Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1937 — Page 7

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Amateur Boxers Urged to!

Get in Line Early; Action in Two’ Classes.

Net receipts of The TimesLegion annual ‘Gellen Gloves tournaments are shared as follows: 60 percent to the Bruce P. Robison Post for Legion charities and amateur sports; 40 per cent “to The Times Clothe-A-Child Fund.

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now! The entry blank, containing all information anent the sixth annual Times-Legion tourney, is carried at the bottom of this page. Just follow training. Dates are Jan. 28 and Feb. 4, 11 and 18. The early birds will have the advantage of longer concentration on training and instruction from older heads, for every gymnasium in Indianapolis is preparing to welcome condidates for the Golden Gloves. .- It’s a strictly amateur event conducted under the rules of the Amateur Athletic Union with all bouts limited to three two-minute rounds to a decision. No Paraw” verdicts are given. As in the past, there will be competition in both Open (experienced amateurs) and Novice (beginners) classes in the 1938 elimination event. The champions in the eight divisions of the Open class will be taken to Chicago with all expenses paid to participate in the Tournament of Champions under the auspices of the Chicago Tribune. Attractive prizes will be awarded to the champions and runners-up in the Open class and to the champions in the eight divisions of the Novice class. The Times-Legion meet calls for four nights of boxing over a span of four weeks.

Alabama Eleven Reaches Coast

PASADENA, Cal, Dec. 24 (U. P). —Alabama’s undefeated and untied ~ football team, lighter but supposedly faster than four great predecessors, arrived in this Rose Bowl city Soday to carry the banner .of the “East” into the New Year’s game for the fifth time in a dozen years. ~The 40 players who comprise the 1937 Crimson Tide pulled into town on a special train and promptly set up camp in the Vista Del Arroyo Hotel. : Little . time will be wasted ‘by Coach Frank Thomas in sending his charges to work immediately for the impending contest with University of Caifoipia’s Golden Bears:

instructions and then start]

Don Lash

New Honors

For Medwick!

NEW YORK, Dec, 3 Dec. 2¢ (U. BL Joe Medwick of the St. LouisjCardinals was disclosed today to have been the best all-round o Ider in the National League Huting 19317. Joe slammed home 154 to lead in that division for the isecond consecutive year and slugged for 406 total bases to lead the; heavy hitters with a slugging pergentage of 641, which figure is amnrived at by dividing the batter's total hum-.

{ ber ‘of bases by the official number

of times at bat. The Cubs led in team ‘slugging with .416. Johnny Cooney of the Brooklyn Dodgers, formerly of Indianapolis, struck out 10 times, the fewest number of any National League batter.

Armstrong to. Meet Italian Lightweight

NEW YORK, Dec. 2¢ (U. P).— Promoter Mike Jacobs announced tooay that Featherweight Champion Henry Armstrong of / St. Louis and Enrico Venturi, former lightweight titleholder of Italy, had signed for a 10-round match in Madison

- |Square Garden, Jan. 12

Bill Sefton

1937 Sports Review

Vaulters Near 15 Feet: Lash Takes Ti Two Events

(Fifth of a Series) By JERRY BRONDFIELD NEA Service Sports Writer

The ttory of track and field for 1937 is the story of five slender collegians, four of whom waited until their final year of varsity competi-

tion before thrilling the world with the most

performances

of their careers.

Bill Sefton of Southern Califor-

nia, Mel Walker of Ohio State, Johnny Woodruff of Pittsburgh, Bob Osgood of Michigan and Don Lash of Indiana made “the 1937 track and field season. As a rule, the year following an Olympic campaign is a listless, lackluster campaign . . . lean as far as records zo. The reason, of course, being tlie lack of incentive for greater endeavor. But 1937 was a fooler. The greatest of coaches were

Jim Thorpe Greatest Football Per All Time, Old Timer Assures Our Joe

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 24&—Getting close to 70, old Mike Thompson, who has been- playing, coaching and officiating football for more than 40 years, is a trifle impatient. with critical infields who persist in burning candles to new gods of the gridon. ’

“There was only one football player,” he said emp h atically,

ty-haired old gentleman he had seen t Frank of Yale and Dutch Clark, the Detroit professional. “I've seen them all> barked. “And there, was only one football player, the Indian.” Earlier in the year Eddie Hart, a famous Princeton captain of an- - other generation, had nominated Frank as ‘the greatest all-round football player the game ever saw —better than Thorpe, Coy, Gipp, Mahan, Nevers, Pollard or Harley. This was important testimony from a responsible witness. And for the past several years practically everybody has been calling Clark the greatest of all time. But the ‘venerable Michael will have no part of such estimates. To him this is rank bla®Hhemy. . . . “People are prone to forget too quickly,” he said. “I don’t think I live in the past and I readily admit the modern game has produced some great men, but dust because

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they belong to the present doesn't make them any better than some of the men who played in the past. And it certainly doesn't make ‘em any better than Thorpe.” 3 His remarks on past and present

reminded me of the mad rush of

the moderns to get aboard the Joe DiMaggio bandwagon. Although he has been in the majors only two years the boys are saying he is a better fielder than Tris Speaker ever was. And out at the Chicago baseball meetings Frank (Lefty)

'O’Doul ranked him above Ty Cobb

as an all-round ball player. The verdict on Di will have to wait. s’s ‘still a Johnny come lately. He has yet to prove he is better in the field than Speaker and better all around than Cobb. Time holds the answer. Cobb and Speaker were around for years. ‘They didn't establish their greatness

in one year or several. They went | he|on tc. prove it over a stretch of

years. DiMaggio must do the same. No youngster has a more fervent

admirer’ than DiMaggio has in

Oscar Vitt, the new manager of the

Cleveland Indians. But Vitt laughed out loud when O'Doul called him Cobb's, superior. . gio can catch a hall better ‘than Cobb, but there /the debate ends. Say, Cobb would. have hit .500 against the

kind of a ball DiMaggio is looking:

at. And me a player who had more: comp ve fire than Som. You don't even know DiMaggio is

around, but that Cobb—he was in|

‘the ball game up to his ears every -second Thus Mr. Vitt seems to feel much the same way about the Georgia each as Mr. Thompson does about ‘Thorpe. They were supremely the joest. . . . “There wasn’t anything Horpe couldn't do on a football

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field,” went on the old referee. * ple seen to forget he was one of the ‘greatest athletes of all time. Didn't he win about everything the Olympic Games of 1912 had to offer? He was'a 10-second man even: in his football uniform and he was as strong as seven: bulls. “I've been watching football for almost half a century and I never saw a man who could hit the line any harder than the Indian—and that goes for Bronko Nagurski, too. With his speed and power he was a holy ierror in an open field.. And don’t forget he was one of the longest ard most ascurate punters football ever developed, and one of the game’s best drop kickers. What more do you want in a. football playe:?”

Basketball

Play in the Dearborn gym: men’s tournament will open Sunday at 1 p.'m., with the girls’ tourney sch: uled to; start Monday night. The opening round cards follow: MEN'S TOURNAMENT (SUNDAY)

P.M. ; 1:00—R. C. A. Mfg. Co. vs. J. J. Canning

1: 1:50 Prestel Bre Bros, os Lilly Varnish Co.

Tire Toes ae Batters os Mist n -Banner-White ny vs. Marott Shoe Co.

skeptical about the chances of anyone ever pole vaulting 15 feet, or anything closely approaching thdt figure. Yet on May 29, Bill Sefton, South-

| ern California’s greatest of a long

line of: skyscrapers, paced by his team-mate Earl Meadows, soared over a cross-bar which hung at 14 feet 11 inches. They were hot that day. They easily might have done 15 feet) or better. But they couldn’t, because 14 feet 11 inches was all for which the standards were measured. Driving through a sheet of rain that beat into his face with e stride, Bob Osgood shattered every-

thing that ever had been done before in the 120-yard high hurdles

in winning the Big Ten championship at Ann Arbor in 14 flat. This under miserable conditions on a wet and slow track. Lanky Mel Walker, Ohio State Negro com with an American A. A U. team in Stockholm, lifted himself 6 feet 9 29-32 inches for a world high jump mark. The former | record of 6 feet 9% feet was held jointly by Dave Albritton, his team-| mate, and Cornelius Johnson. * Lash Seores Double ‘Den Lash again proved his right to be called the best distance runner in the country in the

winning outdcor mile and two-mile cham- day

Ppionships. Dusky, long-legged Johnny Wood-

ruff, Pitt’s 800-meter Olympic titlist,’

ran all past performances into the

ground when he established a world

mark: of 1:478 for the half-mile,

| the traffic problem is shown by the

‘menting on another A. A. A. survey.

year for the second time in history. total for 1937 through Dec. 25 will

Stoops Sees Trend as Progressive Sign in Meeting. Problem.

quiring public school traffic safety courses, according to a survey by the American Automobile = Associa- |

room courses in safety are taught in additional states where instruction is hot mandatory. “A hopeful sign in the effort to promote ‘ national ‘ consciousness of

ready acceptance of states to require safety education,” he said. “Development of a comprehensive course of study has been favorably received by educators.’ Sportsman like driving text pamphlets are the basis of study in hundreds of schools. # “This material, prepared by traffic specidlists in collaboration with educators, has won favor from students because it is well illustrated, simple . to understand, and is -a sound approach to an important field of study.” > - Many motorists do. not know how quickly their cars can be st and are not familiar with speed

way rules, Mr. said in com-

Find Drivers Mistaken

“It was found that most drivers thought their gars could be stopped within 15 feet: or less while going 20 miles an hour, while the correct answer is 70 feet, Mr. Stoops re-: ported. “The majority of the drivers questioned thought they could*stop Within 60 feet at 40 miles an hour, whereas even with ideal conditions, The gat cannot stop in less than 150

“With regard to speed limits, most drivers knew the right limit in school zones, hut did not know the limit for. the residential districts. As to right-of-way regulations, most drivers knew the proper answers for many of the questions but were prone to give the pedestrian less right-of-way privileges than he is accorded under the law.” 4

Drop in Production of Vehicles Is Forecast

uction of automobiles and trucks in the United States and Canada will drop - 68,940 units this week, BGS Daily News reported toay. The publication said that the decision of ‘most car makers to suspend operations between Christmas and New Years ruins the industry’s chance of atigining a 5,000,000-unit

Including this week’s production, cle

run to 4,941,982 units—60,000. short of the five-million mark. Operations in the industry have been pared to two days a week in some instances, the publication reported, and several companies. do not intend to reopen’ until the second week of January. The Ford Motor Co. will continue operations throughout the holiday season with exception of Christmas and New Years. Hupmobile and Willys Ave clused 1 for the holiday season, as has the Dodge plant where an inventory is being made. Af a board of directors meeting in Lansing this week, Rowland Campbell of New York was elected chairman of | e hoard of Reo. Motor Car Co. ’

Marmon- Herrington Offers 56 Models

Fifty-six models of the MarmonHe Co. line of all-wheel-drive vehicles are offered in the 1938 Seriess the company announced to-

Innovations “Shown in New Studebakers

Times Special SOUTH BEND, Dec. 24.—Stude-

opped | day by George D. Keller, Studebaker laws of their cities and its right-of-|

Report No Accidents ETROIT, Dec. 24 (U. P.) —Pro-|

“I Fermor S. Cannon, president, an-

| shareholders this year.

Indiana One of 20 States Classes i in Public Schools, Survey Shows :

Indiana is one of the 20 states ve- |

tion, Todd Stoops, Hoosier Motor P Club secretary-manager, said class- |

This is one of the new cars the

American Autoschools over the’ |

Re quiring

Auto

country for instruction of students in safe driving, It is a Pontiac sedan equipped with dual controls.

mobile Association will use in high

embodying a new note in engineering innovations, were announced to-

vice presideny” in charge of sales.

Buick Sets December Output at 20,000

Times Special FLINT, Mich. Dec. 24.—December production schedules of the Buick Motor Car Co. call for an output of 20,181 cars, bringing total production of the new models to 85,516 units, Harlow H. Curtice, president, announced.

‘Used-Car’ Motorists Have Biggest Families,

Times Special ; NEW YORK, Dec. 24—The nation’s “used-car motorists,” who comprise more than 60 per cent of the American car owners, have about one-third more children than buyers of new cars, figures compiled by the American Petroleum Institute revealed today.

160 Truck Fleets

Times Special ; CHICAGO, Dec. 24—One hundred sixty of the 1025 fleets enrolled in the national fleet safety contest which began July 1, already have reported 14,500,000 accidentfree miles of travel, the National Safety Council, contest Sponsar, re‘ported today.

Ford Prices Include All Standard Equipment

Times Special DEARBORN, Mich., Dec. 24—The policy of including the cost of standard equipment in advertised prices of Ford cars and trucks has been adopted by the Ford Motor Co. All prices now quoted in advertising, it was announced here today, are for cars equipped ready for the road. Formerly items now included as standard equipment were classified as accessories and an extra charge made for them.

Campbell President of

Indiana Tire Co. E. Monty Campbell has assumed presidency of the Indiana Tire & Rubber Co. it was announced today.

LOAN ASSOCIATION DECLARES DIVIDEND

The Railroadmen’s Federal Savings & Loan Association has declared a semiannual dividend of $1.50 a share on all classes of stock,

nounced today The iver is lo be credited fo all accounts on Jan. 1. It will bring to approximately $900,000 the dividends declared payable to 21,000

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Let there be lah song and gladness i in your hearf—that is the wish we send you, with this Christmas greeting. And may the New Year add to your store of happiness and good fortune — health and accomplishment.. We sinbo cerely rust that we will again have. the 0p 5 irk portunity of serving you fo our illest.

Ibaker convertible sedans for 1938,

SEEKS T0 END SALE OF ‘B00KS”

Cummings Drafts Measure Aimecl at Convention Practice.

WASH NGTON, Dec. 24 (U. PJ). —Attorncy General Homer S. Cum-

| mings has drafted for the Federal

Corrupt Practices Act an amendment aimed at such activities as the sale of Democratic Convention books, Justice Department officials said today. It was learned that the amendment, details of which were withheld, already had been sent to the Budget Bureau as is required by the Administration in the cese of legislative recommendations by governmen’ officials. If. approved,

Cummings will submit it to Con-

gress al the regular session. Cummings’ plans were disclosed after Bertrand H. Snell, House minority leader and National Republican Committee former chairman, ade public a letter from Cummings. In it the Attorney General had said the Justice Department, after a comprehensive study of the present law and the facts, concluded that the sale of the convention books, which were autographed by President Roosevelt and sold to help erase the party debt, did not warrant criminal prosecusion. Snell had said he possessed information which “names the President of the United States and the Postitasier General as parties to a scheme of evasion perfected and applied Through the Democratic National Committee.” Cummings wrote Snell on Nov. 20: “My study of the, general subject leads me to the conclusion that it is desirable to amend the statute, with a view io broadening its scope.and rendering it more effective in importent particulars. To this end, I shall, in the near future, submit to the Congress proposed amendatory legislation.” Section 313 of the act, which Snell charges was violated, makes it illegal for # corporation to contribute to a

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Sam Learns Telling of | His Troubles Just Costs Him $120.

"™NHICAGO, Dec. 24 (U. P).— 4 The yuletide spirit has its evils, Sam Regeil said today. Elere’s his reason: Sam was happy last night even after two men walked into his shoe store and robbed him of $20, He was chuckling as the next cuss tomer came in, “I outsmarted those fellows,” he said. “I've been robbed before, always at Christmas time. This year I left only $20 in the cash “register and hid $120 in one of the shoe boxes.” He looked at the No. “13” on his show window. : “Maybe it’s that,” he said. “But it must be the Christmas. But this year I'm happy—only $20.” The customer left with his pure chase of socks. He returned a few minutes later. “Back again?” “What'll you have?” “I,” said the man producing a pistol, “will have the shoe box— with the $120 in it.”

N. Y. MILK PRICE CUT NEW YORK, Dec. 2¢ (U. P.)—In response to Mayor F. H. LaGuardia’s campaign to force a general reduce tion in milk prices, five independent dealers announced today that starte ing Monday Grade B milk would be sold for 9 cents a quart at 10 locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn and’ the Bronx. The price is a reduction of 2 cents a quart below the prevailing price in stores.

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