Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1937 — Page 18

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By Eddie Ash ILLINI NET QUINTET IS GREEN

BUT THEY HAVE MR. BOUDREAU

Indianapolis

They Found No Roses

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1937

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; OUIS BOUDREAU is the only regular from last season

playing on the Illinois University hardwood team as the new campaign unfolds. . . . The Illini, in their first year

under a new coach, Doug Mills, tied with Minnesota for

the Big Ten title when they won 10 and dropped two Western Conference games. . . . Boudreau himself ‘is a junior

- with only one year’s varsity experience, but that one sea-

son set him off as a remarkable ball handler and floor play artist. . . . He tallied 93. points in 12 games. Tom Nisbet and Jay Wardley are other lettermen

_ available to Coach Mills this sedson but they weré not

. of the National League, New York and Green Bay, respectively. © ~ Tie remaining 40 per cent of the receipts will be divided between

regulars on the 1936-37 team in the usual sense of the word. . . . Another experienced player on hand is Dick

* Dehner, who won his varsity letter in 1934-35 as a substi"tute center. . . » He was absent from the university for

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LLINOIS’ chief loss was Harry Combes, forward, who was fourth in Big Ten scoring with 112 points. . . . The young Illini of this season face a formidable schedule, including two battles with Minnesota, coholder of the cham-

: pionship, and two tilts with Michigan, runner-up for the

* 1936-37 crown. . . » The Illini’s two Big Ten defeats last

season were by Northwestern and Purdue with whom they split even. . . . Mills’ quintet also split in a two-game series with Notre Dame and annexed two games from Indiana. Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame are on the lllini schedule again, but the lrish are booked for only one clash this season and it will be played at Champaign during the Christmas holidays on Dec. 28.

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OTRE DAME will be shooting for its 16th straight basketball victory tonight when the Irish play Western State of Kalamazoo. . . . The South Benders won their last 13 tilts of the 1936-37 campaign and the first two this season. ... Ray Meyer, Notre Dame captain, is out for three weeks with an arm injury. Western State knows the value of Hoosier talent and has three former Indiana high school stars on its squad. ... They are Jack Insley, formerly of Logansport High; Herb Barver, product of Delphi, and Bill Broadbent, who learned how at Elkhart. ... The Hilltoppers are coached by Herbert W. Read, who is chairman of the rules committee of the National Basketball Coaches Association.

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HICAGO did not (win a Big Ten basketball game last season, achieving a grand slam in reverse to the tune of 12 straight defeats. . . . And the hapless Maroons dropped their practice opener this season to De Paul of Chicago. ... Coach Nels Norgren has not lost: faith, however, and since he has several outstanding sophomores to augment the 1936-37 squad which returned intact except for Bob

“Fitzgerald who will be kept out of action by a football ‘injury.

Purdue is on the Maroons’ edule for two games and will open their Big Ten card in Chicago/on Jan. 8. ...1It also will mark the

- Boilermakers’ start in the Wegtern

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HE players’ pool in the professional football title classic in Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins will

Sunday between the Chicagt be 60 per cent of the net

_ between the second-place winners in

the competing clubs and the league. 15 per cent and

Kickoff in the championship playoff a

to 1:15 p. m.

OU MENENDEZ, 22-year-old shortstop obtained by Indianapolis > on option from the Boston Bees, did not set the world afire in he has a good physique for the position . . He is a 6-footer, weighs 175 and bats |

. . In 113 games with Columbia in the South Atlantic swith a slowed up ball—Americans

| with their 1937 ball.

“ the little minors last season but ~ and may learn how to hit. .

righthanded. .

League last season Menendez hit .240 and fielded 925. His home is in

New York.

»; Joe Hoover, California youngster who finished the 1937 season in > the shortfield for the Indians, batted 273 in 79 times at .bat and is * touted aroffnd the American Association as a comer. . . . He has a rangy ~. stride and unusual reach but has not faced enough pitching to offer a true line on his power. . . . . The Redskins may have something there.

NASEY STENGEL chuckles over Boston Bees. . .

“ Walker Day” at the Tiger park next

= the White Sox and Detroit rooters are tearing their hair. . . . The fly chaser is an idel in the Motor City. = 1938 big league All-Star game is to be staged in Cincinnati’ "% and it's a safe guess it will be a sellout long in advance of the date

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\ Bears Polish Up Tricks in ~~ Hope of Stopping Baugh

CHICAGO, Dec. 8 (U. P.).—The Chicago Bears, finest defensive team in the National Professional * Football League, went to work, today on a new set of tricks they - hope will throttle Slingin’ Sammy : Baugh and the Washington Red- _ skins in the league championship ‘ game here Sunday. The Bears never have had to defend themse;® against Baugh’s stinging passes and since the Bears’ aerial defense has been uncertain at times, Washington likely will be a slight favorite. A sellout crowd of 45,000, second of the year,

is expected to witness the title game. Both clubs engaged in what turned out to be breathers last Sunday and had their full strength in this week’s workout> Ed Kawal, former Bear center who went to Washington in a swap for center Frank Bausch, has recovered from injuries received against Green Bay two weeks ago and will be ready

to go. : Except against passes, the Bears have been defensive marvels. Few teams gained through the Giant forward wall. An even 100 points were scored against the Bears in 11 games. Only the Green Bay Packers, with their great Herber-to-Hutson passing combination, made the Bears look foolish but Washington surpassed even the Packers in throwing the ball this year.

star end, scouted Baugh as the Redskins rolled over New York last Sunday, 49 to 14, and possibly may have found a way to stop him. With a splurge ‘in the final game of the Eastern division race, Baugh clicked off 11 completions and set a new record of 99, an average of 445 per cent. Green Bay had set the old mark the week before and held second place with 95 completions for an average of 43.9 per cent. President Joe F. Carr of the Na‘tional League announced. the game will start at 1:15 p. m. one hour earlier than usual, in an effort to

receipts. . cent, 60 per cent of this portion going to the winning squad and 40 to "the loser. . . . The other 10 per cent of the players’ pool will be divided

10 per cent of the net will go to the league. .

= . “No, one expects me fo win the pennant,” is = the way Casey puts it. . . . Detroit fans are fixing to throw a “Gerald

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. « The teams will divide 50 per the Eastern and Western divisions

.. The clubs will each draw down «» The

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Junior Circuit Sticks™ to

Livelier Pellett; Big Deals ~ Fail to Materialize. .

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By STEVE SNIDER _| United Press Staff Correspondent

CHICAGO, Dec. 8.—Weary club officials of both major leagues turned their annual joint session with Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis into a peace confererice today in an effort to settle the wide-op breach over the jackrebbit baseball. [Virtually all hope of seeing a major player deal completed faded ag they assembled. Several: managers, fatigued by constant haggling and lobby duty during. the unexciting major and minor league meetings, already have quit the scene.

{ | CHICAGO, Dec. 8 (U. P.).— | Here’s the difference between | the baseballs voted on by the | two major leagues: | =~ American League—The so- | called jack-rabbit ball they | have used since 1910. It has a | number three—thin—cover and | four strand seams. =~ | National League — Number | three—or thicker—cover and | five strand seams. This is a | slower ball, but livelier than | the number five ball in use un- | til 1932.

| The rabbit ball, however, remained & lively topic. Each league reportedly Aw ‘irked at the other's action which may give them a different type of ball for the first time since {» standard was reached in 1933. | No sooner had the National League voted to slow down its offigial ball than American League pwners reversed their stand and guaranteed their own home run hitters continued prosperity at the expense of the lively ball used in 1937. | National Leaguers felt they were double-crossed when owners in the

as favoring a ‘“deader” ball, failed to carry out their announced plan. American League club officials re‘versed themselves shortly after the [National \.League announcement ‘which many felt was premature,

Three Things Can Happen

| Three things can happen in to|day’s joint session which just about

» » » his new managerial job with the

ball season. . . . “Gee” was sold to

the players couldn't see to receive a pass from center. - William T. Halloran of Providence, R. I., was named referee; Ed Cochrane, Chicago, the umpire; E. F. Hughitt, Buffalo, field judge, and the veteran Bobby Cahn of Chicago

| winds up one of the:dullest winter | meetings in history:

1. The vote may stand—Nationals

2. The National League may post-

| pone adoption of the slow ball until i both leagues have reached agree-

ment on a standard. 3. The American League may rescind its “no” vote on the dead ball and carry out its plan agreed to last winter. The second choice apparently was the most logical. The National

| League, which features tight de-

fensive play and good pitching, probably will not attempt to shackle

| its offensives further while Ameri-

can League batters frolic as usual. Trading Market Dull

There was slim chance the American League will adopt the heavier covered ball. Home runs and high scoring games were held responsible for a box office increase of 1,000,000 over 1936. & Only activity on the trading mart today was a catcher trade which sent Earl Grace of the Phillies to the Cardinals in exchange for Cap Clark, a youngster who played with the Houston club of the Texas League and Columbus in the American Association. The meeting was almost over and Brooklyn still had its problem child, pitcher Van Mungo, on its hands

will be head linesman.

Amateur Boxing |

Finals Scheduled

Finals in’ the city and county amateur boxing tournament will be held at South Side Turner Hall Fri day night, but due to the large entry list, it will be necessary to stage 17 preliminary bouts preceding the main events. Eliminations held over from lasj week will begin promptly at 7:30 o'clock and will involve the follow: ing weight divisions: .112-pound, ong bout; 118-pound, one bout; 126pound, two bouts; 135-pound, ong bout; 147-pound, novice, four bouts; 160-pound, four bouts; light-heavy-weight and heavyweight divisions, four bouts. | The finals will include eight matches in the Open class and eight in the Novice. The same officials who conducted last week’s show will be in charge Friday. |

COUNTY NET EVENT AT SOUTHPORT GYM

Marion County high school teams outside of Indianapolis will hold their annual basketball tournament at the Southport gym Jan. 21 ard 22. Decatur Central won the championship last season by defeating Southport in the finals, 30-27, a Butler Fieldhouse.

ed at Southport to increase tie

seating capacity to approximate 2300. : i

£ AUTO LOANS i and Refinancing .

Temporary bleachers will be erect- |

{| with no deal in sight. The Cubs || were stymied by their own refusal

to trade outfielder Frank Demaree. The proposed deal between the White Sox and Washington fell through when the Senators refused to accept Zeke Bonura and Lou Berger for Joe Kuhel and Buddy

[| Myer.

PRO OFFERS SPURNED

—Byron (Whizzer) White, Colorado University’s All-America quarterback, said today that he had no intentions of playing professional football next year with the “Cleveland Rams or any other team.” ‘The Phi Beta Kappa athlete said he had told a friend several days ago that he would not consider any professional offer. He was approached on behalf of the Cleveland Rams of the National Pro League. Cleveland has first choice in the league’s draft and has indicated that it would choose White. He plans to study law next year either at Oxford or some university in the United States, he said.

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. Dec. 8.— Despite the fact that hockey is considered the roughest game on the books, Clint Childs, playing his third year on the Yale varsity, wears glasses constantly on the ice.

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Joe Lets You in on a Little Secret— McCarthy’s $7500 Pay Cut Is Restored

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer CHICAGO, Dec. 8.—In the absence of anything more exciting around here I think this makes a fair sort of story. ‘It is the story of how a big league manager took a $7500 cut and at the end .of the 1937 season had it restored. It is in brief, the story of Col. Jacob Ruppert and Joe McCarthy - of the Yankees.

It seemed rather strange to the inmates of the : press box, familiar with-——the generosity and sportsmanship of the Colonel, which for years has been mirrored in his conduct. of the Yankees, that McCarthy should receive no reward after winning two world championships in a row. It didn’t sound like the Colonel; it didn’t sound like the Yankees. All the newspapers announced McCarthy had been resigned at the same salary. They said the salary was $35,000 a year. This was correct. But it wasn’t the same salary. It actually was a boost of $7500, a boost that makes him the highest paid manager in baseball— that is, as a manager who has no other responsibilities, such asl looking after farm chains. : Here’s the story, and it comes from the Colonel himself. McCarthy was finishing a three-year contract in 1935. For two straight years he had been close, but just close. He finished second. The boys in the press box were beginning to call him second-place Joe.

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Along toward the end of: the sea-

son McCarthy walked into the Colonel's office, and, in effect, admitted he wasn’t doing’ a $35,000 job. The Colonel likes to win. far as he is concerned, you can take all the second place clubs in the world and send them to Peoria. Just precisely what was said at this unusual meeting I don’t know. All I know is that, when McCarthy walked out of the office, he had voluntarily submitted to a $7500 cut, New Contract Drawn

A new contract was drawn up. It called for $27,500 for three years, including the remainder of the 1935 season. The Yankees won the American League’ pennant in 1936 and the world championship. There was no change in the contract. It still had a year to run. The Yankees repeated on both counts this year. The contract had run its

course. The Colonel and McCarthy

got together. Substantially here’s what happened. The Colonel said to McCarthy, “Nice work. Nice work. You beat the Giants again. Here's a new contract for three years.”

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As | mandate. They want the hot-cha-

cha ball. . How else can you explain the record breaking at the ball parks? : ; Nevertheless, the National Leaguers have voted for a change in the ball and next year they will hit against what is called a “modified rabbit ball.” Nobody seems to know just exactly what this means, beyond the fact that it is the No. 4 specimen. It seems that the clin-

ing with a number of specimens. In the end they decided the No. 4 was the goods. The solemn tribunal at which this weighty decision was made was not without interest. One expert got up gnd orated at length as to what makes the rabbit ball so energetic. He said it was the core of the ball. Another expert got up and said the core of the ball had nothing to do with it—the ball is jumpy; or it isn’t depending on the quality, of the yarn.

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The latter expert happened to be Mr. Julian Curtis, president of the company which manufactures the balls. I think his testimony was more seriously received .than his opponent’s. Mr. Curtis made a rather dramatic preface to his talk. He told the assembled magnates he

* | had never Hed in his life—“and I'm too old to begin now.”

And then Mr. Curtis proceeded to tell the gentlemen something that was a bit startling to some of them. He said there never has been such a thing as a lively ball. Specifically he said, “We are. turning out the same kind of ball today we always did. Basically, it hasn’t been changed in the slightest.” By implication he said all the extra power hitting which has revolutionized the game since 1920 must be ascribed to other causes."

HARTER TO SPONSOR BOXING, WRESTLING

Steve Harter is to. sponsor the

second boxing and wrestling exhibi- | tion show of the indoor season in| the Whirligig Room at the Indian- |

apolis Athletic Club next Monday night. Local boxers and grapplers will be used in the galaxy of bouts. Starting time will be 7:30 o’clock.

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Meet In Cue Match

Tom Brooks and Phil Greenberger are to meet tonight in a state threecushion billiards match at Cooler’s parlor in the Occidental Bldg. In last night’s tourney contest Al Caseber broke into the wih column for the first time in five starts when he defeated Guy Moore, 50-46, in a match which lasted 110 innings. Each had a high run of four.

IOWA ELECTS EICHERLY

IOWA CITY, Ia. Dec. 8—Jack Eicherly, Holstein, Ia., was elected captain of the 1938 University of Towa football team last night. Eicherly, a halfback, succeeds Homer Harris, Seattle. He was the leading pass receiver on the squad this season and also was an outstanding ground gainer.

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Righthander Purchased Erom International League Club;

Kelly Thompson Leaves Tribe.

An addition to the Indianapolis Indians’ pitching staff was announced last night by Leo Miller, Tribe general manager wo is in Chicago watch. ing the big league meetings. He obtained by conditional purchase Lawrie : Mpyllykangas, a righthander who has been witha the Montreal Inter

nationais five years. | | The hurler won 13 games and lost 12 with the Royals last season. He is a former Dartmouth pastimer and is a six-footer. 3 Ray Schalk, new field manager of the Redskins, piloted the Buffalo

Internationals six years and be-|.

lieves Myllykangas will | help the Tribesters. He has observed the hig fellow in action in many games. Lou Menendez, a young shortstop who was with Columbia of the South Atlantic League last season, also was obtained by the Indians yesterday. He comes from the Boston Bees option.

Two Positions

Kelly Thompson who served as publicity director for the Indianapolis team during the past season and who lately was made vice president of the club, resigned his position today to accept: the post of director of public relations and field work «ft Western State Teachers College at Bowling Green, Ky. The resignation was to become effective in time for Mr. Thompson to assume ais new duties Jan. 1. Thompson was formerly employed by the Bowling Green college which is one of the largest state-main-tained teachers training institutions in the United States. |He resigned his job there to join owner Norman A. Perry and the Indians during 1937 spring training.

In Rival’s Lineup

The local Kautsky A. C. pro “asketball team will be facing two of

its former members Sunday afternoon wher it plays Whiting Ciesars in a National League game at the Armory. hie Johnny Wooden, who gained national honors while campaigning with Purdue University, and Bill Perigo, I‘ormer Western State Teachers College star, played with the Kautskys for seyeral seasons. Other Ciesar stars are Ken Gunning, former Indiana University ace; Bill Haarlow, Big Ten luminary while with Chicago University, and Vince McGowan. : Harlan Wilson, Fred Fechtman, Bob Kessler, Leo Crowe, George Chesnut, . Everitt Swank, - Frank Baird and Cy Proffit, ex-college stars and Bill Schrader, lanky center, who has been outstanding in pro ranks for several years, are in< cluded or. the Kautsky roster.

John H. Lewis (rets Revenge

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 8 (U. P.).—John Hen ry Lewis, light-heavyweight champion, avenged [the beating he took at De:roit Oct, 15 by winning a technical knockout over Isidro Gastanaga last night in the ninth round of a scheduled 15-heat none title bout. Referee Walter Heisner stopped the fight when Gastanaga reeled about the ring from the effects of smashing right hand blows to the head. if : \ Lewis staggered | Gastanaga In nearly every round. But the begine ning of the end came in the second when the champion dropped Gastanaga for a count of nine in the seconcl round -and floored him again in the eighth. The ninth round lastzd but one minute and 25 seconds. Gastanaga was driven to the ropes by a battering right hand attack. When he slumped doubled over on the middle strand the ref= eree stepped in and awarded the match to Lewis. | : Gastanaga weighed 207 pounds to the Negrc’s 183. About 10,000 fans witnessed the Spaniard’s defeat. In the Detroit battle Gastanaga knocked the champion down three times in the course of a 10-round

‘| bout.

FIVE ARE NOMINATED | FOR HALL OF FAME

CHICAGO, Dec. 8 (U. P.)—The American and National Leaues toe day jointly have approved five additional baseball greats for the game’s hall of fume. [ook The new members were George Wright, early baseball ' organizer; Morgan Bulkley, organizer and first president of the National League; Ban Johanson, first president of the American League; John McGraw, late manager of | the New York Giants, and Connie Mack, veteran Philadelphia Athletics’ manager.

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