Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1937 — Page 14

By Eddie Ash

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FIRST OUT ‘WITH PENNANT TALK

JFORECASTING 1937, President George Trautman of the Amegican Association, said, “There is not a single club in our league that is downhearted. All expect to finish in ‘the first division.” .. . It’s a safe stove league opinion, anyway. . . « But Gabby Street, ye old army man, feels chesty about his St. Paul Saints and is first out with a pennant ‘prediction. . . , “We cannot miss this. time,” the Apostles’ ‘pilot has informed listeners. . . . Petey Sarron, American

featherweight champion, is

to meet -Johnny McGrory,

‘British and Empire crown holder, in a title bout in London

April 19.

One reason for the transfer of the St. Louis Cardinals’ ‘training camp from Bradenton, Fla., to Daytona Beach is ‘a $600 guarantee. ... Another reason is the club officials decided the athletes had become too well acquainted on the west coast of the Sunshine State.

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VI ISSIONARY work. . . . Roger Peckinpaugh and Lew Fonseca are on a tour of colleges and CCC camps to show the American League's baseball movie. . + « Spencer ‘Abbott, Seattle’s new diamond manager, used to pilot the Kansas City Blues. . . « And when things went wrong, Spencer often doffed his cap and butted his head against .the dugout wall. . . . Which is a better means of letting off ‘steam than Burleigh Grimes’ practice of throwing the

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NSTEAD of the football “bowl” fad losing ground, it may continue to grow in popularity . ... The New Year's games of 1937 entertained millions including the crowds at the contests and the radio fans . .i.

: And now even New York has the fever ..

. The big town is putting out

‘feelers to test public opinion and the first line of approach consists of pointing out what swell weather was on tap there the first day of 1937. .'. . However, its a good guess that the average weather on New

. Year's Day in New York would keep the fans at home .

. » It’s just

possible that Broadway has become jealous of the publicity attached to the post-season classics at Pasadena, New Orleans, Dallas and . Miami . .. And it’s doubtful if the big universities located there would be interested . . . The players naturally would prefer a holiday trip to

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‘9“RED HOFFMAN, manager of Memphis last year, has joined the Cardinal chain organization and is scouting the winter leagues in

California. .

. . Johnny Riddle, Indianapolis catcher, now on a motor

trip to the West Coast, will remain in California two months and will ‘live near Los -Angeles in Manager Wade Killefer’s neighborhood. . . .

Weissmuller, the former swim

Max Baer, former heavyweight = golf tourney at Oakland, Cal,

tic champ, and Johnny (Tarzan) ar, have entered the $5000 open .. 15,16 and 17. . .

. Max usually

shoots in the middle 80s. . .. Weissmuller refuses to reveal his average.

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OHNNY HUGHES, entered from Seymour, who reached the semifinals in the Novice class of The Times-Legion -Golden Gloves tournament last winter, was injured by an auto near Columbus the

“ other day and tie mishap cost him a broken leg. . . . His first words

following the accident were, “There goes my chances in the Golden

. Gloves.” . .

. Hughes was employed at the Columbus’ plant of the

‘Consolidated Shoe Corp. . . . He represented the Young Men's Athletic Club here in 1836. . . . Joe Ashby, Y. M. A. C. boxing manager, says Johnny was his best bet. . . . Charlie Lucas, bantamweight, and George ‘Hogg, lightweight, Novice glove tossers of Seymour, are slated to com-

pete in The Times-Legion fifth annual meet.

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Ownie Bush, baseball leader of the local East End, was to depart for California today to take in the scenery and scout for talent. . .. His Minneapolis Millers can stand some new blood. . . . Some of the

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Present plans call for the 1937 American Bowling Congress tourney

“to open on March 9

and close on April 30. . , . For 52 consecutive days

the bowlers will start action at 8:30 a. m. and continue right through

‘until 2 a. m. the next morning. .

. . The prize list will hit around

$120,000. . . . No fewer than 20,000 competitors will take part.

Golf Limit Is Unfair to Veterans, Henry Says

By HENRY M'LEMORE United Press Staff C rrespondent DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, Jan. 5.— Now that the;State Supreme Court —in the absence of a boxing commission, I suppose—has stepped in and put a temporary end to this city's" 135-pound political elimination tournament, this observer again is able to turn *his attention to orts. . ah the few days that machine guns, barricaded city halls, sawed- ' off subpenas, and rapid fire writs have engaged my attention, several things have come to pass in sport on which I would like to comment. Now don’t rear up and say my comments are valueless because I know better. Why, I could name you a score of enterprising merchants who have cleaned up by putting my comments in neat packages and selling them for a dime a dozen. Now let us consider the new ruling + of the United States Golf Associa- : tion which limits players to 14 ctubs. I have read no fewer than 100 comments on this piece of legis‘lation and the consensus seems to be that it will work wonders for the tournament veterans, and enable them to equal or surpass youngsters “in performance. Old-Timers Helped This apparently is based on the " pelief that the old-timers, who

. learned the game when six or seven sticks constituted a set, and thus

the final analysis it’s right up there on the greens that the veterans kick away their chances to win tour= naments. Now for tennis. Anyone who disagrees with the ranking committze in. its placing of Alice Marble above Helen Jacobs gets no sympathy from me. After all, Miss Marble won the national title, and the rankings, unless I am mistaken, go under the name of “national” rankings. The committee wasn't listing a world’s first 10. Bitsy Grant, however, deserved the No. 2 men’s spot. His record for the year is better than that of the mechanical Parker, whose grasp of the game is not as sound as his grasp of the racquet. Bitsy must not have been surprised by the rankings, however, for he must know by now that the only way he can ever hope to get a fair break from the icre-cream pant fathers is te win Wimbledon, Forest Hills, the French hard court, German soft court, Siberian Clay court, Bulgarian en-Tourcas, Siamese covered,

and the Girls’ junior mixed doubles: Even then, they

all in one year. probably wouldn't Davis-Cupper.

OLIVER WINS FIGHT CHICAGO, Jan. 5.—Art Oliver, Chicago Negro heavyweight, decisioned Eddie Boyle of Cleveland in an eight-round bout at Marigold Garden arena last night.

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Hoosier Teams Win First Games of Big Ten Race; | Butler to Meet ‘Michigan EP

‘Northwestern Whips Illinois,

Becomes Conference Favorite.

Timez Special CHICAGO, Jan. 5.—Basketball prophets were smiling today over the fact that Northwestern, the team they picked as chief threat to the Big Ten title, swept to a 47-38 victory against Illinois last night. The experts base their statements that the Wildcats have a good chance at the title because they play neither Indiana nor Purdue. The Boilermakers won from Wisconsin last night, 43-30, and the Hoosiers

downed lowa, 28-24, in initial con-]

ference games. Purdue opened defense of its splurge against Wisconsin, 43 to 30, but Indiana was forced to fall back on its’ tight defense to halt ‘Towa, 28 .to 24. Minnesota defeated De Paul in a. nonconference game, 34 to 25. Replacing All-America Bob Kessler, who took the conference scoring title to Purdue last season, was Jewell Young to lead the powerful Boilermakers. Young's 27 points against the Badgers gave him a long lead in the conference scoring.

Swift Passing Attack It took Purdue almost the entire first half to check Wisconsin's inspired opening rally. Caught in a ragged streak at the start, Purdue was forced to come from behind to iead, 18 to 14, at the half. Young shot the Boilermakers into a 10-point lead within a few minutes of the second half and from there his mates picked up speed with a swift passing game.

SUMMARY"

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Score at Hal{—Purdue, 18: Wisconsin, 14. Free Throws Missed—Sines (2), Anderson, Malaska, Downey (2), for Purdue; Powell. Rconey, Haukedahl, Mitchell, for Wisconsin. ; . Referee—Feezle (Indianapolis). —Bray (Cincinnati).

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Northwestern beat Illinois at its own game with a passing attack a shade faster and two scoring stars far superior to Sophomores Louis Boudreau and Tom Nisbet, who carried the hopes of the Illini. Fred Trenkle and Mike McMichael brought the Wildcats from behind seven times with their barrage of eight field goals each. : Indiana Takes Early Lead Indiana jumped into a lead early in the first period against Iowa and never relinquished it despite a rally that brought the Hawks within a point of a tie with fivé minutes left to play. Ken Gunning, with six field goals and two free throws, kept the Hoosiers ahead with timely shots until they decided to take no more chances and began to stall three minutes from the final gun.

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Umpire—

Michigan closes its nonconference season tonight at Butler. The Wolves meet Purdue Saturday, while Indiana meets Chicago here, Iowa plays at Northwestern. and Illinois goes to Wisconsin,

BROOKS CUE WINNER

Tom Brooks, with a high run of five, defeated Walt Ramsey, 50 to 29 in 83 innings in a state threecushion billiard tourney match at Harry Cooler’s parlor last night. Lou Spivey, outstanding contender for the title now held by Larry Sha-

piro, is to oppose Al Roche at 4 p. m. today.

ceived last summer, Assistant Coach

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Hinkle’s Team Faces Gee:

And Townsend, Tall Wolverine Players.

Michigan’s band of “skyscraping” basketball players squeezed out of cramped Pullman berths at Union Station early today for.a bit of exercising before their game with Butler tonight. Their program, called for a lot of rest, lots of good food and .a little exercising. The team is stopping at Hotel Antlers, where Michigan's coach was awaiting the team today after scouting Purdue at the Pur-due-Wisconsin game last night. The team was in good shape, other than the fact John Gee, 6 feet 9 inches pivot man. will be using a mose guard in- tonight's game to protect a broken nose re-

Bennie Oosterbaan announced, The Michigan players were to have been guests of Michigan alumni at a luncheon in the Indianapolis Athletic Club at noon. Later, the players were to return to Hotel Antlers for an afternoon of rest and sleep, according to Coach Franklin C. Cappon. "Coach Tony Hinkie, meanwhile, hopes that he has restored the bite to his Bulldog: team for the Wolverine encounter. He has put his players through two days of -hard.scrimmage and long defensive drills. Cosgrove Returns Arthur Cosgrove, Butler captain, returned to practice yesterday afternoon for the first time this season. Cosgrove was injured in an automobile accident early in November. Cosgrove will not be in the lineup tonight. ‘William Geyer, scphomore from Fort Wayne, will continue to fill a guard post until Cosgrove is able to return to the lineup. George Perry, former Tech star, will also be in the lineup again with Geyer tonight. William Merriil will hold the center position and Willard Gerkensmeyer will hold the forward posts. Before a record crowd last year the Wolverines defeated the Bulldogs in the closing seconds of play with a long field goal by Indianapolis’ Johnny Townsend. A. free throw that followed ended the game with Michigan on .the long end of a 26-to-23 score. - Undaunted by two defeats by Big Ten foes, the Bulldogs will seek to even up the score by defeating the Wolverines. Thus far Butler has been defeated by Purdue and Indiana and holds a victory over the University -of Wisconsin. - Two star attractions will draw the attention of Indianapolis hardwood fans during the Michigan game. Attraction number one is John Townsend, former Tech High School star. John is 6 feet 4 inches tall and is held the most outstanding man on the team. Last season he was the only second-year man {o be chosen on the all-conferenze basketball team. He holds a forward post.

Gee Tallest Center

Attraction number two is John Gee, captain of the Wolverines, who is reportedly one of the tallest men in the hardwood sport. Gee is 6 feet 9 inches tall and has little trouble at the pivot position. He has not been out-jumped this season and his left-handed shots under the basket have made him a scoring threat for two men to handle. Herman Fishman and Matth Patanelli will hold the guard positions while Richard Joslin will start at forward opposite Townsend. Coach Tony Hinkle has tried several combinations in two days of practice but it is thought that he will start the same lineup that played against Indiana. : Willard Fawcett and Earl Gerkensmeyer probably will play for-

wards with William Merrill at the |-

center post. Earl Overman, senior forward, has been seeing much action lately and may /start in place of Fawcett. George ty and William Geyer will start at the guard positions. These last two boys are sophomores but have won regular berths on the Hinkle quintet. Advance ticket sales indicate that the record crowd of 7500 for last week’s Indiana game may be topped.

BASKETBALL SCORES

| SDAY, JANUARY 5,

1937

200 Hits Rarein Debut ~~ Only 11 players were able to collect. more than 200 hits in their 1936 major : league debuts. Joe DiMagyio rang up a season total of 206 safe blows during the season.

WILDCATS THROW SCARE INTO I U.,, PURDUE

Soleful Look ‘at Michigan's Gee-Man_

* “Bottoms up,” smiles roofscraping [ Michigan's 6-feet-9-inch center as he shi ws a per- | fect pair of No. 13's. “He's pictured in an upper Pullman berth as the Michigan team jy illed into

ohn Gee,

— Times Photo by Wheeler.

Union Station today. ready for its game with Butler at the Fieldhouse tonight. of Fieldhouse .floor space for he's destined, they “say, to make the select ““100-point” group in Big Ten scoring this season.

Gee's feet will cover a lot

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U. S. Tires Are to Face Akron Firesto ie Quintet

The next opponents of the U. S. Tires professional basketball quintet is to be the touted Firestones of Akron. The teams clash at Pennsy gym Sunday in a Midwest Conference game, The Ohioans have been in pro limelight for a number of years and number among their victims some of the nation’s top-notch aggregations. They split even with the Celtics in a six-game series last season, and are rated much stronger at present. : Seven of the eight players carried on the team top the six-foot mark in height. The smallest member of the team is Billy Reeves, an allState player with Danville Normal several years ago. Billy is the veteran of the Firestone squad. The locals, fresh from a victory over the Jasper Coca Colas, feel confident that they can halt the

Trio of Tussles On Armory Card

A double-header main go tops the all-heavyweight mat card at the Armory tonight where nationally known grapplers will display their skill and power. A trio of tussles will be offered with action beginning at 8:30. Babe Zaharias, 235, well-known Greek husky from Colorado, goes against Eddie Newman, 216, Jewish star from New York, in one of the features. Newman comes touted as a matman who can take good care

invade 5s. Coach ‘Lefty Evans has called oractice sessions every night

this wiek and expects to build a tight ( efense to battle the Akronites. 1 pscoe Batts and Harlan Wilson fo nd their basket. eyes in Sunday's (‘ame at Jasper, scoring 33 points between them, and. Evans is depenc ng on the pair to match the point 1iakers of the visitors.

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McDowell Matched With Frank Hughes

The signing of Wild Bill McDowell, Louisville welterweight, for a 10-round match with Frankie Hughes, coal miner from - Clinton, has been announced by Kelse McClure, matchmaker for the Midwest Boxing Club. The boys will meet on the initial card, which will feature a 10-round battle between Jimmie Buckler, Kentucky featherweight champion, and Paul (Tennessee) Lee, ruler of the feather division in Indiana, at Hall Thursday night.

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Wabash Loses To Ball State Team, 38-30

Defeat First in Four Starts For Cavemen; Rudicel Paces Winners.

Timea Special : : CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind.. Jan. 5. —Ball State hung up its fifth vice tory in six games last night by defeating the Wabash College basket ball team, 38 to 30. The defeat was the first in four starts ‘for the Cavemen. : 7 : The height of Ball State players proved a distinct advantage as they outshot the local team 17 to 8. Wabash sank 14 free throws tothe visitors’ four to reduce the margin of victory. ra Williams and Long, each with four baskets, led the Cavemen in gaining an early margin, but Ball State came from behind late: in the first period, to take the lead, 15 to:13, and was ahead at the end of the half, 19 to '17. : ’ Williams and Long again scored early in the second: half, putting Wabash in the lead 21 to 19. M, Rudicel, Cardinals’ stock guard, shot six field goais to lead a Baill State drive that put the latter well out in front. Summary: Wabash (30)

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Vénzke and Lash In Special Race

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.—Gene: Vene zke will abandon his mile specialty to compete in the 3000-meter invitational race of the Knights -of Co~ lumbus annual indoor track and field games here Saturday, it was announced: today. re gt The Pottstown, Pa., runner wiil match strides with Don Lash of Indiana and Joe McCluskey of the New York A. C. in the specially arranged race. It will be the first time he has seriously attempted:to compete over the longer distances. since he abandoned road: racing years ago. ore dn

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of himself against any style of opposition. Babe specializes in rough tactics. In the other main event, two o the best young heavies in the game, Am Rascher, 222, and Irish Tommy

. had to make each club perform numerous duties, will feel at home ‘ once again. And that the newcomers, who have been accustomed. to * having a weapon for every job, will bé completely lost.

COLLEGES Indiana, 28; Iowa, 24, Purdue, 43; Wisconsin, 30. Ball State, 38; Wabash, 30. . wenn, 37391000: 38. aldwin-Wallace, 29; Ohi Oklahoma, 47: Kansas Et esjeyan, 28: Wooster, 45: Lehigh, 21. Pe Duke, 30; Wake Forest. 28.

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. To come right out and say so I . think the consensus is looney. Don’t forget that when today’s veterans were shooting par and bet- . ter with seven or eight clubs they * weren't veterans, but youngsters. They had youth, and all that goes with it, on their side. Their nerves - were steady, because they had no © nerves. Their muscles took 9 18, or 36 holes in stride. They weren't jaded then, and hours of * practice was fun, and not|the mo- - notonous work it is today. ..- When the old-timers talk of how . they used to break par [wi i © sticks, and wooden sticks,

. the days before Father Time, using , only one club—that curved-blade blaster of his—had begun [to swing . on them. :

Another Angle to It

There’s another angle to be con- + sidered, too, and that is that while “ the tournament youngsters have been carrying 15, 20 and even 25 + clubs in their bags, they hardly ever used more than 10 or 12 of them. ‘ The new ruling won't cost them , any clubs that counted, [only an “lucky” putters, left- - handed freaks for emergency work beside trees and fences, and faddish ‘ variations of standard models. The “new legislature won't 7 youngsters of their putters, and in

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Southport Meets Franklin Tonight

Coach William, Bugg has been putting his = Southport “charges moh pensive drills . for the me with Franklin High School at Franklin tonight. Sh k This is the first time the two

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