Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1937 — Page 24
TUESDAY, DEC. 21, 1937
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
PURDUE AND INDIANA SWING WEST
FOR NET ACT
Irish to Get (irst Test on ~ Foreign Floor
Crimson at Bradley Tonight Opens Play; Boilermakers Crush Loyola.
By United Press : ~The Hoosier State’s Big Three—
Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame— | §
smash into opposition on foreign courts for the next three nights. The Boilermakers of Purdue, already ranking as the preseason favorite in the Big Ten, and winner last night over Loyola in Chicago, get a test of Western hardwood power/in Denver with Denver University tomorrow night. Loyola’s home winning streak was snapped at 15 games. Jewel Young,
| Roy Riegels—Running
scoring 19 points for the Boilermakers, led the 55-41 victory. It, was the fifth game this year in!
which the Boilermakers had made |}
50 points or more. They are undefeated. : : Coach Deéan’s Indiana pastimers, also on their way into the West, stop in Peoria, Ill., tonight to play the state champion Bradley Indians. Thursday they meet the Nebraska Cornhuskers in Lincoln. The small Bradley team, reminiscent of the Ball State crew that left such a bad taste in the Hoosiers’ mouths, is equally capable of springing .an upset. Notre Dame, riding high on an 18game winning streak over a twoyear span, will face Xavier Univer=sity at Cincinnati tomorrow night. ‘Comparative strengths of the Boilermaker and Irish feams undoubtedly will be drawn from the score of the Xavier encounter. Purdue beat the Musketeers, 56 to 32. The Xavier game will be Notre Dame’s first test on the road this season after winning five in a row at home.
Muncie and Marion Chalk Up Victories
The Muncie Bearcats went outside the North Central Conference last night to defeat Mishawaka, 33 to 24, while \Marioh, another Big Ten team, was taking Delphi, 24 to 20. Vincen t to Huntingburg in an’ overtime; 20-22, the same margin by which they were defeated last week aj New Albany. Though y leading state teams will be idle il af e Christmeas vacation, there plenty of tonflight games scheduled throughout the state this week. Frankfort’s Hot Dogs tackle the Jeffersonville five in one of tonight's headliners. Tomorrow night the sensational Bedford Stonecutiers will go after their 10th straight in a clash with Elwood. This week's card: Tonight Alexandria at Wabash. Mishawaka at Southport. Columbia City at Plymouth. Greensburg at Columbus, Frankfort at Jeffersonville. Washington (South Bend) Goshen.
Tomorrow Night Alexandria at Windfall. Lebanon: at Attica, Elwood af Bedford. Bloomington at Martinsville. Burris at Central (Muncie). Richmond at Connersville, ‘Crawfordsville at Greencastle. Seymour. at Franklin, Greenfield at Rushville. Washington (East Chicago) at Hammond. : Peru at Huntington. Marion at Newcastle, ‘New Albany at Male (Louisville). Washington (Indianapolis) at Danville. : ; ‘Reitz - (Evansville) at Memorial {Bvansville). : Valparaiso at Roosevelt (East Chicago). ‘Sheridan at Tipton. z - Thursday Night Auburn at Kendallville. Brazil at Garfield (Terre Haute). Vincennes at Central (Evansville). - Emerson (Gary) at Hammond Tech. Horace Mann (Gary) at Froebel (Gary). : Huntingburg at Boonville. ‘Washington at Jasper. Scottsburg at Madison. North Side (Fort Wayne) at Degatur (Ail), : Waite (Toledo) at Peru. . Bosse (Evansville) at Princeton.
Basketball Scores
HIGH SCHOOLS
Cra in, 24; Delphi, 20. Rulitingbure. 22;
n 51; Illinois, 38. em: Washington, 47; Tennes-
see, 24 : Michigan42; Dartmouth, 17.
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Player Who Pulled Famous Boner in 1929 Rose Bowl Game Discovered Chapman, Bears’ Great Star.
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By BUD SPENCER Times Special Writer
AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21.—On New Year's Day in the cavernous bowl in the Arroyo Seco of Pasadena, among 85,000 spectators gathered to:
the Universities of Alabama and
California, there will sit a broad-shouldered young man with sandy hair
Few in the stands will notice him. But nearly all of the 85,000: would recall his name—Roy Riegels—as that of “the guy who ran the wrong way.” The more precise memories would recall him as the captain-elect
whose momentary loss of direction
cost his team a football champion-
ship. And this day nine years later Riegels, now 30, will sit in the stands
.| looking at the same turf, the same
spot, where he made athletic history in reverse. Something akin to pride will mark his bronzed features as he says to himself, “This is another year, another game.” For there on the green sod will be his retribution in the shape of a blue-and-gold-jerseyed - athlete named Sam Chapmnian, California’s All-America halfback. Chapman, who can do anything with a football except fry eggs with it, was discovered by Riegéls a few years after the latter had left college to become a high, school teacher and coach
-Riegels groomed this Chapman as a trainer would groom a son of Man O’ War, He taught the boy all the tricks he knew. It was the boast of Riegels to California coaches three years ago that Chapman would some day be the greatest
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Raining in shots from every angle on the foor, es (Chuck) Chuckovits, eagle-eyed University ot Toledo forward, set a8 new world collegiate sco record when he dropped in 17 field goals and seven free throws for ‘41 points, against Adrian College.
Cubs Led Loop in
NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (U, P).— For the second consecutive year; the Chicago Cubs were the best
League, final official averages veal. oh The Cubs fielded 9751 to nose out the Boston Bees who checked in with 9745. The champion New York Giants were third with 974. The Cubs as a team also took batting laurels. The official averages confirmed Ducky - Medwick as batting champion and also revealed that the pennant winning Giants ranked fourth in batting, The Pirates were second and the Cards third, :
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backfield star in.the history of the college, . Many believe Riegels was right. : ® W THER Riegels visioned ' Rose Bowl glory for Chapman, and some sort of vindication for himself, I can’t say. But ever since California received the Rose
has been smiling and saying: “Wait until you see this Chapman go in the Rose Bowl. Just wait and see.” Riegels will attempt to be calm on New Year's Day. But he won't be: He'll probably be praying to the strangely deaf gods who decide football fates that they be kinder to his protege than they were to him. Turn back to the pages to that afternoon nine years ago. Nearly
gia Tech and California. It was the | second quarter. In the heat of action there was a ldose ball on Tech’s 33-yard stripe. A Blue and Gold figure came out of the shadows, the ball tucked under his arm. It was Roy Riegels. He took a few steps in: the right direc-
* | tion, was suddenly bumped around,
anc to the amazement of all he was on his way toward the goal his team was defending, by this time at least 70 yards away. Fe was running pell-mell now, eyes straight ahead, his face tense. Many of the players of both teams stodd watching in fascination. In a moment it was all over. Benny Lom, California halfback, finally grabbed him by the jersey and stopped him, and he was smothered by an avalanche of Tech players on his own one-foot line, Riegels got slowly to his feet, holding his head in his hands. His teeth were clenched, his whole face grim. The boyish lines had vanished in the terrific realization of the thing. L J 8 8.
| SECOND later Riegels was .k bending over the ball with Lom back in punt formation. There was an almost deathlike silence. The ball was passed and then there wag a thud as it struck a Tech player and bounced crazily back in California’s end zone. Lovely ladies slowly closed their eyes. Strong gentlemen, a jump ahead of angina pectoris, swore haskily. A Califor-
Bowl invitation by winning the |%0 7 ‘Pacific Coast championship,. Riegels
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nia man fell on the ball but two points, for a safety, went against the Blue and Gold. Those two points meant victory for Georgia Tech, 8 Soon the presses rolled. People congregated in. speakeasies, corner groceries and around - the fireside talking about “the guy who ran the wrong way.” The name of Roy Riegels was written beside the names of Fred Merkle, the Giant ball player who forgot to touch second and cost his team a pennant; Fred Snodgrass, who dropped an important fly ball, and Heinie Zimmerman, who chased a runner across the home plate. Would this young California athletc with the boyish face and fair hair be crushed by the weight of his boner? ‘Would ‘he ise his-sense of humor in the deadening atmos< phere of this great mistake? Would that recurring reference—“the guy who ran the wrong way’—be a grinning ghost in the boy's future? When the news pages were full of the football boner, the talk around clubs ran something like this: “Looks as if Riegels is through . +.» It'll get him, , . He'll never live it dowf. . . . Just mark this boner down and watch where Riegels lands.” : 8 8 8 UT the prophets weren't reckoning with Riegels. He couid take it. He wandered around the campus with a cheerful “Hello” to everybody, seemingly inspired by the greetings of understanding students. } At his room in the campus fraternity house his table was ked with letters and telegrams of condolence. Everybody, it seemed, had a message for “the guy who ran the wrong way.” ;
these make a guy realize there are some pretty swell people in this world.” And Riegels went to work answering. every one of them. He made up his mind he'd take this thing in stride. And he did. He captained the football team the next autumn and turned in dynam-
“You know,” he said, “letters like |
Joe Bemoans Final Figures On Big Stars
Frisch, Hornsby, Dykes and Haines Among Those Who Played Last Game.
By JOE WILLIAMS : Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Take a good solid gander at those long rows of agate type that are sprawling all over the sports pages these days. They are the official major league averages and they are assaying for the last time the heroics of the game's greatest stars. This will be the last time you will see some of the old geezers listed in reports from the front. That happens every year. The old guard neither dies nor surrenders. Their dogs just fold up on ‘em, and they drop down to the minors or into obscurity. A few hang on as managers or third base coaches. Among those who pass out this year as players are Frankie Frisch, Rogers . Hornsby, Jimmy Dykes, Goose Goslin, Jesse Haines, Tony Lazzeri, Kiki Cuyler, Pat Malone and—well, just in passing, you also
have seen old Bill Dinneen’s name |
in the box score summary .for the last time. You could write a large chuck of practically deathless prose about some of those fellows. Frisch came up to the Giants direct from the Fordham campus, starred for years at the Polo Grounds, had the audacity to tell John McGraw where to get off, and in so doing lost a chance to manage the team. There probably never was a, better right-hand hitter than Hornsby. An intense, interesting individual, too. He was as forthright as a biting north wind. He spoke his mind to rookies and bosses alike, As a result he was frequently in trouble.
| To him baseball was a stern re-
ligion and the slightest transgres-
sion of its technical code brought
vigorous censure. The American League will miss Lazzeri, He created something of a milestone in the majors. He brought the Italians to the ball park. They gave him his picturesque caption— Poosh ‘Em Up Tony. No baseball writer created that one. The nationalistic pride in Lazzeri was such that his countrymen came to the park with Italian flags which they fluttered gleefully whenever he broke up the game, - There had been other Italian players before Lazzeri — notably Ping Bodie—but none was able to stir their enthusiasm to the same point of frenzy. And this was peculiar, too, since Lazzeri was anything but. a colorful player in the sense of Ruth, Maranville and the like. He was just an earnest, conscientious, capable performer. Perhaps At was: a- tribute to his Italian admirers that they recognized true merit in simple virtues. The crowds will miss Goslin, too. The old Goose had color and ability with it. He was a good money player. ‘When you say that you mean he was a stand up guy in the clutch. His hit won the 1935 World Series for the Detroits. And an. hour after the game was over the crowd. still stood in front of the Tigers’ dugout cheering him in the college manner. >
jc and inspirational play that won him a place on several All-America teams. Through all these years Riegels had to laugh off reference to his boner. Time and again when Riegels was introduced to people they'd say, “Oh, yes, aren't you the guy who ran backward that day against Georgia Tech?” 7% “Yep,” Riegels would reply, “but I'm running forward now.” And he is. He has slapped a grinning ghost, down for the count.
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The 10th annual holidey basket-) ball tournament will get under way at the Dearborn gym tomorrow at 7 p. m. Pirst-round games are listed for tomorrow and Thursday nights. Quarter-finals are billed for Tuesday, Dec. 28; semifinals, Thursday, Dec. 30 and the finals on Sunday, Jan. 2. . ; Sixteen of the city’s leading
Iquintets have entered and will seek
the title won by Crown Products
1last year. The Crown team did not
this season. The schedule last night follows: TOMORROW
P.M. : 7:00—E. C. Atkins vs. Universal Carloading. 7:50—Hoosier Athletic Club vs. Lawrence
en Zells. 8:40—Castleton Merchants vs. Little Nick
9:30—Sterling Beer vs. Beeson Studio. THURSDAY
P.M. 7:00 ludisnapolis Flashes vs, Kingan 1:50—Rockwooa Buddies vs. Fashion :40—Nu y Bottling vs. Eli L
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Following are the standings in the
Bush-Feezle Thursday Night League;
Team Thomas Ollers ......... avs vennsen 5 Siozen's Ehighis. : 3 an’s 0 Masonic Home All Stars .
Lauter Club Elwood Pattern
The . Dec. Bush-Feezle Thursday Night League:
8:30; Thomas Oilers Fattern at 9:30. .
second round.
R. A. Cs went into first place in the Commercial League last night by defeating Lilly Varnish five, 23 to 12, at Dearborn gym. Other league results:
macy, 19. Westinghouse, 23; Kahn Tailoring Co., 19. : ' Wilkinson Lumber, 20; Western Electric, 14.
St. Philips defeated the Indian-. apolis Triangles, 36-33. Feeney and Barnhorst starred for the Saints as they hung up their third straight victory. The Saints are to play the Rockwood Buddies Sunciay at 2:30 p. m.
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George J. Mayer plays Indiana Ma- | sonic Home All-Stars at 7:30; King- | an’s Knights play Lauter Club at] play Elwood |
These are the first games of the
Van Camps, 26; College of Phar-|
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Teague will be at stake tonight when the Nu Grape Bottling five meets Fall City Beers. The teams are tied for the top berth with five victories and one defeat each. The. feature clash is carded at 8:30 o'clock. Tonight's league schedule:
7:00—~Sin¢lair Oilers vs. ; . 00 Robs Beer ve Furnes Jor te oae:
Set Sie Be ani ve, BaughLESSON IN ARITHMETIC CANTON, Ill, Dec. 21 (U. P.).—
Bryan defeated Lewiston, 120 to 50, in a basketball game last night.
Bennett scored 35 points for the:
winners while Cruser counted 29 for Lewiston.
AMBOY COACH RESIGNS PERU, Dec. 21.—Edward Glenn has resigned as basketball coach and teacher at Amboy High School to become principal of Clear Creek High School, Huntington County, it was announced today.
LATE RALLY WINS FIGHT FOR JEFFRA
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (U. P.).~ World's bantamweight champion’ Harry Jeffra floored Armanda Sicilia twice in the seventh last night to win an eight-round, nontitle de=
cision from the rugged Chicago. Italian. ¢ hese Showing little of his champion= ship form in his fourth fight since wirining the title from ‘Sixto Escobar last October, Jeffra was fought to a standstill in early rounds of the
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