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MARCH 16, 1937

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baseman, recently defeated Norman Durkin, Michigan State professional

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HEN the curtamn is drawn back on the afternoon of April 16 and the American Association launches its 36th annual campaign, one of the outstanding favorites in the pennant race seems certain to be the Kansas City Blues. . . . The Blues this year will present a number of new faces. but at the same time will offer quite a few old favorites, players who did their full share in landing the Blues third in the 1936 struggle. . . . Of the 28 names contained on the latest Kansas City roster, 12 are those of men who were with the club last season, while 15 are new. An even dozen pitchers will be seeking berths with the club. . . . Of this group, four are holdovers, Joe Vance, John Niggeling, Phil Page and Charlie Moncrief. . . . Newcomers are Joe Gibbs from Galveston, Ted Kleinhans from the Yankees via Newark, Howard La Flamme from Newark and Binghamton, Beryl Richmond from Galveston, Waple Langston from Cassville, Lee Stine from the Reds and Cletus Voss, amateur. . . . Wiley Moore, veteran, also may call off his retirement and return to the fold. =" : " 2 » " ” LDON BREESE, catcher-outfielder, is the only 1936 catcher left with the Blues, but also on hand will be Chris Hartje from Oakland and John Dellasega from Cassville. . . . Returning infielders are Ray French, Marty Hopkins, Eddie Marshall and Herman Schulte, while trying to oust some of them will be Jim Oglesby, Charles English from Ft. Worth and Alfred Klier from Cassville. . . . Milt Bocek, Al Marchand and George Stumpf are again on hand for outfield duties, with newcomers Jim Gleeson from Cleveland, Dave Goodman from Rock Island, and Gene McCarty from Cassville. . . . The five new men who are given the best chance to stick with the club are English, Gleeson, Hartje, Kleinhans and Oglesby.

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T. PAUL has won seven American Association pennants, topping Louisville and Minneapolis by one. . . Indianapolis’ favorite spot is fourth—seven times. . . . The Indians have finished second six times. _ The Hoosiers never have led the league in home runs, but on seven occasions have paced the circuit in triples. . . . Minneapolis with its short fences has annexed home runs honors 17 times. . . Pretty soft for the Millers. . . . In 1921 Jay Kirke collected 282 hits for Louisville and fans there hope another Jay will come along soon. . . . Dusty Cooke hit 33 home runs for St. Paul in 1929 and was promoted to the majors. . . . He's back in the A. A. this year with Minneapolis. . . . In 1910 Dave Altizer made 61 sacrifice hits for Minneapolis. . . . That was prior to the lively ball days. . . . Otto Bluege, Indianapolis, led the loop with 16 in 1936. » 2 n = ”

HIL TODT, St. Paul, has led A.A. first sackers in fielding for the last five vears. ... And the figures prove he's consistent. His average has been 996 on three occasions, and 995 and 998. . . Doug Baird of Indianapolis stole 72 bases in 1919 and that record is likely to stand forever. . . . Thirty-six was high in 1936. Vincent Sherlock, Indianapolis, accepted more chances at second base last season than any other keystone sacker in the organization. . . . And the same goes for Buck Fausett, Indianapolis third baseman. . . . But both were a little long on the error side. . . . Jim Turner, Indianapolis, was the busiest pitcher from a fielding standpoint, accepting 85 chances. . Fred Berger, Indianapolis, led A. A. outfielders in assists last year with 2): . Nice throwing, Fred. . . And Johnny Riddle, Indianapolis, with 101, topped the league's catchers. . . Right on his ear, Johnny!

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AUL TROUT pitched three innings for Perkins’ Powderers against Cochrane's Cadets in the Detroit training camp Sunday and the ex-Indianapolis chucker allowed one hit in three innings. . . . He fanned two, walked two and had one wild pitch. . . . Bob Feller got his start as a pitcher with the Valley Junction, Iowa, American Legion Junior nine. . . . Joe Matisi, Eastern Golden Gloves heavyweight champion, is a brother to Tony Matisi, star tackle on the University of Pittsburgh football team. . . . Charlie Grimm, manager of the Chicago Cubs, has indicated his starting batting order this year will go something like this: Galan, lf; Herman. 2b; Collins, 1b; Demaree, rf; Hartnett, e: Marty, cf; Hack. 3b; Jurges, ss, and the pitcher. . . . Stainback to be No. 1 outfield reserve and Frey No. 1 utilitv infielder, . . . If it’s all right with the Cubs Indianapolis will take care of Phil Caveretta.

National A.A. U. Tourney At Denver Nears Climax

By HAROLD NIKKEL United Press Staff Correspondent DENVER, March 16.—Completion of the third round of play in the National A. A. U. basketball tournament today will send 16 crack teams of the original field of 45 into the stretch drive for the 1937 U. 8. Championship. Si At the close of today’s 1l-game | program every team in the meet will | have seen action in at least one | game. Twelve teams make their | initial appearances, four of them |

Net Coaches May seeded Vote on Tip-Off : All the favorites still were on | See

hand but a real dark horse threat By United Press had developed in the powerful; : Mitchell's quintet of Walla Walla, | CHICAGO, Maen Wash. In yesterday's 10 games, complet- bers of the National Basketball ing the first oun and Spesune the | Coaches Association will vote today . a | De A land | OP whether to file with the rules University of New York City, War- | committee a recommendation abolrensburg, Mo., Teachers and Safe-! ishing the center jump. way Stores of Denver—entered the |. For the first time, bracket of 16 teams which will battle for quarterfinal berths tomorrow. | : : The surprising strength of the | throw in with the Pacific Coast Walla Walla five featured the| Conference, which pioneered the second day's play. The Westerners | jumpless game, and its newest reran rough-shod over Southern Ohio : ig Business College of Cincinnati, 66 to cruit, the Big Ten. 26, for the most one-sided victory of | The rules committee will the meet. The Northwest A. A. U.|coaches recommendations champions showed height and speed, | morrow.

plus a deadly accuracy. | will be discussed, a spokesman for

| the coaches association said. Clarification of rules regarding interference with the basket by tall players when the ball is near the goal, determining the proper bouncball and

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Ed Burke, Marquette . , . world champ crosses the bar

Derby Festival Tourney Attracts Nation's Pinmen

| Local Teams to Compete for

Rich Prize Awards Offered in

| Annual Kentucky Affair.

[ tournament, delayed by the recent

By BERNARD HARMON Preparations for the third annual Kentucky Derby Festival bowling |

Ohio River flood, are again in full

swing and the popular event is attracting nation-wide attention.

The tourney is to be held at the | Madrid Recreation Alleys in Louis[ville April 3 to May 16, and the usual rich prize fund will be at | stake as leading teams from all

| parts of the country try their luck {at mowing down the maples. The

| $1000 added prize awarded by the |

| Derby Festival Committee gives the | pinmen a real target to shoot at and |a top prize of $500 is guaranteed the | winning five-man team.

The minor event awards are also |

attractive, $250 being guaranteed

| the top double combination and $150 [to the individual event winner. | Other prizes are to be determined {by the size of the entry. Twenty- | five cash prizes in the team events, 1680 in the doubles, 110 in the singles and 11 in the all-events were award(ed in last year's tourney. Trophies will aiso be presented to {the various winners and the hand(some Twenty-Grand trophy will go to the sponsor of the winning five- | man aggregation. Waldorf Lagers |of Cleveland finished first in the team events in 1935 and the Bud- | weisers of St. Louis topped the field | last season. Both were among the first to enter the 1937 event.

Local Teams to Enter

Several Indianapolis teams have participated in past tournaments,

| and a large delegation is expected |

| to make the journey this year. The | Barbasols, 1937 city champions, Falls | City Hi-Brus, 1936 A. B. C. champs, {and Lieber Beers, winners of the | State tournament team event last | year are among the local aggregations that have announced their in- | tentions of entering. |

{ Bill Gambert, assistant tourney | shutouts, Mooreman Coal, winner of | | manager, is in charge of reserva-|Sunday’s tournament at the Indi- | He may be reached at the ana, Oriental Tavern and A & Js

tions. Madrid Alleys, Third and Guthrie | Sts, Louisville. Other members of | the tournament committee are John | L. Sullivan, Reece Doughty, M. R. | Evans and Tommy Owen. | The top individual series of last night's local league sessions was a | 661, posted by Paul Moore in his trio lo games with the Evangelical

League at the Pritchett Alleys. He |

had 242, 237 and 182. Val Schneider threatened the leader when he | tossed a 654 for runnerup honors of | the loop. He had games of 222, 219 | and 213. Four other pastimers

| passed 600, George Bade getting 638, |

| Otto Richter 628, Art Becker 603 | and John Bentley 602. Reds, Tigers and Athletics nabbed shutout victories in the team

‘Catholic Tourney Pairings Released

Times Spreecral CHICAGO, March 16.—Three In- | diana schools today were paired for | the 14th annual national Catholic { high school basketball tournament which is to open tomorrow night at Loyola University. Central Catholic of Ft. Wayne, Ind, is to meet St. Patrick's of Kankakee, Ill, in the opening game |

& Te = matches, Indians, Red Sox and | Giants being the victims. Pirates, | Browns, Yanks and Cardinals took | two-to-one decisions over Dodgers, | White Sox Cubs and Senators in | other clashes. | Shutouts Registered | The city wide runnerup position | was taken by Dr. Karl Kernel, who | totaled 659 on games of 229, 184 and | 246 in the Optimist League, also | bowling at Pritchett’s. He was the lcop’'s one 600 shooter, and his heavy hitting gave Realtors the only shutout registered in the team matches. Two nifty totals were turned in by Indianapolis Star League members | in their matinee session at Pritchett's. John Meehan assembled a 657 and Owen Fancher a 655. Team clashes were hard fought, winners nabbing victories through close decisions. Every team match in the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. League, rolling at the Indiana was decided through an odd-game decision. Accounting, Long Lines, Business Office Maintenance No. 1 and Maintenance No. 2 were the winning quintets. Al Holman topped the individual scoring with a 637. A 637 was also good for honors of the Fountain Square League at the Fountain Square Alleys, Carl Kiefer southpawing his way to a 258 final game that boosted { him to that total. Robinson opened with a 251 but failed to reach 600. Sheehan Is High John Sheehan and Len Sylvester | were the Holy Cross League's top | scorers, the former taking honors lon a 635. Sylvester had a 604. Three lof four team clashes resulted in

nabbing the decisions, Clarence Lash turned in his top | series of the season, a 634, to lead | rivals of the State Highway League |at the Pritchett Alleys. Pettinger | used the same total to outdistance | members of the Kiwanis Club loop |at the Indiana, although he was | threatened by Lippincott, who, with {a 245 finish, totaled 616. | Don Johnson added another 600 | series to his Court House League per- | formance, topping the scoring of last | night's session at the Pennsylvania | with a 630. At the same alleys, J. | Ries topped Kroger Grocery Co. pas- | timers with a 611. A quartet of honor counts was | posted in the St. Joan of Arc | matches at the Uptown. Kraus led | rivals with a 623, Fran Schmitt had {620, L. O'Conner 602 and John | Naughton 600. Sammy Tezzis went I strike wild in his final game of the | Transportation League's session at | Pritchett’s, tossing a 257 that boost'ed him to a 608. the top solo series | of the loop. | Quasy topped members of the | Fraternal League at the Illinois Al{leys with a 607; Brunsma outdis|tanced rivals of the Reformed | Church loop at Pritchett's with the same total and Peterson led Serv- | ice League pastimers at the Parkway with a 606. Leaders of other league sessions

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lead Washington High School's basketball team through its schedule | next season. He was elected captain | by lettermen on this season's squad. | Other lettermen who will return for the 1937-38 campaign are Carter, | Leerkamp, Meyers, Kersey and Sanders. The schedule for next season follows: Dec. 3, at Mooresville; Dec. 10, ! Southport; Dec. 11, at Beech Grove; Dec. 18, Broad Ripple at Shortridge; Dec. 22, at Danville; Jan. 7, Alexandria; Jan. 8, at Greenfield; Jan 14-15, city tournament at Tech; Jan. | 19, at Crawfordsville; Jan. 21, Man- ! ual; Jan. 29, Franklin; Feb. 4, No- | blesville; Feb. 11, at Cathedral; Feb 12, at Greencastle; Feb. 18, Warren | Central; Feb.-19, at Ben Davis; Feb. | 25, at Plainfield.

MOORE SIGNS WITH BLUES Times Special HOLLIS, Okla, March 16.—Wilcy Moore, former New York Yankee pitcher, came to terms with Kansas City of the American Association yesterday. He had announced last week he would retire.

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GELBERT OUTSTANDING

By United Press

TAMPA, Fla. March 16.—The hitting of infielder Charley Gelbert,

| purchased last winter from the St.

Louis Cards, was outstanding in the Cincinnati Reds’ camp today. Gel-

| bert who returned to regular play

last year after a hunting accident that kept him on the sidelines for

two seasons, smacked out a home run and a double yesterday as his

| squad, the Sheehans, defeated the

Kelleys, 5-2, ina six-inning practice game.

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Teams to Battle for Net Title Tomorrow

The Em-Roe Factory Basketball League title is to be decided tomor- ' row night when the Inland Box Co. quintet meets the Link Belt-Dodge

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New Speed Boat

By United Press { LONDON, March 16—Sir Mal- | colm Campbell, holder of the world | automobile speed record, is making | long range plans to challenge Gar | Wood's motorboat speed record, he disclosed today. Held to a promise to his family retire from auto racing,

| months an experimental boat, a | one-man model with a single 2000- | horse power motor, which will be | the jumping off point for his real racer. he said. | “I made a definite promise to my | family that if I reached 300 miles {an hour (he made 301.13 at Bonne- | ville, Utah, Sept. 3, 1935) I should | make no further attempts at a mo- | tor car record,” he said. “I am go{ing to adhere to that promise— | much to my regret. “1 stil lhave | speed. It was a tremendous wrench | for me to give up high speed motor | racing. I love it. Now I am longling to try my hands with a speed | boat. “For the last 18 months I have { been building a new type one-man | speed boat. It will be powered by |a single 2000-horse power engine. | Every nut and bolt and everything else in that boat will be British. ‘I intend to try it on Loch Lomond | (Scotland) in June. | “However, the boat is built with | the object of learning lessons, in | order that something else can be [built at a later stage capable of | beating Gar Wood's record of 124.86 | miles an hour.”

| Wabash Nine Faces Sixteen-Game Card

Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., March | 16.—Coach Lon Goldsberry has released a 16-game schedule for Wa- | bash College's 1937 baseball | The Little Giants nine will

open their season April 13 against Purdue and will wind it up on June 5 in a game with Butler. | The schedule follows: | April 13, Purdue; April 14, at Pur- | due; April 16, Franklin; April 17, { Franklin; April 20, at Indiana; April | 22, at Purdue: April 24, DePauw; | April 30, at Franklin, May 1, at | Franklin; May 7. at Butler; May 14, | Indiana; May 15, Butler: May 19, { Purdue; May 24, at DePauw; May | 27, at Butler: June 5, Butler.

Jones Advances in State Cue Tourney

Neal Jones won the opening match of the three-cornered series to decide the state three-cushion | billiard championship by defeating Harry Cooler, 50 to 37, last night at Cooler's parlor. | Jones had a high run of four and | Cooler a cluster of three in the 86- | inning contest. Cooler is to meet | Lou Spivey tomorrow in the second | match of the series. LELLO GETS DECISION | CHICAGO, March 16.—Pete Lello, | Gary lightweight, was given a de- | cision over Wesley Martin, Akron, O.. in the main event at Marigold | Gardens last night. Lello weighed | 134 and Martin 136'>.

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University Section of Butler Relays

More than $1000 worth of gold cups headed by the Governor M., Clifford Townsend trophy will be awarded to winners of the events at | the Butler Indoor Relays which are to be held at the fieldhouse Saturday afternoon and evening. The] Governor's trophy will be awarded | to the team winning the most points | in the university section. For the team to gain permanent possession | of the trophy it must be won three | times. The University of Michigan, by | winning the Relays for the third | year gained permanent

For the winner of the college

Each year this trophy is given to the team scoring |

Rivalry which originated in the

to interest hoth specCoach E, C. Hayes of Indiana University. Greatest in History “Undoubtedly Saturday's carnival will be the greatest in the Butler Relays’ brief history, “Coach Hayes told members of the Indiana University Club meeting yesterday in the Columbia Club. “The talent which is to appear here Saturday outclasses even that which appears annually in the great Madison Square Garden winter indoor meets.’ “The race for everyone to see,” | Coach Hayes said, “is the mile re- | lav. The Michigan and Indiana | teams had a nip and tuck battle all | the way at the Big Ten meet, but my boys lost and they're going to be out for revenge Saturday.” “However, it won't be all Michigan and Indiana, for Ohio State and | Pittsburgh have entered teams in| the race. What Pittsburgh can do Johnny Woodruff running] anchor is left for the imagination. And then there's Ohio State to think of, because Charley Beetham will be back in shape for Saturday's race.” Asked if his star, Don Lash, would run in the special mile against Archie San Romani, Glen Cunningham and Ray Sears, Coach Hayes said he was “undecided” as yet. “Lash will run in two races, but it may be the medley and four-mile relays,” he added. Tolmich May Star Al Tolmich of Wayne University, Detroit, may be the individual star of the relays, in Coach Hayes’ opinion. Tolmich won three first places in the Central Intercollegiate meet last Saturday at Notre Dame. Michigan will be entering the greatest team din its history here Saturday, Coach Hayes said. “The Wolverines have a well-rounded team, far superior to any other team in the Midwest,” he said. Michigan has entered a full team in the Butler Relays.

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William Watson of Michigan | probably will be Tolmich's chief | rival for individual honors. “Wat | son will be just as good as Willis | Ward, Michigan's Negro all-around | star of a few years back, when he gets more experience,” in Coach Hayes opinion. Watson's shot-putting at the Big Ten meet Saturday was one of the features of the show. The husky Wolverine Negro heaved the 16pound iron ball 50 feet 4'2 inches to set a new Conference record. He probably will compete in the broad jump here Saturday.

Michigan Looks Good

“Michigan looks like a sure winner in the Butler Relays, but we are | to be here to beat them,” Coach Hayes said. “You know the Michigan boys feel disgraced if we beat them, but we always feel the same way.” Coach Hayes blamed Lash'’s defeat | in the mile run last Saturday on | “bad form.” For the team coming the greatest | distance there will be the A. G.| Spaulding’'s trophy. Heretofore teams from the state of Kansas | have won this cup. The Butler Relay Committee will | award seven gold trophies for first places in the relay events and scven | slightly smaller gold trophies for | second places. To the winners of | the individual events will go eight gold pen sets. First, second and | third place winners in the relay events will receive small gold, silver and bronze track shoes. The Herfl-Jones grand {trophy will be presented to the college or university gaining the most points in the relays and individual events. This trophy was first won by In- | diana University in 1933 and since | that time powerful Wolverine {teams for the University of Michi- | gan have taken home three grand trophies. The gold track shoe that is used throughout the design of the relay |

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