Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1936 — Page 7
Er would be an allrAmerica star, or
Had Heard of # ‘Gridder From | “Uncle Harry |
Former Pacific Coast Star -Now Shaping Legal Caréer.
BY JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Nov, 25.—It was or seven years ago that Mr, Grayson, who was then our writer, started to tell us about nephew, Bobby. Mr, Grayson been with us for Seite time,
statements. - Not abg
playing high . school football Vi out in Portland, Williams Ore., at the time i was one of Toi ets. Bobby couldn't ‘have n De than 15 at! the time, but he - was doing all right and the newspapers out that way were playing Lim up and printing pictures about him and somehow the press clippings and the blurred halftones of Bobby running for touchdowns always managed to get back to us. Uncle Harry got the idea that Bobby ought to come East and play football. There never was any doubt in Uncle Harry’s mind that Bobby even an allltime| all-America star. But he wanted tobe sure. And his way of being such was to have Bobby play on an Basie team. At that time Eastern football wasn’t so hot, and it was Uncle Harry's idea that Bobby would stand out like the legendary infected thumb around here. Those were trying days. It was difficult to get any work done around the office. Especially on Tuesdays when the press clippings came in from Portland. Uncle Harry would read every line that had been written about Bobby—and with gestures. The situation anally reached a point where the edi had to transfer Uncle - Harry to Cleveland so the sports departmént could function with some degree of satisfaction.
Fond of Broadway
This was an awful blow to Uncle Harry who was very fond of Broadway the tall buildings and the bright lights; Mr. Moe Berg who catches for the Boston Red Sox came back to town some weeks after Uncle Harry had been transferred and told a pathetic story about the exile. The two of them were walking down a narrow street in Cleveland which: wag walled in on either side by tall buildings! I was very arly in the morning. Close to 2 or 3 o'clock. Mr. Berg was on his way to bed. They had reached.the end of the street, at the end of which was the athlete's hotel. “Good night, Harry,” said Mr. Berg. “I'll see you tomorrow.” Uncle Harry practically went into the weeps. “Don’t go to bed now,” he said. “Let’s walk up and down this street once more.” So they did. Mr. Berg again said good night and again Uncle Harry suggested that they walk up and down the street. inally Mr, Berg grew impatient. Is there somebody on this street u expect to see?” Uncle Harry d no. “I just like to walk up ind down this street because I can't the sky. All I can see is brick d mortar. It reminds me of New
Xork.”™ ; Good Reporter
* ¥ There are a number of people who i> that way about New York. It's some sort of phobia, this living in @& bee hive of stone and blinking lights. We never saw Uncle Harry around the office until the sun was well down but always while he was with us there never was an important fight story that we didn’t + have first. He was a real good reporter. Well, time went along and Bobby, refusing several offers to come East, on the ground that he was born in the West and wanted to play out there, developed into a great football player. He was all-America his first year at Stanford, and continued as such until he graduated, which was last year.
Joe Meets Bobby : T imagine what I'm getting at is
that I finally met Bobby yes and I am happy to say he was
& disappointment. Grantland Rice
had him at the Dutch Treat Club which is probably the most exclusive club in New York in the Ingtter
Local Champion Jugoslav G ;
First row, left to right: A. Bayt, C. Komlanc, mascots. Second row
, L. K row: A’ Brisnik, E. O'Connor, A. Bayt, R. Howard, M.
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Williamson's Scientific
Football Predictions
For Thanksgiving Day
EVERAL “big games” remain on the 1936 football calendar and tomor-
BY P. B. WILLIAMSON
row will see some heavy firing on different gridiron fronts. Traditional battles are included. The University of Washington-Washington State “dog fight” has excited the fans in the Puget Sound district and the game at Séattle is sure to be a thriller. The match stacks up as close with the edge going to the “U. of
Wash,” or a possible tie, according to the prediction of the Williamson |.
System. Southern California is 8. bicked over U. C. L. A, in the other
West Coast feature. » ”
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N the South undefeated (but tied) Alabama is selected over Vanderbilt and Tennessee over Kentucky. The Southwest promises some tight struggles and the Middle West the same *among minor colleges. Undefeated Fordham (tied twice) is picked to overcome New York U., and Pittsburgh looks like the winner over Carnegie Tech. Representative football games throughout the United States tomorrow are Hsted below with each team’s rating according to the Williamson National Rating System. Where no rating is given, the schedule is insufficient for calculating one clearly. Some omissions may be due to
I | incomplete returns. EXPLANATION:
.. Team No. 1
Centenary 84.1 Ida Col. 32.4
35. re Hardin- Simmons 80.3 ... . 41.2
Hattiesburg T. La. Tech.
labam 94.2 — SO! Miami 3,
Miss. Col. 42.1
U. ansylvania ot 3
Carson-Newman 48.6 ...
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Reathetford a 7 urray . a
Pen. Mil. Col. fittsburah 91.9 St. mas
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Figure after each team is its rating according to the current Williamson Football Rating Table. 1, means win for No. 1 team; 2, means win for No. 2 team; T, means possible tie game or close outcome; R, means prediction reversed against ratings. No. 1 team plays at home. - Where: the symbol “I” appears with a number in the Predict column, the team named is favored, but a close outcome one way or the other is not unexpected. A difference of 5 percentage points or less in the ratings of two teams often indicates that their game is a “toss-up.” However, in from 85 to 90 per cent of cases the higher rated team is due to win, even when the difference in ratings is small,
INTERSECTIONAL
Team No. 2 ahoma A, & M- 63.4.
Storal fac = or! n S| Commerce. Tin
Kentucky” U. 9 onion, ‘Col. 84.2 © .\. lle, Tenn. 32.3 ....
SOUTHWEST
Bucknell x
SOUTH pg Concord T. 34 Leng
axes rs Forest 70.2
. Car, St. 1 a. ©.
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ch Tom Naumsek, Klobucas
Sasek, J. Yovan, R. Zupan, J. Wheeler, picture. are w: Thicksten, F. Brush and G
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Thanksgiving Day Football Attraction Here wil Benefit Police Pension Fund; Leaguers Collide.
Undefeated and unscored upon diribg .the regular campaign, the West Side Jugoslav eleven, champions of the Smith-Hassler-Sturm Capital City League, is to go against Fort Harrison tomorrow afternoon at Butler Bowl in a post-season contest sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Indianapolis Police Department.
Proceeds of the engagement, which climaxes one of the most success-
ful seasons local independent football has experienced for some time, are to be given to the police pension fund. Kickoff for the fray is scheduled at
2 o’clock. Ross Smith of the Smith-Hassler-Sturm Co., sponsors of the Capital City League; will present a trophy to the ‘champion Jugoslav eleven during the halves of the game with the Soldiers. The trophy is a sungold replica of a regulation football mounted on an ebony base. The game brings together for the second time this year two fine amateur "grid aggregations which include in their ranks several former local high school and college football players. Heddon at Helm
Coach Pop Heddon of the Jugoslavs numbers: Zupan, Payne, Brisnick and Howard among his back=field stars and Dezelan and Burns among his stalwarts in the forward wall. ‘Coach Thomas E. Clifford, former center-at the United States Military
Academy, has. drilled the Fort Har-
rison eleven in an Eastern style of football which is employed at the Army grid camp. Among the Soldier stars are Kendall, Ellis, Zoyda and
1 Osborne.
Topeka Cincinnati
Birmingham Chattanoo Johnson ity Mia mm
Jackso Murfressboro Mois re land
De Knoxville Lexington, Ky, Jefferson City
J’cks’nville;, Tex. nwa
Monticello swe Alpine Austin Wea ath ford erfor Ti:
Reading Providence New York
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Victims of - the Jugoslavs this year |
have been the powerful Riverside
Olympics, the Leon Tailors, Pendleton, Plainfield, Sheboygan, Wis., and
the Soldiers. Gained Early Win
The West Siders’ previous tiiumph over Fort Harrison came early in the season, Oct. 26, when neither team was at its peak and only beginning to find itself on the gridiron. For two quarters of that game, which was witnessed by more than 3000 fans in a drizzling rain, neither team was able to score. Finally in the third period, the Jugoslav eleven blocked a Soldeir kick and managed to put over a touchdown. The West Siders made the point-after-touchdown to win, 7 to 0. After that contest the Soldiers went on to a successful season by pounding out victories over Fort Thomas and Fort Knox elevens of Kentucky.
Hockey's Oldest Ace, Retires Fro From Sport
By United Press TORONTO, Ont., Nov. 25.—Frank (King) Clancy, one of the greatest players in professional hockey his-
20-6-8 |tory, today retired as a playing
member of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Clancy, oldest player in point of service in the National Hockey League, broke into professional hockey with the Giawa, Senators
ot {in 1921 while
The Toronto > bought him
from Ottawa for a reported price of |
$35,000 and two players in 1930.
| Since coming here Clancy has been |:
one of the most colorful and popular players on the local club. :
WINTGE, MICHELSON SMALE ON Links
Jenkins to Seek Land Speed Mark!
By United Press. . SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Nov. 25. —Ab Jenkins, Utah speed driver who made two world record runs on the natural Bonneville Salt Flats speedway - this summer, : revealed today he hopes to attack Sir Malcolm Campbell’s: world land speed record of 301 miles an hour Sometime next fall. _ Heretofore Jenkins and other drivers who have run on the vast salt raceway near the Utah-Nevada line have made no attempt to better Campbell’s mark, established over a measured mile on the same course last year. \ Jenkins revealed, however, that plans already have started for a super-racing car with which he will make his record assault. “The new car will have two 1800
| hcsepower engines,” - he. said, “and may be ready for a try at: Campbell's
record next fall.” A twin-motored racer such as Jenkins described would exceed even the power of Sir Malcolm’s recordbreak Bluebird, which was driven by a 2400 horsepower motor.
® Loop Grid Crown at Stake Tonight By United Press GARY, Ind. Nov. 25. Michigan City and Horace Mann of Gary will battle here tonight for the 1936 championship of the Northern Indiana High School Football Conference. Michigan City gained the titular round for the first time in history by winning a flip of the coin after
tying Elkhart for honors in the Eastern Division of the Conference.
Each team had five victories and
one defeat. Horace Mann won its second consecutive Western Division title with a record of six victories and one de-
1 a claim to the state cham-
Division title with Froebel of Gary in 1931 but the Horsemen lost. : Central of South - Bend, Division winner, 19 to 6, in
City for Night's a Play.
A real battle was staged for Commercial League solo honors with “Rutch” McAllen and Lloyd Jacobs playing the leading roles. The former nosed out his rival by two pins with a 668 that was also good for city-wide runnerup honors. ' McAllen fired games of 215, 236 and 217, while counts of 235, 215 and 216 netted Jacobs his 666. The top performances came in the Spencer House Cafe-Eagle Machine Co. match, won by the former, two to one. Five additional pastimers soared over the 600 line during the loop’s
| activities, staged at the Illinois, Lane getting
644, Wray, 634, Ortel, 624, O'Reilly, 608, and R. Jones, 602. All team contests were decided through odd-game decisions,
Hunt Collects 661
Games of 213, 258 and 190 netied Jack Hunt a 661, the. top series of the Patrick Henry Beer matches at the Pritchett Alleys. Three other loop members turned in 600s, Rohr getting 617, through a 253 opener; Collins a 614 and Pritchard, 605. Salesmen and Beers turned in ‘shutout victories, while Warehouse and Office gained odd game decisions over opponents. Two nice totals emerged from Lhe Rotary and Rotary Men's Employes at the Indiana Alleys, Cal Humphries tossing a 650 to lead the Employes circuit as Art Krick clicked to the tune of 645 for the Rotarians. Games of 225, 226 and 199 gained Humphries his big series, which was tops for the league during the current season. Krick used 223, 248 and 174 to reach his total. Leo Foley's 627 and John Barrett's 611, leading solo. series of the St. Philip No. 1 League, boosted Rolles Printing Co. to a triple victory over ~Tenpin Inn. The winners closed with a 1006 for a 2874 total. Bob Marien’s 601, the only additional honor count of the evening also featured in a shutout, his MichaelisMcCahill quintet gaining the sweep. A hefty 254 nightcap game gave Ed Barrett a 623 series and honors of the Hoosier A, C. session at the Pritchett Alleys. Freddie Weber passed the 600 line with one pin to, spare: for: thie only other: healthy score of the session. The Barrett: Coal Co. turned in the loop’s Ione shutout victory. Series of 621 and 606 by Roberts and Stahl gave Roberts Guernseys a 2881 total and a three-time win in the Community League at the Uptown. The Guernseys featured a 1022 middle game. E. Miller and Pitts also featured with totals of 609 and 605. Pug Leppert’s kid team, Indiana Candy Co. nabbed a shutout victory, as did the Seven-
‘Ups. Clark Collects 620
Following their turkey distribu= tion, members of the Pennsylvania League, rolling at the Pennsylvania Alleys turned their efforts to the mauling of the elusive maple. Clark was best at this game, tossing a 620 to take loop honors. Moxley with 610, Miller with 608 and Christensen with 600 were - his : chief threats for the laurels, Service “Fizz-Ician’s” trio of wins was the only shutout registered during the evening. The lone 600 series of the 12-team Parkway Recreation League, facing the maples at the Parkway Alleys, was registered by Smith, who totaled 613 in his three efforts. His leading total proved valuable to Northwestern Milk, which was one of the loop’s shutout victors. Ritz Sweet Shop and Heidenreich Flowers also
blanked: Opponents,
The Kinga nigh wil open tive League pro-|
players please notice : , Stropes, Romwe Presley, Pratt, Lynch, Surry, Bepley ang and Coleman.
eram at 7:30 In the Dearborn gym. | a
, Besulla 1 ths WPA Junlor League 2 Gottage Cleaners, 16; Wincel A. C. Juniors, 12. 5507 Club Trojans, 15; Elite Club, South Side Aces, 0; Indianapolis Flashes, 2 (forfeit). ‘Schedule of games in the WPA
in 10 Days; Veteran
* Men Available.
Times Special : BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 25. With but 10 days remaining
Senior hardwood eircult for to-|the
The Salvage: Equipment Co. team ; last year's city A, A. U. hardwood |
champs, would like to hear from all
‘| team having ‘access to gyms. For
games address Max Goldsmith, 703 W. New York-st, or telephone Lincoln 1831. Real Silk,
s0¢ | Rockwood Buddies and Eli Lilly | quintets take notice.
penis.
For games with the Cottage Cleaners, playing in the 17 and 18-year-old class, telephone Drexel 5063 and ask for Ray or write Jim Gallagher, 736 N. De Quincy-st.
The Medora Melodiers defeated the Freetown five, 22 to 13, in their last encounter and would like to
‘book games’ with other clubs. Me-
dora is led by Harry Spurgeon. A
tilt for Sunday is desired.
The eighth annual Thanksgiving |. Day hardwood tourney is to be’
played on the Dearborn court tomorrow with’ the first games getting under ‘way at 2 o'clock. Eight teams are entered in the meet, finals of which are to be held Sunday afternoon. ‘The Turkey Day schedule follows: 2: 00—Kreamer Mig. Co, vs. Crown Products. 2:50—Link Belt Dodge. vs. Beech Grove. 3:40—Hoosier Optical vs. Sears Mohawks. -
, forwards. | Gunning were members of the foot- 2 ball squad and will not report until 3
In addition to the ‘lettermen, three reserves, Ratliff, - center; Charles Mendel, center and guard, and John Hobson, guard, are cone testing with a group of likely sopho=mores for varsity assignments. 5 - Among the sophomore aspirants are: Bill Johnson and Ernest’ Ans dres Jeffersonville; Ralph : Dorsey,
4 :30—Inland Container vs, Sin- |bott,
clair Oilers.
A capacity crowd attended firstround ‘games in the Smith-Hassler-S*:>m girls hardwood league last night at the Dearborn gym. Results follow: Linton Radio, 16; Real Silk, 10. Kingans, .17; Blocks, 14. Kresge, 29; St. Johns, 10.
Tonight's schedule of Co-Operative League games to be played at the Dearborn gym includes: 7:30—Elwood Pattern vs. Kingans Knjghts. 8:30—National Malleable vs. St. Rochs. 9:30—Hoosier Optical vs. Indianapolis Flashes. :
Palin Active at Old Glory Sale
By United Press "NEW “YORK, Nov; 25—Sep F. Palin of Indianapolis, purchased five maz-3 today in the annual Old Glory auction of the thoroughbreds, which set a new record for purchases when 87 head brought a total of $77,575.
Palin bought two bay mares from |
tha miscellaneous consignments and two bays and a brown from the Almahurst; Farm group. His most costly purchase was Doublewyn, a bay mare, for which he paid $525. Other purchases were Calumet Dell, bay, $325; Kahla Volo, bay, $175; Miss Prudence Waits; bay, $375 and Shiela, brown, $500.
ALBANY SELLS PITCHER By United Press = | ALBANY, Nov. 25—The Albany
International Club has sold Pitcher
Leon Pettit to Baltimore of the same league, it was annuonced foday.
LAW ON REGEN SIDE
OMAHA, Nov. %—~Marchy Schwartz, head coach and former Notre Dame star, Art Polisy, and Ed
March, all graduate lawyers, teach
football at Creighton University.
HUBBELL’S BROTHER PITCHES NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—Don Hubbell, 19-year-old brother of Carl Hubbell, New York Giants’ pitcher, is a star moundsman with a House of David nine in California. 5
ALE BASE Is SURE _GOING TO TOWN
gaia,
| Lenglet, 211,
The Hoosiers: will open their cult 20-game schedule here Friday, Dec. 4, against Cincinnati, and then will meet Miami and Kansas State here before playing three games on the road during the Christmas hols idays, when they will meet Manhattan, Villanova and Butler.
Crisler to Talk at Butler Grid Dinner
H. O. (Fritz) Crisler, head fools ball coach at Princeton University, will be principal speaker at the But= ler gridiron banquet Dec. 2. Lew Hill is general chairman ot the
event. Members of the varsity and fresh man football squads are to be hons ored at the dinner which is to be held at the Athenaeum, 401 E. Mich-
Crisler was prominent re at fhe University of Chis cago during the period when Coach Tony Hinkle of Butler was a student on the Midway. He also was a member of the Bulldog coaching school staff last August.
ANDERSON WINS TILT By United Press UPLAND, Ind., Nov. 25. — Frost scored 17 points to lead Anderson to a 29-to-21 victory against Taylor in a college basketball game last night. Anderson held an 18-to-13 lead at the half.
KNOCKS OUT FOE By United Press LOS ANGELES, Nov. 25.—Andre Paris, knocked out Hank Hankinson, 220, Akron, O., in the seventh round of their boxing match here last night.
OLSEN PINS BARBER \ By United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 25. — Cliff Olsen, Minneapolis, pinned Hank Barber, Cambridge, Mass., in the main event match of a wrestling
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