Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1937 — Page 21
| THURSDAY, FEB. 11,
1937
PAGE 21
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
WHY BOWLERS ARE CALLED ‘*KEGLERS' PUZZLES WILLIAMS
Joe Informed [
Sport Ranks Next to Golf
He Finds Out 20.000 Are Expected to Participate in New York Meet.
By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer
NEW YORK, Feb. 11. — It seems
that beginning next month we are,
to have the biggest indoor sports show in the world in our town—the National
and the number of participants is simply staggering. Something like 20,000 from all spots of the map. It makes you dizzy just to sit and listen Signor Albertanti the details. The entrance ‘fees run to a quarter of a million, the prize money is 'way ‘up ‘in ‘the fancy figures, the cost of promotion, to use inspired word “tremendous” and the number balls, pins, alleys and so forth is practically as high as you can count. “There will be 10,000 keglers from this state alone,” gasped the Signor. “Keglers? I thought this was to be a bowling show.” “Well, that's what they call bowlers—keglers.” “But why call ’em keglers?” “Because they are bowlers.” I sensed the horrible possibility that this might degenerate into something bordering on radio humor s0 I did not press the inquiry further, though I still would like to know why a bowler is called a kegler, and, moreover, just what the heck a kegler is? “You sports writers don't pay enough attention to bowling,” fumed | the Signor. (And I was relieved to note he didn't refer to it as keg- | ling.) Do you know that next to; golf bowling commands a bigger | competitive following than any sport in the country?” I confessed a confused ignorance. The Signor continued . .. ‘This isn’t R spectator game. It's a playing game. The bowler doesn’t sit in the | stands and watch the other fellows; he gets out on ‘the alley and plays | himself. That's what makes it a real sport, and a fine sport.”
drool
Williams is
of | {
Signor's own
|
Surprised at Signor
All of this seemed rather strange coming from the Signor. I mean this earnest enthusiasm about the! active athlete. 1 hadn't suspected he entertained any such philosophy ahout sports. As long as 1 have known him I can’t recall ever seeing him compete in any sport more physically testing or taxing than pinochle, unless vou include the night at Miami Beach when he matched quarters with Mr. Bill Carey, who ‘was then promoting prize fights. As a matter of fact ‘until ‘very recently the Signor has been identified more or less continuously with the prize fight business himself. One of his last assignments was to bally- | hoo Jim Braddock into a formidable | opponent for Max Baer by way of stimulating box office trade for the heavyweight championship. Endless reams of copy extolling the many and hitherto unsuspected of Mr. Braddock streamed from the Signor's helpless ftypewriter. Two days before the fight I | saw him in front of Madison Square | Garden. He seemed to be in a | daze .. . “I'm off my nut,” he admitted. ‘I've written so much about Braddock I've even convinced myself he can win. Worse than that I just made a bet on him.” He was | looking for sympathy. What he got was 6 to 1 and was paid off. Never Bowled a ‘Game
f gifts
I was not surprised, on asking, to learn that the signor had never bowled a game in his life and, furthermore, that until he took the job of steaming up the annual tournament of the American Bowling
Congress—which is the square mon- |
jcker of the show—he had never been ‘on a bowling alley. . . . “But what difference does that make? I've never played polo either. But voy don't hear me going around putting the rap on Tommy Hitchcock or Jock Whitney do you?” . . . The signor, with a giow of native pride, points out that where Germans used to dominate bowling, fs the Italians. He mentions known figures as Hank Phil ‘Spinella, Mallilo,
now it such ‘well Marino, Barney and Joe TFalcaro, Vincenza and ‘Shank Mercurio.
P11
Dress up your a 'set of new 19
clothes clean.
Jor troublesome
Coupes
Bowling Championships. | The show will run for days and days
to | Francis |
| would set a definite date as soon as |
the |
py
Ya
APPROVED AUTO SUPPLIES SEAT COVERS
Year ‘seat ‘covers. protect upholsteryekeep
them on. No pins, tacks
1 19 21 91 « Aue” Rober, 2.98
Plays Sunday
One of the latest additions to the Kautsky A. C. professional basketball team’s roster is Austin
(Red) Lambert, shown above, former Purdue University star. Lambert has been turning in some flashy performances for the locals, playing any position on the team. He is expected to see action in Sunday's Kautsky-Chicago Crusader game at the Pennsy Gym.
| |
|
Louis Signatures
| Bi United Press
CHICAGO, Feb. 11.—The second | attempt to persuade Champion | James J. Braddock and Joe Louis to | sign for a title fight here June 15 was under way today after the Tli- |
'nois Athletic Commission ordered |
both men to appear for the cere- |
monies Feb, 18 or 19. | Chairman Joe Triner said he]
both Louis and Braddock had cleaned up their engagements. “When the Park Board delayed action on the Sporting ‘Club's rental application for ‘Soldier Field, our pians were set back just one week. The hoard meets Tuesday and the first date both men can be here is Thursday or Friday.” Louis boxes Natie Brown at Cleveland on Thursday and Braddock has contracted to appear in New York the same night.
Culver Team to Play in Detroit
Times Special CULVER, Ind. Feb. 11.—Culver Military Academy will seek their sixth victory Saturday when they play the Cranbrook School basketball team at Detroit. Coach Oliver's players have averaged 37 points a game in their six starts. Leading scorers include CoCapt. Sam Medbourn, guard, ‘with 49 points; Jack Dutcher, 48; Bill Phillips, 34; Bob Hook, 26, and Charley Batsch, 20.
INDIANA U. PLANS PREP MAT TOURNEY
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Feb, 11.— Indiana University again will act as host for the annual state high school tournament which ‘will be held here Feb. 26 and 27, Athletic Director 2. 'G. ‘Clevenger has announced. More than 35 high schools have received entry blanks. Entries will be closed Monday, Feb. 22.
Additional Sports on
¥ NEW SPRING v7 STYLESY
YoY a, NY
Er
MOME
TX IIR
OWNET
TIMELY AUTO NEEDS ® Trek Sev o Dion 595
car ‘with 37 ‘GoodThey Just slip fasteners. |
Cooclies Sedans
Bicycles, '
, The “extras’ of modern y cars demand an extra. power GOODYEAR! BATTERY! We have Goodyear batteries for all cars und all driving J needs. See them!
a A LOW AS
S44 50°.
Road Service.
Open 6 A. M. to 9 P. M. Week Days. 8 A. M. to 1 P. WM. Suniiays DELAWARE and WALNUT STS. AT FT. WAYNE AVE. ¥. M. BANCROFT, Myr. Lubrication, Gas, Goodvenr Batteries, Rocesvories, Radios
GOODYEAR BATTERIES ue _ Ae => ® Radio wom 19.95
® FPO... 4 Auto Fon! se ®, from h./ Home ._ Driving ® Lamp. !
hc -- % RAN 1)
1 @® Floor Mats i Locking Gus } © Tomi Cop. 490
. Call RY. 1436
Class A Quintets Aiming at New Record in City Bowling Tourney InTrack Meet ':
By BERNARD HARMON
Class A teams, scheduled to see action in the annual city bowling tournament Saturday and Sunday, are confronted with the task of posting a new all-time record if they expect to pass the present leaders. Bowes Seal Fast, which holds down first place at present, soared 119 pins over the former record last Sunday night, posting a 3329 series. The old mark had been passed on Saturday night by Falls City Hi-Brus, and at that time rail-
birds were ready to concede the |
Brus first place in the Class A event. So, after seeing the almost unbelievable happen, no one is making any predictions for the coming week-end, for with such teams as Jess Pritchett's Barbasols and Leo Ahearn's Packard Motors among the teams facing the maples, anything is apt to happen. Cass C teams must tie the alltime record if they wish to pass the present leaders, Mutual Milk Wholesome, which with a 2780 missed the record by one pin. The former
‘Class B record emerged from the
opening week-end of the tourney
| ‘without being threatnede, but as sev-
eral of the city’s top notch aggregations of that division are on Saturday's and Sunday’s programs, a new mark may be expected in that class. The Uptown Recreation League furnished the top scoring feats of
ST - | last night's league sessions, Freddie Indianapolis Power & Light Co., Bud [Shaw pacing the soloists with a | Argus starring for the winners with | previous single game efforts. Seek Braddock, |
Notice No. 1. Practically all our shirt
department has turned over to sale.
Notice No. 2. This price holds good only while this quantity
lasts.
If you have a son at college . . . here are
shirts after his
heart (bosom) . « the button-down collar
MecSpaden Has Edge In Texas Tourney
By United Press
| . | Butler Winner
HOUSTON, Tex, Feb. 11.—Harold McSpaden, Boston profes- | sional, was the pretournament | favorite today in the $3000 open golf { meet which begins here tomorrow.
McSpaden carded a blazing 66, six Wayne, 49 to 46. Mr under par,
689 that carried his Hoosier Pete (a 663. ee Beer, hig Se top | team to a 3010, the best team total | count, Bo uensch’s 651 and Phil | of the evening. Shaw earned his |Bisesi's 609 threatened the 3000 Bulldog Runners Defeat big series through games of 223, lmark with a 2955 in winning twice | 209 and 257. lover Marmon-Herrington. Frank | Joe Rea joined Shaw with a 629 | Alford’s 635, Paul Striebeck’s 616 | that netted the Pete's games of 996, [and Manuel Schonecker's 609 fea- | Winning six out of 11 events, But- | Club course yesterday. Johnny Re-
1005 and 1009, good for three vic- [tured for the Marmons. hyaa volta, Milwaukee pro, explored the tories over the opposing Puritan Bed | Packard Motors also had a trio ler's ‘track and field team caplureq course earlier and came in with the Springs. The only other honor of honor shooters, but the quintet |2 close meet from Wayne University | prediction that "70 will be a
series of the loop was turned in by [dropped two games to the Hudepohl | Of Detroit in the Fieldhouse yester-| score for the tournament.” Bill Bowen, who in his three games | Beers, which had Raymond Fox with | day afternoon, 49-46.
The visitors | totaled 635. In other team clashes, | 664 as their pacemaker. Walt Heck- |annexed the one-mile relay. {here or en route from California Klee & Coleman blanked Coca-Cola,
man’s 619, Chuck Markey's 614 and | Bob Tolmich of Wayne was first | where they have been bucking low Schoen Bros. took two games from [Leo Ahearn’s 604 were the Packard's | in two events, the 50-yard high and | temperatures and rain in West I'L. Strauss & Co. and J. W. Bader | leading scores. Coca-Cola, with Earl (loW hurdles, His sportsmanship | Coast tournaments, include Lawson Coffee took an odd-game decision | Goodhue as its top shooter with a | probably cost his team a tie when he | Little, Horton Smith, Paul Runyan, over Federal Tires. 1637, won twice over Fendrick's Res- asked that Holmes of Butler be re- | Henry Picard and Harry Cooper. New pins proved a nemesis to In- | taurant, which had John Goodwin's instated in the low hurdles after the | A = Aap | dianapolis League bowlers and for 1612 as its best. loctl timber topper had disqualified | | the first time since early season no | Johnnie Murphy was the only himself by jumping the gun three| NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—Fred Grubteam passed the 3000 mark. How- member of the Barbasols to pass 600. | times. Holmes then grabbed oft | meier, Towa heavyweight, and Jim ever, several individuals turned in He had a 613. The Bowes quintet second place. | McMillen, Chicago, wrestled to fancy totals, Herman Bohne's 666 [failed to land a man in the honor | Butler prevailed in the mile and | draw here last night. In another | being tops for the evening. | class. Joe Fulton's 654 for the Hi- two-mile runs, shot put, pole vault, | bout, George Lenihan, The most exciting events of the Brus and Harry Wheeler's 602 for |440-yard dash and 880-yard dash. | Pinned Abe Goldberg, Santa Monica, | session were the two matches that [the Marott's were the top scores of 50-Yard Dash—Schwartz (W), Fremuth *(W), second; McElroy | a two-game victory over Bowes Seal | Wilbur Matthews, diminutive pas- Rist: Pruvn |'Fast held its edge over other teams | timer, who once rolled a 300 game. Bi rona,, Taner (P), third. -Time, 4:39. r 440-Yard Dash-Ols B), first: into third place as a result of the Schwitzer-Cummins League at the (W), second: Harkaway (W). third, [two ‘beatings. Falls City Hi-Bru Parkway Alleys. Instead. he opened Holn (B), Time. 5.6 seconds, | two games. him to two season records in the |segond: jares ir L. S. Ayres & Co. was the only | loop. LW secon: Hat: Th first: Wellwood second: Jones (W), third. Height, eet 1.1
HEAVY MATMEN DRAW
}
Deacon: Weger (B), third, Distance,
3 feet 880-Yard Dash—Richardson (B), first: Weiner (B), second; Pruyn (BE). third Time, 2:03, One-Mile Relav—Won by Wayne versity (Wellwood, Harkaway, ° and McElroy). Time. 3:01.8.
first. (WW),
Votta Time,
py ~FoR BULOVA WATCHES
. Tyner (B) Time, 10:13.4 first: Urquhart third. Height,
in a practice | | round over the River Oaks Country |
low
Other golf stars, either already |
Boston, |
Uni- | Schwartz |
| SUMMARY | Cal. {involved the four leaders in the |that match. It ing: $ " 3 8 e s team standings. Barbasol, through | Sets League Records tar Briel Aig SECOND. Mile Run—Weiner (B), : thd : , § ¥ 5 Hurdles—Tol h Wi, in the top position, but the Seal [didn’t let a little thing like a 148 first: Holmes (B), seconc:; McElroy (W) Fasts slipped from a tie for second | opener halt his march to 600 in the '"ii8- Time 63 seconds, 52.1 seconds ‘ | \ : A _50-Yard Low_ Hurdles—Tolmich took undisputed possession of sec- | a strike spree that gained him |fir second; McElroy ond by trouncing Marott Shoes in | games of 219 and 275, which boosted | Two Mile Griffin (B). second; Hayes (W). third | quintet t. escape defeat. It shut out| His 648 total was the best three- |! feet 3 inches, =o | game total and the 275 game topped 7 H nen. Shot Put—Blackaby (B), first: Bizak |
Hoosier Favorite | In Amateur Golf
| By United Press { MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 11.—Two of the | favorites of the annual Dixie amas= | teur golf turnament, Leon Pettigrew Ind, and Charles { Whitehead of South River, N. J | were matched as quarter-final ope ponents today. Pettigrew was low amateur in the recent Miami and Augusta Opens and winner of the Miami-Biltmore amateur title. Whitehead yesterday disposed of Dave Carter, Nevada, Mo., comedal« |ist, 2 and 1. Pettigrew advanced at [the expense of Vernon Badham, | Miami, 4 and 3.
‘FOR TIRED, ACHING FEET, TRY THIS
Foot sufferers, gather round; get right up close and listen. Here's good news for you. If your feet ache, burn and per« | spire, if the pain of corns most drives you mad and your fee. swell, and throb, try Ice Mint for just one day. Oh! ‘what a relief Ice Mint prevents foot them cool and comfortable, the skin firm and clean. Every person who suffers from the stinging pain ‘of
corns and ca'louses, will find quick relief with the cooling comtort Tce Mint brings, Women who wear high heel shoes, men who have to stand all day long, will find Ice Mint gives them greater foot comfort than they have had for vears Try 1 ee. Get some Ice Mint from your | druggist today and give your poor, tiréd, aching feet the treat of their lives. give pleasing results, and you'll
{of Pendleton,
odors, keeps and leaves
Advertisement. IIR TERI, .
This is the great semi-annual event of the “best sellers” . . . this is the time when the fame of Wearington is brought home to additional thousands.
Sizes 1314 to 1714. Sleeve Lengths 32 to 35.
WEARINGTON SHI
Sale price 1.35 (3 for 4.00)
RIS
00 White Shirts—2000 Patterned and Plain Color Shirts
About the best thing that can be said about these shirts
is that they are "Wearingtons” Anything that bears this family name... suits
... topcoats
_..overcoats... hats... or oxfords...can be counted on for
wear, fit, taste and value.
White Oxford shirts with button-down collar or the Universal collar
(the most becoming shape and: dimensions).
Ta White Broadcloth shirts, enduring quality.
this
Chambrays, those clear darker shades such as you see in costliest shirts.
Colored Oxfords, plain blues, new stripes and checks and herringbones.
End and End Madras, gray, blue and tans. Woven Madras, plaids, checks, stripes.
These shirts will go by threes, sixes and dozens. It's a safe time to get a bit reckless.
L. STRAUSS & CO.
TRE MAN'S STORE
oWh
35
~