Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1936 — Page 13

. THURSDAY, DEC. 31,

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Eight Tilts Expected to | Draw 280,000

Viewers-With-Alarm Say Holiday Program Carries Exploitation Too Far.

Joe Williams will be featured on the Kate Smith program over CBS from 8 to 9 tonight. He will make his 1937 selections and pick the winning teams in New Year's Day games while being inter-

viewed by Ted Collins of CBS.

BY JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—The moralists of football have gone on recbeing opposed to the Rose game and its various offshoots. this is carrving exploitaplayers to obscene

ord a Bowl] They say of name such games played in various parts of the country tomorrow, the battle front extending even to Havana's tropical shores. A check on advance sales for the eight games forecasts an aggregate attendance of some 280,000 people. This is quite a passel of people | en if you count them real quickly | id it must come as a shock to the | wotball moralists to learn there are | iis many people who will con- | ijously contribute to such a vicious cial offense as exploitation. But then the way of the moralist | 1s never been smooth, even when | ; cause was just, so perhaps too | uch stress should not be placed | . round numbers. It probably is | ue that a great many of us do not | wow what is good for us, or bad | ther. | Even so, it is difficult to perceive | here there is any considerable ickedness in a holiday football ame, or any number of holiday {ootball games, and the anticipated attendance, as referred to above, would seem to indicate there is an extensive, healthy interest in them.

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Something Akin to Plague The viewers-with-alarm point to ¥ the increasing growth of the holiday games something akin to a plague, and it may be that the thing is being somewhat overdone, at least to the point of cheapening the original bowl game, but the fact re-| of first-class

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teams these days and just as many places for them to play. If the trip to Pasadena offers an exciting trip for one group of young- | sters at a time when the classrooms | are closed, where is the wrong in offering similar trips to other groups? I don’t know of any terrible misfortune that ever befell a voungster who played in the Rose Bowl unless you include Johnny Mack Brown. He stayed out there and became & young romantic actor. The growth of the holiday game jdea simply reflects the increasing interest in football, and the time may well come when there will be two or three such games of equal significance. As a matter of fact, it looked for a while that the New Orleans game would take the play

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BY JOHN W. THOMPSON

Fairmount Coach Happy Again After Discovering Free-

Throw Line Was Three Inches Off on Home Floor; Frankfort Still Rides High.

HREE inches means a whole lot when it comes to making good the free throws on a basketball court. The story is told how Coach Lawrence Gotschall of Fairmount found out why his team was “off”’ on its free throwing. The players did much better on free throws on the home court than on foreign floors, Gotschall noticed. For a while he was puzzled. Finally it dawned on him that measuring the distance from the foul line to the basket might give him a clew. Imagine how he felt when he discovered the distance was three inches shorter than regulation on his home court. A painter fixed up the line, and Coach Gotschall is smiling again. =

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= = = Promising junior high school basketball players mean strong high school varsity quintets. The Jeffersonville Junior High School team, entered in the junior high school tourney at Frankfort, averages close to six feet, with a center towering six feet two inches, and one guard an even six feet.

=» =n zn = ” us RANRYORT'S list of victories keeps growing. Kokomo was the 33d consecutive victim the other night, and that makes 39 games in which Frankfort has not tasted defeat. What is the temperament of such a whirlwind team? The “Hot Dogs” apparently haven't felt any strain, basketball fans in that town observe, but the players realize they are definitely on the spot, with each opponent getting ready for the big upset. A tough trail spreads before Frankfort, with Marion, Newcastie, Lebanon, Kokomo, Anderson, Richmond, Muncie, Jeffersonville and Logansport on the calendar. n = =n ” ”

Just before the recent game with Purdue, two Montana State University players remarked they didn’t see why Indiana should be spotlighted as the outstanding basketball state in the country. Pur- “ 1e won 63 to 29, you recall. Wonder what those two Westerners think now. = =

Four games in six nights is a tough pace for any basketball team, but think of the added grief if the team drops all four games. Arlington's Wildcats tried it, did just that.

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= n JR Cove gets a big bite of basketball with its annual Rush County tourney, scheduled for Jan. 22 and 23 at Memorial gymnasium. The schedule is to be drawn a few days before. Ten teams, every one in the county excert Rushville, are booked to compete.

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» ” n For the first time in many years, Mishawaka may not be host to the sectional tournament this year because of construction of a new gym at New Carlisle, with a seating capacity of 1400. = = = = = = OMPETITION for the center job on the Noblesville team is still wide open. Chief contestants are Johnson Baker, Bill Howard and Dick Grimes. Howard's speed and jumping ability gave him a slight edge until Grimes showed improvement recently. Baker's power under the basket and his adeptness in snaring the ball

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(and Nevins looked best for the los(ers with six points each.

Kingan's Five, Rockwood in Semi-Finals

Amateur Basketball Teams! Advance in Dearborn | Holiday Tourney. |

The Rockwood Buddies and the Kingans amateur basketball teams won the right to participate in the semi-finals of the annual Dearborn

a result of games played last night. In the feature game, the Rockwoods beat a game Wayne Park Garage team, 35-29, in a last-quarter rally. Glenn, Rockwood center, and

sponsible for most of the points, the former accounting for five field goals and four free throws while Wampler made six field goals. Ewing

Off to Fast Start

Rockwood got away to a fast start by scoring seven points in the first minute of play. They ran their advantage to 13 points before the Wayne Park players could connect

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off the backboard gives him a little advantage over the others.

Noblesville appeared recently

in its only encounter with a

North Central Conference club—Marion—and came out on top.

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A four-way tournament brings together four Howard County

quintets at Russiaville Saturday.

New London, West Middleton, and

Ervin Township, in addition to Russiaville, are entered. The event should give an indication of the relative strength of

the west-end-of-the-county clubs.

A bronze trophy is to be award-

ed winners playing for the championship Saturday night.

‘Got to Win Title Again,’ Says Ex-Champion Jones

BY STEVE SNIDER United Press Staff Correspondent MILWAUKEE, Dec. 31.—This is the story of a fighter who was too

smart and of his long battle to live

down a shady name.

Gorilla Jones, former middleweight champion of the world. Age 28.

Height 5 feet, 9 inches. Weight 152.

fighter who could make any match “I got this Steele's title New Year’s Day and

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Louisiana Looked Good

This was when Santa Clara was | rolling along, unbeaten and untied, | with bright prospects of meeting | Louisiana State, also unbeaten, with | a perfect record. As a national at- | traction this would have carried | more appeal than Pittsburgh and | Washington, each with a defeat | charged against its record. But | when Santa Clara was beaten in the | Jast game of its regular season the game lost much of its glamour. | Not that the game, even in f{ts| present status, doesn't promise much | spirited football. In the judgment | most experts Louisiana State | ranks close to the top. and certainly Santa Clara must have had something to go along unbeaten or untied as long as it did, especially in a season distinguished by the unpredictable Most of my advance information on this game has come from Southern sources and may be slightly biased. At any rate the feeling seemed to be the Swamp Tigers will | knock Santa Clara over by two touchdowns. They finished the sea- | son with a tremendous burst of | speed and power, confident they | would get the Rose Bowl bid. Feeling they were slighted, they are | liable to be in a vindictive mood against the visiting Californians. | These things can be important to! youngsters and sometimes they can | mean the difference between victory | and defeat.

Pitt Rated Weak

From Pasadena I hear the Pittsburgh players have developed a Psychology that isn't calculated to Rnparr their chances any, either. ey have been told they were thosen instead of Louisiana State! because they were a weaker team, | | that Washington wanted to make sure of winning. This sounds a bit | Juvenile but the report has been | widely circulated. You may recall! that when Pitt was chosen the coast | critics set off an awful blast, indicting the team as a “second rate! Eastern outfit.” I am told these cruel words! t set well with Mr. John Bain Sutherland's youngsters and that! they are determined to make the! critics eat their words on stale! Fi white bread. This situation, plus “1 the fact Pitt has never won a Rose! Bowl game in three previous at! tempts, may give the team a much | stiffer morale than any of its prede- | pors had. In which event a Pitt | pry should come as no surprise. |

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“If IT didn’t think I could win back the title they took away from me for some reason I never knew, I'd never climb in there with Steele. He's the best man I ever fought. But I got to get that belt back to make folks think right of me.” After Jones lost his claim to the world championship by disqualification in a match with Marcel Thil at Paris in 1932, ne drew an indefinite suspension for stalling with Ben Jeby, New York boxing commission champion, a year later at Cleveland. The Gorilla started coasting then,

working states not in the fold of | Boxing Association!

the National which recognized pension. Fought Steele Twice “When Joe Louis and John Henry Lewis started pushing up to the top of their divisions, it began to look like there was money to be: made again,” Jones said. “I was a pretty good fighter once. Iv buddies said there were a couple more battles left in me

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shot at the championship. I'm tryin’ to prove they were right.” Jones fought Steele twice—before the Tacoma (Wash. slasher defeated Eddie (Babe) Risko for the crown. The first was a draw, the second a decision for Steele. “Either one of us might have won the first one, but that second he licked me proper. I was out of condition. Freddie is a clever boxer as well as a puncher and he hurt me bad several times. “But now I'm in shape. That'll make up the difference.” Expert observers insist Jones is the only middleweight in action who can defeat Steele—if the Gorilla will shoot the works.

OFFENSE MARKS DRILL FOR SHORTRIDGE HIGH

Underbasket plays and accuracy at the foul line were stressed during

| Shortridge High School team’s bas-

ketball practice yesterday for weekend games with Bloomington and Tech. Fred Fobes, Jack Clayton, Paul Alley, Jack Dawson and Carl Klein are expected to start both games.

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For St. Mary’s

Coach Joe Dienhart, striving to |end Cathedral's three-game losing | streak, is to taper off a strenuous week of drilling today in preparation for the New Year's Day game with St. Mary's of Anderson. The St. Mary's team has four of the original five players who won the Catholic state tournament and went to national finals last year. Cathedral's starting lineup is expected to include Bernie Broderick and Bob Fitzgerlald, forwards; | Bill Hurrle and Bill Perry, guards, and Joe Gillespie, center. In a preliminary game a quintet of former Cathedral stars is to play the na[tional Catholic champions of 1933. | Performing for the champs are to he Charles Shipp, former allAmerica prep star; John and Eddie | G Connor, Ed Barnhorst, Red Theobald and Larry Broderick, | while the opposition is to include | Johnnie Ford, ex-Notre Dame star: | Mike O'Brien, Jim Carson, Bob and Bill Connor, Bob Shields, Johnnie McMahon, Red Madden, Russ Sweeney, Bob Collier, Chuck MarKey, Jim Wulle, Johnnie Boyle, Ray Schnorr, and other stars as far back as 1928, the beginning of Coach Dienhart’s reign at Cathedral. The preliminary game is to begin at 3 Pp. m. .

Heavyweight Stars On Wrestling Card

Two young heavyweight mat stars, Am Rascher, former Indiana University wrestler, and Irish Tommy O Tool, Phoenix, Ariz, will headline the Hercules A. C. wrestling card at the Armory ne Tuesday night, meeting in a fin match calling

went to no decision in a 30-minute time limit bout last Tuesday.

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Inland Box team rode

for a basket, the first quarter ending soon afterward with the score 15 to 2. In the second quarter the Wayne Park five spurted to tie the score at 17-all when the first half ended. Both teams tightened on defense during the second half, the third quarter ending with Rockwood back in the lead, 22-20. The final quarter found Rockwood slowly pulling away to cinch the game. Summary: WAYNE PARK GARAGE (29)

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Totals ..13 3 “8l Totals Score at Half—Wayne Park, wood, 17. Referee—Bright. Boyer. ; . . The Kingans team remained in

the tournament at the expense of the Chevrolet Truckers whom they defeated easily 43-22. Chevrolet as- | sumed an early 12-7 lead at the end { of the first quarter, but lost the ad- | vantage before the intermission and | scored only six points in the last | half. Kennett was high-point man for the winners with 12 points and Red Phillips led the losers with 11 points. Although it played the last min-

ers, the Inland Box team managed to maintain its lead and defeat the Thomas Sinclair Oilers, 42-24. The roughshod over the Oilers and finally lost so many men via the foul route that only four players were left on the floor. Harlan looked best offensively for the Box team with 15 points, while Compton scored seven points to lead the losers.

Flashes Leok Good

In the final game of the evening the Indianapolis Flashes played good ball, led by Drake with 11 points, to hold the crack Crown Products team to a 43-31 victory. The latter team has been picked by many of the fans to win the championship cup in the final game to be played at 3:30 p. m. Sunday. The consolation flight winner will be decided in a game to start at 2:30 p. m, Sunday. In the only consolation game played last night the Link Belt Ewart five had little difficulty in disposing of the Polks team, 50-31. Briggs, Link Belt forward, scored 19 points for highest individual score made yet. The consolation flight schedule Saturday finds the Prest-O-Lite team facing the Walts Terminal team at 6:30 p. m. in a quarter-final game. At 7:20 the Link Belt Ewart team is scheduled to meet the Eastman Cleaners in a semi-final game. At 9:50 p. m. the winner of the Prest-O-Lite-Walts Terminal game will meet Brehobs Market in the other semi-final consolation game,

The Fishers Flying Five team wants to book basketball games on any nights except Friday or Saturday. They may be contacted by calling Richard Skinner at Humboldt 4167.

Elwood Pattern Works Basketball team is seeking games any night cxcept Monday and Wednesday with teams having access {0 a gym or share expenses, Out-of-town games are sought, also. Call Drexel 200% or write 1026 Willow Drive.

The International Barbers desire games with teams having access to basketbail floors. Call Cherry 1363 R or address H. L. Hustedt, 1129 N. Dearborn-st. Dwight McKenzie is asked to call the above telephone number. The Barbers recently defeated the Progg Club, 23 to 10 in a Fraternal League game.

The Kingan's Knights are to practice Saturday at 4 p. m. in the Dearborn gym in preparation for their Co-Operative League game with the Indianapolis Flashes next Wednesday.

The DeGoyler Printers are to meet the Mallory team next Thursday night in the Pennsy gym. The Printers are to practice Saturday at 4 p. m. in the Dearborn gym.

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| Movie Man, Rifle Fan, Discovers Error

When a theater publicity man | finds fault with one of his own] movies then the man-bites-dog episode slips into the obituary class. It's not that Frank Monyhun | wants to pan his own movie, “The |

Plainsman” which opens at the Cir- |

cie tomorrow. It's just that Frank) ic so avid a gun fan that he can't | let mistakes go by without saying something. Ever since he was 10 years old! Frank has been gun conscious. At] that early date he invested $1.75] in a small 22 rifle which he esti- | mates was about as effective as a length of gas pipe. No long 2go Frank laid something like $120 on the line just because he likes good rifles. The other day Frank sat in a screening room and watched the preview showing of “The Plainsman.” In the story, set in the 18661874 period, he paid particular attention to the guns used. Finally, in a close-up of Gary Cooper and a rifle, Mr. Monyhun noticed that the gun Mr. Cooper was supposed to be carrying back in the '70's, was not manufactured until 1892. The reason Mr. Monyhun knew this was because he happens to own an 1892 model Winchester Carbine, exactly like the one Gary uses in the picture. He also has a Colt | Frontier Model .45 commonly known | as the “Six-Shooter” or ‘“PeaceMaker.” These guns, Frank expiained, are not rare. Both can be bought brand new. But the price has been hiked considerably. The best rifle in Mr. Monyhun's collection is a .257 custom-built Roberts. The action is Mauser; the batrel by R. I. Sedgely. The cartridge for this rifle, according to Mr. Monyhun, was designed by a New England auditor, N. H. Roberts, for the purpose of shooting woodchucks (ground-hogs) and crows. Which is what Mr. Monyhun uses the gun for, too. Frank claims that almost every worthwhile improvement made on guns is made by somebody like Mr.

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Frank Monyhun, shown above with his 1892 model Winchester rifle, in his right hand, and his Colt Frontier “Peace-Maker” in his left, is well armed to prove to Circle Theater patrons that Gary Cooper carried the wrong gun in “The Plainsman” which starts here

tomorrow.

Roberts, who ferret out the missionary work and pave the way for the arms manufacturers. There are many others in Indian-

apolis just as interested in shooting as Mr. Monyhun. He is one of 200 Marion County members of the Hoosier Rifle and Pistol Club, organized in 1913. Meetings are held every Friday night on the Tomlinson Hall range. The top five shooters in the matches held on Fridays are chosen to represent the Hoosier Club in matches with other gun

clubs. These inter-team matches are held each Monday night. The forerunner of the Hoosier Club, the German Schuetzer, was one of the earliest gun clubs in America.

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Of Sports Trophy

By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—The Sulli= van trophy, emblematic of the year's outstanding athletic achievement, was awarded today to Glenn Morris of Denver, who broke the world's record in winning the decathlon at the Berlin Olympic Games. Desertion of amateur ranks by Jesse Owens, triple winner in the Olympics, apparently cost him the award. He had been universally ace claimed as the protable winner. Morris pollea 1106 ballots to owens' 1103. Jack Medica, Seattle swimmer, was third in the voting of the 600 members of the James E. Sullivan tribunal with 301. Following Medica in the voting came Miss Helen Jacobs with 204, Miss Helen Stephens 174, Tommy Hitchcock 170, Johnny Fischer 153,

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