Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1937 — Page 14

By Eddie Ash

SERIES OF FEUDS ON SATURDAY

SHOOT WORKS IN LAST GAMES

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IG TEN territory is filled with traditional grid rivalries this week and old feuds assure the Saturday sportsgoers of a choice bit of entertainment on the Midwest front. . .. It’s the end of the trail for Western Conference teams and they will shoot the works and with nothing held back. . .. Seniors, playing their last collegiate game, will endeavor to reach the heights as never before and every contest is expected to be studded with super individual performances. . . . The Purdue-Indiana classic will get the big play in this section and, of course, it’s one of the “naturals” on the day’s juicy menu. Ohio State will be at Michigan, Chicago at Illinois, Wisconsin at Minnesota, Notre Dame at Northwestern and Iowa at Nebraska. , . . Notre Dame and Nebraska, non-Big Ten elevens, do not finish their campaigns until Nov. 27, the Irish playing Southern California and the Huskers meeting Kansas State.

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ARNEGIE TECH remains on the Notre Dame grid schedule in 1938 but is not to appear on Purdue's. . . . Detroit University will tackle two games within five days, playing Creighton at Omaha Sunday, then to Pittsburgh to battle Duquesne on Turkey Day. . .. Duquesne had a similar task. . . . The Dukes met Carnegie Tech on Saturday, Nov. 6, and then made the long jump to Lubbock, Tex, to tackle Texas Tech on Nov. 11. ... And lost both tilts. The professional Chicago Bears are idle Sunday and will tune for the battle with the Lions at Detroit on Thanksgiving Day. . . . The Chicago Cardinals will be home to the Lions Sunday. . . . The feature pro attraction on the Sabbath will be Green Bay Packers vs. Giants in New York.

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EORGE DIXON, James Millikin tackle, has played 22 games without a substitution. ... He has one year to go. . . . Cohen and Kelley are N. Y. U. tackles. . . . Nile Kinnick, Iowa ace, earned an “A” scholastic average in his freshman year. . . . Wheaton College's squad of 45 dwindled to 18 at the final game. Mickey Cochrane, Detroit manager, is too fidgety to lead the life of a “gentleman farmer” and has placed his Michigan stock farm up for sale. . . . He plans to establish residence in a swank section near Detroit and rest until the ball reason rolls around.

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ABE GANZEL, St. Paul's new manager, has displayed splendid qualities as a leader in the little minors and his elevation to Class AA is not likely to deter him in the least. . . . He was an aggressive player with Louisville and Minneapolis, and is sure to make the Apostles hustle at all times. . . . The Saints required a long time to reach a decision but there was ample time and the delay paid dividends, according to the consensus around the American Association. . . . The fact Ganzel used to be a star with the Millers naturally will increase the rivalry between the Twin City teams. St. Paul's new chief comes from a baseball family and he developed early as a leaguer. . . . His father was a catcher and his uncle, John Ganzel, first baseman, spent many years in organized baseball.

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HIRTY-EIGHT players are listed on the Chicago White Sox roster and 15 are classed as rookies. . . . Still, Manager Dykes is on the lookout for an experienced third sacker because his legs are weakening and he does not want to tackle the job next spring. . .. He drafted Bill Martin, a third sacker from Baltimore, and also has Mervin Conners from the Texas League to try out at the hot corner. . Conners failed to hit during late season games in 1837 when the Sox used him on the infield. The Sox outfield has been augmented by Henry Steinbacher, from Paul, and Ruppert Thompson from San Diego of the Coast League.

Bulldogs to Play Major Grid Schedule Next Fall

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DePauw, 18, In-

Butler University plans 1 to step , here: | here; 8 ‘Marquette. there;

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Indianapolis Times Sports

He Should Have Waited

Lou Little of Columbia rates Sid Luckman, his star halfback, the best passer he ever has seen, college or pro-

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1937

fessional . . . but adds that he hasn't seen Sammy Baugh.

‘I'LL BE BOSS AT CLEVELAND, VITT SAYS

Upheld Razzle Dazzle Reputation of the Southwest

Davey O’Brien

skies this year.

carriers in the Southwest, Third of a Series By WELDON HART

Sports Editor, Austin Statesman AUSTIN, Tex., Nov. 17.—Texas is | 'a big state, and selecting All-Star | | football teams from the Southwest | is a bigger job than stooping Hugh

| Wolfe and Ernie Lain when these |

| nifty ball carriers.

Hurts to Tackle Him

Wolfe, | Texas star,

200-pound University of is the ball carrier | Tuxe—fast (a dash man in track) | quick starter, punishing stiff-arm | and tremendously powerful legs. It | hurts to tackle the Big Bad Wolfe. | Lain jerked Rice Institute team out of scoreless doldrums square inte the middle of the Southwest Conference race. Until the big fullback’s deadeye passes and bull-like | Dishes into the line started the | Owls’ fourth game (he had been injured previously), Rice hadn't scored a point. They scored plenty since then, mostly on Lain’'s passes or on his persondlly conducted tours around end. A great blocker, too. His only handicaps are that he is not so fast

back, was a nifty passer and able field general; end, was the best pass receiver in the district; Joe Routt, Texas A. & M. guard, made the team for the second year in a row; Hugh Wolfe, Texas halfback, and Ernie Lain, Rice fullback, were acclaimed the best ball

in which ground gains |

| similar types, both fine passers and !

de |

Joe Routt

Here are stars who gleamed the brightest in Southwest gridiron Davey O’Brien, Texas Christian's pint-sized quarter-

Jim Benton, Arkansas

; all-America candidate this season is a rangy, fiery Texas Christian junior, colorfully named Ki Aldrich. Ki plays center, and we' mean to ‘say he does it better than Darrell | Lester, T. C. U.s all-American of | '34 and '35. If there is a superior | centern somewhere, Southwestern fans wish he'd trot out and let them | take a look. | There are many, many other top- | notch football plavers roaming the | | Southwest ranges. Dick Todd, pos- | sibly the best halfback in Texas A. | & M. history, might be ranked on a { par with Wolfe or Patterson. Carl | Brazell of Baylor is a great quarter- | | back. Dwight Sloan of Arkansas is as good a halfback as any coach would care to have. Baylor's Sam Boyd was a standout end all season and Ed Lalman of Arkansas certainly proved his | worth as a tackle.

Honors Team

Hugh Wolfe

1 ‘Graveyard of

Managers’ No Worry to Him

Points to 2-Year Contract in Interview; Has High Hopes for Feller.

BY HENRY M'LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO. Nov, 17.—I met the real condemned man of sports today, and he wasn't inside Ale catraz’ grim walls. He sat before a dining room table in his home in nearby - Oakland, sparring lustily with a heaping helping of frankfurters and sauere Kraut. The man—and he was Oscar Vitt —actually appeared happy, despite the fact that when spring comes round he must assume the duty of managing the Cleveland baseball team, Marvels at Bravery I marvelled at the bravery of Vitt and his courage in hiding his rendezvous with disaster. Because that is what he has. Cleveland is the burial ground of baseball managers. Roger Peckinpaugh went there and left a beaten man, Walter Johnson went there and two years later ambled through the exit gate,

Ernest Lain thoroughly crushed. Steve O'Neill

Position

End Tackle Guard Center Guard Tackle End Quarter Halfback Halfback Fullback

Benton, Arkansas Hale, T. C. U. Routt, Texas A. & Aldrich, T. C. U. Jones, Texas A. & Young, Texas A. & Ramsey, OBrien, T, C. U. Patterson, Baylor Wolfe, Texas Lain, Rice

RANGEL

First Team

M. M.

Texas Tech

RIDERS DE

Second Team

Boyd, Baylor Lalman, Arkansas Moore, Rice Hagler, St. Mary's Rogers, T..C. U. Sprague, Hamilton, Arkansas Brazell, Baylor Todd, Texas A. & M. Sloan, Arkansas Tully, East Texas Teachers

Southern Methodist

tried it for a year and a half and now he's looking for a job. | Now Vitt has signed to manage | the Cleveland Indians and bare his | ¢ scalp to the hatchets of the board | of directors that runs the team. | Composed of bankers, railroad men, 1 asked Vitt if he knew all of this, He said he did. “Yes,” he answered, “I have heard all about that. But sonny boy, | Cleveland will play ball for me. If | the boys don't like that, there will | be a shakesup that will be a shake- [ up. There probably will be one | anyway. And Vitt won't be fired | until two years are up, win, lose or collapse. Because I've got a con-

LUXE

Third Team

Nance, Rice Bray, Texas Christian Mayne, T. C. U, Woodell, Arkansas Kriel, Baylor Blue, Baylor Wendorf, St. Mary's Heineman, Texas Mines McKinney, Hardin-Simmons Harris, Austin Atchison, Texas

Cooper, Little | Lead Golf Play

PINEHURST, N. C, Nov. 17 (U.| P.).—Harry Cooper and Lawson Lit-| tle held a one-stroke lead today as they started the last 18 holes of the midsouth professional bestball golf tournament. Cooper and Little

reached the

| halfway point in the 36-hole tour- | nament yesterday with a 63, better-

ing the No. 2 course record by al stroke. Close behind were the Mike | Turnesa-Tony Manero and Jimmy Thomson-Horton Smith teams, at] 64. Harold Calloway and Joe Ezar tied with Dick Metz and Frank Walsh at 66, one stroke ahead of Bobby Cruickshank and Tommy Ar-! mour, Johnny Bass and Andrew Gibson, Ben Loving and Cliff Spencer, Billy Burke and Vic Ghezzi,| George Slingerland and George Low Jr, Toney Penna and Leo Walper. The 36-hole Midsouth Open]

| outfielder for 10 years.

| fans,

‘DODGERS

ANKLE WRAPPING MERELY A TWIST OF THE WRIST

OUTH BEND, Ind. Nov. 17. Eugene (Scrapiron) Young, Notre Dame trainer, has won many a wager by betting he can bandage an ankle, gauze, tape and all, in 25 seconds. He says he can clip that time by several seconds when in a hurry,

self.” Officials refused further

| comment,

Stephenson, after breaking into | the majors with Cleveland in 1921, | starred with the Chicago Cubs as an “Old Hoss,” thousands of played with Indianapolis in the American Association before

as he was called by

| coming to Birmingham,

IN FT. WAYNE

FT. WAYNE, Nov. 17 (U. P).—

tournament will be played tomorrow | The Brooklyn Dodgers of the Na-

and Friday.

tract that calls for that long, and it's a civil contract, not a baseball one. But we are not going to lose or collapse. We are going to win. I'm a winning manager.” Life-Long Ambition

The man talked on in this vein for another plate of frankfurters, or roughly half an hour. His enthusiasm is tremengous. It’s enor=mous. No sophomore ever went to bat against his school’s old rival | with more spirit that Vitt shows

‘Greenleaf Keeps World Cue Crown

| —-Ralph Greenleaf of Boxman, Md., (was world pocket billiards champion for the 16th time today after a | brilliant victory over Irving Crane | | for the Cleveland job. lof Livonia, N. ¥, in a playoff | His life-long ambition has heen | match. | to manage a big league club. Other- | Greenleaf vanquished the youth-| Wise he hardly would have Bi > | Newark, which wins pennants by [ful central New Yorker, 125 0; games, to take charge at Cleveland, | minus one, with an unfinished run |

baseball's Elba. of 76 in 11 innings. Vitt has definite ideas about Bob In the audience of 850 billiards!

Feller, the sensational Iowa farm devotees were Jerome Keogh, seven- | boy, with the blazing smoke ball. time champion around the turn of| “Feller won't be a Sunday pitcher the century and Crane's tutor, and | with me in charge,” Vitt said. “He'll Mrs. Crane, who has spent her | pitch whenever I want him to. He's honeymoon watching her husband | a good pitcher, but he's going to battle for the title. be a beiter one under me. Bob Greenleaf played with such Rnesse |

will pitch when Vitt says so. Nothat the loser was forced to take | body else will have anything to say three Successive Scratches.

LEON, THE TAILOR, SAYS

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 17 (U. P.).

about his work.”

| tional Professional Football League arrived here yesterday from Chicago |and are staying here for three days, | working out in preparation for their

: | Notre Dame, big way next fall, according to re- | there: 28, Michigan State,

; there; 29, Detroit, there. ports emanating on the BylldO8| Feb 1. Indiana, here; 5, Wabash, here; campus. | 8,

as several other back in this section, and he is inexperienced, being only a sophomore. Wait until

STEPHENSON LET OUT

Franklin, there: 12 Marquette, here; Purdue will play in the local bowl 3 Wabash, there: 36. Pranknn: here | on Oct. 1 and it is said negotiations > also are under way for games with | Carnegie Tech, Geerge Washington | TT b N. P University of Washington D. C, and | a A) ew ost Washington University of St. Louis. Ball State probably will be But-| ler’s apponent in the home opener, | Sept. 24 to be followed by the Boiler- | makers the following week. October 8 is open at present and may be | filled by either Western State of | Kalamazoo, the team which edged | the Bulldogs last Saturday, 14-13, ] or by Washington U. | DePauw's Tigers, victorious in seven out of eight starts this fall, is | to invade the bowl on Oct. 13, and | on Oct. 22 the Bulldogs are re- | ported booked against the Bearcats | in Cincinnati. Butler is to travel to Wabash on | Oct. 29 and it is believed George | Washington will fill the Nov. 5 date | etiher here or at Washington. Nov. 12, set tentatively as the | closing date on the 1938 scheduie, is the spot for Carnegie Tech but the scene of the clash is undecided, according to Butlerites close to the situation. It is said Butler desires to schedule with Carnegie on an home-and-home basis to assure =a second meeting with the Tartans in 1939 It’s possible that the Bulldogs may extend their 1939 schedule to include Nov. 19.

Everett Babb, above, former basketball and football star, has joined the staff of the Em-Roe Sporting Goods Co. Babb, a member of the famous Em-Roe basketball team that won 122 straight games, gained the reputation of being one of the best floor guards in the Midwest. He played end on the Eastern and Marion Club footbali teams when they captured the Indiana State Football Championship.

Four Big Ten teams, the University of Pittsburgh and Boston University are listed on this season's 23-game basketball schedule of Butler University, The Big Ten opponents are to be Towa, Nocthwestern, Michigan and Indiana and in addition the Bulldogs wilt have the usual two-game series with such old fyes as Notre Dame, Wabash, Franklin and DePauw. Thirty candidates have begun practice and Coach Hinkle expects | a much better record than that compiled last year when the Bulldogs won six and dropped 14. The season is to be opened in a home The complete schedule: game Dec. 4 against Oakland City.

Dec. § Oakland City, here: 10, Louisvile, here; 13, Pittsburgh, here; 18, Iowa, here; 93. Northwestern, here: 29, Boston U..

here Jan. 1, Cincinnati, 3, Michigan,

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Jim Benton, Arkansas end, is the type of receiver that makes Southwest passers famous. Nearly six-six, weighing 195, agile and fast for a big man, Benton takes impossible catches a habit. The man must have molasses on his fingers. His defensive work is of high quality, although perhaps not so spectacuiar | as that of Ramsey, captain of the | Texas Tech team of the Border con- | ference, or Sam Boyd, when the | Baylor star is having one of his | good days. | Huge, rugged I. B. Hale of Texas | Christian, 235 pounds of meanness, and 215-pound Roy Young of Texas A. & M. are all-around tackles any coach would be delighted to call his own. They look like unanimous allSouthwest conference choices this year. Young made it in '36 and Hale, then a soph, got many votes. There are any number of capable guards in the Southwest, and Texas A. & M. is fortunate in having two of the best. Burly Joe Routt, who placed on several all-Americas last year, and his running mate, Virgii Jones, can be our middlemen until | somebody better comes along. | Perhaps the

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Members of the Indianapolis Sterling Beers nine, champions of the Indiana-Ohio League for the second consecutive year, were guests of Manager Clyde Hoffa (above) at a rabbit supper here last night. The 1937 pennant was presented by league officials and accepted by Joe Fornell, captain. Hoffa paid tribute to his players and presented each with an engraved belt buckle, The team won 15 league games in 18 starts. T. A. Flaherty represented the Dunn Beverage Co. Indianapolis Sterling distributors,

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