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FETTITA ARE AY Le ee he

HEN Otto Williams died

By Eddie Ash

WHEN WILLIAMS AIDED INDIANS

OTTO'S DEATH

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STIRS MEMORIES

in Omaha the other day it

marked the passing of the second member of Indianapolis’ champion infield of 1908. . .. Williams, who was 59,

succumbed after an eight-day

illness of pneumonia.

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He played second base on that old 1908 Hoosier nine and

was a steady performer,

teaming with Shortstop Ownie

Bush, then a rookie. . . . Manager Charlie Carr, who died

several years ago, held down was at third. . ..

Bull Durham the

“Iron man” hurler.

first base and Billy Hopke

Rube Marquard was the ace flinger and

.«» Williams led Amer-

lcan Association second basemen in fielding in 1908 with a

percentage of bases with 38. scoring. n

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975 and also topped the league in stolen ... Ownie Bush,

with 99, was high in run-

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THER feats turned in by the 1908 Indianapolis pennant

winners are contained in

the record books. . . . Jack

Hayden, right fielder, led the loop in batting, in number of base hits, triples and total bases. ... Charlie Carr topped the first sackers in assists, and Paddy Livingstone, mainstay catcher, and Marquard, the star left-hander, established marks that surpassed the accomplishments of other

stars in the league. It was a stirring race.

Indianapolis finished sixth

in 1907 and climbed to first place in one year with a per-

centage of .601,

games. . ..

earned cash.

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T is said three Chicago Cub rookies are assured of sticking around, at imit deadline. , . slated for center field; Hank Ma jeski,

least until May 15, 1

Marty, Coast Leaguer,

the player

from Eau Claire, and Bab Garbark, versatile pastimer

beating out runner-up Louisville by Five of the eight teams finished above the mark and the chase was so hot the frenzied fans at Washington Park used to shower their idols with hard-

SIX 500 old

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. They are Joe infielder from Toledo.

. Reports from training camp indicate Phil Cavarretta and George

Stainback are challenging for first Demaree is a fixture in right

sinker ball chneker, has changed his

with the Kansas City Blues again this year, . .

off-season at Hollis, OKla.

hurler,

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OE DI MAGGTO turned in a brilliant first-vear record in the majors in 1936 but is smart enough to knew there is always room for improvement and has revealed plans for changes in his scheme of cam“In the first place, I cannot go through the season he said recently.

paign for 1937 swinging a 40-ounce bat,” season with a 40, but after ouncer. stick through August off 18 points in my hitting. Another taking on weight in hot weather

August

during the summer and hit the scales at 205 pounds at World Series

time. I weigh 198 now.”

start agamst major

ZZY TROUT,

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the

-string outfield calls. . . . field. .

Wiley is especially effective as a relief

talkative Hoosier, sive in the spring training camp of the Tigers. . . . leaguers Sunday

Frank . Wiley Moore, former Yankee mind about retiring and will play | . He is a farmer in the »

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“I intend to start the new I plan to switch to a 37 or 36-

Last summer I found mystelf getting tired lugging that heavy and September

and in the last two weeks fell thing I've got to do is to prevent | Last season I gained 18 pounds |

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continues to look impresIn his first Trout blanked the Boston Red |

Sox without a hit during the three innings he worked. . . . He issued

two passes,

but it was a gala occasion

for the rookie. . . . Detroit |

papers say the big fellow used a nice assortment of pitches and that

only one ball was batted out of the infield.

Trout paraded up and down the ma “What did I tell you!” time id bat.

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. The Hoosier chucker got one hit in his one

. It also was related that in street ‘that night and shouted, |

Derby Tournament Dates Offered Local Bowlers

By BERNARD HARMON According to word received from T. E. Owens,

tourney manager of

{was all fight and no politics,”

| merchants are members | state commissions;

Indianapolis Times Sports

the New

TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1937

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Sport Army Medals

All the sports scribes traveling with

York Giants are sporting

Cuban Army medals as the result of a recent mass interview with Col, tista, the strong man of the island.

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‘BRADDOCK FLEES BEFORE PROCESS MEN

Jack Kearns s Would Have

Boxing Cza

r Appointed

And Clear Up Situation |

‘Dempsey’s Manager Thinks Farley or Jimmie Walker Would Be 0. K.

By ROBERT LA BLONDE United Press Staff Correspondent DETROIT, March 23.—Boxing in the United States is sick on its feet and needs a bottle of powerful medicine administered by a doctor.

That's the way Jack Kearns, one of the most capable fight managers’

of all time, feels about it. And his! idea of a good doctor is a national |

fly-by-night promoters

day that the current

“There was a day Jack Dempsey's former manager. “Now look at it. It's just the

verse. Ward heelers and small-time of

It's ludicrous.

expect a

Kearns, largely responsible for the

fabulous ring earnings of Dempsey (and the reputation of Tex Rickard |

| weight squabble,

Need Man Like Farley “What boxing needs at its head

is a man of the caliber of James A. | Farley | commissioner),

New York boxing Kearns said. “If Farley couldn't take the job, former Mayor Jimmie Walker, | father of the New York boxing bill, {would be swell, or Frank McDonnell, Michigan's sioner, would be very suitable. What

once

”

| the sport needs is some one who

[understands the game, has the abil- | ity to organize it and could establish | a standard code. “Look at trying to manage fighters these days. You find lawyers, real estate | barons,

ticians taking a hand at the joo. |

And many times they have a fighter chopped up about a dozen difter-

lent ways. You'll have to look a long |

way to find managers as capable as | Jimmie Johnston, Leo Fiynn, Billy |

the third annual Kentucky Derby Festival Bowling tournament, several | | Gigson, Dan Morgan, Harry Pollock dates are still available for visiting quintets who wish to participate in | ang Dan McKittrick.”

the popular event & The tournament, which pays a cuaranteed first place prize of $500 in the team event, $250 in the twoman competition and $150 in the zingles, is to open at the Madrid Alleve in Louisville April 3. The jo dates offered local quintets are aril 24, May 1 and May 8 (Derby oo Y. Several Indianapolis quintets competed in the event last vear and most of the city's topnotchers have made entry for the coming affair. Bowes Seal Fast and Barbasols are included among the teams facing the maples on May 1 and Lieber Reer, Marott Shoe Store, Fendrick Restaurants and the world champion Falls City Hi-Brus are included on the May 15 schedule. | Several other quintets, including the well-known L. S. Ayres & Co, are expected to make application for one of the vacant dates. Sunday midnight is the deadline for making entry and teams desiring to take part in the event are requested to get in touch with Bill Gambert, assistant tourney manager, at the Madrid Alleys in Louisville, Johnson High Scorer

The top solo series of last night's league activities came in the season's final session of the Courthouse League at the Pennsylvania Alleys. Don Johnson, who topped the individual average list for the season with a 207 average, cracked out games of 258, 226 and 189 for a 673. Fonnie Snyder, a team mate, also passed the 600 mark with a 613, but despite the pair of heavy totals, the Union Titles dropped three games and their opportunity to wind up in first place in the team standings. Burford Assessors, with Bill Faust Sr.’s 616 setting the pace, reg- | istered the shutout. Jim Custard’s McKinney's Treasurers wound up at the top of the ladder when they handed Lawyers | a triple setback in last matches. The champions nabbed the first game by one pin to sweep the series and finish one game ahead »f the Union Titles. In other natches Clerks blanked Highways md L. W. Brown Abstract and! Sirveyors took odd-game decisions | ower Township Assessors and Prosecitors.

night's |

Rowles Tops Kiwanis Club

Jwhn Bentley's 668 in the Evangelical League games at the Pritchett | Allers was good for runnerup hon- | ors d¢ the evening. The South Side vetenn rolled games of 211, 214 and 43 to lead Dodgers to a threegame victory over Senators. Paul | Strielzck flashed some of his early | season scoring ability with a 641 that gained Reds the edge in an odd-gane decision over Cubs. Bob Bollinger's 602 was the only other 10nor series of the session. The Waite Sox benefited from his] total wth a triple win over Tigers. ! Other tam clashes gave Indians, Athletic, Pirates and Cardinals two-to-me decisions over Giants, Browns, Yed Sox and Yanks. Don Rwles easily outdistanced | rivals of he Kiwanis League in their |

a theringat the Indiana Alleys. He Ta

ner go 1,

| Calloways turned in

[resulted from games of 225, 244 and

| Gibson Co. | Holy Cross (Central), 1584; | Marshall, 579; Lions Club (Antlers),

| svlvania),

| |

223 and 210, leading Roeders to two victories over Rowles. Perines and | shutouts over | Kempers and Gaskins, while other matches were decided over the two- | to-one route. In the Indianapolis Star League's matinee session at the Pritchett | Alleys, Lee Carmin finished far ahead of the field with a 646. In the Optimist Club matches at the same allevs, Flory gained an eight pin edge over Jess Pritchett Sr. for | the top spot. The former used | games of 211, 224 and 204 for a 639, ! while Pritchett gained his 631 with | 200, 218 and 213. Clinkers and Stiffs registered shutouts in the team clashes.

634 Takes Solo Honors

| Tom Brennan opened his series |

with games of 210 and 236 to reach a 634 total that gave him honors of the Transportation League at Prit- | chett’s and paced his Southern Pacific to the lone shutout of the eve- | | ning. Baltimore & Ohio was the three-time victim. The Schoch quintet, the banner of Second Reformed ! Church No. 1, furnished three of | the Reformed Church League's 600 |

rolling under |

| series, to win one of the three shut-

outs registered. Bud had a 627 that | was good for league honors, Emil |

| totaled 618 and Al -1 had a 607. Pleas- | eaning and dreaming fights. That's |

ant Run No. 1 was the three-time | vietim. Simmons and Wood with totals o 616 and 600 set the pace in First Reformed No 2's trio of wins over Immanuel No. 2. Charley Cray's 608 was the only other honor count. while Immanuel No. 1 completed the list of undefeated teams.

Sets League Record Frank Morris was the lone 600 |

shooter of the Indiana Bell Tele- |

phone session at the Indiana Alleys. | His 619 serids was overshadowed by |

| the report of Frank Liebtag's 704, | (rolled in a postponed series Satur- | day. The 704, which is the league's |

top individual total of the season,

235. Pettinger’s 611 in the Fountain Square Merchants League at the Fountain Square; Ernie Comer’s 608 |in the Fraternal loop at the Illinois; | Jess Smythe’s 602, that won him | honors of the State: Highway ses[sion at Pritchett’s; Friehage’s 602, | registered at the Uptown in the St, {Joan of Arc circuit, and Gulling’s 600 in the Indianapolis Automotive | at the Antlers were other outstanding individual performances of the evening. Leaders of other leagues were: (Illinois), Watson, 591; L. Sylvester,

Wheeler's Lunch (Central),

| Joe Louis | illustration of why the sport needs

Bader, 576; Kroger Grocery (PennRies, 575; Indianapolis | Church (Fountain Square), Stan- | ton, 574, and Federal (Illinois). Dod- | dridge, 564.

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Additional Sports on ~ Page 20

Discussing the present heavy-

| weight bickering, Kearns absolved contract |

the fighters of blame for jumping and short-sighted opera-

| tions,

“Some of the managers of our leading contenders are | short of racketeers,” he argued. “The mess that exists over the | signing of Jimmy Braddock to meet | in Chicago is a good |

a commissioner. Madison Square |

| Garden, which helped build Brad- | | dock to the top of the heap, has a |

contract on his services. And a box- | ing czar certainly would never per{mit the Illinois Boxing Commission to sanction a fight such as has been | contracted for Chicago in June be

| tween Braddock and Joe Louis.”

Compares Dempsey

Kearns referred to the Chicago bout, arranged after Braddock haa | signed to meet Max Schmeling in| | New York, also in June.

Drawing a contrast between |

capable |

when boxing | said |

re- |

square |

boxing commis- |

the humpty-dumpties |

poolhall operators and poli- |

nothing |

Champion Is In Hiding at Least Until He Can Get Out of South.

BULLETIN By United Press | NEW YORK, March 23.—Max | Schmeling togay withdrew his offer of $350,000 to James J. Braddock for a heavyweight title fight in Berlin and announced he was sailing for Germany tomorrow aboard the Queen Mary for a three-week stay. Joe Jacobs, Schmeling’s manager, said the offer, made by the Deutschland Halle A. C. in Berlin, was withdrawn because ‘Joe Gould, Braddoek's manager, refused to accept.” “We've done everything possible in the last 21 days to get Braddock to fight Schmeling,” Jacobs said. “We offered him $350,000 to fight in Berlin and also offered the Garden $50,000 for their right to the fight. Now Max is through with them.” Schmeling will return to the United States around May 1 and begin training to fight Braddock here on June 3. as stipulated in a contract held by Madison Square Garden. “It will then he up to the Garden to produce Braddock,” Jacobs said,

By LESLIE AVERY United Press Staff Corresnondent NEW YORK, March 23.—Cham- | pion Jimmy

|as the heavyweight fight situation

| became a legal battle between Madi- |

[an injunction should not be granted | [restraining him from fighting Joe |

| Louis in Chicago June 22—allegedly

Garden calling for a title defense against Schmeling June 3. | Joe Gould, manager of the cham- | pion, refused to divulge Jim's where- | | abouts, but indicated that his fighter | was out of reach, at least temporari[1y, of the law. If Braddock is served he must | appear before Judge H. F. Atkinson

to fighting Louis instead of Schme(ling. With the champion avoiding {a white man to meet the Detroit | Negro, Gould is anxious that Jim {avoid the service because of belief (that a restraining injunction could

| be obtained more easily in the deep |’

| South. Only One Answer

The only possible answer | Braddock can have is that anti-Nazi organizations have threatened boycott a Schmeling title fight and | that he does not believe such a | bout, would draw a good crowd. The | Garden, Schmeling and his manager Joe Jacobs, believe this has no | bearing on the situation and that contracts for the June 3 match in | the Long Island Bowl are binding. “One thing is certain, anvhow.’ {Jacobs argued. “Gould don't anything about contracts. He is! ready to ditch the Chicago fight and | suggested we take that $50.000 we | are offering the Garden for their ! | promotional rights in Braddock, and |

turn it over to the champion which |

Bradaock was in full | flight today dodging process servers |

eluding a deputy sheriff |

order |

in breach of his contract with the |

April 5 and explain his preference |

that |

to |

care |

Guarding

By GENE DAILEY United Press Staff Correspondent An old basketball proverb aptly expresses the hardwood strategy of | Coach Archie Chadd’s Anderson In- | dions—a good defense is the best offense. Tor four years Chadd has been practicing that philosophy at Anderson and he has been rewarded by having his teams in the finals at Butler Fieldhouse three times. { In 1934, Anderson bowed to Tech- | nical in regional play. Next year, [the Indians won the state cham- { pionship. Last season Anderson was { eliminated by Frankfort which ul- | timately won the title. This vear Archie and his Indians are back again. Next week -end the aggregation will compete | nals against Central (Ft, { Rochester and Huntingburg. During sectional competition this year, Anderson's opponents averaged only 12 points per game, In regional | play it was 15'. while last week-end in the semifinal meet the average [raised to 18 points. ' | Coach Chadd is a firm believer in the necessity of a tight defense. | In fact the wily little net mentor | spends the greater portion of his | time polishing the Indians’ defense. | Carl Bonge, assistant coach, handles {much of the offensive preparation. A major factor in Anderson’ Ss suc- —

Anderson in the Wayne),

Culver Netmen Receive Letters

Timez CULVER.

Speecinl Ind.. March 23 Dutcher, Appleton, Wis, and Bill | Phillips, DeKalb, Ill, have been elected cocaptains of the 1938 var- | sity basketball team at the Culver | Military Academy. Larry Hume, Washington, D. C., was chosen var- | sity manager. Twelve varsity letters have been awarded to members of this year's squad. winners were Bob Clauer, Connersville; | Mich.; Charley | Hoopes, Oak Park, Ill; | Athens, Mich.; Jack Broten, Oak | | Park, Ill.; Bob Borden, Crestline, O.; | Jack Horner, Lafayette, and Eugene | March, East Chicago, manager.

Medbourn, Culver; Dunkirk; Bob Bill Funk,

Sam Batsch,

Reserve letter awards were made |

| to Howard Morton, Indianapolis; | Chuck Kralovec, LaGrange, Ill.; Bob | Koebel, Detroit, Mich.; Bob Davies, Chicago: Dick Yates, New York City; Albert Klingler, Elkhart, Bob Beckmeyer, Nashville, Ill.

Brown-Lee Bout To Top Mat Card

Orville Brown, 228, who { Babe Zaharias in a hout here a week ago, is to grapple with Alabama Bill Lee, ball plaver Alabama, in the main heavyweight wrestling at the Armory. Juan Humberto, 215, young Spanish grappler. is to meet Frank { Brown, 219, vounger brother of Or- "| ville, in the semiwindup. In the other two bouts, Lou Plummer,

from the University

card tonight

| 219, Decatur, Ill,

Plummer bout is to open the card at 8:30 p. m.

| ——————————

Funeral Rites Held

. For Semipro Pilot

| Dempsey and Braddock, the manager | half-interest with the Garden in| Zimes Special

of the Golden Era of Boxing said | the Braddock- -Schmeling afTair, and | 'he doesn't believe the champion will |

get himself sufficiently in condition | to retain his title.

“Braddock's been living the life stop his own Louis fight in Chicago. | | manager,

of a champion. Imagine it, not a fight since he licked Baer. In mj; days with Dempsey, Jack never had | any idle moments. He was eating, |

why he was a champion and a real million-dollar baby. If Braddock

{he'd be a winner, but I don’t think lhe can come back in his present condition. He and Max Baer are the two most in ring history.” Kerns rates Schmeling as best, of the present heavyweights. “He’ 1 lick Joe Louis if they meet | |again,” he opined.

| Bollermakers Award | Letters in 4 Sports

Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind, March 23. — Noble Kizer, Purdue director of athletics, has announced letterwinners in four minor sports— swimming, squash racquets, fencing and water polo. Athletes named for the awards are: wy, Jnash Racquets—F. E. Jackson, : est Lafayee R. D. Akron, O.: D. Lucek, Cleveland, Linn, Bowrinenet India; H. H.

Moses, Newburgh, A, W. So koloski, Cleveland, O.; H 1 Wakefield, Shelby-

ville, Ky. ; Fencing—C. F. Hoffman, East Chicago; . H. Lacey, Indianapolis; R. H. Latter, ite HL;. A, Levit, oat af 35 McWilliams, New Albany; R. 2 Matthews, South Bend; R. A. Meier, ro Wayne; J. Ww. Seabors. South Bend; L. C. ‘Sellers, Kokomo. FE

iN Kokomo; Juve, Q.;

Swimming—E. G. Clossen, G. Tredwell, New Rochelle, N Wallac

Vernor, Rockf Lafayette, R. L. Whitcomb, Butlerville. Water Polo—L. E. Armstrong. Chicago. H.. E D. Carr, Dek Park, G. Closson, Logansport; A. P. Gillis, ‘Chicago. IIl.: R. R. Stewart, as Louis, Mo.: J. R. Vandelester, Hammond: P. H. Vernor. Rockford, Ill: R. H. Wallace, Lafayette,

TUFFY HANDLES LICENSES Times Special CHICAGO, Griffith,

March 23.—Tuffy former heavyweight, is the Illinois ate auto

the |

Lends Em Again

[| was back on the docks preparing |

| i

mismanaged fighters |

! AS I |

Times Special NEW YORK, March 23. Walter | Hagen fabove), the grand old | man of golf, will be captaining his | sixth Ryder Cup team this sum- | mer. In this time Walter has won three singles matches and lost only one, and has won four four-

LOGANSPORT, Ind, March 23.— Funeral services were held yesterday at Peru for widely known semipro who died Saturday a short, illness.

baseball

Muncie Greys and Peru { which teams were prominent | semipro baseball circles for over 20 | years. on their way up were Vic Aldridge, | Butch and Dutch Henline, Red and | Bubbles Hargrave, Andy Lotshaw | and Bob Wright

Purdue Squash Team Wins Western Meet

Times Special LAFAYETTE. Ind. March 23. Purdue's squash racquets team was back home today with its second | straight victory in the Western | collegiate squash racquets tourna- | ment. held over the week-end at the Milwaukee, Wis., University Club. The Boilermakers made a clean sweep of the first three places in the tournament. John Lucek re | tained first-place honors gained last | year, and Maury Wakefield and A. W. (Tony) Sokolowski won second | and third places, respectively.

FIGHTING IRISH? | Times Special | SOUTH BEND, Ind. March 23.— | Johnny Moir, Notre Dame's All- | America forward, was born in Glasgow, Scotland.

Around The

World With PHILCO e at KEMPLER' S

John

varsity |

Bob Hook, Grand Rapids, |

and |

tossed |

235, former All-American foot- | of | go of an all- |

Milo W, Shepler, after | Shepler was the organizer of the Greys, |

in |

Among the players he helped |

|| Dependable Defense as Best Offense Is Archie Chadd’s Basketball Code

Anderson Mentor Has Spent Most of His Time During Season on His Formula Which Is Workable One.

Mr. Chadd. ses Indian Chief

Chadd employs. Bill (usually tions, | pivot, man, land Russell

start at Jim Hughes, 6-foot,

_Higginbol ham

ALL TICKETS SOLD

All tickets to the state high school basketball tournament finals at the Butler Fieldhouse had been sold today, according to an announcement made by Arthur L. Trester, I. H. S. A. A. commissioner, High school throughout the state distributed to fans a total of 14,883 tickets. Many thousand requests for seats were rejected.

principals

* | cess is the six-man team idea which | | |

Goss and Frankie Clemons the forward posi-3-inch | gets the call at center and

and seven reserve |

Midget Auto Pilots To Race Tomorrow

Six drivers, closely bunched near

| the top position in the point stand- |

| ing, are to resume their battle for |

| the season's midget auto racing hon- | Bill Fair |

ors tomorrow night at the

| Grounds Coliseum.

aay, took the lead over | feld, who jumped into first place by his victory here last Wednesday.

| Harry McQuinn, Shorty | Paul Russo and Marshall Lewis. ELECTED COCAPTAINS Bu United Press ANN ARBOR, Mich., John Speicher, Reading, Pa. and | Blair Thomas, Cresco, Pa. were | elected cocaptains of the University of Michigan wrestling team todav Thomas is the 135-pound Big Ten champion

March 23.—

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Wally Zale, with victories at Detroit Saturday and at Chicago Sun- | Art Harts-

Other drivers high in the list are Sorensen, |

37 N. Pennsylvania

Wally berths.

Davis start at

The sixth man is Charley Rich-' “ace in the hole.” | alternated with |

ardson, Chadd’s Richardson is Goss at forward. The latter, not quite so rugged as the rest, frequently is pulled out of the game and Richardson sent in to provide the scoring punch to the ball club. On the technical side, Anderson uses effective block plays. Any

member of the team is a good “spot” shooter over these blocks, or they can be converted into driving plays with Clemons or Southpaw Davis doing the scoring. Anderson's real forte is its aggressiveness, however. The Indians can

give as well as take and their op- |

ponents seldom find an opportunity to loaf under the basket. The Indians did not get a day of rest yesterday after their work in the Indianapolis semi-final tourney last Saturday. Chadd frowns on such tactics.

play, and I mean work,” he said. | “I'm not taking a chance of those |

the game.” “We made some mistakes plenty of 'em . . . in this tournament, and we must correct them.”

Panthers Engage 3 New ‘Coaches

| By United Prose... PITTSBURGH, March 23 Coach | Jock Sutherland of the University | of Pittsburgh today had two new | football assistants, with a third | ready to join his staff in the near | | future. | Dr. Sutherland, who recently was given full authority over football | matters, yesterday acquired Alec | Fox and Eddie Schultz, both for- | mer Pitt gridders, to handle the | | Pitt forward wall. Josh Williams, | Pitt teams of 1928-29-30, will trans- | fer to the Panthers as soon as he makes necessary arrangements at Tomond High School where he now coaches. | Fox, Schultz and Williams replace Kern and Dr. Eddie Baker, who | went to Carnegie Tech, and Eddie Hirshberg, who is at Dartmouth.

BEES BEAT TIGERS

ST. FETERSBURG, Fla., March

| 23.—The Boston Bees were scheduled |

| for a light workout today before encountering the Reds here tomorrow,

The Bees stung the Detroit Tigers. |

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‘Edwards Picks Yanks to Win Pennant Again

Doughty Mouthpiece for Will

the guard

Harridge Has His Ideas On All Clubs.

By STEVE SNIDER | United Press Staff Correspondent

| CHICAGO, March 23.—It’s a long

hop from Will Harridge’s office to

Gulfport, Miss, where we finally

cornered an American League spokesman who would pick the World Champion New York Yankees {to win the pennant without much | interference.

| Harridge, who is president of the | league and should know which ball [elub will win his flag, usually doesn't. All his experting is done by Henry P. Edwards, a spry little man who covered his first world series back in 1905 and still mans= ages to come up with a fresh views point every spring. Fresh over direct telephone Gulfport came his views for 1937: “Col. Jake Ruppert said his Yanks would win and that's good enough for me. They look like the | same old powerhouse champions and Lefty Gomez will make ‘em even | stronger by pitching better ball. Henry's sketch by clubs: New York—The Yanks probably won't win by 19'5: games this year, but they are the same old murder= | ous club. Gomez looks good and | should be back in his finest pitching | form. If he isn’t, Manager Joe Mec- | carthy will fall back on two rookie pitchers. Probably two lads from Newark, Chandler and Makosky. Rowe Looks Good Detroit—Schoolboy Rowe looks | great. So does Manager Mickey | Cochrane. So does Hank Greenberg. The Tigers will have all their | strength back and make a fight of lit. Chet Wilburn may take over Bill Rogell’s shortstop job, Rudy York | may replace Marvin Owen at third [and Al Simmons will have a battle lin the outfield with Jo-Jo White, Cleveland—Manager O'Neill thinks the Indians will give New York a run if little Frank Pytlak is strong {enough to catch 100 games. Mel Harder is in great pitching form. | There seewas to be little doubt about Johnny Allen and Bob Feller being outstanding winners, and Earl Whitehill looks his best in years, Boston—More congenial spirit | than last spring. But the Red Sox | reported late and won't be ready to go at full speed until April. Helpling Bob Grove and Wes Ferrell with | the pitching will be the strongest | group manager Joe Cronin has had { yet—Johnny Marcum, Jim Henry, George Walberg and Jack Wilson, [all improved. Chicago—Reports from the While Sox indicate they will be in shape far earlier than last season. This is the team Jake Ruppert fears as much as any. Both pitching and fielding will be stronger for a lonz | campaign. The hitting is as good as | ever. Philadelphia—Same for the | letics, Connie Mack is still— “Time's up. Chicago. That will be 1 $13.30 please.”

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