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By Eddie Ash LIGHT-HEAVY CROWN AT STAKE m m m LEWIS-M’AVOY GO IS FEATURE

JOHN HENRY LEWIS, the Arizona Negro lightheavy champion, goes to the post in New York tomorrow night in defense of his title. Jock McAvoy, the dandy British boxer, is the challenger and has been established a short favorite in the betting. Jock has made a successful invasion of America and thinks he 11 depart for England wearing a crown. Lewis traces his zeal for fighting to the “away back when” days. In fact, all the way back to Tom Molyneaux, the first great Negro prize fighter on record. John Henry describes Molyneaux of the slave days in Virginia as his great-great uncle. John's father served in the United States Army during the SpanishAmerlcan war and fought at San Juan Hill. The current light-heavy king turned professional at the age of 14, but continued his education and finished high school. The fact that he was taken on tour boxing with his brothers in exhibition explains how he happened to become a pro at 14. Four of his brothers became pro boxers. Jack Blackburn, trainer of Joe Louis, No. 1 heavyweight challenger, trained John Henry Lewis for the McAvoy battle and the writer believes Blackburn's judgment will be good enough to put John Henry over as the winner (omorrow. It’s a scheduled 15-round affair.

a it u No person dares to suggest changing the name of Arkansas any more. The University of Arkansas recently won its seventh Southwestern Conference basketball title in 13 years. it a a THE cage sport threatens to spread all over the world even if they never settle anything at the Olympic Games. Tho hoop game is becoming so popular in Shanghai that reports say it’s imposr' I ' o to find a hall big enough to accon. •- date all the Chinese who want to witness the contests. n a tt Johnny Kroner, former Indianapolis third sackcr, is making a strong bid to land a berth with the Boston Red Sox. He is filling in at third for Bill Werber, the holdout. I'l health handicapped Kroner when he Was with the Iloosicrs. WHEN Notre Dame defeated Detroit U. Tuesday it was the last collegiate cage game for Irish Seniors Ford, Hopkins, Peters, Ireland and Wade. It was Ireland’s sixty-ninth consecutive tilt since early in his sophomore year.

Tony Declines to ‘Sing’ and Turns to Baseball Disastrous Net Season Closed Book as Butler Coach Prepares for Heavy Diamond Card.

BY HARRISON MILLER YOU just can’t get “Hink” to sing the blues. In fact, Butler's athletics mentor who is digging his way out of his first losing season in II years and has reason to warble a blue note, doesn’t hanker for croon-

ing of any ilk. The “inspiring” reporter, bent on learning what dipped the Bulldogs Into the basketball doldrums, was amazed to find through a series of cross-examinations, laconic responses and conjectures that Butler is going in for baseball in a big way. Was there dissension in the cage team this year? “All we need Is three pitchers," quoth he. We agreed that, some relief flingers who could fire them through the groove would have helped against Notre Dame, Michigan, Northwestern, et al. If the boys had hit a few more, things would have been different. “We’ll hit them okay this spring.” But we thought the season was over. “It’s just starting—as soon as the diamond is ready.” ts tt a SO, we gave up and agreed to talk baseball, as Coach Tony Hinkle went into his shell and whittled on the end of his pencil. How many games? “Seventeen, mast we ever had.” Which should take a lot of pitching. Didn't Sutphin and Zimmerman graduate? “We have Weger and Blackaby.” The 200-pound shot putters! !Would they do? “Did you ever try hitting a metal 6hot?” That stymied us, but what about relief hurlers? “Coach Herm Phillips has some javelin throwers, and we will borrow dashmen for the outfield,” ■which was a mouthful for Hinkle, and after looking at the schedule, we agreed that he Is biting off quite a chunk for the team. But a team doesn't win without pitching—that's an old axiom. “We have nine players, nine innings. Every one takes his turn.” u * u WITH which we left, afraid to ask about extra-inning games. In the locker room we find that “Dog” Blackaby and ••Jake” Weger also lay claim to pitching ability in addition to shot putting and gridiron talent, both having good records in Illinois high schools. Spero Costas, grid generalissimo and captain-elect, also will call signals behind the plate for the second straight year. Eldon Staller of Mexico. Ind., and Roscoe Batts of Scircleville are back in the

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JIMMY FOXX hit .346 in 1935 and blames a fishing trip for his failure to win the American League batting crowm. Buddie Myer was first with .349 and Joe Vosmik second wth .348. Foxx says he couldn’t lift his bat the day after the fishing outing and went hitless in nine times up in a double-header. it tt tt Dizzy Dean first named his pet dog “Flash” in honor of Manager Fr.'.nkie Frisch. Diz and Frank engag’d in a couple of quarrels and Deal changed the name of the houi and to “Whitey,” after Burgess Whkehcad, Frisch’s stooge last year. tt tt tt FIRE department bowlers want another crack at the police pin topplers. The Smoke Eaters are dissatisfied with what happened out at the A. B. C. tourney the other night. They assert on total pins collected by the squads engaged the firemen were tops by a wide margin. Therefore, the Ladder Climbers desire to challenge the Bluecoats to a special match between the crack shots of the two departments. Calling Red Haugh!

infield this season. Cody Burdette, sophomore from Hinton, W. Va., comes recommended by several independent league teams and should step into second base. a tt a THERE is another pastimer named Joe Macek from East Chicago who has attracted the eyes of Chicago Cubs and White Sox scouts for two years. Just a sophomore, Macek covers first base and hits like a seasoned campaigner. Clarence Laymon of Logansport and James Wulle of Cathedral return to the outfield. All of these were on the football team in case you’re asking about batting pumh. The remaining candidates will battle for the other garden position or a mound assigment. Three games with Indiana top the 1936 schedule, as follows: April 11, at Purdue; April 15, at Franklin; April 17. Indiana Central, here; April 21, at Indiana; April 29, Wabash, here. May 4, at Indiana Central; May 7, Indiana Central, here; May 9, at Wabash; May 12, 13, Indiana, here; May 14, De Pauw, here; May 15, Indiana State, here. May 19, at Indiana Central; May 27, Wabash, here; May 28, Franklin, here; June 1, at De Pauw; June 6, at Wabash. CINCY PLAYER SIGNS By United Press TAMPA, Fla., March 12.—Ival Goodman, Cincinnati Reds’ outfielder, signed his contract today. Only four holdouts remain on the list—Ernie Lombardi, Babe Herman, Tommy Thevenow and Lefty Gris- | som.

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TITLE SEQUENCE ‘MENACES’ N. C. C. TEAMS

Members of Hoosier High Conference Due to Lose, If Tourney Tradition Repeats Frankfort, Six Other League Schools ‘Jinxed’ by Systematic Rise of Outsiders to State Championship; Shortridge Forecast as Regional Winner. BY PAUL BOXFUL Beware, Frankfort! The “Sign of the Sequence” falls due on members of the North Central Conference this year. Meaning that an 11-year-old sequence of state high school basketball champions threatens to stamp a disastrous hoodoo on the Hot Dogs and six other “Big Ten” teams as they prepare for this Saturday’s regional eliminations. I

The N. C. C. has accounted for no less than seven state championships since 1925, when Everett Case guided the Frankforts to the title. But wait—inevitably there has been a non-conference team interposed between two conference champions. It’s like this: Marion, a conference member, followed Frankfort in ’26. But Martinsville downed Muncie, an N. C. C. branch, for the; ’27 crown. Muncie and Frankfort took the titles in ’2B and ’29, then along came Washington, non-conference, to whip Muncie in the ’3O finals. Back came the sequence in ’3l and ’32 with Muncie and Newcastle emerging on top. Martinsville took care of the non-conferenee “obligations” in ’33. Logansport and Anderson triumphed for the conference in '34 and '35, and there you are. Carrying out the swing of the thing, a non-conference champion is charted to be the pet of the Fates in ’35. tt tt WHAT non-league teams look. strong enough to keep faith with the Sign of the Sequence? Anderson, Muncie, Newcastle, Kokomo, Logansport and Marion are leaguers, so they’re out (if you believe in hoodoos). The first possibility this writer likes to look at is, of course, Martinsville, his pre-tourney choice. If you will recapitulate to the sequensical history recited earlier in this piece, you will notice that Martinsville played a mighty important part in seeing that the series ran true to form. The Artesians did the interposing in ’27 and again in ’33. If the Curtismen are so intensely zealous as all that to see that the nice little sequence stays on the straight and narrow, it seems they’ll be right back in there doing their chaperoning again this time. tt tt tt TO search further, Tipton is not a member of the ill-omened N. C. C. Tipton is a member of another league, the Central Indiana Big 13, which has yet to claim a state champion. Johnny Ward’s Tippers appear, on the dope sheets, to be a sure thing in the Marion regional. Numbered among the Toppers’ 25 consecutive victims are all three regional adversaries Kokomo, Wabash and Marion. In rolling up 784 points against the 25 losers, Tipton’s boys twice whipped Kokomo, their opening foe Saturday, 34-24, and 34-28; Wabash bowed, 39-12; Marion salaamed, 27-15. Don’t snicker at this—Shortridge of Indianapolis might conceivably be listed in that group of threateners, too. The Blue Devils are small, but they’re as smart a bunch of kids as you’ll find on anybody’s basketball floor. Erains count more and more in this tourney as it narrows down to the select few. Here’s foreseeing a Shortridge victory in the Anderson regional. And that’s not home-town sentiment. it tt tt NOW that the scribe has bared his head for one hatchet he might as well take a chance on the other 15. So here’s the way the regional winners look from this corner: At Auburn, Columbia City; at Evansville, Central of Evansvile; at Ft. Wayne, Central of Ft. Wayne; at Greencastle, Crawfordsviile; at Greensburg. Shelbyville; at Lafayette, Frankfort; at Logansport, Logansport; at Marion, Tipton; at Martinsville, Martinsville; at Mitch-

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ell, New Albany; at Muncie, Newcastle; at Nappanee, Goshen; at Rushville, Connersville; at Valparaiso. Hammond, and at Washington, Washington. THE best basketball tourney pun overheard to date was pulled b.v some little shaver—he couldn’t have been more than 10—in the Tech rooting chorus at the local sectional. Frowning on a game involving one of the weaker county squads, he chirped: “Boy, that’s the most terrible team I ever saw! The best player they’ve got is number zero, and he’s nothing.” QUESTIONS BY CAGE FANS What team was Tim Campbell’s brother coaching the year Tim’s Tech of Indianapolis team beat him in the finals of the Indiana High School basketball tournament? Answer: W. E. Campbell, brother of Tim, coached the Hammond team that lost to Tech in a semi-final game of the 1934 state finals tournament. What team did Robert Etnire play with in high school? Answer: Logansport. Please name the high school basketball teams that played in the Indiana state final tourney last year at the Butler fieldhouse. Answer: Anderson, Jeffersonville, Richmond, Shelbyville, Michigan City, Berne, Frankfort, Roachdale, Montgomery, Tipton, Brazil, Logansport, Princeton, Napanee, Rushville and Mentone. What was the score of the Short-ridge-Anderson high school basketball game played near the end of the regular 1936 season? Answer: Shortridge won, 26 to 24.

Amateur Boxers to Show at Hall 10 Bouts to Be Staged Next Thursday. The amateur boxing card billed for Monaghan-Wallace gym next Monday night has been transferred to the larger Tomlinson Hall and will be held one week from tonight, according to plans of Roy Wallace. Golden Gloves fighters from Terre Haute and Indianapolis will hold the spotlight in the matches already arranged for the proposed 32-round fistic show. Ten bouts are to be on the bill. Harry Brown, popular welterweight who floored all four opponents in winning the Golden Gloves championship here, will appear in the four-round windup fight. He will oppose Joe Benna, Terre Haute’s slugging champ who annexed three victories at the Tribune “tournament of champions” in Chicago. Sammy Baker, Terre Haute heavyweight, has been chosen for the other four-rounder, and will battle a local fighter yet to be selected. Skeet Dickerson, Colonial A. C. featherweight, who represented Indianapolis at Chicago, has been matched in one of the supporting fights against Chuck Miller of Terre Haute over the three-round route. Wally Ricks, local lightweight, and Evan Jones of Terre Haute, also will mix in three frames.

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YOU can blame this on the Hollywood influence. The Chicago Cubs, training so close to movieland, have been bitten by the acting bug. Left to right are Chuck Klein, Indianapolis, Stanley Hack and Johnny Gill. Klein is supposed to have clouted one over the mountains—how he did it without killing his neighbor is a mystery. Hack and Gill register amazement. They should.

World Paddle Meet Begins Jimmy McClure, City Youth, Member of U. S. Team in Prague. By United Press PRAGUE, .Czechoslovakia, March 12—The tenth annual world’s table tennis championships .and international team matches started today in the Lucerne Palace with players from 15 nations competing. The American men’s team is composed of Jimmy McClure, Indianapolis, Dick Tindall and Bud Blattner, St. Louis; and Gilbert Marshall, an American living in London, substitute. Sidney M. Biddell, New York, is non-playing captain. The American women’s team Is composed of Ruth Hughes Aarons, New York, 17-year-old national champion; Jay Purves, Chicago, and Corinne Migneco, Salem, Mass. Competition in the team championships will be held today through Sunday. From Monday through Wednesday competition will be held in the men’s and women’s singles, men’s and women’s doubles and the mixed doubles. ZENNIE FACES INDIAN Syrian Grappler Carded in Tomlinson Hall Feature. Edmund Zennie, clever Syrian, signed today to meet the Canadian Indian, Chief War Eagle, in the main event of the wrestling show at Tomlinson Hall next Monday night. Matchmaker McLemore is seeking a strong opponent for Eddie Pope, New York, in the semiwindup. One other prelim wall be arranged.

‘Y* Volley Squad to Play at Lafayette The Indianapolis Y. M. C. A. volleyball team will meet the Lafayette “Y” squad in a return match at Lafayette tonight. The local team will be composed of Ray Pickett, Ralph Leas, Robert Sutphin, Walter Widenhoefer, Kennard Vogel and Carl Jeffries, Capt. Charles Ray announced. COBB IN DAMAGE SUIT Times Speciul SAN JOSE, Cal., March 12.—Ty Cobb, retired baseball veteran, yesterday was named defendant in a $50,000 damage suit filed by W. R. Turvey, La Jolla butcher, who claims he was struck by Cobb’s automobile Aug. 29, 1935.

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Old Coaches to “Clash” For the first time in their long careers as football coaches, the paths of Pop Warner and Gil Dobie will cross in gridiron warfare this fall when Temple and Boston College clash Oct. 12.

James Seward Is Honored by Purdue Mates Former Local Star, Downey Named Co-Captains for Next Year. Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 12. James Seward of Indianapolis, and Glen Downey of Mlchigantown were chosen to lead the 1936-37 Purdue University basketball team as the achievements of the last season were summed up at the annual Lions’ Club banquet here last night. Upon the shoulders of the rangy pivot star who formerly performed with Shortridge High School of Indianapolis and the Michigantown forward, who was converted te to a guard this season, was placed the assignment of continuing the Boilermaker record in the Big Ten. Purdue has shared in the title for the past three years. Three to Graduate Tribute was accorded the three senior members of the squad who have participated on Western Conference championship teams throughout their three-year careers. Capt. Bob Kessler, Ed Elliott and Austin Lambert are to be lost by graduation. Kessler was awarded a trophy in recognition of his high-scoring record which placed him at the ton of the list of Conference individual scorers with 160 points in 12 games. Coach Everett Dean, whose Indiana University team shared the Conference title with Purdue this year, lauded the high-scoring record of the Boilermakers. He also commended Purdue for the all-time record and pointed to the allHoosier domination of the Big Ten race recently. The banquet was the annual affair sponsored by the Lions Club of Lafayette. LIGHT-HEAVY BEATS i CONQUEROR OF LOUIS Times Special MIAMI, Fla., March 12.—Max Marek, Chicago heavyweight, lost a decision to Steve Carr of Bridgeport, Conn., a late substitute, in a 10-round battle on the local fight program last night. Marek, who as an amateur defeated Joe Louis, weighed 183, compared to 170 for his opponent, but suffered his second defeat as a professional fighter. YANKEE SKIERS FOURTH SESTRIERE, Italy, March 12. Americans finished fourth and twelth in the international ski meet which ended here yesterday.

C. I. C. Marks Due to Fall Track Stars Gather at Notre Dame for Big Meet.

By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 12.-*-Six meet records will be endangered when more than 200 athletes from 15 colleges participate in the tenth annual Central Intercollegiate indoor track competition here tomorrow and Saturday. A team champion also is predicated. Pittsburgh, 1915 title winner, is not believed strong enough to repulse the challenges. Three of last year's individual champions and Pittsburgh's winning mile relay team will defend their titles in possible record-breaking performances. Abie Rosenkrantz, Michigan Normal, who set a record of 1:55.1 in the 880-yard run last year, and Lloyd Siebert, North Central College, Naperville, 111., who established a record of 13 feet 5? inches in the pole vault, will seek new marks in the meet. The Pittsburgh relay team, composed of Kiger, Groat, McDonald, and Connelly, which set anew record of 3:21.5 last year, is intact except for Thomas replacing Kiger. Don Elser. Notre Dame, twice this year has bettered the meet shot pit record of 48 feet 7>i inches. iarry Holmes, Butler, may bettc: the record of 7.5 seconds set by Johnny O'Brien in the 60-yard high hurdles in 1931, and Bill Daly, Detroit, is set to crack the mile record of 4:17.3, established by Ray Sears, Butler, in 1934. IlfblANA SWIM TEAM SCORES DECISIVE WIN By United Press MADISON, Wis., March 12.—Indiana’s swimmers took first and second place in five of seven events last night to defeat Wisconsin, 47 to 20, in the Badger pool. Capt. Ike Somonsen of Wisconsin tied with Strack of Indiana for total points, each winning two firsts.