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PETE VAUGHAN of the Wabash Little Giants, dean of Indiana college basketball coaches, heartily approves the elimination of the center jump. . . . Commenting on the change in the court game, the veteran mentor said, “I like it. I never did like the center jump—the smaller man : better chance. Before this new rule was adopted a team: with an exceptionally tall man had an undue advantage.” : : Pete cited the Olympic basketball team as an exam‘ple, with the winners being well above the average height for college players, eliminating in tryout competition teams - which actually had better and more scientific players. ] “All a guard had to do on a team like that was to put “his hand up in front of the basket and ‘bat’ the ball away. That was ruining the game, so they had to put in another rule that if the ball ‘is played above the basket, a player is forbidden to bat the ball away from the basket.’

SEs. 8 ww =» SKED if he believed the center jump would return, “Coach Vaughan replied in the negative. . . .-He says that the new style will definitely “make for better ball, putting both teams on the offensive, while before basketball was mostly defensive.” He continued that on the West Coast, where the center jump has been eliminated for the last three years, there is no sentiment in favor of its return. . . . Before the new rule, he added, basketball was the only “contact” game in which both sides did not have an equal chance. ‘Vaughan then commented that there will be more opportunity for the “fast break” by both teams and if used, will make the game appear faster to the spectators.

» = 2 n s ” A CAPTAIN will be appointed before each game by Coach Ward Lambert of Purdue, and an honorary captain for the season elected by the squad at the conclusion of the basketball schedule. . . . ‘The nine major lettermen on the Boilermaker squad hail from the Hoosier State. . , . Three are from Lafayette and one each from Indianapolis, Franklin, Crawfordsville, Union City, Monticello and Battle Ground. . . , Dale Hutt is the Indianapolis product.

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URDUE'’s basketball record under Coach Lambert, 1919-37, inclusive, reveals (in all games) 251 victories and 83 defeats; and in Big Ten competition 158 victories and 61 setbackes. . . . The over-all average is S751; in the Big Ten, .721. . . . In 1932 Purdue won 17 games and lost one and captured the Western Conference title with 11 victories in 12 starts. . . . This record was duplicated in 1936. Purdue’s 1930 Big Ten schedule was limited to 10 games and the Boilermakers scored a grand slam. = = ® ” 2 s

N= DAME'’s basketball percentage under Coach George Keogan over a stretch of 14 seasons is .773. . . . The record prior to this season: 232 games won, 68 lost and one tie. . the 1935-36 season through a scorekeeper’s deadlocked with Northwestern at 20-all. Keogan came to Notre Dame as baseball coach, basketball coach and assistant football coach through his friendship with the late Knute Rockne. . . . George's 1925-26 and 1926-27 teams each won 19 out of 20 games. , . . His 1931-32 squad broke even in its first four games, then : iy he last ‘16 in a row. ... Last season the Irish won 20 games and ost ee,

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IJ CRTHWESTERN and Marquette engaged in a thriller; the other night in which the score was tied four times in the first half and three times in the second. . . . Trailing, 29-27, with two minutes left to play, the Wildcats came from behind with two shots from the field to win, 31-29. Bob Shannon of Marion, Ind. is a guard on the University of Dayton basketball squad. . . . R. Kenneth Fairman, varsity basketball coach, has been appointed acting graduate manager of athletics at Princeten University. . .. He will continue as court coach.

Indianapolis

‘THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1937

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Moir Paces Notre Dame

In Less Than 16 Minutes ‘Against Kalamazoo.

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Dec. 9 (U.P.)—Notre Dame’s offense was in high gear last night and the Irish won their 16th straight victory by walloping the Western State Teachers of Kalamazoo, Mich. 60 to 21. It was Notre Dame’s third victory of the season. Johnny Moir, Notre Dame’s brilliant senior forward, scored 16 points in less than 16 minutes of the first half before he was removed because of a slightly injured shoulder. The Irish piled up 23 points -before the Teachers were able to get a basket. Notre Dame led, 41 to 10, a’ the half.

Evansville Gains Edge Over Oaks

EVANSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 9 (U.P). —Evansville defeated Oakland City, 39 to 37, last night by dropping in a basket during the last minute of play. Evansville was ahead at the half, 20 to 17, but the lead seesawed during most of the game.

I. U. Concerned Over Ball State Clash

Warned by Ball State’s near upset of Notre Dame last week, Coach Everett Dean today sent his Indiana University cagers through a hard practice ‘in preparation for Saturday’s game with the Ball State veterans. Dean indicated he would start: the same team he used Monday against DePauw—Johnson and Dorsey, for-

Andres and Platt, guards. Branch McCracken, Ball State coach, will start the five that bottled up Notre Dame’s All-America forwards and kept the score even until the closing minutes: of the game.

Ohio Prep Stars . To Play in Florida

| ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Dec. 9 (U. P.).—More than half of a squad of 22 outstanding Florida high school football players have accepted invitations to play an all-star Ohio team in a benefit game Dec. 23, Elon C. Robinson, game chairman,

announced ‘today.

Bitterness Between Big League Moguls Is the Real McCoy, Joe Finds at Parley

By JOE WILLIAMS . Times Special Writer « CHICAGO, Dec. 9.—It may be true that several theatrical devices are employed to maintain the illusion there is no difference in the playing strength of the two big leagues—ad I'll- concede this is open to question—but all you need do to.appreciate the validity of the : bitterness which exists between the American and the National Leagues is to attend one of these winter meetings The reptesentatives of the two leagues refuse to stop at the same hotel when it must he quite obvious t hat where common interests are involved that is just what they should do. The only time they ever get together is at the annual joint meeting and then they are none too gracious. One club owner will _ be speaking to another for the first time since the last executive meeting. : - This easily could: be interpreted as another theatrical device designed to emphasize the competitive ardor for public consumption but when you study the setup more thoroughly you are convinced it isn’t. The two leagues just don’t get along. They don’t see eye to eye. And that goes for most of the individuals too. In the main it is strictly a business but the emotional undertones readily can be identified. There was the instance of the relative sprightliness of the ball--actually a comparatively minor point. The two leagues couldn't get together on this. The National tried to stampede the American by taking independent action when it had been agreed on in advance the two would take joint action. As a result the American, which was ready to agree with the National, turned right around and voted against its own Sentiments. It adopted a different ball. The Joe McCarthy-Bill Terry incident was another example. Don't let anybody tell wou that was just fooling. McCarthy of the Yankees gets’ a great belt out " of beating Terry's Giants—and Terry, naturally, is a fellow who doesn’t like to lose. When McCarthy made the crack about Terry smoking a pipe— and all ball players who smoke pipes being too contented—he was merely throwing a smoke screen. That could easily have led to a lovely fight. : >

~ Many similar incidents could be cited. These may be sufficient. I think they should be accepted as a healthy condition. It must be warming to the customers to know that the men higher up in baseball share their own violent passions. And I can guarantee you they do—at least to an extent that is interesting. Perhaps the fellow who called it the national game had a soun sense of values after all. ¢

Tom Yawkey has spent m~e than | = a million dollars on kas2.°11 ivory |

he has been just a pleasant, smiling young man attending to the routine business of a club owner. He has kept his fabulous checkbook firmly concealed. It took Mr. Yawkey several years to learn he couldn’t buy a readymade ball club. Now that he is convinced he is speeding up the machinery of his newly installed farm system which has been put in the hands of Billy Evans, the reformed umpire. Evans has been told to go the limit—and in another

33 Amateur Ring Bouts Scheduled

{ : ‘Thirty-three bouts, including preliminary ‘eliminations and finals, are scheduled in the city-county amateur boxing tournament at South Side Turner Hall tomorrow night. The prelims are to begin at 7:30 o'clock and after their conclusion 16 championship matches will be staged, eight in the Open class and eight in the Novice. : Principals in three of the Open finals were selected last week and will meet tomorrow as follows: 112-Pound Class—Alfred Osborn, unattached, vs. Leroy Johnson, Bess A. C. 135-Pound Class—Herbert Brown vs. Shawn Bess, both of the Bess A. C. = 147-Pound Class—K. C. Green, North Indianapolis Community Club, vs. Stanley Wesniewski, Normal College A. G. U. All bouts will be conducted in ac-

cordance with A. A. U. rules and the |

title events will be over the threeround, three-minute route. Following the finals the winners and runnersup in all classes will receive prizes.

Tribe’s New Leaders

year the Red Sox farms should be producing interesting returns. “Mr. Yawkey told me he was tired looking at all those high-priced ball players getting nowhere and for me to go out and bring in some youngsters,” said Evans, who thinks he has a real star coming up next spring in Bill Taber, third baseman, late of Little Rock. Howard Ehmke, the old pitcher who is now a successful business man in Philadelphia with his own factory, was talking about the bean ball. He had just left Mickey Cochrane and the subject was

the Tigers’ manager narrowly escaped death when Bump Hadley

.beaned him last summer.

“Wherr I think how I used to try deliberately to hit fellows when I was pitching,” said the mildmannered Ehmke, “I get mad at myself all over. I was just a youngster at the time and I did what I was told to do. In 1922 I led the leagues in hitting batters. I hit 230. I was then with Detroit. The next three in the list were aiso Detroit pitchers.” Ehmke said in those days the managers forced you toxthrow at the hitters—to dust ‘em %off , . . “Ty Cobb was our manager at the time, and he didn’t tolerate any timidity—if that’s the word. When

the hitter you went through with it or it cost you money. Every pitcher on the-club knew that if he failed to try to dust the hitter off when Cobb gave the sign it would cost him dough.” :

GAMES LISTED FOR SHORTRIDGE GIRLS

Miss | Eleanor Richwine, member of the Shortridge girls’ gym. depariment, has announced the schedule for the Shortridge girls’ basketball team. The team, which has been working out for the last few weeks, will open its season Jan. 7 against Speedway at the Shortridge gym. Other games:

. Inspect Ball Park

Inspecting Perry Stadium today for the first time, Manager Ray Schalk and General Manager Leo Miller, new leaders of the Indianapolis baseball club, spent several hours at the spacious plant and found everthing to their liking. “Everything is on a big league scale out here,” Schalk said, “and I doubt if there is another park in the minors which can match it from the standpoint of the playing field, seating comfort and clubhouses.” Schalk and Miller conferred with President Norman A. Perry and discussed details of the spring training trip. They had no information to divulge on new player deals.

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Heading a list of former college and high school net stars in' the roster of the Little Nick Beer squad is Johnny Ford, above, former Notre Dame net star. The Little Nick five meets the Falls City team at 4:20 p. m. in the feature game of Sunday’s card at Dearborn gym. Toy Jones and Eddie O'Connor, formerly of Butler, and McCreary and Shields, one time Cathedral stars, are also in the Little Nick lineup, while Paul Boyer, Joe Modlin, Bud Campbell, Bill Lynch and Wayne Houston will play for Falls City. The Chevrolet Body Co. team plays the state champion Lawrence. Trojans at 3:30 in another game on the Dearborn schedule.

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is expected to be the keynote of the attack of the Purdue basketball squad that will open its 1937-38 campaign here Saturday night in the large new fieldhouse against the Indiana State Teachers’ quintet in the first of a series of three home ‘games scheduled within four days. Following the flurry of home ac-

. | tion, the Boilermakers, almost perennial Big Ten title contenders, will

take to the road on an extended holiday trip calling for five games, including a pair on the Pacific Coast, and will not appear before a

when the new fieldhouse will be dedicated officially in the Big Ten home opener against Wisconsin. Coming on the heels of the Indi-

|ana State opener, Coach Ward Lam-

bert’s quintet, which has won or shared in the Big Ten title nine times in the last 17 years, will tackle Clem Crowe's strong Xavier combination on Monday night and the fast-breaking University of Detroit aggregation Wednesday night. Lacking the height ordinarily associated with basketball greatness, the Boilermakers are expected to stick to a typical Lambert fastbreak offense, with speed and cleverness of ball handling as the foundation, in the bid for 1937-38 honors. Judging from early practice sessions, the current combination, win, lose, or draw, appears more than capable of upholding the Purdue tradition of sustained action. ; Sophomores Promising Nine major lettermen and four minor lettermen, plus a sprinkling of promising sophomores, form the nucleus of the current combination. Minus the services of last year’s cocaptains, Glynn Downey, outstand-

.|ing back guard, and Jim Seward,

rangy center, the squad is headed by Jewell Young, all-America forward, who racked ‘up a record total of 172 points in Big Ten competition last season; Johnny Sines, deft ball handling forward; Pat Malaska and Tom Dickinson, a pair of fasttraveling, dribbling guards, and Gene Anderson, lanky center ‘who specializes in accurate lightninglike passes. : | Among the other veterans are ‘Dale Hutt, Harry Zink, and Vincent Hollowoy, forwards, and Carrol Mangas, guard. The minor lettermen contingent of Nicholas Barsha, Ross Dean, Joe Mihal, and Carl Swan, guards, will be supplemented by Sammy Lybouilt, hard luck junior, la‘ capable performer who injured his knee last season and then lcracked his collarbone as the preslent - practice season got underway.

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The softball season was played once more around the. festive board at the Hoosier Athletic Club last night and after the last sphere had been pitched it was agreed on all sides that the game has stepped up to a major rating on the sporis calendar. z The occasion was the annual winter banquet of the Indianapolis Softball Association and as evidence of the growth of the organization more than $200 clear of disbursements was reported in the treasury by H. W. Middlesworth,

It was announced that a second softball stadium will be completed before the start of the 1938 season to relieve the demand for diamonds. Managers of the Shaw’s Market

D. C., enclosing a 3-cent postage stamp. A personal reply will come to you. Three of the most inferesting questions and answers will be pringed here daily. Don’t telephone, write as directed.

Q—Was the race horse, Discovery, ever quoted at odds as low as 1 to 10? ” : A—He was quoted at 1 to 10 when he won the Wilson Stakes at Saratoga, N. Y., July 31, 1935; also when he won the Whitney Stakes at the same track, Aug. 24, 1935. Q—How old was Joe Louis’ wife | at the time of their marriage? A—Her age was given on the marriage license as 19. Q—Which is the higher full house in poker, one containing three kings and a pair of treys, or one composed of three fours and a pair of aces? | A—The one containing three

IRISH PREPARE FOR

ELWOOD, TECH TILTS

Scrimmage against the reserves

and drill on passing and defensive play occupied the attention of the | Cathedral basketball squad. yesterday, as Coach Joe .Dienhart’s five prepared fer games against Elwood and Technical this week-end.

The Irish expect tough sledding at

Elwood Friday night, where Coach Hunk Francis has a veteran quintet which has shown rapid improvement this year. Saturday’s game at Technical will be the first intracity clash of the season. :

| 'BAMA’S AVERAGE HIGH TUSCALOOSA, Ala, Dec. 9.—

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team will finance the new plant at Belmont Ave. and Minnesota St. Thirty-six teams competed in the

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that determines its value.

It is always the rank of the “three of a kind” in a full house

Alabama, with a total of 80 points, has averaged 20 a game in four trips to the Pasadena Rose Bowl. The

1937 city tournament and the championship was won by the Chevrolets. Officers for next year were named as follows: Tom Quinn, president; Bob Mathers, vice president; R. H. Meyer, secretary; H. W. Middlesworth, treasurer.

TWO COLLEGE GAMES SCHEDULED TONIGHT

Two Indiana college games are scheduled tonight, St. Joseph’s opening its season at Valparaiso and Rose Poly traveling to Richmond to clash with the powerful Earlham Quakers. The St. Joseph’s squad, ‘starting its sixth year under the coaching of Raymond L. DeCooke, will probably have three veterans in the lineup tonight, Barney Badke and Ray Michalewicz, forwards, and! Jerry Yocis, guard. Badke may shift to center. Other likely starters are Earl Petit, freshman forward, and Fred Jones, junior guard. rd

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Si Monon, will share one of the starting guard positions for the University of Louisville, tomorrow night, when the Kentucky school invades Indianapolis for a basketball encounter with Butler University at the local fieldhouse. Monon, a senior letterman, was high point man for the Cardinal quintet during the 1936-37 campaign. {

Petey Sarron Wins Bout With Guggino

NEW: YORK, Dec. 9 (U. P.)— Former Featherweight ‘Champion Petey Sarron of Birmingham, Ala., making his debut in the lightweight ranks, scored a 10-round decision o.er Carl (Red) Guggino, of Hartford, Conn., here last night. It was the first start for Sarron since he was knocked out in his title defense against Henry Armstrong in October, and he whipped Guggino in six of the 10 rounds. Guggino was awarded the first on Sarron’s foul, took the fourth and fifth on points, and got ‘an even break in the third.

Basketball

The schedule for tonight in the Bush-Feezle Thursday Night League at Pennsy gym follows: 19 Elwood Pattern vs. Kingan’'s Knights at 7:30 o'clock; Indiana Masonic Home All-Stars vs. Thomas Oilers at 8:30; George J. Mayer vs. Boys’ Club at 9:30. The standings: Thomas Oilers

Ind. Mas. Ho Kingan’s Knights .

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Wabash Bows To Huntington In Close Tilt Crawfordsville Neliers Turn

Back Covington by 34-to-14 Score.

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[oN The state champion Anderson Indians slipped past the first of their

week last night, feating Pete Jolly’s Muncie Beafcats, 34-31, in a fast North Central Conference battle at Muncie. Anderson plays Jefe ferson of Lafayette tomorrow night and Jeffersonville Saturday. Huntington defeated Wabash, 20-19, in a tight game at Wabash. The winners held a 7-4 first half lead. Crawfordsville, playing on its home floor, had little difficulty, in downing Covington, 34-14, Other scores last night: Sheridan, 19; Pendleton, 11. New Ross, 28; Bowers, 27 Wallace, 26; Perrysville, 24. Oaklandon, 30; McCordsville, 20, Orleans, 33; Campbellsburg, 16. Prairie, 32; Atlanta, 30 (double overtime). Michigantown, 45; Forest, 17. Frankton, 33; Cicero, 17. Attica, 16; Boswell, 14. Rockfield, 27: Boswell, 14. West Point, 27; Klondike, 25. Dana, 43; Concannon, 34. Farmersburg, 30; State (Terre Haute) 19. : Solsberry, 30; Owenburg, 28 (double overtime). New Lebanon, 31; Pleasantville, 28. Culver Mil. Acad., 30: Pulaski, 23,

COLLEGES Notre Dame, 60, Western State (Kalama%bo), 21. (Evansville, 39; Oakland City, 37. Louisville, 49; Hanover, 33. Central Missouri Teachers, minster, 27. Ferris, 30; Muskegon, 20. Michigan State, 51; Hope. 27. Syracuse, 49; Toronto 31. Dartmouth, 53; Amherst, 30. Villanova, 32; Baltimore, 22. Long Island, 87; Panzer, 34. Cincinnati, 44; Georgetown (Ky.), 34. Ohio University, 54; Bliss. 47. Loyola (Chicago); 50; ‘Arkansas State,

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19 Manhattan, 43; Cooper Union, 19. Harvard, 58; M. L. T.. 33. Princeton, 47; Dickinson, 32. Tennessee, 27; Lincoln Memorial, 14. St. Francis, 37; Cathedral, 35. Washington U. (St. Louis), 52; McKendree, 27. Calvin, 52; Olivet, 30. Monmouth, 33; Iowa Westleyan, 26. ————_— nests rer ape

CONTINENTALS STUDY SOUTHPORT TACTICS

Coach Rowland Jones sent his Washington High School net squad through a long drill on fundamentals yesterday, followed by a brief chalk talk on the offensive tactics Southport is expected to use when

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