Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1937 — Page 23
THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1937
He's Monster, And a Marvel, Says Williams,
Sinister Mystery Surrounds |
Man of Contrasts, He Writes.
BY JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer MIAMI, Fla, March 11.—A man who never played in a tournament —not even a modest sectional tour-nament-—is the most discussed golfer in America today. His name is John Montague. He's a member of the Lakeside Club of Los Angeles. He's at once a myth, a marvel and a monster. He is the golfer nobody knows. On the one hand he is fabulously wealthy, on the other he is just an ordinary person who once in a
while turns in a | sensational round. | legend says |
This
he never shoots
over 70. That leg- |
end insists he frequently struggles to get 90. A sinister sort of mystery surrounds him. Hundreds of people have met him, His background is a blank wall. He is an Indian, a Mexican, a South American or just a native Californian. You take your pick. necked, swarthy, thick thighed, he has the strength of seven truck horses. stand up in front of him, than one has crumbled under power of his fists.
Williams
More the
Subject of Contrast Studies
In recent weeks two national |
Bull |
No two men can hope to |
not one knows him. |
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: 3 | magazines have made him the sub- |
ject of contrasting studies. One| subscribed to the romance of his unprecedented skill. The other | sought to bring him down to the| level of a common duffer. Neither | analysis was supported by convine- | ing first hand testimony. This is no atempt to present a |
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JOE TACKLES MR. MONTAGUE, MYTHICAL MAN OF GOLE gg
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Butler May Play Six Big Ten Basketball Quintets
Coach Tony Hinkle Makes Announcement of Improved Schedule at Annual Utes Club Banquet.
Butler basketball players,
fans and students celebrated next
vear's
season last night at a banquet in the North Methodist Episcopal Church sponsored by the Utes Club of the university.
High point of when Coach Tony Hinkle announced “lighten” his schedule for next year. Instead of the smaller Indiana colleges he has set up a tentative date list with Purdue, Tllinois, Northwestern, and has definitely scheduled games with Indiana, and the University of Louisville. The usual two-game series with DePauw and Wabash will be on the Butler bill again next season. Mr. Hinkle jokingly remarked that with six Big Ten teams on the schedule he was afraid he might to relegate such teams as tral to a “double feature” status on the Bulldog program.
Cites Opponents’ Average
In a short sketch which he definannounced was not an alibi, Coach Hinkle pointed out that But-
E | ler opponents this year had averaged
E (but one and one-half shots
more per game than the Bulldogs. opponents, also had averaged but one basket more per game and had tossed in but four more personals each contest than the local players,
| he said.
Scoring 211 of his team’s 507 points this season, Ward Hackleman Jr., shown above, has led Park School's basketball team in one of its most successful Culver Military round of the Mid-West Preparatory School Tourney.
seasons. He will captain the team it its game with
Academy at Chicago tomorrow at 9 a. in the first
The Park School
m.
five, coached by Lou Reichel, has won 11 and lost four this
de-
games
season. Hackleman feated the local
has averaged 14 points per xenool earlier this season, 34-26,
game, Culver
meyer,
The main speaker of the program last night, Harry Geisel, American League umpire, spoke on the subject. explained that although the umpire is the subject of continuous ridicule, it is rather difficult to start a game without one. Prof. Henry M. Gelston, chairman of the faculty committee on athletics, presented the letter awards to
the team members and cheer lead- |
ers, Edward Liljeblad, Winfield Yager and Marion Disborough. The “B” follows: Willard Fawcett, Earl Gerkens-
William Gever, Chester Jag-
the evening was ®
The |
| Carroll
“Nobody Shoves An Umpire.” He |
varsity winners were as
William Merrill, Earl OverLaurel Poland,
gers, man, George Perry, Byron Schofield A manager's award went to Lewis Smith. Winners of freshman numerals were: Bob Connor, Earle Gibson, Byron Gunn, Loren Joseph, Russell Powell, Jerome Stiner, Harry Thomas, Russell Troxel, Melvin Vandermeer, John Watson, Victor Lanahan, William Kraeg and Paul Hermann. Student managers’ awards went Philip Albertson and Lowell Green. William F. Fox Jr., sports columnist of the Indianapolis News, was toastmaster and John W. Thompson was a
(ood on Any Court
By NIA Service LOGANSPORT, Ind., The basketball players Creek High School, near here in County, didn't have any court of their own this season and had to play all their games away from home. But it didn't hurt were right at home, the enemy territory. of their 19 games. TWO BATS ROUSH'S SECRET NEW YORK, March 11.-—Eddie Roush reveals that he used two different bats in hitting against righthanders and southpaws when he was in baseball, Eddie, the former Giant and Red outfielder, used a bludgeon two inches longer against SO. to reach outside curves
of Deer
They in
them. it seems,
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March 11.— |
Wins Award Report Hoosier Fishing
Benefited by Flood Waters
Conservation Department Told Spring Anglers in Indiana To Have More Channel and Blue Catfish.
Predictions that the high waters during the floods will result in better spring fishing for | received bv
Virgil M. Simmons,
commissioner of
January and February Hoosier anglers, have been the Department of
Conservation, from a number of fishermen.
Their predictions are based on the
{ theory that during the high waters
| the fish moved
farther upstream
| than has been true in the past when
| prior
normal They
levels remained to the nesting season.
stream
| anticipate that Hoosier anglers will
(nel and blue
s—
Jack Dawson, Shortridge varsity guard, shown above, was awarded the George V. Underwood trophy
for the most valuable basketball player during the season, according to announcement made today by Shortridge officials. Billy Stautz, forward, was awarded the Underwood trophy for the most valuable reserve player. Dawson also won the Dr. Herbert Wagner trophy for the most improved foothall player during the 1936 season.
Shortridge Tennis Team Holds Practice
Howard Wood, coach of the |
| Shortridge High School tennis team, |
They won all |
|
| 11 straight
{ Likely,
has been sending his racquet squad | through daily drills in the Shortridge Gymnasium, in preparation | for the coming tennis season. The Shortridge tennis team won matches last year. Two members of last year's team are lost by graduation. The following candi- | dates have heen working out under Coach Wood: Riley Hancock, Nelson | Johnson, Earl McCreary, John | McCreary, Robert Anderson, Fred Dan Flickinger, Charles Crumbaker and Jap Powell.
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| taking suckers and bull heads. | tinued warm weather will
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take an increased number of chancatfish from the streams emptying into the Ohio River, and look for reports of a number of hackleback sturgeon being taken. The anglers who use a pole line are already in action and said to be having good fishing, Consee a big of fisher-
and
are
increase in the number men taking advantage of the remaining days of the open season The taking of game Ash is pro-
Tp — —— hibited in Indiana from April 30 to June 16, the season at which the fish are nesting, While the high waters are sendsing the fish farther upstream, the frame waters have been a menace to fishing in some areas as fish have been left stranded as streams ree turned to their banks after overflows ing surrounding territory, Game wardens and conservation clubs have been working steadily to rescue stranded fish and return them to the streams A rescue the Riverside
working out of here
squad state hatchery took more than 57000 game fish from pools left by receding high waters in three days. Approximates ly 15,000 voung black bass were taken from a single pool.
full tinted canvas of Montague A man as opposed to Montague the | myth: It is simply & presentation | of such data as can be assembled | from the few golfers I have met down here who know him-—golfers who know him and who have played with him. One of the legends about Mr Montague is that he is the longest | driver golf has ever known. For the | past several vears this distinction has been pretty generally accorded the muscular Jimmy Thomson, whose feat is driving 448 yards al Independence, Kas. was recently recorded in the dispatches. Thomson Outplayed Him
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It so happens that a couple of vears ago Mr. Thomson and Mr. Montague played a match on the latter's home grounds. It is not very easy to get Young Thomson to talk about himself. Cornered, he was finally forced to admit he beat the celebrated myth , “And were vou able to keep up with him off the tees?” . Young Thomson admitted he had outdriven the gentleman at every long hole. This then would seem to slay at least one Montague legend. As recent as two months ago Mr. | Montague played a match with Ed | Dudley who is the winter pro at | Augusta National where the | Bob Jones Masters’ Tournament is | plaved annually. Mr, Dudley is one of our better golfers but he has
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Playing Mr. Montague, he had one of those days. He shot a 63 at Lakeside. Now this kind of shooting will win 100 matches out of 100. But what did Mr. Montague shoot? He shot a 73. Thus he was beaten 10 strokes by a professional who has | vet to inscribe his name on a major championship.
Played Sarazen, Too
On another recent occasion Mr, | Montague locked niblicks with Gene | Sarazeh at match play and was beaten 4 and 3, a creditable showing for anybody against a player of Sarazen’s caliber—but the growing Montague myth makes no allowance for moderation in any form and the records will show Mr. Sarazen has beaten scores of golfers in | tests that were much more demand- | ing. I think T have shown by authenticated evidence that Mr. Montague is (1) neither an incredibly long hitter, (2) that he is anything but invincible and (3) that on at least one occasion—his match with Dud- | a LV) GP mw) ley—he couldn't even break par on | rE Ng IN Gyr 3 his own course. What, then, is the | // ; 7 “ ) HAVE you met King yet? verdict? I should say the | ! 7 ;
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