retiring for the season. Omaha Best 3-Year-Old William Woodward's Omaha, with earnings of $142,255. was the largest money-winning thoroughbred and without question the outstanding 3-year-old. Duplicating the feat of Gallant Fox. his sire, who in 1932 w'on the Kentucky Derby. Preakness and Belmont Stakes, Omaha lacked the glamorous appeal of his illustrious daddy, but beat the best of his age before a mysterious ailment caused his retirement in the late summer. Marshall Fields Tintagel was best of a poor lot of 2-year-olds. The babv son of Sir Galahad 111Heloise earned $76,270, most of which came through his victory in the Belmont Futurity. Grand Slam, a Chance Play colt, was closely the Reid colt for juvenile

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Illinois and Trojans Sign Football Pact Big Elevens Get Together On Dates; Notre Dame Included. Timet Special CHAMPAIGN, 111., Dec. 25,—Announcement that Illinois has scheduled a second home-and-home football series with Southern California in 1939 and 1940 has met with enthusiastic approval on the local campus and among followers of the Ulini fortunes around the country. News that gridiron relations with the Trojans will be continued after a lapse of two years adds to the already high interest in the coming of Southern California to the Illinois stadium Oct. 10 next fall.' Travel to Coast The Ulini will travel to Los Angeles for a game on Oct. 14 in 1939 and the Trojans will return to the Illinois stadium on Oct. 12 in 1940. Announcement in Los Angeles that Bob Zuppke would bring his Illini back in 1939 was welcomed heartily, for the Coast is still talking of their sparkling performance last October. Members of the Illinois squad who traveled to Los Angeles, mindful of their enjoyment of the trip, lamented that they would not have an opportunity to make it for the second time. It will be something for the next three crops of freshman football candidates to look forward to, since members of the classes which enter the university in 1936, 1937 and 1938 will have their chance to compete for a berth on the journey to the Coast in 1939. Games With Irish After the present series with Southern California closes next season with their appearance here, the Illini will play Notre Dame in 1937 and 1938. The Irish will come to the Illinois stadium in 1937 and will entertain the Illini at South Bend in 1938. Although the Trojans were below their traditional strength last sea-, son, their freshman team was reputed to be the best in their history. MIAMI TRACK COACH TO WATCH OLYMPICS George Rider, Miami University of Ohio athletics director and track coach, plans to go to Berlin for the Olympics. He hopes one of his Miami athletes, Andsen Oliver, Dayton Negro dash man and hurdler, will make the team.

honors with a total of $68,095 in purses. Snapback, racing in the colors of the Sanford Stud, is given the rating as leading steeplechaser wiih earnings of $7,925 for the year. Vanderbilt Wins $302,955 A. G. Vanderbilt headed the list of money-winning owners with a total of $302,955. The stable accounted for 88 races, 68 seconds and 78 thirds. Hirsch Jacobs, who trains for the B. B. Stable, W. N. Adrians and Damon Runyon, led the list of trainers for the third consecutive year. He saddled the winners of more than a hundred races. Wayne D. Wright, with 182 win- ; ners to his credit, was the recog- ! nized jockey champion at the close I of the Eastern racing season late in I November. The longest-priced straight mutuel was paid when Printempts, at $500.24 for $2, won at Washington Park. 111., early in June. The largest daily d0ub1e—57,204.40 for $2 — was paid at Tropical Park in March. A record number of dead heats ! were run when judges at various ; tracks were unable to name the acj tual winner in 12 races. Fouls in 80 Races Disqualifications also were numerous. At least 80 races were won on technicalities. Anew world record for six furj longs were established when Clang defeated Myrtle Wood at that dis- | tance in a match race at Coney ! Island. 0.. on Oct. 11. Clang I dashed the six panels in 1:09 1-5, i two-fifths of a second faster than the mark set by Iron Mask at Juarez in 1914. Attendance and betting increased ! seven' per cent over 1934 at the various tracks throughout the country. In Maryland a total of $27,200,977 was wagered at the four major tracks, an increase of $1,893.I 180 over last year. No official at- | tendance figures were available, but an unofficial estimate shows an increase over the depression years. STANDINGS IN C. I. C. | Noblesville and Tipton Leading in State Basket League. Time* Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind.. Dec. 25. Standings in the Central Indiana Conference basketball race up to date: W. L. Pet. Noblesville l o 1000 Tipton 1 o 1000 i Rochester 3 l .750 Wabash 3 1 ,667 Peru 2 1 .667 Warsaw 1 1 .500 Huntington 1 2 .333 Plymouth 0 1 .000 Alexandria 0 2 .000 El wood 0 2 .000 REFEREE FOR 32 YEARS Referee Jim Masker has been officiating football games for 32 I years. He's considered one of the I best, in fact one of the few really good ones, in the Big Ten.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1935

Keeping Busy With Boilermakers

jrrrrr" — - Aim of Recreation Association. BY TOM OCHILTREE B|r /CONTRARY to a general belief, B| m§|| T x Robert K. Murray, field secre- B| naggk tary for the National Recreation |H&. Mgfah 1 At Association, do. - not br-h-ne Amor- BEL HL Om fi port nu*:red the EHkt Wm Sm * tertainment" era. Hp Hj WS fgjgjsKj ipH The direct opposite is true, he StßtHmmL. t UWB claims, and the old English ideal of |||r . -4' more nearly is being realized every E||: year. To prove >h: ere- ion Mr M:;r- ||||| 4lfj 9k. jH ray points professional Hgf jUH f ' \ml ba eball slipped in many cities JH vHj ciurine the last few '.ears. If** ' / ggkvjaOT HHr 'isß "Instead of thousands of people iw| spend;:.- Mv af:ernoon wruclung 18 ' " graSgKHgp nfll men perform, you will find many of f®p| them on park and sanolot diamonds Mg %. ■ "jMSa Playing games of softball or baseball " - 'W''fSg . .% ’liß for themselves." ‘ yS . 'M 9g| The tremendous growth of golf - and the development of industrial basketball, softball and volleyball teams are other indications of this v f‘ change. K MM ■ He admits, however, a certain 'T'HE busy Boilermakers are in amount, of prejudice on this subject, A for some heavy buzzing this .illll since his organization is in the midst , .. . , llt 6 _ of a big “give athletics back to the Week as they tangle wlth Call “ people" campaign. fornia’s Bears at Lafayette tomor- yM tt a a row night, then take off for the " T' / TMHE National Recreation Asso- east t 0 tof>b New York u - and ‘ | ciation. believing that juvenile Temple. Anxious to keep going delinquency could, to a large meas- at the speed gained in the 54-40 ure, be halted by proper supervision victory over Notre Dame are of chiluhood leisure, began several Robert Smith showing yo’ he -e MKH| grounds. Meeting with success in a Purdue guard looks on the that field, the organization then offensive, and Austin (Red) Lamturned to the problem of adult rec- bert, "statue-ing” a Purdue guard reation. on the defensive. Smith hails It is Mr. Murray s job to teach from Anderson and is starting his grown men and women how to plav. S ° n a^ a 1S starting hls He doesn't care whether you go in sccond year on the varslt y- Lam-forpin-the-tail-on-the-donkcy.com- lx ' rl name3 Hal l his home town, niunitv folk singing or football, just and is going on year No. 3. Both . ... T " as long as you have fun. are six-footers. f „ Asserting that industry probably will meet the nrnhlem r>f

More Games ‘Let the People Play/ 1s Aim of Recreation Association.

BY TOM OCHILTREE /CONTRARY to a general belief, Robert K. Murray, field secretary for the National Recreation Association, does not believe American sports have entered the “entertainment" era. The direct opposite is true, he claims, and the old English ideal of a sport and a game for every one more nearly is being realized every year. To prove this contention Mr. Murray points out that professional baseball has slipped in many cities during the last few years. "Instead of thousands of people spending the afternoon watching 18 men perform, you will find many of them on park and sandlot diamonds playing games of softball or baseball for themselves.” The tremendous growth of golf and the development of industrial basketball, softball and volleyball teams are other indications of this change. He admits, however, a certain amount of prejudice on this subject, since his organization is in the midst of a big “give athletics back to the people" campaign. tt tt tt THE National Recreation Association, believing that juvenile delinquency could, to a large measure, be halted by proper supervision of childhood leisure, began several years ago to fight for public playgrounds. Meeting with success in that field, the organization then turned to the problem of adult recreation. It is Mr. Murray’s job to teach grown men and women how to play. He doesn't care whether you go in for pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey, community folk singing or football, just as long as you have fun. Asserting that industry probably will meet the problem of technological unemployment by shortening hours, he explains that this new leisure must be directed in proper channels. Problem 2 in his job is to show people how to have fun at home. The average adult, he claims, has no idea how to spend his leisure time. Most people's idea of amusement is to pay to see some spectacle. Asa field secretary he spends most of his time traveling around the country teaching Works Progress Administration county supervisors and community house leaders how to conduct athletic contests and develop programs. t> tt tt TN addition, Mr. Murray is a sports A vivisectionist. He constantly is taking standard games, breaking them down into various component parts and building up new ones. Either by accident, or by planning, this is the way most sports were born. He shows that tennis and volleyball are, in reality, the same game. Both are classified as “resistance” contests, but where one has developed into a struggle of individuals or pairs, the other has become a team sport. Cricket and baseball are examples of games that sprung from a common source and through modification developed in different directions. Experts in this field also spend a lot of time explaining the mass psychology behind sports. “People, worried by the depression, needed a game which would force them to concentrate for several hours at a time and jig-saw puzzles came into their own,” he didn't enjoy much popularity until that time.” tt u n PEOPLE get tired of playing under the same old rules and constantly change them a little. This, he says, keeps a game alive. Take whist. It develops into auction bridge, and when that game began to fade, contract was invented. New duplicate bridge is displacing contract. Some bright young reporter nicknamed Mr. Murray “the man of 5000 games,” and he admits plaving everything from weiki, a Chinese chess game that is very strange, indeed. to good, old bean bag. ‘I play more golf than anything else,” he adds, “since I do that best.” A game that has no strategy and calls for no great degree of skill never lasts long, he says. Miniature golf was like that. After you played it a couple of times you felt a little silly. CARAiT ACCEPTS TITLE CLASH WITH RUDOLPH Timet Special WILMINGTON, Del., Dec. 25. The willingness of Jimmy Caras, newly crowned pocket billiards champ, to take on all comers resulted today in the arrangement of a challenge title match with Erwin Rudolph. Rudolph, four times former champion, was defeated by Caras in the national tourney. The match is to be played in Philadelphia in April, after Caras completes an exhibition tour. TRANSFERRED TO HOUSTON Outfielder Bob Worthington, recalled from Oakland of the Pacific Coast League, has been transferred to their Houston Texas League farm by the St. Louis Cardinals.

'T'HE busy Boilermakers are in for some heavy buzzing this week as they tangle with California’s Bears at Lafayette tomorrow night, then take off for the east to test New York U. and Temple. Anxious to keep going at the speed gained in the 54-40 victory over Notre Dame are Robert Smith, showing you here how a Purdue guard looks on the offensive, and Austin (Red) Lambert, “statue-ing” a Purdue guard on the defensive. Smith hails from Anderson and is starting his second year on the varsity. Lambert names Hall his home town, and is going on year No. 3. Both are six-footers.

‘Midget’ Ohio State Five Counts Entirely on Speed Bucks and Notre Dame Have Plenty of Veterans,, but Some Sophomores Make Grade. BY WINTHROP LYMAN United Pres, Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Dec. 25.—Lacink height, the Ohio State basketball team will depend on speed in the Big Ten race this season. The Buckeyes lost out for a tie in the title chase last year because of a one-point defeat by Purdue late in the season.

Six lettermen are back. They are Captain Warren Whitlinger, third high scorer in the Conference a year ago; Bruce Laybourne, forward; Sam Busich, center; Earl Thomas, center; William (Tippy) Dye, guard, and Inwood Smith, guard. In preliminary games so far, the starting lineup has consisted of Whitlinger and Jim McDonald, a sophomore, forwards; romas, center; Dye and Jack Ttr ebaugh, another sophomore, gua’ ts. Whitlinger is only five feet six, but his speed and uncanny accuracy has made him one of the best players in the Conference. Dye is five feet six and Radebaugh is only five feet eight. Thomas is six feet three but is small compared to most of the Conference centers and therefore handicapped on the tipoff. Reserve material is ordinary. Ohio State’s Conference opponents will be Wisconsin, Purdue, lowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Indiana. u tt tt How Irish Stuck Up ONE of the highest scoring teams in Notre Dame’s history apparently is the goal this season of Coach George Keogan. Although seven letter winners are available, Keogan has been using five sophomores to good advantage. The veterans around whom the team is being built are John Ford and Marty Peters, centers; Frank Wade, George Ireland and Donald Allen, guards, and John Hopkins, forward. John Moir. Niagara Falls, N. Y„ and Ray Meyer, Chicago, both sophomores, have been alternating at one of the forward positions. Paul Nowak, six-foot-six center from South Bend, is being given a trial as substitute center while Thomas Wukovitz. South Bend, and Thomas Jordan. Chicago, two more sophomores, appear certain to win their letters at guard. Notre Dame has taken on an. ambitious 25-game schedule for the season. Opponents include Purdue, Northwestern, Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Marquette, Pennsylvania, Syracuse, Butler, Illinois, Kentucky, New York University, Ohio State and Detroit. The Irish defeated Northwestern in an early game, but lost to Purdue, 54-40, FLAHERTY TO DIRECT BOSTON PRO ELEVEN Timet Special BOSTON, Dec. 25.—Ray Flaherty. who has been assistant coach of the New York Giants pro football team for two years, is to transfer his talents to Boston next fall. Flaherty has signed to succeed Eddie Casey as head coach of the Boston Redskins of the National pro league. He is a graduate of Gonzaga University in Washington.

CONSERVATION GAINS Times Special HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 25. Due to “over-population” of deer in 14 counties of Pennsylvania, the state was forced to throw open those counties to doe hunting. The,season was a three-day affair.

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Why Stengel Was Fooled Last spring the Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the Detroit Tigers four in a row in exhibition games aud this led Manager Casey Stengel to believe he had■ a first, division elub. It was a distorted view. His team folded during the regular season.

Next Grand Circuit Classic Here to Be Tops Over All, Is Word From ‘Stabletown’ Two Harness Programs at Fairground Likely, Blacksmith Hints; Culvert for Track and Five New Stables Going Up. BY PAUL BOXELL There’s a winter stove league in Indianapolis that has nothing to do with baseball. This league has to do with horses—harness horses, to ba exact. The league is situated in "Stabletown" at the state fairground, where the “citizens” handle horses a,nd talk horses the whole year round. Right now. in the off-season, when you have forgotten all about th*. sulkies and silks shining in a bright sun. they are living the game at \ the fairground—buying and selling, strengthening and conditioning, ' keeping everything in shape for next year's meetings.

Trotting and pacing gossip hums lively just about all day long around the big iron stove in the shoeing shop, with Clarence Cole, the dean of the stables, presiding. Mr. Cole is the village blacksmith, and if there is anything you want to know about man, beast or stall in those parts, he can teil you. He has been there 25 years. The reporter wants to know how many horses are wintering in the stables now. He Knows Them All Mr. Cole, gray-topped, his blacksmithian brawn padded by the comfortable overweight that comes with age, removes a two-inch cigar stub from his lips, leans back in his big chair and starts in: “Well, Sep Palin has 26 here,” he recalls. “And there's Byroad with 11. and and Walton with 11, Dagler has eight—” And right on down the list he enumerates them, finishing with Fred Smith, who has one. When the horses numbered arc all added up. the total is 86. "But that is nothing compared to the mob that will start pouring in here about February,” asserts the smithy. Among the horses are two world champions. They are Greyhound, the 3-year-old trotter, and Cardinal Prince, a 1:59’/2 champion pacer. They belong to the E. J. Charles stable, and are cared for by Sep Palin, the Indianapolis veteran. Palin intends to start them off lor Florida today or tomorrow to give them a bit of sunshine conditioning, but they will return in the spring. Best Track in Country The quarters and the track nt our state fairground are conceded to be the best in the country, Blacksmith Cole contends. “In the first place, the track dries overnight,” he tells you. “So there is no lost time. Even if it rains all afternoon, the boys are able to take their horses out on the track the next morning. “Then, we have extra good facilities—a fine hotel right here on the grounds; the best grass, the best water—” “And the best blacksmith,’’ someone cuts in. Mr. Cole gives his cigar an impatient wave. “Nothing of the sort,” he snaps, then smiles. “Indianapolis also is the best location. It’s located inland, easy to get to from other Grand Circuit centers, and mighty handy for shipping horses in and out.” He’s a Regular Book After Mr. Cole talks awhile and gets warmed to his subject, he fairly radiates with interesting information. He tells you: That next harness season will be the biggest and brightest ever held here. That two meetings very likely will be held here for the first time in history. A new one is planned for next spring, or early summer, along with the regular state fair Grand Circuit session in the fall. That a culvert is going in under the track, so that you can cross into the infield without trespassing on the sulky runway. That the men of “Stabletown” have fine quarters above the horses’

stalls which they wouldn't trade for the bridal suite in the WaldorfAstoria. That five brand new stables are going up. and all barns, 16 in number, are being repainted white and green. That the new stable layout will house 360 horses. “Three hundred and sixty isn't a record, though,” adds Mr. Cole. I can remember years before when we have had that many.” Snow Can’t Stop ’Em Fair weather and foul both look alike to the stablemen and their equine charges. They hitch up tne old sulkies every morning, sunshine or snow, and take several spins around the track. Men in baggy overalls and fox hats troupe in and out of Blacksmith Cole’s shop as he talks, each with a perplexing question on the care of his horses. The stout old smithy has his answer ready before they hardly have stopped speaking. Then he picks up the conversation on his favorite subject. “Yes sir. young man, next year '3 meeting here is sure to be the best on the old ch-cuit. Why. were going to resurface the entire track! Yes sir, and what's more . . Change Coming In High Grid Rules/ Interscholastic Committee to Alter Code. Sp United Prcts CHICAGO, Dec. 25,—High school football rules, divorced from the collegiate game in a set of regulations first drawn up in 1932. will undergo further changes Jan. 10 and 11 in a meeting of the National Interscholastic Rules Committee, it was announced today. The two-day session, with power to change rules of play in 14 member states, will be attended by voting delegates from member states, advisory delegates from other states and by Walter Okeson. chairman of the National Collegiate Committee, the announcement said. Central States Net Card at Dearborn The schedule for first round games in the Central States holiday • basketball tournament at the born gym follows: Tomorrow Night—7, Prest-O-Lile vs. Crown Products; 7:50, Lang’s Jewelers vs. Furnas Ice Cream; 8:40, Real Silk vs. National Malleable; 9:30, Brink's Express vs. Armour. Friday Night—7. P. R. Mallory vs. E. C. Atkins; 7:50, L. S. Ayres vs. Vonnegut Hardware: 8:40. Inland Container vs. Beanblossom; 9:30, Lawrence Trojans vs. U. S. Corrugated Box.