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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES SATURDAY, FEB. 27, 1937

LIVELY BASEBALL IS TO DISAPPEAR

18 Horses at Only Own Confiden Santa Anita

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‘Baseball Folk

Tribe Slugger Accepts Terms

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Frankfort Loses to Logansport by 36-16; Earlham Ready to Trounce Central Normal, | They Say; Big Ten Should Clear Up. |

By JOHN W. THOMPSON |

RANKFORT got beat! Frankfort got beat! But don’t get excited. It’s not as bad as you think, even if Coach Cliff Wells’ Logansport team did take the Hot Dogs into camp by a 36-16 score. You can’t fool all of the people, Mr. Case. You see, it has leaked out that Frankfort has the North Central Conference all sewed up, and that Mr, Case used all

kinds of combinations in last night's game. One or two fans returning from the game said Mr. Case didn't seem to be overly perturbed about losing the contest. Of course, it might be the loss is a part of Mr. Case's campaign for retaking the state high schoo! basketball title this year. His boys haven't had much experience at losing and it just might be that he thought they should have a little taste of it. But on the other hand, maybe Frankfort isn’t so hot after all. But the plan of letting the boys lose to Logansport might be a good one even if Mr, Case wasn't doing it on purpose. For Logans=port has a pretty nice set-up in the state tourney. And Mr. Case would like his players to realize that the Berries are still one of their

chief rivals. n ” un ” n

n Toons seems to be a little doubt about the outcome of this allimportant Earlham-Central Normal game tonight at Richmond. My friend, Paul Ingels, at Earlham, dropped me a note vesterday and this is what he said: “Dear John: “Everything is in readiness for the Central Normal rout over here Saturday night. Wish you could come over but realize that the game at Lafayette also has possibilities.” Now I had no idea that Earlham was really counting on giving the warriors from Danville a drubbing. I might have guessed it because they have been knocking off some pretty good teams all season, and now, come to think of it, Coach Owen Huntsman would probably like nothing better than a string of Warrior scalps.

So via the epistle of Mr. Ingels one would suspect that if there are no doubts at Danville there are no quakes among the Quakers and that contest tonight is going to be a tough one. =o

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” =n u WO Earlham regulars will be playing their last game for the Quaker Quints., One is Howard Walker, the six foot four inch center, and the other is Mike Land, the speedy little forward. Walker is a graduate of Graham High School in Rushville and Land

got his training under Coach Elder Eberhardt at Morton High right there in Richmond. Well. vou can be assured that neither team will take anything

for Grant-ed at Richmond. ” = =” n ” n

Don't let it get around, but that Big Ten basketball situation is supposed to go to the cleaners this week-end. If it got noised around above a whisper, ‘though, I'm afraid somebody would gum up the | works and we might have to wait another few days to find out who's who. The way it stands now the list sounds like a baseball league in southern Kentucky. There are all kinds of half-game and quartergame propositions which do naught but confuse us poor guys who would iike to know how it’s coming out. But tonight Illinois will play Iowa; Wisconsin goes against Minnesota; Chicago takes on Northwestern right in its own yard; and Michigan faces a heavy night against Ohio State. Of course we didn’t mention the fact that Indiana and Purdue are to perform against each other at Lafayette tonight. But isn’t that laying it on a bit too thick?

Leaders Hold Positions in Beam Tenpin Loop

By BERNARD HARMON The standings of the leading teams of the Beam Recreation League remained unchanged today followifig last night's session of the loop at the Pennsylvania Alleys. Barbasols, Packard Motors and Bowes Seal Fast, the one-two-three aggregations won three games each. The Packards, paced by Leo® hearn’s 662, posted the top team |

| Cleaners nabbed the only shutouts

| batting averages. | find?

score of the evening, a 3035, using | : : mimes of 1023, 1053 and 959 to reach | Tegistered in the team matches. the total. John Blue's 605 and Dad | Two Pass 600 in Central Hanna's 602 also featured for the Packards, whose shutout victim | : was Hiller Office Supply. Joe Ma- the Central Recrcaticn League at larky with 606 and Hank Shriver | the Central. Hohlt had a 636 and with 605 were leading scorers of the Iiillers. A trio of 600 shooters elevated the L. S. Ayres quintet to a 3031 and two victories over the opposing Marott | Shoes. Bill Brunot with 662, Joe | Construction League,

Chevrolet Commercial

Finally Admit

Joe Asks Readers to Look Up |

Old Batting Averages if At All Dubious.

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, Feb. 27.—The lively ball is not exactly a lively subject, but some how, like the stymie, taxes

and outraged blonds, it seems to be |

always with us. by the baseball people is to be the

last year of the lively ball. How interesting! And for years these self-same baseball people have been telling us there was no such thing as a lively ball. But now they announce with a judicial gravity that beginning in 1938 the ball is to be deadened. If there never was a lively ball why take steps to deaden it? The answer is, of course, that the baseball people have just gotten around to admitting what the fans have known all along. As I write I have befere me the batting averages of the two big leagues. Last year there were 35 regulars who hit over .300 in the American League, and 27 who did equally as well in the National. Now there are two sensible approaches to the batting question in baseball. One is to admit the possibility of improvement on the part cf the batters. The other is to consider the difference in implements.

Williams

| Somewhere in between you are very | likely helpful guide is a statistical back- | ground of the past—the old records. |

to get the real answer. A

Look Up Record There was a time in baseball when a man who hit 300 was an outstanding star. This was practically par for the course. Just at random pick up an old baseball

| book. Say it’s the book of 1905, and

you turn to the American League What do you You find that only two players bettered .300, and that Mr. Elmer Frick of Cleveland won the championship with a mark of .306. Contrast that with last year’s batting records which show so many .300 hitters or better that it is difficult to remember their names. It isn't logical to assume that the hitters have improved to such an extent, so the answer must be that hitting has been made easier for them. Why doubt it? Even the baseball people now admit it. Getting the true story of the lively ball is not a simple assignment. The burden of proof is strictly on the baseball people because it came into play at the same time Babe Ruth was making the public home run conscious. The Babe became a tremendous box office draw. The extra base hit became a great lure. Immediately there was a sharp, general rise in batting marks. An ordinary ball player like Hack Wilson for example, hit over 50 home runs in the National League for a new record.

May Be Coincidence The abrupt change seems to be

Two honor series were posted in |something more than a coincidence [but it might easily have been just

that. I knew one of the Shibe

brothers pretty well. In a confidential by all that was holy the lively ball

was just an accident. It so happens a vital ingredient

Their Phila- | O. Smith a 606. Foster was the gelphia firm makes all the baseballs | Body | for both leagues. C League's leading scorer, a 636 bring- mood one night Tom Shibe swore | chance of repeating in a field that ing him honors. | The usual heavy scoring of the bowling at!

This we are told |

The Indians’ hard-hitting center fielder, Fred Berger, accepted terms for 1937 yesterday and is the first Tribe mainstay in line. lives in San Francisco and will report at training camp on March 21. Fred's specialty last year was driving in runs, proving that he is a good man to have up there when runners are in position to score.

NEW YORK, Feb. 27.

i of being dethroned.

| While boasting the greatest collec- | pics, just ahead of Venzke.

| to be considered is Art Clarke, stel-

ition of athletes in indoor track ‘history, the entry list embraces no ' talent capable of disturbing the | dynasties of Eddie O'Brien, 600 | meters; Norman Bright, 5000 meters; Charlie Eschenbach, 1500meter walk; Ed Burke, high jump; Irv Folwartshny, 35-pound weight throw, and Sammy Richardson, running broad-jump. The four titles imperiled are the 1500-meters, held by Gene Venzke; 3000-meters steeplechase, by Joe McCluskey; 65-meter hurdles, by | Sam Allen, and the shotput by Dimitri 2Zaitz. Ralph Metcalfe, Charlie Hornbostel and David Hunn will not defend their respective 60meters, 1000-meters and pole vault titles. Five Records Threatened

A. A. U. officials believe that at least five world records and five meet records are threatened by the 28 Olympic athletes from five nations, four of them champions; 30 indoor and outdor world record holders and countless National, N. C. A. A, and I. C. 4-A champions. As in the previous winter invitational meets ,the mile runners wlil be the feature attraction. In the Nationals, however, it is called the “metric mile”—1500 meters, which is nearly 100 yards less than a regula- | tion “American mile.” This is the event which packs paying customers in the Garden and has assured a sellout gate of mors than 16,000. Gene Venzke, the Pottstown, Pa. | titleholder, was conceded hardly a

| includes six prominent Olympians. | First there will be Glenn Cunning- | ham, the Kansan running under the

Michaelis with 635 and Jack Hunt | Pritchett’s, failed to develop in last in the manufacturing of baseballs | New York A. C. colors, who ran

with 602 were leading scorers for | the winners, while Paul Stemm’s| 687 and Oscar Behrens’ 619 featured | posted. for the losers. The Ayres team used | games of 1011, 1062 and 958 for their big total.

Bob Hughes

| night's matches, Larry Langbein’s is wool, and since this particular | Second to Jack Lovelock in this dis626 being the lone honor count | grade of wool comes from Australia | tance at last summer's Olympic.

and Walt | —it could come from China for that | Cunningham hasn't lost a mile race English were the only members of | matter—there is no way of knowing | this season. the Big Four League's 16 teams to when the grade is going to be su- | | reach 600. The former had 617 and | perior or inferior. According to Tom |

Beccali to Compete

Lash Is Riddle in A. A. U. ‘Metric Mile’ Tonight

By LESLIE AVERY United Press Staff Correspondent Six of the 10 defending titleholders were , favored to retain their crowns tonight in the annual A. A. U, indoor

| track and field championships while the other four were in grave danger

Still

lar runner from Toronto and recognized king of Canadian milers. An unknown performer at the distance is Donald Lash, the Indiana

senior who stepped out this winter

and added the world’s indoor twomile record to the outdoor mark he set last summer. Lash paced Cunningham into running the fastest mile of the season at Boston recently and led for 10 of the 11 laps. If the field lets Lash run up a long lead over the shorter 1500, the blonde Indianian may surprise them all and break the tape ahead.

Await Start

Weather to Be Clear Today For World's Richest Race.

By United Press

ARCADIA, Cal, Feb, 27.—A field |

of 18 seasoned thoroughbreds will face the barrier today for the third running of the $100,000 added Santa Anita Handicap, world’s richest

horse race, at Santa Anita Park.

The complete field follows:

Post Horse Jockey 1—Grand Manitou (A. Gray) 2—Chance View (L. Fallon) 3—Sea Biscuit (J. Pollard).......: 4—Red Rain (R, Workman).......«.. - 5—(a)Star Shadow (T. Luther)....... 6—(b)Indian Broom (R. James) T7—Watersplash (R. Dotter) 8—(c)Gold Seeker (M. Peters) 9-—(0)Special Agent (C. Corbett).... 10—Rushaway (J. Lon 11—Mr. Bones (L. Balaski) 12—(a)Goldeneve (T. Luther).. 13—Accolade (T. O'Malle 14—Time Supply (A. Rob 15—Boxthorn (N, Richardson) 16—Don Roberto (G. Burns) 17—(c)Rosemont (H, Richards) 18—Sablin (8S. Young) (a)Silver State Stable entry: Stock Farm entry; (c)Foxcatc entry. Weather forecast. clear: track. good. Probable post time, 6:15 p. m. (indianapolis Time).

Zaharias, Davis Bout Mat Feature

The return of George (Cry Baby) Zaharias, tricky Greek husky from Pueblo, Colo., remembered here for many mat battles, will feature the all-star card at the Armory next Tuesday night. The complete bill:

Main Go

George (Cry Baby) Zaharias, 240, Pueblo, Colo, vs. Big Boy Davis, 239, Columbus, ©. Two falls out of three; 90 minutes. Semi-Windup Cowboy Luttrall, 250, San Antonia, Tex. vs. Alabama Bill Lee, 235, Eutaw, Ala. One fall; 30 minutes. Opening Bout

Babe Zaharias, 235, Pueblo, Colo., vs. Milo Steinborn, 225, Germany. One fall; 30 minutes,

The Zaharias-Davis tussle brings |

together two aggressive performers. Davis lost to Everett Marshall here last Tuesday and hopes to “take it out” on George. Lee and Luttrall went to a no-fall debate two weeks ago with Lee gaining the referee's decision.

CURTIS, SCOUT, DEAD Times Special WACO, Tex., Feb. 27.—The discoverer of the Dean brothers, Dizzy and Daffy, W. D. Curtis, died at his home here yesterday from pneumonia. Willis Huulin, Cleveland pitcher, was also a discovery of his.

Probable dds

CHARLES

HE'D BE THE GREATEST EVER LIVED IF HED JWST BELIEVE IT, ACCORDING “0 LARRY SNYDER, HIS OHIO STATE COACH..

ALL HE NEEDS To Do 1S CHANGE HIS FOLLOWING COMPLEX INTO A TENDENCY 70 SET THE PACE AND THE WORLD RECORD IS HIS, NYOER ASSERTS.

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HE IMPROVES HIS FORM BY RUNNING FROM BoTiom To THE TP OF BUCKEYE STADIUM WHEN TRAINING 1.

Nine Divers Seek National Honors

Nine divers will be competing for the 1937 men’s National Junior A. A. U. low-board diving title when the water championships are staged in the Indianapolis Athletic Club pool tonight. The opening event is called for 8:15. Entries include Adolph Ferstenfeld, who is enrolled in University of Michigan; Frank Jerome, DePauw University; Bob Simons, Battle Creek College; Therian Feigle and Al Logue, Indiana University; George Karst, Columbus, O., Athletic Club; Howard Krick, Hoosier A. C., and Strother Martin and

| George Wildhack, Indianapolis Athe | letic Club. Indianapolis A. C. and Hoosier A, C. each will have two entries in the women’s 100-yard National Junior backstroke, Hoosier entries are Carolyn Hawkins and Marilyn Mile ler, and I. A. C. swimmers are Vire

ginia Hunt and Betty Clemons, Other entries are Betty Betz, University of Illinois, and Betty Jane Whitcomb, I. A. C. swimmer who will compete unattached.

TOURNEY PLAY BEGINS

Approximately 100 table tennis * stars began play this morning in the central Indiana open tourna= ment at the Paddle Club in the | Test Building.

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Pritchett Posts Fourth 700

Jess Pritaiett Sr. in tossing the | Service correspondence schools. Better Business Bureaus have

city’s best solo series of the eve- | ning, led Barbasols to their triple victory over Lieber Beer. Jess, through games of 213, 246 and 24% | posted a 703, his fourth 700 series of the season in league play. The top count, combined with John Fehr's 616 and Don Johnson's 613 gave the team games of 1001, 980 and 1035. a 3016 total. The Green River quintet, formerly known as the Coca Colas, | was the Bowes’ three-time victim. Ed Striebeck and Lou Daugherty posted 614s to lead the scoring of the victors. In other matches of the loop, J. W. Bader Coffee and | Falls City Hi-Bru took odd-game decisicns over Sterling Beer and Marmon-Herrington. John Bader paced the Bader team with a 620; | Charlie Gray with 621, Carl Hardin | with 614 and Fred Mounts with 602 | were best for the Brus; Don McNew posted a 674 and Bert Bruder a 605 for the Sterlings and Arch Heiss topped rivals of the Marmon quintet with 603.

Jess Roe Gets 666

Closing with a 2355, Jess Roe totaled 666 to top the scoring of the Insurance League, in action at the Pennsylvania Alleys. Three additional 600s were posted during the session, Harold Becker getting 642, Charley Bailey 614 and Charlie McCahill 604. Connecticut General and Equitable Life were the lone three-game winners of the evening. Charlie Cray and Carl Hardin warmed up for their Beam Recreation League appearances witn big totals in the Hillcrest Country Club loop at the Pritchett Alleys. Cray topped rivals with a 665 and Hardin ran second to his Hi-Bru teammate with a 642. Tom Selmier’s 613 and Doc Kemper’s 608 were other feature

| Prest-O-Lite

matches at the Illinois with a 625. | Karl Koehler had 619, Earl Mec-! Carthy 613 and Bob Lewis 608. Eva Dawson's 568 and Alice

| Shea's 563 were the feature scores | | of last night's gathering of the Dr.

Kernel Optical Ladies League, | Rowling at the Pritchett Alleys. Bowes Seal Fast topped the team scoring with a 2600 series. Leading scorers of other leagues | in action were: Grotton (Indiana), Milier. 598; Insurance Associates (Pritchett’s), Hollenbeck, 592; (Pritchett’s), Matthews, 589, and Cathedral (Antlers), H. Langenskamp, 536.

Purdue Track Team Meets 2 Opponents

Times Special CHICAGO, Feb. 27.—Nineteen members of Purdue's track team were here for a triangular meet with Chicago and Northwestern this afternoon in the Chicago Fieldhouse. Coach Orval Martin brought a squad consisting of Bell, Bodeau, Delong, Goory. Grant, Horton, Knapp, I.emen, Long, Luther, Marozick, Mazuer, Moore, Murphy, Smith, Swinehart, Terhune, Wadleight and Williamson,

Franklin Sets Date For Ball Practice

Times Speciai FRANKLIN, Ind, Feb. 27— Coach Roy E. Tillotson at Franklin College has announced that base-

performances. Tn the Bankers League at the Pritchett Alleys, Jimmie Hurt took solo honors on a 662, garnered through games of 222. 217 and 223. Two other inidividuals passed the 609 mark, George Schaefer getting 632 and Olin Hardy a 624. In the St. Joan of Arc circuit at the Uptown Alleys. Lenahan opened with a 259 that carried him to a 649, the leading solo series of the league. Duffy Malt Foods and Uptown

bail practice will begin March 1,

| following conclusion of the basket-

(ball schedule. | Tentative plans for a spring vaca- | tion baseball trip through Kentucky (and Tennessee are being arranged (before the opening of the confer{ence schedule of 11 games on April 16 against DePauw University. | Norman Vandivier. captain; Hugh Spencer and Harold Aikin, all of !Franklin, are the only returning lettermen,

“There's nothing we can do about that,” pleaded Shibe. “We are mak-

ling the baseballs on the lines of the

original formula. Apparently we are making better baseballs than in tice past, and not because of any refinements on our part. The

rcason they are better is because

the materials—particularly the wool |

twine—are better.” But contrary to Tom Shibe's Ban Johnson in a St. Louis hospital that the ball was deliberately hopped up to capitalize Ruth's hoid on the public. Johnson founded the American League, was an excellent business man and knew all the answers But at the time he made this statement he was a sick and very angry man, Naturally all the circumstances would seem to support Johnson's claim, but at the time I talked with Tom Shibe the lively ball had come to be accepted as a routine thing and aside from the mystery of its origin nobody seemed interested. It seems to be altogether possible that the lively ball may have been just what Tom Shibe said it was—a trade accident. The important fact is, however, that the lively ball did change the pattern of baseball. Whether it changed it for better or worse is an open question.

Indiana Rolls Up High Track Score

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Feb 27.— University of Indiana's track team defeated Illinois in decisive fashion in a Big Ten meet here last night, 57-38. The Hoosiers made a clean sweep in three events, the nile, twomile and 440-yard dash. Don Lash and Tommy Deckard, Indiana’s distance stars did not compete, but teammates won all three places in the two-mile much to the surprise of the Illini. Lash and Deckard are to perform in the National A. A. U. championships in New York tonight. Smith, Robins ig 4 Sibpicsate finished in that order n the long run and plegate was first in the mn AD

ex- | planation is the statement made by |

| trailed Cunningham across the line |

{at Berlin last summer. Another

| contender is Miklos Szabo of Hun- | | gary who ran eighth in the Olym- | now ,

Maedic Favored

{ By United Press | HIALEAH PARK, Miami, Feb. 27. leads a strong field of leading 3-vear-olds to the post today in the inaugural of the rich Flamingo Stake. A record crowd of 25000 which probably will top all previous marks in wagering here is expected to pack this show-place racing plant When the 12 thoroughbreds break from the barrier at 3 p. m. (Indianapolis Time). As post time approached, Maedic, which swept five straight juvenile stakes at Saratoga last summer, still was the betting favorite, but there was a rush of support to Greentree Stablc's Tattered, which is coupled in an entry with Eli Yale.

With the weather clear and the racing strip lightning fast, Maedic’s strong early backing wavered as the betting public figured the DeWitt Page entry, although a proven mudder, is a doubtful quantity on a dry track. Top Weight Disadvantage The fact Maedic, with Eddie Lit. zenberger in the saddle, Will carry top-weight of 126 pounds, 10 pounds more than Tattered, also Will operate against him in the mile and a furlong test. Nevertheless, the morning line on Maedic was 3 to 1 and he shoulq face the barrier a 2 to 1 shot. Tag. tered, carrying the silks of Mrs Payne Whitney, probably will be a point higher.

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