Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1937 — Page 19
a THURSDAY, DEC. 23,
SNEAD FAVORITE T he old Gent Was Pretty Good, Ti 00
Guldahl and Shute Among
169 in Field
Ed Oliver of Wilmington Shoots 3 Subpar Rounds In Practice. MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 23 (U. P)—
Sam Snead, the West Virginia Powerhouse, was the favorite in a strong
field of 169 that teed offi today in the |
opening round of the $2500 Miami Open. Snead was ranked above such stars as Ralph Guldahl, National Open titleholder; P. G. A. champion Denny Shute; Johnny Revolta, winner of the Miami Biltmore Open; and Ray Mangrum of Dayton, O., defending champion, by virtue of his triumph Monday in the Nassau
Open. : He faced strong opposition in the Miami Open. Besides Guldahl, Shute, Revolta and Mangrum, todays starters included Tony Manero, last year’s National Open champion; Horton Smith and Dick Metz of Chicago, Bobby Cruickshank of Richmond, Va., and Tommy Armour of Boca Raton, Fla. _ Judging from the practice rounds, Young Ed Oliver of Wilmington, Del., who fired three successive sub-
par rounds, also will have to be|
reckoned with. Play was over the par 70 Miami Springs course. An 18-hole round was scheduled for today, another for tomorrow and 36 holes Saturday.
All-Stars Drill for
Coast Charity Tilt |
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23 (U.P). —Rival teams of Eastern and Western All-Stars were training today for their New Year's Day shrine benefit football game. The 22 Eastern visitors were at the University of California at Berkeley, while the Westerners were quartered at Stanford University in Palo Alto. Andy Kerr and Bernie! Bierman, Eastern coaches, directed the first real scrimmage yesterday with Don Heap, Northwestern, in command of one backfield and Johnny Michelosen of Pitt, the other. In Heap’s backfield were Pred Vanzo of Northwestern, Ed Lalor of Colgate and Andy Farkas of Detroit. Michelosen’s running mates were Cecil Isbell of Purdue, Corby Davis of Indiana, Elmer (Honey) Hackney of Duke and Dick Riffle of Al- - bright, Hackney and Riffle alternated.
FISK TIRE NETTERS TO PLAY COLUMBUS
With a roster of former college stars, the Fisk Tire A. C. professional basketball team will open its season against the Columbus Car- _ dinals Sunday at 2:30 p.m.-in- the. Holy Trinity gym. Johnny Ford of Notre Dame, Sally Suddith of Indiana and Joe Downing of Michigan are members of the Fisk squad, along with Toy Jones, Roscoe Batts, Marshall Tackett and Earl Overman, ex-Butler players. Pop Hedden, freshman coach at] Butler, will direct the newly. organized quintet.
1937
1937 Sports Review
Admiral, Seabiscuit and Greyhound Star on Track
(Fourth of a Series) By MAX RIDDLE NEA Service Turf Writer Speed, speed, and more of iv, was the hallmark of the American
running turf for 1937.
Regal Lily, daughter of Man 0’® War, generally was conceded to be the best of the 3-year-old fillies, after Dawn Play, a granddaughter of Man o War, was struck by lightning. As a fitting climax, Seabiscuit, grandson of : ~old | superhorse, through his son “Hardtack, topped the handicap division. Menow smashed the world record for the Futurity running at Belmont Park when he raced the 6%
furlongs in 1:15 1-5. Yet Menow appeared tobe no faster than the Milky Way Farm | Stable’s Skylarking, which fell and was killed late in the summer.
De Correvont Insisted o on Sharing Glory With Pals
(Third of a Series) By GEORGE KIRKSEY ' United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Dec. 23—If Bill De Correvont, the most famous high school football star of his time, wore a hat, it still would be the same size as before his football feats lifted him from an obscure lad on Chi- _ cago’s. West Side to national prominence, ] He has taken everything that’s happened to him in stride. Right
down to the last day of practiced:
he was the hardest worker on the Austin squad. Coach Bill Heiland
never had to tell Bill to leave his ||
clippings at home.
The last high school game “De Correvont played in gives an insight to his character. It was a post-sea-|: son game against the championship Jackson, Tenn., team at Mem-
phis. The first time he carried the|
ball from scrimmage he raced . 37 yards off tackle for a touchdown. Early in the second his | shoulder was injured and he had to! be taken out. Unbiased observers say rival players piled on De Correvont after he was down causing the injury. Not so De Correvont. “It was my fault that I got hurt,” he said. “I was wearing an old of shoulder pads that I liked because they felt good. If I had worn ‘the new pair which gave me more protection I' wouldn't hurt.” One of mates,- Donald Radke, iseppraved | of the Jackson team’s tactics violently that he took a punch ps one of the southern SETI because Bill had been inj Every player
have been| | a huddle said:
De Correvont’s team-
the ‘Austin team |. | they
Correvont ask a reporter about the kind of a team Tilden High had. “Big and slow,” replied the Scribe. “That’s swell,” interrupted Lang. “Old Bill will really go to town
‘against Tilden.” And he did. Coach Heiland says he never saw a gang of kids who'd Tether block for another player. “They seem to take'more delight in making it possible for De Cor'revont to make a long run than he ‘gets out of the run himself,” said | Heiland. “They: know that when they shake Bill louse he's going someplace.” De Correvont’s modesty has been evident throughout his career. Far from touchdown-crazy, he frequently has carried the ball into scoring
d pair | position and yielded the touchdown
honor to teammates. Quarterback
Sonny Skor recalls ‘one occasion
‘when: De Correvont carried the ball to the 1-yard line and then in
“You take it over, Sony.”
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OPEN ‘EVENING
Fy hol os | Ir ry
With that speed, the titan of the turf—old Man o’ War himself—
emblazoned his name in ever greater glory. - | War Admiral, son of Man o’ War, was the three-year-old champion.
Moreover, plenty of people believe that, when right, Mrs. Mars’ Tiger was the equal of Menow. War Admiral was, of course, little short’ of sensational. He ran the second fastest Kentucky Derby on record, second only to Twenty Grand’s great victory in 2:01 4-5. He equaled the Preakness record on a poor track. His mile-and-one-half in 2:28 in the Belraont Stakes equaled the Americar: record for that distance; and eclirsed even his daddy’s Belmont mark. Seabiscuit was a truly phenomenal 4-year-old. Toward fall it was by no means certain that War Admiral could have repulsed him. He withstood a long campaign, racing wherever horses race, in winter and in summer, on the Pacific Coast and in the East, and yet at the end he could still carry 126 pounds or better and break track records. If speed was the hallmark of the
runners, it. was even more so.with |
the trofters and pacers, as world records went into the discard with astounding regularity. Greyhound; well within himself, cut three-quarters of -a second from Peter Nlanning’s world record mile of 1:563:. He also lowered the 1%mile reord in a race against time in Indianapolis. The year developed the most remarkable pacer in a generation.
Billy. Direct, by pacing the last
heat of a race in Kentucky in 1:58, gave the boys something to think about. No 3-year-old in history has ever shown such a flight of speed, let ‘alone in the third heat. With 11-year-old Alma Sheppard in the sulky, Dean Hanover trotted the fastest mile ever trotted by a 3-year-old, and came within a quar= ter of a second of equaling the world record for a stallion of any age. Naturally, this performance shattered all Tecards for ‘women drivers. The champion 2-year-old trotter was Dale Hanover, probable winter book favorite for the. Hambletonian,
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INDIANAPOLIS FORT WAYNE
Basketball
The : Rockwood Buddies won a high: scoring game from the Whiteland - Independents, 64-54, in the Whiteland High School gym. Wenning with 15 points, Blasingame with 12 and McCleery with 10 points starred for. the Buddies. Shirley with 13 points, Ditmars with 12 and Henry- with 11 point were best for the losers. The Buddies have a record of 14 victories against two defeats. Tonight the Buddies will play the Fashion Cleaners at 7:50 o'clock at the Dearborn gym in a holiday tournament game. For games write Leo Ostermeyer, 1625 English Ave.
Four fast independent games are carded tonight in the Dearborn Gym’s holiday tournament, with the clash between Eli Lilly Co. and Nu Grape Bottling Co. expected to be
the evening's feature attraction. |
The complete schedule follows: 7 o'clock: Kingan Knights vs. Indianapolis Flashes. "7:50 o'clock: Fashion Cleaners vs. Rockwood Buddies.
8:40 o'clock: Eli Lilly vs. Null
Grape Bottling Co. 9:30 o'clock: Falls City Beer vs. P. R. Mallory Co. = Last night Herb Schomeyer, formal Manual ace, paced E. C. Atkins to a 36-33 victory over the Universal Carloading five. In other games Little Nick Beer defeated the Castleton Merchants, 30-24, the Hoosier Athletic Club team defeated the Lawrence Merchants, 37-32, ahd Beeson Studios defeated Sterling
Beer, 46-16.
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Farr Is Back, Confident of
- Winning Title!
Here to Train for Braddock Bout; Certain Louis wil Beat Max.
NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (U. P)— Tommy Farr, Welsh heavyweight, arrived from England today aboard the Normandie, confident that: he eventually will win the heavyweight championship. Farr will meet former champion
| James J. Braddock in a l0-rounder {at Madison Square Garden on Jan.
21. exchampion, Max Baer, York late in February. ; “Braddock shouldn't be much trouble,” Farr said.” “While I already hold one victory over Baer, if
I win both those fights I hope to get another chance at the title.” Farr lost a ‘15-round decision last summer to Louis in the champion’s first title defense. : Tommy was accompanied by his trainer, Tom Evans, and his secretary, Charles Barnett. Since he left the United States in = September, Parr said he spent almost $50,000, most of it in’law suits. While in England, Farr broke with his manager, Ted Broadribb, and now is his own manager. That deal cost “considerable,” Tommy said. He said he weighs between 208 and 209 pounds and hoped to go into training next week and get down to about 204 for Braddock. Farr said he thought that Louis would knock out Max. Schmeling next June. “Louis has the advantage of youth" and of gaining more experience since he lost to Schmeling in 1936,” Farr said. “He has the best left in the business. = Personally, I'd rather see Schmeling win the title because I believe I would have a better chance against him than Louis.” ¥
The winner will fight another in New
7 p.m. in the Brookside U. B. Church gym, 11th and Olney Sts. ‘Drawings are to be held tomorrow afternoon at the store. Teams entered “include Inland Container, Schwitzer-Cummins, Berghoff Beer, Lebanon P. W. A. Comets, Forest A. C., South Side Trojans, Brookside U. B., Englewood Christian, Linwood Christian and Van Camp Hardware. Two other entrants are needed to complete § the field.
The Prestel Bros, t team is to play New Augusta at 8 o’cleck tonight. Heckman and Brennan are asked to take notice. For games write Clayton Nichols, 1441 W. 23d St.
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By JO Joe LMS pecial Writer tw NEW bir Dec. 23—The 1931 Yale-Harvard game ended ' with oung Mr. Herster Barres sitting abl if somewhat impolitely in the face of Mr. Barry Wood, the distinguished Crimson athlete and student.
It was a happy clirnax ‘for the Yales. That's how they felt about ‘Mr. Wood. He. ; ‘had been an acthom in their football ribs all during his varsity career. It was, plainly, an unhappy finale for Mr. Wood. No one likes to end his gridiron days with a : hated opponent re sitting on his Williams nose. This was the last play of the game. The Yales were leading 3-0 through the agency of a field goal by Albie Booth. Snow had been falling softly and the field was wet. Down near the goal posts it had turned to mud. In the closing seconds Harvard had the ball. Z Mr. Wood was a talented passer. In desperation he dropped back to his goal line to fling a gambler’s win-or-lose -pass. His line failed to hold and the next thing you could see from the press box was this unusual tableaux—Mr. Barres sitting gleefully amid the patrician features of the Harvard star. The other night at the World Telegram football party I met Mr. Barres for the first time. He smiled as he recalled the details. . .. “I'm not sure whether it was I or Allen Converse who pulled a sit-down on Barry's nose. We were both in there on the play. And naturally it wasn’t premeditated. That's just where one of us happened to land when we rushed his pass.” Mr. Barres is a successful young businessman in New York at the moment. His chief source of fun still is football. So it was surprising to hear him say a few seconds later that he was sorry for Primo Carnera. . . . “I'd like to send him a little money,” he remarked. It seems he had read in the morning
newspapeis that Carnera was broke, didn’t have enough money even to get his baggage out of a hetel in Vienna or some such place. This was before it had been revealecl that Carnera’s legal difficulties in America, had been straightened out and he had salvaged $16,000. I don’t believe young Mr. Barres ever saw Carnera in the ring. But somehow he had developed a deep sympatlyy for him. Or maybe pity is the word. And it occurred to me at the fime that that’s the way most people feel about the amiable giant who tried to be a prize fighter—anc who, in perculiar circumstances, did win the heavyweight championship. There was something about Carnera that made you very fond of him. You knew he couldn’t fight much snd you knew he was the medium of the most brazen series fof phony fights this or any other country ever saw. And still you
JEGINS IN MIAMI OPEN Joe Meets an Ex: Yale Star and They Find Carnera Topic of Mutual Interest
were fond of him. You admitted possibly you were being naive, but you kept on. telling yourself that Carnera didn’t know he ‘was - swindler.
Carnera, as he admitted the other day, couldn't read or write. He had the I. Q. of a 6-year-old child. He was a pituitary freak. He had the mannerisms/and instincts of a big shepherd dog. Somebody told him he was a fighter and he believed it. He went along winning over tankers from one end of ‘the country to the.other and he was
happy in his ignorance. He believed &
he was winning on the square.
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