Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1937 — Page 30
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TEAM ADVANCES ”
BIG
DIVISION
FTER a five-year struggle The Times-Legion Golden Gloves team of Indianapolis reached the heights in the Tournament of Champions at Chicago hy placing a boxer in the heavyweight division of the Tribune's semi-
finals on March 5. .
. . Elza Thompson made the grade and
all of the resources of the several Indianapolis training
quarters were assembled today to “prep” . « » He is 20 years
series of fistic matches.
' him for the next old, stands 6
feet 2145 inches and weighs 220 pounds. . « » The former
pupil at Crispus Attucks lligh School is
short in experi-
ence but long in courage, and according to ringsiders at
Chicago has a better than
fair
chance of winning the
Western Golden Gloves championship.
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I OUR heavyweights remain in the competition for the No. 1 spot and they will meet in Chicago Stadium next
Friday night in the semifinals and finals of the Golden Grouped with Thompson in the heavy-
Gloves classic. . . .
weight division are Lem Franklin, Cleveland: Bob Dennis,
Detroit, bracket and the winner acclaim. .
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and Paul Hartneck of Omaha. , sure to receive widespread .. And in addition to topping the field at Chicago, the victor will be sent against the Eastern (New York)
It's a tough
Golden Gloves champion in May.
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HOMPSON advanced
through the early
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rounds and quarterfinals
of the Tournament of Champions by scoring two knockouts and
winning a third bout by decision in three rounds. . the card on Wednesday night and was opposed by one Monroe Harrison. . . .
teur from St. Louis
. He was last on a four-year amaThe Missouri bov de-
cided he could not match Elza in power and schemed to win the clash
on points by using a left jab on the run. the real fireworks started ana gained the nod of the tired judges by storming into his opponent The eves of more
to third round before
the
both hands working. . . .
. As a result the hout went Thompson with than 16,000 persons were
centered on that one ring at the time and the verdict of Indianapolis
over St u = un
UST before Elza Thompson went
into action
. Louis was greeted with handclapping and cheers.
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Wednesday night and
«¥ while he was glaring at Harold Pressly of Chicago in the opposite corner, the show was halted for the presentation of sportsmanship tro-
phies by Barney Ross, heavyweight challenger. Thompson's corner rocked the house. . . . captivated the big crowd. . . . Bomber,
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world's welterweight champion, and Joe Lcuis, Louis climbed through the ropes near and the Indianapolis Negro flashed a smile that He was near Inspired by the presence of the Brown Thompson flattened his opponent in the first round. | League championship is as vet un- | will be |
his idol and the watermelon grin
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A= H WARD the Indianapolis team in reaching the third night of the Tourna-
ment, of Champions with two boxers.
And at the same time The Times-
Legion team of Indianapolis protested the manner of weighing-in. . . .
The Indianapolis flyweight, pitted against program and lost
Alfred Osborne, a natural 112-pounder, a foe of bantamweight poundage on the final night's the decision in three rounds.
was
Under The Tribune
rules the boys in the four lighter divisions were weighed in on Monday and then passed on to the Wednesday fights without a second weigh-in. . This is a violation of American Athletic Union rules and it's up to
the A. A. U, to crack down. . . seasoned amateur out of Gary, day
stoned Osborne, a light flvweight. . . . Times-Legion boxing team who also is an A. A. U, all boxers in anv amateur tournament under the jurisdicA. AU.
demand that tion of the Indiana-Kentucky before a fight = » n There were 48 classic in Chicago. . . . the Midwest teams with two survivors, Alfred Osborne of ol ed
Osborne's opponent, picked up a lot of weight between Monand Wednesday and was at bantamweight figures when he deci-
teams battling for And 43 were invading squads from all points of The Gary team, a veteran outfit, one of whom,
Mitchell Walton, a Fred De Borde, manager of The official, is going to be weighed in on the afternoon
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honors the Golden Gloves
led the Hoosier State Mitchell Walton, eliminated
| teams
| » | determined.
| 22 to | port quintet
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1937
closer without winning the darned
thing !
HIGH SCHOOL SEASON TO END T OMORROW.
Sectionals Will Start
On Thursday
Southern Indiana Conference Champion to Be Decided In Tilt Tonight.
By United Press Aflier 12 weeks of plav. more than 700 Indiana high school basketball will halt competition this week-end to stand upon the threshold of the 26th annual hardwood tournament. One week later Commissioner Arthur L. Trester of the I. H. S. A. A. will turn them loose to battle it out along the treacherous road
{ to fame and honor aceruing to the
winner of the annual March clasSIC. The customary fusion attendant of this particular basketball is not lacking this year. State basketball addicts are finding themselves deluged with information, facts and figures on topnotch quintets; with colorful lastminute conflicts; with predictions and forecasts upon the probable state champion:
tumult and conupon the arrival stage of Hoosier
iS
and with selection |
today of pairings for the four-week !
tournament, Vive League Champs
Surveving the situation briefly, net fans discover five conference champions: Frankfort, tral; Elkhart, Northern Central (Ft. Wayne), Northeastern Indiana; Rochester, Central Indiana, and Connersville, South Central Indiana. The Southern Indiana Athletic
Indiana;
The outcome forthcoming tonight. Vincennes, running a few ahead of Bloomington, tory over Bosse at Evansville to hold on to number one position. If the Alices stumble, Bloomington can take the crown by winning at Washington tonight. To Frankfort and Logansport, however, may well be accorded the feature role in this Jast-minute presentation of Hoosier basketball war
needs a vic-
Berries Are Hosts
Logansport entertains Coach Ev-
| erett Case and his defending cham-
pions tonight in a sell-out engagement. Despite the fact that the two teams met early in the season interest in the conflict is statewide. Frankfort nosed out Coach Cliff Wells’ Berries in their first meeting, 20. Since then the Logansapparently has found itself and tonight's clash is expected
| to prove an important test for the
Minor Events of Bowling Tourney to Be Resumed
By BERNARD HARMON Competition in the minor events of the annual tournament of the In-
dianapolis Bowling Asscciation Alleys tomorrow and continue concluded the following Sunday.
is to be through Sunday.
the Pennsyvivania is to be
resumed at The tourney
Many of the city's top-notch pin- bein, who ‘through a 244 finish to-
men are to see action in the affair over the week-end and with the caliber of scoring that prevailed in the five-man event, new records are expected. The former team record was surpassed three times during the five-man competition. Members of Barbascols, who established the new team record, are to face the maples at 3 Sunday afternoon, along with the star performers of Hoosier Petes, Marott Shoes and Packard Motors. Included in the lineups of the quartet of teams are such stars as Jess Pritchett Sr. Don Johnson. Johnny Murphy, A. B. C. all-events cnampion, Chuck Markey, who rolled the highest three-game series in the citv's league | plav last season, Oscar Behrens, the | hard-hitting southpaw from the South Side and John Blue.
Bowes Members Scheduled
On the 5 a'clock squad members of Bowes Seal Fast, runnersup in the five-man events of the current tournament, and Lieber Lagers, last year's state champions, are to see action, while Sterling Beer and L. S. Ayres pinmen are scheduled on the following squad. One of the most popular bowlers appearing on the 7 o'clock shift is Jack Hunt, who during the present campaign has stacked up more 600 series than any other pastimer in the city. Many outstanding Class B and C hawlers are also on the week-end | program and heavy scoring in all] divisions is forecast. Present tournev leaders are: Doubles, Class A, Rex Dawson-Len Hale, 1182; Class
B, Leonard Chase-Harold Cork. | | matches
Joe Burello-Joe Singles, Class A, B, Ed Roth, Pierce, 608.
1188; Class C. Danna Jr, 1159. Jim Jung, 656; Class 660; Class C, Dwight All events, Jung, 1909.
Low Scoring Prevails
Local leagues in action last night failed to produce any outstanding | scores, Freddie Shaw's 657, rolled in the Parkway Recreation loop at the Parkway Alleys being the top solo series of the city. Don McClure
piaced second with a 651 posted dur- |
the Printeraft League's session the Pritchett Allevs. Shaw's topper resulted from games of 181, 2468 and 220, easily
ing at
192 to obtain his big series. Three
additional members of the Printers’ | circuit passed 600, Charlie West get- | ting 629, Jack Hunt 628 and John |
Fehr 614. A 259 opener gave Ray Thomas a 640 total that was good for honors of the Universal : League's weekly gathering at the Pritchett Alleys. Close on his heels was Larry Lang-
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gaining | ; him honors of the North Side loop. | McClure used counts of 219, 240 and |
taled 637. Joe Rav with 617, Phil Bisesi with 609. Nan Schott with! 605. Roy Hockersmith with 603 and Ed Weigel with 602 were other lead- | ing scorers. Clarence Tutterow outscored rivals of the E. C. Atkins circuit at the Pennsylvania Allevs with a 633 series. He was the lone pastimer to reach the 600 mark. Gene Rufli, | one of the city's outstanding scorers in last season's campaigning, flashed | some of his old time form in| topping Industrial League rivals with a 630 series. A 255 initial game featured the big total. Harry Johnson's 622 was good for runnerup honors of the loop, which roiled its games at the Indiana The St. Philip No. 2 League, in Philip Alleys, produced a pair of honor shooters, Tom Casserly getting a 629 and Pop Callahan a 614. After a slow start, Virg Rohrman went on a striking | spree that gained him a 256 final game and a 621 total that was good for St. Catherine League honors. The | league rolls at the Fountain Square. | Ernie Shoemaker posted the top | series of the Public Service Co. of | He | had a 620 featured 257
that a
| opener.
Sam Badders took honors in the Real Silk Mixed League at Prit- | chett’s with a 610, Larry Bradley | tossed a 608 to top rivals of the | American Central Life at the same
| alleys; Eddie Stark's 602 was the top
| solo series of the Elks session at the | Antlers and Bob Westfall outdistanced members in the Link-Belt at the Pennsylvania | through a 602. He finished with a | pair of 222s, A trio of pastimers 600 mark in leading their respective leagues. Joe Friehage was three ! pins under the mark in the Fletcher Trust League games at the Pennsylvania Alleys, Fisheck rolled a 595 to lead the scoring of the East Side |
neared the |
| Social and Al Schonecker posted a |
593 for Optical League honors at the Illinois.
{ Texas; | York,
Hot Dogs, favored by many to repeat in this vear's state tourney At Richmond tonight, the Morton High School Red Devils are host to Connersville. Morton was runnerup to Frankfort in the N. C. C. race and will prove a formidable opponent for Coach Mose Pruitt's South Central champions, Rochester and Wabash. and runnerup respectively in C. I. C, square off in the latter's gym tonight. Heralded as one of the biggest games of the season. the fray lost color when Wabash fell before Peru last week. Both are among Hoosier prep teams,
champion
the however.
North Cen- |
points
the |
leading | Ro- |
|
chester has lost only one game dur- |
| Ing its regular season but has nev er J
defeated the Apache netters since | the two teams began rivalry in 1933. |
Coach Mark Wakefield's Central
| of Evansville Bears, one of the four | finalists in last year's state tourney, are in the running again this season.
GARIBAL DI PINS BRONOWICZ PATERSON, N. J. Feb. 26.—Gino Garibaldi, &t. Louis, pinned Frank Bronowicz, Poland: Scotty MeDougal, Canada, flipped Jim Wright, Sammy Menacher, New and Bobby Roberts. drew in wrestling bouts here night.
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o fades
A contender for the world heav meal once in a while, and here you see Joe enjoying himself.
vweight title is entitled to a good After
Leuis’ fight with Bob Pastor in New York, stories appeared to the effect
that Joe was eating too much and Natie Brown, Brown Bomber is preparing for the and ¢ enjoy fing eating, too.
via the knockout route, disproved that.
Joe's quick finish of And now the championship bout with Braddock,
slowing up.
Cathedral, St. Mary’s
Favorites in State Meet
ial FT. WAYNE, Feb, 26.Anderson are favorites in the State C
Times Spee
Cathedral of Indianapolis and St.
Marv's of atholic High School basketball tour-
ney which is to get under way here tonight.
Six teams of the 11 entered wills take the floor in the opening program, with play continuing tomorow and Sunday to complete the eliminations. St. Mary's is defending champion. | Cathedral, with probably the best season record of any team in the meet, is to play Michigan City in the opening game tonight at 7 o'clock. In the other games tonight, Memorial of Evansville is to play | Decatur Catholic, and Central | Catholic of this city is to meet St. Hedwige of South Bend. The schedule for tomorrow:
2:30 p. m—Huntington vs. Ham- | mond Central. 3:30 p. m.—St. Mary's vs. Collegeville. {
7:30 p. m.— ral-Michigan City game vs, of Memorial-Decatur game. §:30 p. m—St. Paul's of Marion vs. Winner of Central Catholic-St. Hedwige game, The semifinals are to be run off Sunday afternoon with the final game played Sunday night. The tournament drawing has given St Marv's a slight edge because they would only have to play two games in order to reach the finals.
As the Indianapolis high Schools
Winner of the CathedWinner
| ders
bring their regular seasons to a close this week-end they will ticipate in seven games. The weekend schedule follows: This Afternoon--Du Sable of Chicago at Crispus Attucks (3:15), Tonight—Anderson vs. Shortridge at Butler Fieldhouse, Plainfield vs. Washington at Ben Davis, Manual
at Pittsboro, Broad Ripple at War- |
ren Central. Tomorrow Night Franklin Tech, Crispus Attucks at Hope,
FANS SEEK SEATS FOR LOUIS MATCH
CHICAGO, Feb. 26.—Ticket orfor the Jimmy Braddock-Joe Louis fight poured into the office of Promoter Joe Foley todav — but there weren't any ticket “We won't open ticket sales at least a month more,” Foley “They aren't even printed Among the requests was a order from San Francisco.
at
for said. yet.' $30,000
Additional Sports on Pages 30, 31 and 32
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Lash, Olympic In A.A.U. Event Hughes Kayos
"| Stars Aim for
1500-Meters Event New York Meet.
By LESLIE AVERY
United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—The as-
| sault on track and field records at | | the A. A. U. National Champion- |
ships tomorrow night in Madison | Square Garden shapes up as the best replica of the Olympic Games ever staged indoors. The entry list embraces 28 Olympic athletes from five nations, four of them champions. Holders of 30 lindeor and outdoor world record umes and marks are entered Thirteen of last will detend their titles. This blue ribben event of the indoor season already is a sellout. The last 3000 general admissions
will not be put on sale until 6 p. |
tomorrow night.
Lash in 1500 Meters A. A. U, officials believe that at least five world records and
m.
be imperiled. With five Olympic finishers and Donald Lash, the world indoor and outdoor record holder at two miles, entered in the 1500-meter run, Gene
year's champions |
11 national championship marks will |
CALA. U. Marks
Indiana Runner Entered in
Venzke's indoor mark of 3:49.9 ap- |
Besides Venzke and Lash, 1500 entry included Glenn Cun- | ningham, holder of indoor and outdoor one-mile records; Luigi Bec- | cali, Italy's former titleholder; Miklos garian champion, Romani of Kansas. 600-Meters Mark Periled After tenths of a 500-yard mark A. C. games | believe his world time of 1:21 600 meters set last year sure to go. With the Rideout twins, Wayne and Blaine, competing in the 5000 meters against Norman Bright of San Francisco, Bright's mark of 15 minutes flat should be trimmed considerably, Other marks considered ger are the 3000-meter steeplechase, 1600-meter relay, 65-meter hurdles, pole vault and shotput,
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in dan-
1500 Olympic | Hun- | and Archie San |
Eddie O’Brien clipped two- |
New York! last week, observers |
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To Hear Scout Chief
Chief Belzer of the American Boy Scouts is scheduled to appear before the March meeting of the Marion County Fish and Game Association Monday at 8 p. m. in the Hoosier Athletic Club, Carl L. White, secretary, has announced. The program is to include moving pictures on outdoor sports,
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It was a that won Hughes at | night, | Hughes was pitted against | Davis, a Memphis, Tenn., fighter, {and it looked like an even battle during the first round. But it turned
out that Hughes was merely feeling {out his opponent, for after the second round Hughes released the steam and poured blows all over the place, Davis obviously was surprised, Then during the fourth round, Hughes pulled the old one of feinte ing with a left at the head. and fol= lowing through with a driving solar plexus punch. This put Davis to sleep. : In the other scheduled 10-round battle, Frankie Jarr, the Ft, Wayne bantam, paced the battle aggressive= ‘ly all the way and outpointed Joey, LaPelle of Louisville. Charlie Light, 165, and Kid Tiger Reed, of Los Angeles, 167, put on a brief but sprightly battle in the scheduled eight-rounder. The local boy carried the fight to Reed and punched him away in the second | round, Jimmy Tudor went down by the point route in the six-round fight with Karl Martin, although both fihters put up a good offelise.
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| LEWIS, BIRKIE T0 FIGHT ! | Bu United Press 1 { PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 26.—Light Heavyweight Champion John Henry | Lewis, Phoenix, Ariz, and Hans Birkie, California, will meet in =a [ 10-round bout here March 15, Max | Hoff, promoter, said today.
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