Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 312, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1936 — Page 12

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By Eddie Ash CAVARRETTA IS LEAGUE PHENOM mam HE’S MAJOR PASTIMER AT 18

GRIMM, the banjo-playing chief of the Chicago Cubs, is positive that Phil Cavarretta, will take his place with the Chances and Sislers of baseball. Think of an 18-year-old boy first-basing a major league club to a pennant! Cavarretta, who stepped directly from a Chicago preparatory school to the initial sack with the Chicago Cubs, will not be 19 until July. Grimm believes that Cavarretta, who hit .275 in his first full season in the National League, is a potential .340 batsman. The kid hits the ball for magnificent distances. The stomach ailment that bothered him at times in 1935 has disappeared, according to information sent out of the Bruins’ California training camp. The two new Cub players expected to give regulars trouble—Johnny Gill, up from Minneapolis, and Gene Lillard, obtained from Los Angeles —each hit .361 last season. Gill, a left-handed swatting outfielder, is 29, and has been up before. He may have a minor league complex. Lillard, a third baseman, perhaps is the brightest prospecc in the Avalon camp. He is only 22. A right-handed batter, Lillard manufactured 56 home runs in the Coast League in 1935. ana a it it Clyde Shoun, a left-handed pitcher of whom Manager Grimm expects a great d*al, shut out the Phillies, 1-0, in his one start for the Cubs iast fall. He was employed as a relief worker on other occasions. Shoun, a resident of Mountain City, Tenn., is constructed for wear and tear.

SELDOM- in basketball has the courage of Purdue been tied. That comeback at Ann Arbor Saturday night was a whiz. The Boilermakers had to win to catch up with Indiana to share the Big Ten title. And shortly after the second half started Purdue was trailing by 15 points! Yet the Lambertmen refused to wilt and by staging one of the greatest rallies on record they caught the Wolverines with seven minutes to go and won, 38-37. tt a u Indiana is to celebrate its co-title tonight at a banquet in Bloomington. Nine rahs for Indiana! Nine rahs for Purdue! The Hoosier Twins dominated the fastest basketball circuit in the country this season and their fame spread all over the nation. Coaches, players juid fans everywhere kept close tab on the Hoosier fives as they roared down the stretch. tt tt tt Murray Murdock, veteran star of the New York Rangers, is the iron man of hockey. He has played in 530 consecutive games of the tough ■port. Veterans believe his feat is comparable to Lou Gehrig’s string of 1653 American League baseball games. tt tt tt JIMMY DYKES is one manager who isn’t picking his team to win the American League bunting, . . . He figures the Sox will finish fifth, behind Detroit, New York, Cleveland and Boston, in that order. Reports from the spring training ramps of the Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Athletics say that players’ automobiles are banned by Rosses Tom Yawkey and Connie Mack. tt it n Franco georgetti, Italian six-day bike rider, wants to retire from the tough grind, with Its hazardous spills and energy-ex-pending pace—but a sense of duty to his native land and Premier Mussolini is stronger than his desire. Georgetti reports that II Duce has requested him to stick to his bike in an effort to further the fame of Italian athletes.

Hoosier Teams Dominate Final Big Ten Standings Purdue and Indiana Share Top Conference Laurels; Kessler Is High Scorer for Season. BY WINTHROP LYMAN United Press Staff Correspondent " CHICAGO, March 9. —Purdue shared the Western Conference basketball title with Indiana today, and its leading player, Bob Kessler, held the Big Ten individual scoring championship. Purdue and Northwestern ended the conference season Saturday night with one-point victories over Michigan and Chicago.

Purdue's 38-to-37 win over Michigan gave it a share of the title which Indiana previously had cinched. It was Purdue’s third straight championship, and ninth in 17 years. Indiana is at the top for the first time since 1928. Each team was defeated once during the race—lndiana by Ohio State and Purdue by Northwestern. Purdue narrowly escaped a second loss when Michigan forged to a 19-to-6 lead early in Saturday night’s game and held the margin to the end of the half. Kessler Gets Hot Kessler led the second-half dri/c that won the title, running his season total to 160 points. His 14 points put him nine points ahead of Bill Haarlow, Chicago captain, who finished in second place. Haarlow scored 13 points against Northwestern in the only other conference game. That gave Haarlow 416 points for his three years of Big Ten competition, which is 10 points better than the previous three-year record which "Stretch” Murphy of Pyrdue rung up in 1930.

Chicago Loses All Northwestern, highest-s coring team of the season, barely nosed out Chicago in the season final, 34 to 33. The victory sent the Wildcats in a three-way tie with Michigan and Illinois, pre-season favorite, for third place. Ohio State finished with lowa t the head of the second division. Wisconsin aiTd Minnesota, out of the race after the first two weeks, finished eighth arid ninth, respectively. Chicago, winless despite Haarlow’s brilliant showing, finished last. FINAL STANDINGS: W. L. Pet. Tp. 00. Indian* 11 1 .917 426 .338 Purdue 11 1 .917 503 361 Michigan 7 5 .583 418 .374 Illinois 7 5 .58.3 373 342 Northwestern 7 5 .583 440 374 Ohio 5 7 .416 369 379 lowa ..... 5 7 .416 353 385 Wisconsin 4 8 .333 333 417 Minnesota 9 .250 342 412 Chicago 0 12 .000 433 508 INDIVIDUAL SCORING: G. Fg Ft. Tp. Kessler. Purdue 12 61 38 160 Haarlow. Chicago 12 53 45 151 Gunning. Indiana 12 41 34 122 ! MeMichaels, Northwestern 12 51 17 118 i Whitlinger. Ohio State 12 38 .34 11U Young, Purdue 12 41 23 10:1 I. Townsend, Michigan . 12 39 26 101 Rosenthal, lowa 12 3 1 33 101 Combes, Illinois 12 34 2S 96 BUCKEYES ELECT DYE By Pmt COLUMBUS, O, March 9.—William (Tippy) Dye, diminutive threesport star at Ohio State, was elected captain of the Bucks' 1937 basketball team here last night.

3 State Fives Survive First Olympic Play Central Normal to Lead Invasion of Chicago; Butler Loses. BY HARRISON MILLER Unless the last of a multitude of disappointments come tumbling down upon the heads of committee members fostering the Fifth District Olympic basketball tournament before next Thursday, the meet will be held in the 132d Regiment Armory in Chicago with three Hoosier colleges competing. Central Normal, Ball State and Indiana State survived the test games at Butler University Saturday night, but the host Bulldogs again were victims of the “one-point-under” complex and bowed to Augustana College of Rock Island, 111., 41 to 40. This quartet is to vie with Northwestern and DePaul of Chicago for the somewhat doubtful “honor’ ’of representing the Midwest against the winner of the Sixth District. The survior of that playoff is scheduled to compete in Madison Square Garden to choose the United States representative at Berlin. Central Normal Outstanding Shorn of all its prestige by the withdrawal of Notre Dame, Indiana and Purdue, the tournament is to continue with the lesser lights competing this week. Hence, this great Hoosier territory, acknowledged afar as the soil most productive of Grade A basketball, presents a substrata of colleges as its exhibits in the Olympic exposition. The territory embraced by the Fifth District is to be represented (Turn to Page Thirteen

Evansville Star Landed by Tribe Elbert Hartley, Young Hurler, Signed by Indians. Elbert. (Ox) Hartley, star semipro pitcher of Evansville, was signed by the Indianapolis ball club today and ordered to report to Manager Wade Killefer at the Wauchula (Fla.)'training camp. Dale Miller. Tribe business manager, obtained Elbert's signature on a contract and later learned that the Detroit Tigers had been angling for the youth to “farm out.” The new Indian rookie stands 6 feet 4 inches, weighs 130 and is 19 years old. The first squad of Indians reached Wauchula late Saturday and held initial practice yesterday. It was a short session. The players took limbering-up exercises and shagged balls in the outfield. The entire squad will be in camp by next Sunday. Bud Fawcett, third sacker drafted from Galveston, is unsigned, but is not due to report until March 15. STEVENSON BEST IN TWO SHOOT EVENTS Tom Stevenson placed first in both events at the Indianapolis Skeet Club yesterday, winning the skeet shoot with 48 targets and annexing the handicap traps hoot by cracking 44. Scores follow: Skeet: Class A—Stevenson, 48; Evans, 47; Morgan, 46; Collins, 40. Class B—Phillips, 45; Griffith, 42; Leonard. 40; Koehler. 39; Moore, 37; Coiner. 35; Corriden, 33. Class C—Hellwig, 42; Steinfort, 37. Trapshooting Handicap: Fifty Targets— Stevenson. 44; Stratton. 43: Leonard. i2; E- ms 42. Dawson. 41; Donahue, 40; Collins, 39; Morgan, 38. College Scores STATE COLLEGES Purdue. 38; Michigan, 37 ! Indiana State. 45; Miami iO.) 27 Central Normal, 46; Cincinnati, 36. : . e , A % JoUna '** oclc Island. 111.i. 41; ButBai' State. 33: Wayne (Detroit*. 16. Notre Dame. 37; Marquette, 34 St. Joseph's. 32; Notre Dame B, 23 OTHER COLLEGES Northwestern. 34; Chicago 33 Cllrol ‘ n *- W; Washington and Wooster. 44; Ashland, tt Kenyon. 55; Holbrook. 37. Baldwin-Wallace. 42: John Carroll. 20 West Virginia, 58; Washington and Jefferson, 54. Westminster, 39; Slipper Rock (Pa.), 17. Dartrffcuth, 48; Princeton, 40. Pittsburgh 41, Penn State. 38. . Western Reserve, 47; Case. 37. Harvard, 41; Carceii. 34.

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Thirty-two sets of shiny maples await the crash of the spinning spheriods tossed by tonight’s initial squads in the thirty-sixth annual American Bowling Congress tournament. The scene of the great indoor athletic event is the Indiana State Fairground Coliseum which has been transformed into a gigantic bowling plant. Picture shows section of drives, pits and scoreboard.

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Gov. McNutt is to lift the lid Neil King, Indianapolis, sixth on the pin classic when he tosses vice president of the A. B. C., has the first ball down the alley. The been assigned the duties of master “Gov.” says the “old arm” is in of ceremonies on opening night at shape. tfie Fairground.

Columbus Five WinsA. A. U. Trips Defending Champ in Finals After Ousting Local Entry. Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 9. The Noblitt-Sparks basketball team of Columbus, Ind., will appear in Denver, Colo., one week from today to represent the Indiana-Kentucky district in the national A. A. U. hardwood tournament, the winner and runner-up to participate in the Olympic finals at Madison Square Garden. The Columbus squad earned the trip West by upsetting the defending champion, Club Sar of Gary, in the final tilt of the tourney here last night, 33 to 22. Sally Suddith and Bill Sadie paced the new district champions. The Sarmen were forced into an overtime in the semi-final game to defeat Fort Wayne International Harvester, 31 to 30. Noblit-Sparks easily eliminated Edentide of Louisville, Ky., 39 to 25. In Saturday’s games. Salvage Equipment of Indianapolis was eliminated by Columbus, 41 to 21; Harvesters swamped St. Boniface of Lafayette. 54 to 38, Club Sar won over South Bend. 37 to 21, and Edentide triumphed over Rockville Texaco, 35 to 29. BILL FAILEY TAKES PADDLE TOURNAMENT Bill Failey of Orchard School captured the boys’ table tennis tournament at the Paddle Club by winning the final match from Herman Rappaport, 21-17 21-12. Failey advanced to the titular round by eliminating Bill Brown. 21-16, 21-11, and Rappaport won his semifinal match from Chuck Trchenor, 21-13, 21-18. Plans were announced for a city grade school players tournament to be held at the Paddle Club early next month. Mcllvaine-Scott Team. Wins Doubles Tourney Although most of the city’s bowling fraternity spent yesterday viewing the site of the A. B. C. tournament at the State Fairground Coliseum. much activity took place at the new Pennsylvania Alleys. The doubles tournament conducted for feminine pastimers attracted an entry of 42 teams, and first place was won by Irene Mcllvaine and Grace Scott. The pair collected 1009 pins in their three games, which, added to a 114-pin handicap, won them the high honors. Other winners were: Horning - Urbancic, 1043; Jones-Kagl, 1005; Carter-Kasper. 996: Sparks-Urban-cic. 990; Dugger-Goode, 987; IliffWheeler, 984; Boughton-Fischer, 968; Snyder-Benefleld, 962; Hoff-heim-Fischer, . 952; Bunch-Mc-

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Cincy Makes Clean Sweep of Series With Athletics Derringer and Herrmann Hold American Leaguers to Two Hits; Vergez of Phillies Is Injured. By United Press MIAMI, Fla., March 9.—The pitching of Paul Derringer and Leroy Herrmann, who held the Athletics to two hits yesterday, gave Manager Chuck Dressen of Cincinnati something to cheer about today.

The Reds won the 7-inning game 8-1, giving them a clean sweep of the 3-came series. Lew Riggs drove in five runs with a double and homer. QUAKER PLAYER HURT WINTER HAVEN, Fla., March 9. —Third Baseman Johnny Vergez will be unable to work out with the Phillies for a few days because of a twisted ankle. He received the injury in yesterday’s practice game, which was won by Ethan Allen’s team from Mickey Haslin’s, 8-3. Leo Norris, rookie shortstop from Minneapolis, starred with two hits, three runs batted in, an'l nine chances in the field without an error. PLAY BEFORE 10,000 MIAMI, Fla., March 9,-The St. Louis Cardinals were on their way back to their training base at Bradenton. Fla., today after breaking even in four games at Havana. The Cards won the final game yesterday from the Almendares club. 6-1, before a crowd of 10.000. The feature of the Cards’ victofy was the pitching of Nelson Potter, Houston rookie, who hurled five innings and gave up five hits and one run. DEMAREE LEAVES CAMP AVALON, Cal., March 9.—The> Chicago Cubs today were temporarily without the service of Left Fielder Frank Der .aree. The star outfielder flew to Winters. Cal., yesterday when informed his father was seriously ill. ECKHARDT POUNDS BALL CLEARWATER, Fla., March 9. Oscar Eckhardt, Pacific Coast League rookie, has made an impression qp Manager Casey Stengel of Brooklyn by his power at the plate. He slammed many drives against the left field fence in yesterday’s workout. The only absent Dodgers are the two holdouts, Joe Stripp and Van Mungo. DANNING HITS TRIPLE PENSACOLA, Fla., March 9. Behind the pitching of Carl Hubbell and Hal Schumacher, the New York Giants’ second team beat the regulars yesterday, 4-2. Harry Dannings triple decided the game. A crowd of 4500 attended. PAUL WANER SIGNS SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 9. Paul Waner, veteran Pittsburgh outfielder, has signed his contract. He arrived yesterday, leaving only Lloyd Waner, who is recovering from pznumonia. absent. The young-

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A. E. Jankowsky of Detroit, Paul E. Crosier, Indianapolis, president of the American Bowl- president of the Indianapolis A. ing Congress, is to be on hand to- B. C. Corp.. will be there with night to give the affair the official “bells on.” His organization prosendoff. moted the classic.

Dirt Track Pilot Annexes Big Race Milt Marion Is First at Daytona Beach. By United Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., March 9. —Milt Marion, veteran dirt track driver of St. Alban, N. Y., was SI7OO richer today, having won the inaugural of the 250-mile Daytona beach-and-road race. Driving a Ford V-3, Marion swept over the difficult course at an average speed of 47.8 miles an hour. His time for the distance was 4 hours 54 minutes and 42 seconds. A full lap behind was Tommy Elmore of Jacksonville, Fla., who captured SIOOO second-place money. Ben Shaw of Westfield, N. J„ took S7OO show money. Os the field of 27. which included "Wild Bill” Cummings of Indianapolis, George (Doc) Mackenzie of Eddington Pa., and Goldie Gardner of England, only 10 were able to cross the finish line. The others: Sam Purvis, Jacksonville; Bill France, Washington, D. C.; Virgil Mathis, St. Augustine; Hick Jenkins, Jacksonville; Sam Collier, New York; Ken Schroeder, Jamestown, N. Y„ and A1 Cusick, Philadelphia. er Waner is at Harrah, Okla., and may not report for two weeks. SOX YOUNGSTERS STAR SANTA MONICA. Cal., March 9. —Malin McCullough and Mike Kreevich were the outstanding rookies of the Chicago White Sox camp today following their heavy hitting in yesterday’s game with Seattle which the Sox won. 9 to 6. McCullough got four hits and Kreevich three. ROOKIE IN CENTER FIELD ST. PETERSBURG. Fla., March 9.—Manager Joe McCarthy plans to give Joe Dimaggio, highly touted San Francisco rookie, a trial in center field during the exhibition season. If Dimaggio comes up to expectations, Ben Chapman, now a holdout, may be shifted to left field when he reports. THREE BROWNIES DUE ■WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., March 9.—Lyn Lary, Ollie Bejma and Irv Burns were due in the St. Louis Browns' camp today, bringing the squad to 43 players. Infielder Burnett reported yesterday. Rain prevented yesterday's practice game.

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Relays Draw Ace Hurdler World Record-Holder to Run in Track Carnival at Butler. Forrest Townes, one of the nation’s fastest “timber toppers,” will join the parade of champions in the Butler indoor relays March 21, according to latest announcements by Coach Hermon Phillips, director of the fourth annual track carnival. Townes, lanky hurdler from the University of Georgia, turned in a new world indoor record in the 60yard high hurdle event when he scaled the obstacles in 7.3 seconds at the New York A. C. meet at Madison Square Garden two weeks ago. His achievement ranks him with Sam Allen, Oklahoma ace, who is recognized as the best Olympic prospect in the hurdle division. In communicating with Phillips, H. J. Stegeman, athletic director and track coach at Georgia, stated that he was anxious to pit Townes against the fast field which will appear at the Butler event. The fieldhouse is considered fertile soil for new records, since two world marks were established on the springy sand loam track in 1934. Kenneth Sandback of Purdue set the existing record of 7.6 in the high hurdles, and Heye Lambertus registered an international mark in the low timber event. The foremost talent of the Big Ten and other collegiate conferences again will appear to provide competition keen enough to tumble the old records. Dan Caldemeyer of Indiana, Mike Layden of Notre Dame and Larry Holmes of Butler have approached world marks at the assorted distances of hurdle events. Penn State, which will appear in the colorful indoor event for the first time, was the first school to file entry last week. Two Kalamazoo entries —Western State Teachers and Kalamazoo College—also have registered athletes at the Fairview fieldhouse. Basket Gossip Six teams will see action in the Christamore senior basketball tournament tonight. Liberty Electric will play Bellaire Independents at 7. Little Giants will clash wdth National Road Merchants at 8 and Indianapolis A. C. is to tangle with Eagles in the third game. The Southern A. C. team has a gym for tonght and Thursday. Call Drexel 2876 ,after 6 and ask for Harry.

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Parade, Speeches by High Officials to Mark Opening of A. B. C. Activities Here Kiwanis, Rotary and Optimist Clubs to Make Inaugural March Through City 1o Elaborate Fairground Plant; Gov. M’Nutt to Toss First Bail. BY BERNARD HARMON Before the glare of a battery of newsreel cameras and behind a microphone carrying the program to thousands of listeners throughout the nation, the 36th annual American Bowling Congress tournament is to be inaugurated in the State Fairground Coliseum to* ight. Following an “old-fashioned” parade through the downtown district, the opening ceremonies are scheduled to get under way at the site of the event at 7:15.

Members of the Kiwanis, Rotary j and Optimist Clubs, along with a pair of Thompson & McKinnon quintets, .who are scheduled on the initial shift, will form the nucleus of the downtown procession which is to form fit the Indiana Bowling Alleys at 7. Amid the screeching of fire and police sirens, four busses carrying the club's pinmen, floats and a score of other private cars will traverse streets of the business district carrying red fire and various noise making contrivances. The paraders will head north on Me-ridian-st and east to the coliseum after their downtown march. Neil King to Start Neil C. King, local pinman and sixth vice president of the American Bowling Congress, is to act as master of ceremonies, and at 7:15 he will open the first of two inaugural programs scheduled. After Rev. F. S. C. Wicks delivers the invocation, Mayor Kern will welcome the Congress to the city. Paul Crosier, president of the Indianapolis A. B. C. Tournament Corporation, promoter of the event, then will offer the facilities housed in the two buildings to the American Bojvling Congress. A. E. Jankowsky president of the organization, will “accept” the equipment on behalf of the gigantic pin fraternity he heads, and will call upon Gov. McNutt to toss the first ball down the shiny new alleys. With the delivery of the Governor’s spinning spheroid the 37day program attracting pinmen from 393 cities throughout the nation will be under way. Hail, the Paraders! The paraders will have arrived at the site of hostilities by this time and immediately following the Governor’s initial toss will take the first whirl at the elusive maples. Members of .the 32 teams will be garbed in white trousers and shirts and will be cheered on by hundreds of members of their organizations who are to occupy a reserved section in the stands. The official national inaugural ceremony is to get under way at 10:30 and will be described over a nation-wide hookup of the National Broadcasting System by Norman Barry, ace anouncer. Barry will introduce Gov. McNutt, who will offer a word or welcome to the thousands of pinmen scheduled to appear during the event. Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend and Curtis W. Roll, Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, are scheduled for short addresses, after which Jankowski is to send out a word of greeting to the nation. The Governor, along with other high state officials, will then go into action as members of the Statehouse squad, who are to occupy the 32 alleys on the second shift. The broadcast of the program will go on the air through the channels of station WIRE. Hannagan to Direct Movies Steve Hannagan, publicity man, and a member of the advertising staff of the Brunswick-Balke-Col-iender Cos., who installed the alleys, arrived in the city yesterday from New York along with Larry Smitts. Hannagan and Smitts, Chicago publicity man, who has been in the city several days, will have charge of the filming of the initial night's activities. From a huge platform at the east end of the coliseum, a bakery of news-reel cameras will grind out hundreds of yards of film that will place before the eyes of the nation the spectacle of the great indoor classic. Yesterday’s “open house” at the scene of the tournament attracted approximately 25,000 sight-seers. Through the courtesy of local officials, the Coliseum and adjoining exposition Building were thrown open to the public for inspection. And what a sight greeted the visitors! The north end of the Exposition Building, known to State Fair patrons as the “cow barn,” is a miniature city. Offices, check rooms, cafeteria, tavern, pressrooms, telegraph offices, souvenier booths, barber shop and various other concessions for the convenience of participants and spectators are housed in the section. The Great Transformation In the mammoth Coliseum, the guests' saw the usually bare walls transformed into the most elaborate bowling plant that ever housed the tournament. Covering the tan bark floor, that has felt the hoof beats of galloping horses and the screeching tires of miniature race cars, are 32 brightly shellacked bowling alleys. Draperies of various hues adorn the ceilings and ends of the building and huge scoreboards extend far up at the rear of the alleys. Long rows of scorekeepers’ boxes extend behind the 32 drives, while in the center, a press platform, the first of its kind in tourney history, gives local and visiting

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TICKET INFORMATION 1. Contestant*’ tickets a* issued to the contestants bv the American Bowline Coneress for competition in the tournament are rood onlr for the. contestant himself and do not allow the contestant to pass anybody else into the Coliseum with him. 2. Uniforms, star*, badees and other insignia will not pass the wearer or holder into the Coliseum. You must have a ticket in order to get In. 3. Holders of general admission “Exclusive” tickets are herebv notified that they possess a general admission tiekrt and that neither a seat nor admission is guaranteed, in the event that the house is full. It is suggested that holder* of these tickets exert every effort to be at the Coliseum as early a* possible for each of the sessions they wish to attend during the duration of the Congress.

newspaper men ample room to “cover” the e\ent. Schedules Hot Off Fress Schedules of the five-week event are off the press and captains of the teams should receive their copies within the next few days. Advance copies arriving in the city over the week-end found rail-birds anxiously scanning the pages in search of the dates assigned to some of the crack local aggregations. The first of the star local quintets to face the maples will be the Hoosier Petes, pinsmacking crew from the Uptown Recreation League. They will crass alleys with the Honoluluas. Hawaiian entry in the event, on March 23. The following night, Beck's Coal & Coke, another star Uptown fivesome. and Russet Cafeteria, a veteran A. B. C. organization, will go into action. Big Shots on Parade Lieber Lagers and Harper’s Garage are scheduled on March 25. Marmon-Herrington is carded to appear on March 26. and the Bowes Seal Fasts and Acetylene Products, a pair of the Indianapolis League s outstanding teams, are to try their luck on March 31 and April 1. Cook's Goldblume's, Jess Pritchett's array of aii-stars, and one of the country’s heavy-scoring quintets will pace the decks on the night of April 7. Sterling Beers, of the Indianapolis League, also are scheduled that night. Falls City HU Brus will make their appearance on April 8 and on the following night, Lieber Brewers and Dr. J. E. Kernel Opticals will fire away. Officials are preparing to handle the largest opening night crowd in the tourney’s history tonight and will throw the doors open to the public at 6 o’clock.

Zaharias May Try Tears on Shires 'Cry Baby’ in Main Mat Go Against o’Shocker. Whether George (Cry Baby) Zaharias’ tearful tactics will overcome the battle-hardened emotions of Referee Art (The Great) Shires is the question of the day as local grappling fans await tomorrow night’s mat program at the Armory. The weeping wrestler is to clash with Irish Pat O'Shocker in the Hercules A. C. main go, and Shires will be the man in the ring to rule on any disputes that come up, tears or no tears. Otto Kuss, former Indiana University grid star, takes on Frank Speer, 235-pound Atlantan, in the semi-windup. Ernie Zeller, Terre Haute, and George Tragos, St. Louis, are to open the show at 8:30. SOFTBALL TEAMS NOTICE Managers of softball teams interested in affiliating with a league to play night games during the coming season are asked to write to James Coleman, 1742 S. Delaware-st, Indianapolis.

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