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BUSH

INNEAPOLIS sports serib

of the Millers is bubbling

By Eddie Ash

SHAKES UP

MINNEAPOLIS ROOTERS PLEASED

HIS MILLERS

Indianapolis Times Sports

During tator torch

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es say Manager Ownie Bush over with enthusiasm. . . .

And when Bush bubbles it can be taken for granted he

feels safe with his talent. . .

. At any rate the baseball

fans in Millertown have caught the Bush spirit and see bright chances of a strong first-division finish in the 1937

American Association campaign. .

finished fifth last season it wa first division since 1931. ... Th

. When the Millers s their first time out of the is led President Mike Kelley

and Pilot Bush to shake up their forces and they have

turned in a neat job. ... The

roster is dotted with major

league names, including those of Carl Reynolds, Red Kress,

Fresco Thompson, Belve Bean lesser lights. x xn

OR catchers the Miliers hav

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brook and Thornton. . . Baker, Bean, Grabowski, Haves and Butland. Pfleger, Kkress, | Revnolds, Cooke, Hz

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a) all

. » . These he expects to obtain

At O'Reilly, halfback; Mario Tonelli, fullba

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two starting backficlds next fall

vioht Alxiiv

175 pounds, is the heaviest of the lot. . .

more than 163. . . . The heavier backfi

P Weert,

quarterback; Andy Puplis, 1

, George Dickey and other

un n = © Dickey, Hargrave, Esteritchers are Tauscher, Jake Saurbrun, Wagner, elders are Taylor, Cohen, mpson, and outfielders are 1d, Deal, Spence and Christ-

12 not altogether sure of his mound staff and

of two more chuc

kers, preferably southpaws. from the Boston Red Sox. "

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LMER LAYDEN, Notre Dame football coach, will experiment with

, one light, the other heavy. .. .

this time it looks like the pony combination will consist of Chuck

left halfback; Bunny McCormick, ck. . . . the last named, weighing . None of the others weighs eld will include Joe Ruetz, Harold

Cottsacker or Willard Hofer, quarterback; Jack McCarthy, left halfback;

Jake Kovalcik or Ennio Arboit, right

. This group will average about 18:

of Joe Zwers, right end, and Joe Kuh line will be lost by graduation. =

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halfback; Ed Simonich, fullback. 5 pounds. . . . With the exception arich, right guard, the entire 1936 =

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ILLY SANDOW. manager of Everett Marshall, leading claimant of

the heavyweight wrestling title, “national conspiracy” to “do away wit mer cowpuncher grappler was painfu

savs he is convinced there is a h” Marshall. . . . The chunky forily injured in a match with Lee

Wvkoff in Kansas City Monday and still is confined to a hospital there with an assortment of injuries. . . . Manager Sandow said, “They know

they can’t throw him legitimately, so or another. And have to quit wrestling.” nized the Marshall-Wykoff bout as decision went to Everett when Lee w

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they all try to foul him, one way

it's going to continue like this, Everett will just _ . The Missouri Athletic Commission recog-

a championship affair and the as disqualified on a foul.

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HE Kansas City Times carried an interesting account of the Mar-shall-Wykoff melee and it is evident the ringside was in turmoil.

. . . . The Times’ description, in part smother applied by Wykoff pinned N

_ follows: “A leglock and body farshall in 25:55 for the first fall.

In winning the second fall in 8:40 Everett pounced on Wykoff’s head and neck in such manner that the loser suffered apparent injury. After

“a

rest and before the bell sounded for

and tossed a right-hand punch delivered from center field.

ing the haymaker Lee hurled Marsha with two kicks to the midsection. W within reach. Sam Nenoff, a noncom

Ine add

the third fall Wykoff rushed over After land11 through the ropes and followed vkoff kept swinging on anyone batant. was struck under the eye

and the gap required two stitches. Police went into action against Wy-

koff and one swing of a blackjack was ineffective. g

turned the trick. Wwkoff fell to the head and neck. And this injury requ It looks like the Missouri Athletic

hands.. When the boys turn to blood-

the Marines.

But the second tap mat and blood trickled down his lired six stitches.” Commission has a problem on its letting tactics it's time to call out

Wri ter Believes Coch rane,

Cronin Wrong About Wive

By DANIEL

Times Special Writer

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March 20.—A dangerous philosophy has j “eon

been propounded by Professors Gordon Staniey Cochrane and Joseph E.

Cronin—Mickey and Joe to you.

with the creation of no little astenishment,

Tigers and the Boston Red Sox ha players from their training camps. Neither Cochrane nor Cronin has offered public explanation for this revolutionary action. The insinuations are: 1. That a wife takes a plaver's mind off the quest of a pennant. 2. That the wives of players in hotel lobby assembled may do more harm with nimble gossip than all the opposition bats of the league combined. 3. That the players don't want their wives with them, anyWay. It is only too true that many a camp has suffered through jealousies. silly charges and loose gossip fostered by a devil let loose among idle women. There have been authenticated cases of pennant machines disorganized by the verbal battling of players’ blondes, brunettes and redheads. But if a ball player's helpmeet 1s worth her salt at all, she is a definite force for good, and she does well to resent the tacit charge framed in the orders of Professors Cochrane and Cronin. The wives of most players know better than the players themselves what the noble athletes should and should not eat, and I would much rather trust the female half of the firm with the player's training than I would trust the competitor himself.

Should Examine Checks

Cochrane and Cronin would take the trouble to examine the meal checks of their players they would gain astonishing information on the bizarre notions of diet even of veterans and would resolve never again to bar the good wife from camp. For some reason best known to themselves, major league managers regard players’ wives with apprehension. If the pilot, usually married himself, hears that one of his young men is about to join the hymeneal league, Mr. Manager loses no time] in grabbing pen in fist and telling the athlete he would do well to postpone his heinous action. If it be the spring, the pilot advises waiting until fall. If it be the fall. he hollers, “Hold off until spring!” In the minds of managers, the only time for a player to get married is when that particular impresario releases him.

If Professors

On the Yankees, the entire prob- | seasons ago, is being groomed to walker,

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Perhaps by agreement, but certainly !

the managers of the Detroit

ve barred the wives of their ball

Yankee arrangement fosters this attack on American cattle life. After a month of hotel roast beef au jus and red snapper poached, fried and diathermized, how can a manager have the heart to tell his players they ‘can’t bring their wives along? It's a mistake to bar players’ wives from camp even from the mental angle. Most of the boys like to be babied. They are keen for life and tread on rosy clouds when they are going well. But on days of adversity they seek sympathy. They do not get it from teammates or the manager. That's where the good wife comes in.

Silent Hoosiers Trail in Tourney

{ Times Special

JACKSONVILLE, Ill, March 20.— The Silent Hoosiers quintet, representing Indiana in the Central States deaf school basketball tournament, today trailed Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan in the race for the championship as play went into the fourth flight of the round robin tourney. Indiana had a record today of two losses and one victory. The other three teams haq two wins against one loss. The Silent Hoosiers broke even in two contests yesterday, bowing to Wisconsin, 29 to 15, but winning over Missouri, 55 to 31. The Indiana team dropped its opening game Thursday to Michigan, 26 to 23.

I. U. Catcher May Be Forced From Lineup

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 20. —A shoulder injury received in an intramural basketball game may keep co-Captain Russell Wanatah, catcher, out of the Indiana University baseball] lineup this spring, according to Coach Everett Dean. Steve Kubic, a letter-winner two

STATE

Big Sixteen ~ Will End in

Anderson Is Favored in Tilts At Tech Gym; Action Will Be Hot at Vincennes.

SEMIFINALISTS

(Evansville) vs. Hunting-

Martinsville,

Bigger Four

two afternoon games |

| will meet in the 8 o'clock games at the | night session to decide the four finalists |

at Butler Fieldhouse March 27. | By GENE DAILEY United Press Staff Correspondent Competition for the Indiana High | School Basketball Championship

enters the semifinal stage today &s | 16 teams resume play at four tour-

nament centers.

The “big sixteen,” survivors of an | | original field of 781 teams, will play |

{at Tech gym and at Logansport, | Muncie and Vincennes.

Two afternoon engagements are!

| scheduled at each center with the | final contests to be played at 8 o'clock tomorrow night.

| puncher

Winners of the semifinal meets | | will gain the right to participate in |

{the final thrill-packed tournament at Butler University Fieldhouse March 27, for the most coveted honor in Hoosier sportdom. A last-minute survey reveals the following situation at the four semifinal centers: Logansport—The host school, | Coach Cliff Wells’ Loganberries favored to beat down opposition from Hammond, Rochester and Lafayette. Indianapoiis—Anderson outstandmes. Crawfordsville with capable quin[tets but hardly strong enough to stop the drive of Coach Archie Chadd’s | Indians as they seek a place for the third consecutive year in the lineup of the final tournament.

Muncie—Another opportunity for the powerful Central (Ft. Wayne) Tigers to demonstrate the ability which brought them the N. E. I. C. title and ranking as an outstanding favorite in the state championship | race. Wabash, Warsaw and Muncie conceded little hope if Coach Murray Mendenhall’s aggregation is |

Vincennes—The most evenly | matched semifinal. Martinsville, | with another one of its famous fives under the veteran Glenn Curtis. Bedford and Central of Evansville, a finalist last vear, with almost equal possibilities. the season's surprise team and one with greatest “dark-horse” potentialities of the field. Capacity crowds are expected to attend the four semifinal tournaments. Chief absentee from this stage of the 1937 meet is Frankfort, 1936, which abdicated its throne in sectional competition with an upset loss to Rossville.

Blue Devil Thinlies Prepare for Opener

| Coach Don R. Knight is grooming | 20 Shortridge trackmen daily in the | Butler Fieldhouse in preparation for the Blue Devils’ opening meet of the season April 1 with Southport.

fat

| hooks that landed below the . Greensburg, North Vernon and | belt

| loise

Huntingburg, !

| the youngster,

| Browns.

| Only three lettermen -— Captain |

| Bob Cline, Dave Crockett and Whitten Lingeman—have returned to the squad this year, Others who are reporting for daily

drills are Walter Thienes, Art Hy- | man, Edward Ziegner, John Lennox, | Harvey Hunter, Robert Scott, James |

| Crockett, John Carson, ! Snyder, jard Rehm. Fred Rash, ' Adams,

William Stautz and Emory Schlake.

Grid Star Matched

With Orville Brown |

Alabama Bill Lee, 235, young | | Southern husky who has gone un- | defeated in more than 65 pro bouts, will move into front line competition Tuesday night at the Armory when he meets Orvill Brown, 228, | |in the main go of an all-heavy- | weight card. | Lee is a former All-American | tackle from the University of Ala- | bama. Brown, “Indian deathlock” exponent from Kansas, defeated

| Armory.

LIKED EM BIG | Times Special | NEW YORK, March 20.—Mickey the former middleweight

Jem, such as it is, is handled rather | take over the backstop assignment and welterweight champion, fought

Most of the players are their families

rationally. ] married and bring

here. They do not live in the hotel of the most valuable men on the headquarters, but rent bungalows in | squad. He also played second base | no {and shortstop and batted .342 last |

scattered sections. There is daily kaffee klatsch for the wives. Thev meet at games, pass the time of day, and dash off to get dinner ready. As a result, the Yankees come carbonate of soda intake is said to be lower than that of any other club in the majors. There are no! wifelv cliques on the team; there js no political situation tracing to renal Ssip. Ve ves live well ordered, normal lives, rosily tinted with home cooking. A ball player's life | without at least six big steaks a’ week is a drab life indeed, and the

pad

if Grieger is unable to play. Coach Dean has rated Grieger one

year.

GIANTS, INDIANS TO PLAY

By United Press

GULPORT, Miss., March 20.—The | north well conditioned. Their bi- New York Giants and Cleveland In- |

dians meet here today in the first of their 18-game exhibition schedule,

ROGRESS Rinses, also, in soft water.

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SEMIFINALS TO BE PLAYED TODAY

The 8-year-old black gelding. Royal Mail, which , won the Grand National Steeplechase yesterday at

is shown above

as Jockey Evan Williams put the

horse over one of the difficult jumps in the course.

Aintree, England, before a crowd of 500,000 people, | The course is one of the most difficult in the world.

Armstrong Touted 7udor Hall Teams Reitz Five Loses

Following Victory

By United Press NEW YORK, March 20.—Henry Armstrong was touted today as the most sensational - featherweight seen for years in New York. In his second Easter appearance Armstrong, recognized as feather champion in California and affiliated states, gave Aldo Spoldi, a fullgrown lightweight from Milan, Italy, an unmerciful beating in 10 rounds | Madison Square Garden last night. Outweighed eight and one-half pounds—135 to 126'>—the ever advancing West Coast Negro won every round but two, losing the first and | fourth on a couple of wild right

The only thing that saved Spoldi from being knocked out—the fate of New York's feather champ Mike Bel- | last week—was some rapid | back-pedaling in the ninth and 10th | rounds. Aldo flicked Henry with a | pair of stout lefts in the ninth that so incensed the Califorian he nearly belted the Italian out of the ring. In the first session Armstrong opened the top of his opponent's right eye, and in the third split the | skin below the same orb. A solid | smash in the fourth brought blood | flowing from Aldo's nose. Spoldi's face was battered at the end. Arm-

| strong, with his sharp little elbows |

sticking out almost at right angles, never was in danger. A crowd of 9852 paid $21,202 to see | the fight.

Bosses Predict |

Feller’s Success

| Times Special

NEW YORK, March 20.—While the majority of psuedo-experts are picking young Bob Feller, sensational Cleveland Indians’ rookie pitching prospect, apart, and not a few of them forecasting failure for two of the most astute managers in baseball are pre- |

[dicting a rosy future for the youth.

They are Joe McCarthy, boss of ; the New York Yankees, and Rogers Hornsby, manager of the St. Louis | Both agree that young Feller will become one of the greatest pitchers of all time.

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Tie in Net Tourney

The senior and junior Tudor Hall | to

School basketball teams played a 24-t0-24 tie last night in the final

game of the interclass tournament. !

The juniors defeated the freshmen, 61 to 15, and the seniors trompod the sophomores, 20 to 17, in round games. The sophomore team rapped the freshmen, 26 to 24, in the consolation contest. Miss Siawson and Miss Ernestine Bunnell officiated at the tournament. Players on the senior team were Jane Adams. Barbara Hadley, Barbara Prentice, Catherine Kemp, Jean Long and Marjorie McCullough. Members of the junior team

iwere Sylvia Griffith, Barbara Noel, | Metzger, | | Phebe Perry and Anne Elder.

Shortridge Girls

Barbara Brown, Dorothy

Open Tournament

Games in the Shortridge High

| School girls’ volleyball tournament

are to be resumed Monday in the Shortridge gym. The opening contests were held vesterday. Four teams are entered in Misses Kathryn Thompson and Eleanor Richwine are in charge. Members of the four teams are: Team 1—Betty Richardson, capAntionette Harris, Schakel, Mary Ann Rice, Dorothy Nelson, Edna Liljeblad, Sue Mellett, LaVerne Ostermever, Katy Lou Mat-

lock, Lucretia Saunders and Mary |

Cass.

Team 2—Mary LaMasters, cap-

| tain, Betty Woodbury, Jean Wichser, Betty Jane McCord, Margaret |

Garcian, Barbara Smith, Alice Jane Morrett, Martha Egger, Jane Swingel, Bettv Ann White and Elaine Fry. Team 3—Juanita Hamp, captain, Jean Benham, Peggev Burrell, Marianna Crossland, Frances Eankert, Amy Jose, Mary Murphy, Susan Ewing, Betty Ball, Gene Fulton and Anna Mae Pearson. Team 4—Margaret Howells, tain, Jean Parcells, Eleanor Norma Miller, Rita Jean Hancock,

| Vera Stanley, Alice Murphy, Patricia | I Jackson, Hempling and Evelyn Martin.

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| Times Special . { CHICAGO, March 20.—Play in the national Catholic basketball tournament went into the quarterfinal rounds today after the last | Indiana survivor, Reitz Memorial of Evansville, dropped by the wayside in the second round. The Reitz team succumbed to | Fenwick of Chicago, 44 to 36, last

night after tromping St. Teresa of

Decatur, Il., 40 to 13, in a first round encounter. The other Indiana entries, Central Catholic of Ft. Wayne and St. Mary's of Ander- | son, dropped their first round engagements. Teams which began quarter-final play today were Fenwick, | Patrick's of Kankakee, Columbia Academy of Dubuque, Marquette | High of Milwaukee, St. Joseph of | Huntington, W. Va. LaSalle Institute of Philadelphia, Catholic of Joliet, Ill, and Catholic of Baton | Rouge, La.

‘HORNSBY PUTS NEW PLAYERS UNDER TEST

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SAN ANTONIO, March 20.—Man-

ager Rogers Hornsby started the

| first game of the “grapefruit sea- | son”

at New Braunfels with 1ive new players in the field. Joe Vosmick and Billy Knickerbocker of the Cleveland Indians; Ethan Allen

Browns’ was mound.

TIGERS TO OPEN SEASON TAMPA, Fla., March 20.—The De-

| troit Tigers play their first game of

the exhibition season today against

the Cincinnati Reds, who yesterday | | evened their two-game series with

the New York Yankees by slugging out a 7-3 victory.

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Field of 103

By THOMAS H. NOONE United Press Racing Editor NEW YORK, March 20.—Three-year-olds to the number of 103 were nominated today for the 63rd running of the Kentucky Derby | May 8 and simultaneous with the release of the list, Pompoon, the champion juvenile last year, was established a solid winter book fa- | vorite. Seventy-six colts, 21 geldings and | six fillies were named for the $50,000 | added mile and a quarter race to be contested at ' Churchill { Louisville, Ky. The total entries are

| only one more than last year, which | | was the smallest since 1922, when |

| only 92 were nominated. The record | of 196 was set in 1928. { Charles Burke, St. Louis commis- | sioner, announced the first winter

| book odds and Poempoon went into |

| the lead at 8 to 1 to win, 4 to 1 | to place and 2 to 1 to show on a play or pay basis.

| virtually all of the 1936 stake

| winners are included in the list, | | Matey, now wintering at Columbia, |

S. C., is being pointed for the Preakness Stakes, to be run in Bal- | timore two weeks after the Blue- | grass event. Mrs. Mars Nominates Five |

| owners was indicated when Mrs. | Ethel D. Mars’ Milky Way Farm led |in the number of nominations with | ive. Four each were made by Mrs. | Payne Whitney's Greentree Stable, |P. A. and R. J. Nash's Shandon | Farm and Alfred Gwynne Vander- | bilt. Mrs. Whitney captured the | 1931 Derby with Twenty Grand. | Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Brook- | meade Stable, whose Cavalcade tri- { umphed in 1934, will be represented i by Royal Reigh, a son of Reigh | Count, winner in 1928. William Woodward's Belair Stud,

land Gallant Fox, made three en-

| tries as did C. V. Whitney, whose | | late father's colors were carried to |

| victory in 1915 by Regret, the only | filly ever to win. E. R. Bradley, who | won four Derbies, named two.

| Second choice to Pompoon in

on |

Downs, |

{ The increasing interest of women |

winner of two Derbies, with Omaha |

Nominated

For Derby With Pompoon Listed as

Total of 76 Colts, 21 Geldings and Six Fillies Named for $50,000 Classic—Juvenile Champion Given 8-to-1 Odds to Win.

Book Favorite

| Burke's opening quotations are | Reaping Reward and Brooklyn at | 10 to 1 each. War Admiral is quoted | third choice at 12 to 1 while Privi= ‘leged is held at 15 to 1. In making Pompoon the favorite, Commissioner Burke made a natural choice. The bay son of Pompey- | Oonagh led the list of money- | winners in 1936 with a total of | $82,260. In eight starts the colt won SIX races and finished second twice. His victories included the Futurity and National Stallion Stakes at Bel mont Park and the Junior Championship Stakes at Aqueduct. He finished second to Reaping Reward in the New England Futurity at | Narragansett Park and No Sir in an overnight race at Saratoga. His other winning purses were in minor allowance events,

Neal Jones Wins State Cue Crown

Neal Jones®today held the 1937 | state three-cushion billiard championship after taking a 50 to 40 | decision in 78 innings last night from Lou Spivey in the deciding {match of the tournament at Harry | Cooler's parlor. Jones, Spivey and Cooler previ{ously had been tied with eight wins land one loss each. In the round {robin tournament to- break the | deadlock, Jones trimmed both Cooler and Spivey in consecutive matches { while Cooler trumped Spivey in the | other game. Jones jumped into a 12-point lead in the final match last night but | was overcome soon after when Spivey rallied and went ahead at 36 to 135. Jones then clicked off a run of {10 to put the match on ice. The |run equaled the record for the 1937 | tournament, set recently by Cooler. | BATTAGLIA BATTLING NAME Times Special WINNIPEG, March 20. name of Frankie Battaglia, { peg middleweight, means |in Italian. And Frankie is his name implies.

— The Winni«“battle” all that

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