Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1937 — Page 24

By Joe Williams

LAWSON ROBERTSON LAUDED

BABE RUTH DOES A GARBO (Batting for Eddie Ash)

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NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—We were walking down Broadway today and we saw a man with an armful of sponges. It was explained to us this was a turfman who had just shipped back from Baltimore with his stables. 4 w » 5 » ® The college officiais will have more to say about the makeup and direction of the next Olympic games when and if they are held in peace loving Japan. As a result of a recent compromise with the A. A. U. they have more power and greater representation than they ever had before. This is as it should be. The colleges practically make the Olympics. Just the same I am sorry to learn that one of the first things the college officials plan to do is to name a new coach for the Olympic track and field team. They seem to think Lawson Robertson has been at it too long. For some reason they believe the assignment should be passed around. They claim it’s more of an honor than a responsibility anyway. Robertson has been coaching the Olympic track and fielders since the days of the ancient Greeks. Or so it seems. Up to now his record has been pretty good, too

—whether it’s an honor or a responsibility. The American. track and field team has never been beaten. This is usually considered par for any course. My information is that either Dick Templeton or Dean Cromwell, both Pacific Coast fixtures, will be the next coach, provided the altruistic Japanese have succeeded in making good, kindly neighbors of the barbaric Chinese by that time. = n = = ABE RUTH has turned Garbo. He won't talk. He refuses to discuss a well founded report that in a return match with John Montague he beat the phantom of Hollywood 5 and 3 in a match played at Quaker Ridge. This was just before Montague flew back to the Coast to be embraced by that wealthy widow. The match had none of the distractions which made a mockery of their first meeting at Fresh Meadow when you couldn't take a practice swing for fear of knocking somebody's head off—and they never being sure it would be the right person. It was played in private. When Mr. Ruth was called on the phone today and quizzed about the match, he replied, “1'm not saying.” When he was asked about the astonishing aftermath of a bet that was supposed to have been made on the match, he repeated, “I'm not saying.” ... It sounded like a retake of a Billy Rose interview. ’ It is significant. however, that Mr. Ruth didn't deny there was a return match, nor that he beat the man who is supposed to win the National Open the first time he plays in it. I think any attempt to suggest that anti-Catholicism had anything to do with California's refusal to invite Fordham to the Rose Bowl is pretty small staff. Almost a week before the ultimate selection was made I was told by a responsible party in confidence that Fordham wouldn't be picked. “I can't tell you who is going to get the bid,” he said, “bur I can tell you two teams that won't.” Pittsburgh was the other team he named. This party had only recently left the coast and had only recently been in communication with Kenneth Priestley, graduate manager of athletics at California. Fordham is predominantly Catholic. Pittsburgh isn't. Yet the two were definitely out even before the balloting began.

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» = on = un ” HE thing that probably gave color to the religious angle was the long. unnecessary delay Priestley made in arriving at his selection. He might just as well have picked Alabama five days before he did and ended a lot of useless speculations. Why he didn't is just a guess. It may be that he enjoyed the dramatics of the situation and the reflected glory. Or it may be that he was being held up by some wavering Ivy Leaguer who was sniffing tentatively at the $100.000 bait. Any=wav he seems to have made a sorry mess of the whole thing, starting with his silly demand for academic similarity. Naturally everybody around here would have preferred to see Fordham go to the bowl, both on its record and patience, but there can be no valid quarrel with Priestley’'s final choice. Alabama finished its season untied and unbeaten in one of the toughest football leagues in the country, and you can't ask much more than that. You might but you'd have a hard time getting it. Alabama has been singularly successful in the bowl but I have a notion the Crimson Tiders are going to be smacked around this time. They tell me California is a really great team, with tremendous power and just enough deception. The Bears don't pass much but they can when they have to. The Southerners can't hope to match them in power and they may not be able to beat them through the air lanes.

Indianapolis Times Sports

Checkers Checked

Southern Conference football officials are scouted by fellow officials wha

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report to headquarters on the accuracy

and skill of their colleagues.

TRIBE SELLS DANNY TAYLOR TO MILLER

Veteran Goes To Rival Club In Cash Deal

Redskins Hope to Land Big League Catcher Sometime Today.

By EDDIE ASH Times Staff Writer MILWAUKEE, Dec. 2.—The Indians disposed of one of their veteran outfielders today when Danny Taylor was purchased by the Minneapelis Millers in a straight cash deal. He joined the Redskins from Brooklyn during the 1936 season, but saw little service that campaign. He was the Tribe's regular left fielder in 1937. With less ground to patrol at Minneapolis and with shorter fences {to shoot at, Tayior is expected to |show to better advantage next season. Meanwhile the officials of the Indians still were punching the bag in the player market and hoped to land a catcher from a big league club before sundown.

General Manager Leo Miller and Field Manager Ray Schalk have made numerous contacts which show promise but have learned the American Association is hard to crack from the player standpoint. “We have been offered athletes by certain clubs but they are no better | than what we have on hand,” Miller | said today. “We asked waivers on | six players and five were claimed, | so the waivers were withdrawn. | | However, it's pleasant to learn we | | have good trading material.

Griffin to See Miller

“Our feet are wet on the new job now and maybe we'll accomplish something before the week is out. At any rate several transactions are near the point of coming to a head. There is a marked shortage of Class A A players in the independent field and time is required to break strong talent loose.” The status of Wes Griffin, the Indians coach and scout in 1937 is vet to be determined. He was to hold a conference with General Manager | Miller this afternoon. An unconfirmed report said Bruno Betzel, | former Indian pilot, had applied for | the position.

St. Paul and Milwaukee have heen | the most active of the association | clubs while the New York Yankees | have promised a complete new team at Kansas City.

Cubs May Keep Logan

Chicago Cubs’

| here indicated that Lefty Bob

| late last season, would be retained | by the Bruins or transferred to Los | Angeles. Tt also was learned that the |

representatives |

| Logan, purchased from Indianapolis |

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Dick Miller

Here are two speedy entrants in the annual city amateur boxing tournament, which begins tomorrow night at the South Side Turners’ Miller, who weighs 112 pounds, is entered in the novice class and fights for the English Avenue Boys’ Club. Young Bess, representing

hall.

Await Gong in City Tourney

the Bess A. C., fights at 135 pounds.

was 1936 A. A. U. champion of Indiana in his division.

Mungo’s Fate |

Causes Delay

On Big Deals

Little Action Is Expected Until Majors Meet Next | Week in Chicago.

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Dec. 2 (U. P).—Don’'t hold your breath, base-

sizzling major league deal, because |

league convention. i Maybe next week at Chicago's | | major league meeting Van Mungo, | | Brooklyn's bad boy, will have a new | uniform measured for him; maybe | { Joe Vosmik, St. Louis Brown's out-

| fielder, will move to the Chicago | White Sox patrol; perhaps Catch- | er Rollie Hemsley of the Browns | will join the Cleveland Indians; | {and probably several others may | | move on to greener pastures. | But right now the baseball trad- | ing mart is stagnated. In the Na- | | tional League everything revolves | [Soul Mungo, while the American | ” League, traditionally opposed to Young Bess | radical shakeups within its own ranks, is adhering to time-worn | custom. The last-place St. Louis | | Browns are attempting to make | | deals with every club in the league, |

Bess, entered in the open class, ’ , | Attempting to break the ice for

{ future deals, Owner Donald Barnes

of his pessimism today

signed up for so long a time. | renewed for 20 or 30 years more. In fact Bo has a life-time job at

Indiana.

| turned toastmaster, | assurances last night at the annual | banquet of the Indiana University | Club of Indianapolis. { Mr. Nolan conjured a picture of 40 years from now with Bo still in | harness, “intimidating” his boys and leaning on a cane with the wind whistling through his long, | gray, beard.

That Purdue Affair | Yes, it was that kind of a party.

| The recent Purdue disturbance was not permitted to mar the gay-

Job Is Good for Life, Bo Is Assured at I. U. Banquet

By TOM KENNEDY Bo McMillin, that old after-dinner speaker, ought to be rid of some |

He has a 10-year contract, the only football coach in the country ar that there would be

And when that runs out it's going to be major league deal before the end of @-

( 1937 captain, and Paul Graham, his | successor and Corby Davis.

Val Nolan, U. S. District Attorney | bespoke these |

Purdue Club Honors City Players Tonight |

| but are getting nowhere fast.

|of the Browns last night traded { Elon Hogsett, southpaw pitcher, to | the Washington Senators for Ed Linke, right-handed pitcher. Hog- | | sett won six games and lost 19 and | | Linke won six and lost one. Both | | are relief pitchers. Bucky Harris, Washington mana- | ger, won a cigar betting Washing- | ton would make the first major league deal of the meeting. No |other pilot was willing to bet a cianother |

|the minor league convention tomor- |

|day Alumni honor of 15 outstanding Indianapolis | association was scheduled today. at | is more hazardous than collegiate high school football players al 6:30 [which time they'll vote on o'clock tonight in the roof garden of ments to the constitution. the Severin Hotel.

athletic directors (will be presented with medals and ‘made against the Yanks by the Car-

| TOW. | Giants May Get Mungo

Motion pictures of the Ohio State-| The disposition of Mungo will be

ndiana game concluded the party, |the big deal in the National League |

|when it takes place. Four or five (clubs have made bids for him. The | Giants apparently have the inside | track on the temperamental fireball | {pitcher who wound up last season | ] 0- under suspension after being fined | University approximately $2000 of his salary. | banquet in| Most important session of the |

A large turnout was predicted tofor the Purdue Association's

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me-nd- | Oit wi {these concerns the signing ofl col-| The players, chosen by coaches and | lege players before their class has |

of local schools. graduated. A minor charge was

Arch Ward. sports editor |dinals who claimed that Col. Jake

ball fans, if you are waiting for a| §

there won't be any at the minor | §

| dangerous to drive a car to the force the resign

Displays Talents in Windy Cit

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Times Photo, Jimmy McClure of this city, a member of the world’s champion table tennis doubles team, is playing at the State-Lake Theater in Chicago, where he is being featured for the week in an exhibition of

table tennis, L

| spective dangers according to the

Traffic Perils | ibe a re: wii, 10.7; Top Gridiron’s |i it == ==

boxing, 4.6; basketball, 2.5, and ice hockey, 2.5. Game Most Dangerous of All, Stevens Says.

STUDENTS DEMAND OUSTER OF COACH

EUGENE, Ore. Dec. 2 (U. P).—

NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 2 (U. Py—|A group of University of Oregon Football is the most dangerous sport | Students announced today the forbut statistics show it is even more | mation of the “CCCC,” designed to driv : ation of Coach Gary stadium than it is to play in the| (Prink) Callison whose football game. This statement was studied team has won four and lost five today by the Southern Medical games this year. Association following an address | Members of CCCC—“Can yesterday by Dr. Marvin A. Stevens, Coach Callison Club"—pledged New York University football coach. | themselves to boycott the collection Dr. Stevens, assistant professor | of student activity fees next fall if of orthopedic surgery at Yale, was | Callison is still here. halfback on Yale's team in 1923— the last untied and unbeaten eleven. | Sandlot and high school football |

the

Hutson Sets Two football, Dr. Stevens said, because Pro Grid Records the colleges have superior equip- ——— ment, coaching and officials. NEW YORK, Dec. 2 (U. PP). Up to Nov. 27 this year there| Don Hutson, star end of the Green were 17 deaths directly attributed | Bay Packers, held two new records to football, 10 indirectly, he told the | in the National Football League

This leaves only one thing for them to do—match Phi Beta Kappa keys with them. And won't that be fun?

| diplomas. | physicians. In high school games, | today. 12 were directly attributed to the| Statistics show that the former

{game and six indirectly. Five died | Alabama ace has caught 41 passes,

: I : J el a : | Indians will not put in a claim for | ety of the occasion.

| '< i ; : : ) i i , I8 / Y rt 1 3 7 i { Bob Kahle, third baseman, mn event | Bo himself exprassed the prevail - of the Chicago Tribune, is to be the | Ruppert s club has spent $76.000 in

principal speaker and films of the | cornering collegians the past year.

34 Top Scores of 600 In Firing at Pritchett’s

Thirty-four 600 totals were rolled in the Indianapolis League at | Is a strong advocate of the post-|ing much wrong with intercollegPritchett’s Alleys with a 691 by Paul Striebeck taking first honors among | Séason series.

local bowlers today.

The Marott Shoes took team laurels with 3137, Oscar Behrens show- | Milwaukee club, sponsored ‘a birth- | made

| he fails to make good with the Boston Nationals, who drafted him. Since the International League voted to continue the playoff sys- | tem, the American Association will | follow suit to preserve the Little | World Series. President George Trautman of the association, who was re-elected to a three-year term,

Henry Bendinger, president of the

ing attitude on that: “One thing about the Purdue game is that there's going to be another Purdue game,” he said. “And if that is not to our liking, there's | going to be another. . . .” Maj. John L. Griffith, Big Ten | athletic commissioner, told the more | than 400 diners that there was noth-

| iate football, that it was not per- | fect—as few things are—but had and was making greater

ing the way with 666, while John Blue had 646, Paul Stemm 624 and Fred | day party last night for Mike J.|strides toward that goal.

Mounts 623. The Barbasols hit fore 3112 with Jess Pritchett toppling 655 pins, Lee Carmin 635, Don Johnson 634 and John Murphy 628. Ray Roberson finished with 255 for 651 | to help Striebeck boost Falls City | Hi-Bru to 3098. Jim Hurt turned in a 657, Joe | Malarky 656, Frank Alford 630 and Chris Rasmussen 601 to send the | Rasmussen five to 3093. Bert Bruder connected for 668, |

circuit at the Indiana drives with

599. Finance, Supervisors and Four- | was held at the Milwaukee Athletic |

| Kelley, president of the Minneapolis | Millers, who is 62 today. The event

Coaches Show Talent Coaches from Indianapolis and

Trip Carriers made clean sweeps | Club. Kelley piloted Indianapolis in | nearby high schools brought some

and Parcel Post, Special Delivery, East Michigan, City Case, Motor Vehicle and Subs finished ahead twice. Peggy St. John's 478 showed the way in the Indiana Ladies’ League. Tibbs Cleaners, Julian Goldman Union Store, Coca Cola, A. & P., Old

| 1913. | Cantwell Is Sold Pitcher Ben Cantwell was sold by | the Brooklyn Dodgers to Montreal | of the International League. The Cincinnati Reds sold Outfielder Hub Walker to the Nashville | Southern Association club. The Reds

of their best talent to the festivities and Bo took occasion to re{mark that while, of course, he | would not openly suggest it, all the | boys looked “pretty intelligent” to | him and he wouldn't be surprised {if he ran across most of them | sometime soon dolled up in the liv-

Manuel Schonecker and Larry Fox | Gold Cigarettes, Indianapolis Glove announced they have formed a |ery of I. U. football players. As a each 659. Arch Heiss 658, Pete Ernst | NO. 2 and Haag's Canteen all "on | “working agreement” with the Al- | matter of fact, it wouldn't upset any

656, George Schmalz 646, Fred Spencer 632, Neil King 631, Gib | Smith 627, John Kiesel and Frank | Liebtag each 625, Bud Schoch 622, Charlie Tyner, Harold Cork and Dan Glubka each 619, Bill Tarrant | 612, Leo Ahearn 608, Perc Henry 606, | Chuck Markey 605 and Ed Striebeck | 603. Bowes Seal Fast and Falls City Hi-Bru won three games and La Fendrick Cigars, Barbasol, Louie's | Tavern and Marott Shoes triumphed | twice. The Marott scores: 203 230 203 204 191 Totals 7 1031 1029-3137 | First honors in the Central No. 2! league went to D. Brown, who con- | nected for 578. [Lyster’s Tavern, | General Tire No. 1 and Rybolt Heat- | ing registered triple triumphs and | Royal Products, Silver Moon, Serv- | ice Products and Dorsey Funeral Home annexed the odd game. Anthony Somrak showed the way in the Link Belt Ewart loop at the Illinois alleys with 554. The Indianapolis Fehr X-L Beer team will oppose the Louisville Fehr quintet in the first block of a home- | and-home match at the Uptown | Alleys Saturday night at 8 o'clock. In the Louisville lineup are Walter Zanger and Jack Hayes, who gained

172— 578 | 200— 623 | 228 646 | 221— 666 | 208— 624

attention by their performance in|

the A. B. C. at New York last spring when they totaled well over 1300 in| the doubles. The local team is cap- | tained by Al Berberick with Joe Danna, Russ Buley, Myron Newlin. Al Holman and Earl Goodhue also on the roster.

Riggs Sets the Pace

H. R. Riggs closed with 259 for 626 in the Interclub League, Eder

| pair

two games. Moss High in Loop

A 626 by Moss was high in the St. John's Evangelical locp at the Fountain Square Alleys, E. Kelly getting 612. Rieman Florists swept thein series and MHolsapple Market, Superior Oil ani Herrmann Funeral Home were double victors. Bob Wischmeier hit for 609 to head the Mutual Milk League, also in action at the Fountain Square plant. Lou Ostheimer topped the K. of C. loop scoring at the Pennsylvania Alleys with 607. Pittman-Rice Coal captured three games and Glatt's Drugs. Blackwell Funeral Home. Hoosier Optical, J. E. Kernel Optical and Toney Davis Service registered two-out-of-three verdicts. In other leagues at the Pennsylvania drives, Strietelmier led the U. S. Tire loop with 579 and Day was best in the Nedical Society circuit with 577. Auto League Scores A 598 by Mohr was high in the Automotive League at the Hotel Antlers but Hoosier Casualty turned in the season's high for single and three-game scores in this loop. Hoosier Casualty, U. S. Tires and Monarch Motor took three games and Federal Mogul Bags gained a of triumphs. The Hoosier scores: 181 181 229 195 164

950

178— 183— 575 144— 535 172— 570 188— 518

865 2792

NOTRE DAME CAGERS WIN SEASON OPENER

NOTRE DAME, Dec. 2 (U. P.).—

Parsons

Totals

getting 616, Daugherty 613, B. Strohm 611 and G. King 601. Universal Indians with 2944. J. C. C. Jays and Mercator Tigers scored triple victories while Linco and A. B. C. took the odd game. Charles McCann's 616 was best in the Eli Lilly loop. Extracts and Syrups were three-time winners while Iletins and Tablets gained two-out-of three verdicts. Pauline Schneider led the Eli Lilly with 521.

Ladies League at Pritchett's |

Al Schoch paced the Postoffice | eighth straight at home.

bany club of the New York-Penn-sylvania League.

| Evansville will return to organized baseball next year with a team [in the Three-I League. The club will be financed by the New York Giants and used as a farm for young players. The Three-I has a rating of Class B.

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Several Class AA clubs are bidding for the services of Babe Herman, slugging outfielder with Toledo | last season. He demands a bonus | for signing and a fat contract. The veteran says he is a free agent, but his status remains to be cleared up. { Indianapolis may enter the race for |the Babe along with Milwaukee, | Los Angeles and Hollywood.

— | A Ray Schalk day is planned in | Milwaukee next season in honor of | Indianapolis’ new field manager, | who got his start in the livery of the old Brewers. Ray has many admirers in the Cream City.

Milwaukee obtained four players in the Ken Keltner deal with Cleveiand and have two more on the way. The Brewers also hope to have Keltner back for the 1938 season. Pastimers assigned to Milwaukee late yesterday are Al Milnar. pitcher; Oscar Grimes, infielder; Joe Becker, catcher, and Tommy Drake, pitcher.

Chuck Klein, Indianapolis prodjuct and former National League home run king, was nearly added to the Milwaukee roster yesterday. Jimmy Wilson, manager of the Phillies, agreed to sell Klein, but Son Nugent, president, vetoed the eal.

Wade Killefer has two former Indians on his new Hollywood roster. They are Stewart Bolen, pitcher, and Joe Spring, catcher.

MAKO IN PICTURES

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2.—Gene Mako, Davis Cup doubles player, is

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working as a film extra in Holly- | wood.

| coach since most of the lads looked |

| fairly sizeable.

Bo disclosed that after the close |

lof I. Us season he toured about to sce other teams in action—Pitt,

| tee chairman, said that 100 coaches |

Indiana-Purdue game will be shown. |

ert (Bob) Zuppke will be honored, at a banquet tonight hy the Illini |moski to Louisville. | Club of Chicago in recognition of | his 25 years as football coach of |Raimondi to Oakland and traded | fatalities, Dr. Stevens said. Six milthe University of Illinois.

Signing of Hank Gowdy as coach

Other invited guests include fa- |of the Cincinnati Reds today came

thers of the prep players and mem- as no surprise as he had served [or | bers of the Purdue football squad years under Bill and coaching staff.

Chicago Illini Club

McKechnie at Boston. George Kelly, Cincinnati | |coach last year, was understood to |have been offered a similar post as | . {coach with the Bees. { Will Honor Zuppke | Minor Leagve Deals ER | The following minor league deals! CHICAGO, Dec. 2 (U. P.).—Rob- | were announced: Syracuse sold pitcher John Por- |

Kansas City sold catcher PEill| | pitcher Cy Moore to Oakland ior | Milton J. Spitz, program commit- | infielder Ed Leishman.

The Chicago Cubs released two!

| and athletic directors and a score of |farmhands, infielder Henry Majeski |

sports writers will be among guests {and Pitcher John Hutchings, out- | ball players of honor.

| Duke, Vanderbilt and Alabama. He |

| felt more certain than ever, he said, | that the Big Ten brand of football

| some reports.

“things look pretty bad for next

| was on a par with any, contrary to |

! | | |

“Of course,” he added, woefully. |

year. But we'll be in there trying.” |

bad wolf is still at your door. Other speakers were M. Stitle Jr., Indiana University Club of Indianapolis president; Claude Rich, field secretary; Zora

| Smith, line coach: Jick Kenderdine,

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| G. Clevenger, athletic director, Clyde |

It just goes to show that the big

Harry |

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of injuries received in sandlot games | seven more than his last year and three indirectly. record, and that he has increased No deaths were attributed directly | his 1936 yardage record from 528 to college football and only one was | to 552. possibly indirectly caused by foot- Jack Manders of the Bears still ball, Dr. Stevens said. Irvin Per-| paced the scorers with 68 points, kins of New Mexico Normal dropped | and has Sunday's game to increase dead at Las Vegas on Sept. 13 of | it. His total is 11 more than Clark heart disease while dressed in foot- | Hinkle of Green Bay has scored. ball togs. Dutch Clark of Detroit was third The greater number of youths with 45.

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