Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1937 — Page 14

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NILE AND BOB WERE NEIGHBORS

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Two neighbor hamlets in Towa—Van Meter and Adel— with a combined population of 1400, boast as many truly great atliletic heroes per capita as any other district in ‘the United States. . .. Formerly just a couple of bus stops in the corn and hog country, the little towns suddenly leaped into the headlines as a result of sports accom- . ~~. plishments by native sons. Van-Meter is. the home of the celebrated Bob Feller, strikeout wonder of the American League and former basketball captain | at Van Meter township high school....Adel turned out Nile Kinnick, University of Iowa football and basketball ace : ; 5 ; who gained more recogniNile Kinnick . {ion on “All” grid teams Bob Feller last fall than any other Hawkeye warrior since the Aubrey

Devine era. ; While the proud citizens of van Meter want it distinctly understood that Adel can’t get away with claiming Bullet Bob Feller on the ground that it is the seat of Dallas County, they point to Nile Kinnick. with pardonable pride and relate how he played on the same American Legion baseball team with Feller for two years. : Both boys are 19 and gifted as all-around athletes. ...Kinnick is a catcher as well as a gridder and hardwood star, and if-he backstops as well as he plays football and basketball, he’d solve the Cleveland catching situation.

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Wa Kinnick was 6 years old his father rigged up a cpuple of baskets in the loft of his barn and it was there that Nile and his younger brother practiced basket shooting the year around. . . . And Kinnick, the Towa guard of today, is as accomplished on the basketball court as he'is on the gridiron. ! Ei two campaigns, the Kinnicks

After Nile starred with Adel High for i moved to Omaha, where the current Hawkeye performed so well for Benson High that he was named as an All-Nebraska forward. . . . As a sophomore at Adel, the chunky ‘athlete hit a hot streak which saw him average 12 points a game for 32 tilts-and his team reached the - finals of the Iowa state basketball tournament after scoring more than 1400 points’ during the season. ” # # # # #

INNICK'S bosom friend, Bob Feller, is spending the holidays with his grandparents and enjoying everything that goes with them. . . . He has been doing a lot of hunting. . . . Bullet Bob. says his million-dollar arm feels as good zs ever. . . . In the last month of the season he demonstrated -that the trouble that kept him on the sidelines until July had disappezred. 3 Feller got rid of his tonsils several weeks ago, and explains that he has since had more pepper and desire to exercise. . . - He was growing every day before the operation, but started to take -on weight even more rapidly following it. 3 Bob expects to be 15 potinds heavier next spring and “come in” at about 105, . . . Like Kinnick, Feller started his sports learning in the back lot and at 8 years old pitched to his father with the side of the barn as a backstop. : he 8 ® 88.8 It might be wise for baseball, football and basketball scouts to load up the gas buggy and snoop around those central Iowa barns. « + « It pays to inspect fertile ground, Sr - 8 8 » : RR OSTON UNIVERSITY, here tonight to meet Butler, is in the Hoosier State for three games. . .. The Terriers will tackle DePauw Friday and Evansville Saturday. ... Boston is the alma mater of Mickey Cochrane, famed manager of the Detroit Tigers. DePauw returned to practice Monday after a vacation of 10 days and Coach Donovan Moffett immediately got busy. ... Hegvy drills were held by the Tigers Monday and yesterday in preparation for the intersectional contest. . . . Although DePauw has played Boston U. in football, it will be the first hardwood tilt between the two schools. The Tigers have won three games in five starts this season.

2 » # ” ” ” IBS KAUTZ, Loyola's wizard shotmaker, scored 22 points on nine field goals and four charity tosses against California the other night. . . . Several days ago Coach Harold Olsen of Ohio State ordered his pastimers to bear down on defense and showed them how. ... And against Creighton they did as the teacher taught by holding

their opponents to a single fieid goal in the first half. The Bucks used 15 players and the Bluejays nine.

Jack Hunt Sets Pace

For Bowlers With 682

Jack Hunt was the pace-setter in local bowling activity today, crashing the maples for a 682 series in the City League at Pritchett's Alleys.

Other high scorers in this loop

were Jack Colvin with 626, Miller

620, Bill Brunot and L. Lausmarn each 613; Stark, 611; Walt Holtman,

610, and King, 604. Jordan Funeral] Home won three games while Sweeney's Coney Islands and Carson’s Pontiacs triumphed twice. George F. Cram Co. totaled 2929, its opponents to roll later. Scores: RB. Abrbaugh ..i..., 100 227 181 598 J. Douglass .ccoeeves 171 145 223-— 540 . L. Lausman . oo 177 201 285= 613 E. Gehle ..ovss000es 138 166 188— 487 J. Hunt ...oeceseese 228 242 217 683 "894 981 1044—2029 Dorothy Noone’s 556 was high in the Tuesday Night Ladies League. Washington Hotel, Rudy’s Service, Hoffhein’s and George O. Desautels Co. made clean sweeps and John Grande & Son Florists, Dorn Grocery, Glatt Drugs, J. A. Grande Florist

and Gardner’s annexed two-out-of-|

three verdicts. Carl Kiefer showed the way in the Pritchett Recreation circuit with 621, Harold Thoman getting 618, M. Price 611, and D. Stanton 608. Jack's Restaurant, Champagne Velvet Beer and Prank & Mary's Cafe scored shutout victories while Triangle Bowling Shirts and Murphy Lunch captured the odd game. H. C. Fox led the Optical League with 622. Optometrists took three games while Shuron Optical and Continental Optical came through with\a pair of triumphs. A 577 by Kirch was outstanding in the Public Service Co. loop at Pritchett’s. Sets Season Record Lou Fahrbach set a season record of 672 for the St. Philip No. 1 loop, John Kiesel hitting for 658. Judy Pinnell connected for a 863 count, high for the campaign in the North Side Automotive League at. the Uptown Alleys. Alice Shea turned in a 587 to “head the Gray, Gribben & Crey Ladies circuit at the Hotel Antlers,

Restaurant and John Grande & Son were ahead twice. At the Fountain Square Alleys,

reation circuit with 633, Rea getting 627 and Cork and Chase each 603. The Chasers, with .2936, captured three games while Home Package Liquor and Coca-Cola gained a brace of triumphs. The Chasers’

scores: Cork .vsecsnee 199 603 Chase ccecescssences 167 205 231 608 Coghill cesssssncense 100 212 221 593 CRSSETlY ..0seeeeese. 205 194 214— 638 Mack ...oeeseesseess 176 189 139— 504 Totals 933° 999 1004—2936 Bill Shine, led the Ipalco loop at Fountain Square with 606. A 656 by P. Smith was high in the Commercial League at the Illinois drives, .Polock turning jn a 614, Newman 604, Carteaux 602 and Jacobs 600. Crescent Paper and Cohen Brothers: made a clean sweep and Ben Harrison, P. R. Mallory No. 1 and George J. Mayer Co., annexed the odd game. Se Fred Shaw's 630 set. the pace for the Parkway No. 2 League, Farm-

triple winners and Monument Life, Hudepohl Beer, Black Cats and D. & B. Recreation scored two-out-of-three decisions. yi Cn A 627 by Showalter featured the session of the Rotary Club: circuit at the Indiana drives,

In the Auto Transportation loop

+{ at the Central Alleys, Eaton showed

the way with 527. Goodyear No. 1 blanked its opponent while Bill Anderson Spring Service and Ziffrin Trucking triumphed twice. . ° :

EASTERNERS FAVORED

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29 (U. P.).—The: Eastern All-Stars today were favored at betting odds of 5-4 to defeat the Western team in the

| annual Shrine benefit football game New Year's Day, = /

Eastern money on. the long end,

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IN ALL-STAR GAME|

5 TIED Bill Heinlein Among Those Setting Pace

140 to Stay Close to Top As Final Round Begins. HOLLYWOOD, Fla., Dec. 28 (U.

the lead and with 12 other golfers grouped from one to three strokes back, the'class of the nation’s professional golfers today hegan.a 36hole drive for the Hollywood Beach Hotel Open title and $4000 g cash As the final round began, Johnny Revolta and Horton Smith of Chicago, Craig Wood of Rumson, N. J., Frank Moore of Mamaroneck, N. Y., and Leonard Dodson of Springfield, Mo., were tied for the lead with two-under-par 138’s. There were a dozen others close enough to figure seriously in the running, Dick Metz of Chicago, Bruce. Coltart of Haddonfield, N. J., and Willie MacFarlahe of Hollywood had 139’s; and P. G. A. champion Denny

| Shute, Sam Byrd of Philadelphia

and Bill Heinlein of Indianapolis were tied at 140. One stroke farther back and in contending position were National Open champion Ralph Guldahl, Tommy Armour of Boca Raton, Fla.; Ray Mangrum of Dayton, O.; Ed Oliver of Wilmington, Del.; Maurice Walsh of Scarsdale, N. Y., and Jimmy Hines of New York, at 141. Sam Snead of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. who won the Nassau and Miami Opens last week, had 144. Johnny Farrell of Hollywood, Billy Burke of Bellaire, Fla.; Wiffy Cox of Washington and Jack Patroni of Shawnee, Pa., were tied at 142. Starting the final day’s play with 143 totals were Bobby Cruickshank of Richmond, Va.! Paul Runyan of White Plains, N. Y.; Stanley Horne of Ottawa, Canada; Joe and Mike Turnesa of New York, and Willie Klein of Miami Beach, Fla. The 60 pros ‘who carded 148 or less for the first 36 holes and the 10 lowest scorir.g amateurs, led by Bob Service of Dayton, O., at 146, qualified for today’s play. :

Six Honored by Baseball Paper

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20 (U. P.) —Bix men were named today to receive the ‘annual awards to outstanding

1937 season by Sporting News, baseball’s national weekly. Chosen from the business, man-

named were: E. G. Barrow, secre-tary-business ‘manager of the New York - Yankees; William = B. McKechnie, menager of the Boston Bees; Johnny Allen, pitcher forthe Cleveland Indians; Bob. Lamotte, vice. president of - the Savannah Sally League club; Jake Flowers, manager of the Eastern Shore League Salisbury club, and Charles Keller, outfielder for the - Newark Bears. : Barrow: was cited for his acumen maintaining sources of new talent and the business conduct of his club. McKechnie was named for his skill in developing pitchers Jim Turner and Lou Fette. ; Allen was recognized for his feat in winning 15 games and losing only one last season. , He holds a percentage record of .739, an all-time high for major league pitchers.

TRIP TO EUROPE FOR BETTY HENRY

SOUTH BEND, Dec. 20 (U. P.). —Betty Henry, 13-year-old Riley High School pupil, today prepared to leave for New York where she will join the United States table tennis team to sail for the world’s championship tournament in London. Her appointment was received from Carl Ziesberg, United - States Table Tennis Association president, on recomendation of Jimmy MecClure of Indianapolis, a team member. 3

JOCK SUTHERLAND MAY RESIGN AT PITT

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 29 (U, P)— Football Coach John B. (Jock) Sutherland of the University of Pittsburgh today was reported pre- ] g to resign the coaching position he has held 14 years. » The latest’ report, credited to Sutherland’s friends, was that he is

at odds with the administration at |

Pitt. THe report. said he was pre-

and was considering a coaching position on fhe West Coast.

MOVE TO ORGANIZE ~ |smee U.'S. OLYMPIC TEAM wou

NEW YORK, Dec. 20 (U..P).—| hin

‘when Olympic Asso-

President Avery T. Brundage

announced today. ‘ )

gram to

to decide when and where tryouts will be held, |.

Indianapolis Golfer * Shoots |

P.)—Jammed in a five-way tie for}

leaders in the baseball world for the |.

agement and player ranks, those|

paring gn, effective at the close of die. 1930. gridkon season, | man

the New York Athletic Club, Jan. 8, | 2

for each sport on the’ Olympic pro- |.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1987

Injury Fails to Check Chapman

Sam Chapman, taking this lateral, is nursing two injured fingers, but Vic Bottari, tossing the ball, is. ‘at half back for

quick to say that his running mate

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digits required 11 stitches as the result of coming contact with a broken window pane. He and Bottari are expected to carry the bulk of the load for the Bears against Alabama Saturday. :

Farr Is Talking Again, but This Time The Boys Pay Him Heed, Joe Reports

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—~Tommy Farr is back around town spraying the holiday atmosphere with sharp, biting, emphatic phrases—but this: time the boys are keeping their dials set. They know a good broadcast when they hear it. At least when they hear it the second time, This calmly

confident young man. who learned.

about life the hard way in the Welsh coal mines hasn’t changed & ~ bit. The only thing that - has changed is that ‘he has gained the respect of his audience — which happens, in this case, to be the : sports writers. They laughed at him last summer when he sat down to tell them in very simpie, earnest words that he wasn’t a bum, that he wasn’t afraid of Joe Louis, that he really thought he had a chance, that he had the same number of hands as the Negro and that, in his own heart, he knew he had no fear. . ;

There seems to be a tradition in this country that until a foreign heavyweight has proved himself he must be automatically catalogued as 8 cross ‘between a mountebank and a Montague. This all dates back to the horrendous floppos of the Bombardier Wellses and the Bill Squireses, two historic exponents of the fragile chin. . On this subject you would think some of us might have learned the virtue and wisdom of tolerance and patience with the passing years— the years that saw Max Schmeling rise to the heavyweight championship, saw the rugged Paulino prove to be better than the average, saw old Primo Carnera knock out Jack Sharkey. Or should that be mentioned in a serious paragraph? ~

Anyway Farr was from the other side. Ergo he was a hooligan. A popoff guy, too. And his favorite subject was Farr. He could do this and he could do that. Hadn't the fellow ever heard ‘of Joe Louis the killer? What were his friends leading him into? And on the whole— taking him outside the ring—a nice, personable sort of chappie,

He Hasn’t Changed

Well, to repeat Farr hasn't changed a bit. He is here to fight Jim Braddock late next month. He feels he will beat him. . . , “I understand Braddock hits destructively with his right pend. This ies not surprise me. Most heavyweights do. 3 shall just try to keep away from Farr doesn’t say he Is going to win the world championship, but you

can sense he feels that he has better | -

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to beat Louis and while still off the record Schmeling wouldn't be able to beat him. And somehow you more than half believed him. Schmeling demonstrated, at least; on one particular night, that he was Louis’ master. . Why then did Farr persist in rating Schmeling below the Negro? : Jit “Because of Louis’ punch. I can still feel that right-hand with which he hit me between the eyes in the seventh round. I think it was the seventh, From the beginning I was determined he ‘shouldn't hit . me with his right, but he did. It came so fast I couldn’t evade him. puncher like Louis, who hits with such speed and power, is liable to hit. you a finishing blow. any moment. I am sure. Schmeling isn't

Londos Whips Baba With Strange Hold

DETROIT, Dec. 29 (U. P)—Al Baba had a sore neck today after losing a second match to Jim Londos through either a chin hold, a strangle hold, or as Jim called it, an “unconscious” hold.

Baba was seemingly headed for victory when he slammed Londos to the canvas and the stubby: Greek came up bleeding and moving uncertainly after 44 minutes wrestling. Londos’ grogginess lasted only a moment, however. He walked straight to the bald Turk and slapped on the much-discussed hold: Baba dropped to the floor, unable to continue. Referee Ted Gries said it was a legal hold. Many of the 10,000 spectators thought it was a strangle hold. Londos himself said: “It is what I call my unconscious hold. It. is not even a half strangle and is a discovery I have made. No other wrestler knows it and no fair referee will call it a strangle.”

SANTA CLARA SQUAD ARRIVES IN HOUSTON

HOUSTON, Tex., Dec. 20 (U. P.). —Coach Buck Shaw and his Santa Clara football squad arrived from San Prancisco aboard their special train today and prepared to hold workouts during the morning and afternoon in preparation for "the Sugar Bowl game with Louisiana State University in New Orleans on New Year's Day. : Coach Shaw made arrangements to practice on Rice Institute's field today and tomorrow and will crowd in four sesions before leaving for Louisiana. His party included 46 players and coaches,

~ Several hundred Santa Clara fans

continued to New Orleans a special train. :

ARCARO GETS $15,000 Eddie Arcaro, who rides for the ‘Greentree Stable and now is accepiing mounts at Tropical Park, will draw the highest salary of any jockey in 1938 with a contract that calls for $15,000, He. a 10 per cent of all ‘purses’ won.

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he’s talking about.”

that type of hitter. ‘In fact I know he isn’t. And I feel very confident I would be able to keep inside the German’s right. That's his best punch, too, isn’t it?” ‘Were this the Farr of last sum-

mer talking, some of his listeners

might have been disposed to scoff. But it was the Farr who backed up practically everything he threatened when put to the test, the Parr who refused to shudder before Louis, who, on the contrary rushed into him with flailing fists and who

‘made the fight look so close that

more than one ringsider went away

A | feeling he should have received a

draw anyway. And the attitude toward Farr now is, “give the gent the floor, Maybe he knows what Farr is a throwback to the old days of the prize ring when the gladiators backed themselves. Someone asked him if he had bet on himself against Louis. “Yes, I bet $2000 on myself,” he said quietly. “To stay the limit?” he was asked. “I never bet that way. I always bet to win.” This can serve as a solid illustration of the young man’s deep faith in himself. It’s one of the things that makes him a very tough Johnny inside the ropes.

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Kipke Seeks Job as Coach, He Tells Club

Turned Down Business Offers; Urges Support for His Successor.

- By GEORGE KIRKSEY Uniteil Press Staff Correspondent NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 20.—Harry Kipke, ‘710. coached the University of Michigan football team for nine years ‘ail was dismissed unexpectedly a month ago, announced today before the New Orleans Rotary Club thal he intended to remain in the- coaching game. This was the first cefinite announcement by Kipke concerning his future plans.

quite a number of offers to go into various businesses,” Kipke said. “Some of them are very tempting. But tke . thrill and lure of this coachirg profession. are deeply rooted. When fall comes around I hope I'm out there with the boys.” As retiring president of the American Football Coaches Association of Anierica, holding its annual meeting here, Kipke was invited to speak before the club today. He spoke about the problems and pit-

‘| falls of a football coach and wished

his successor every “break.” . { “They can’t keep Michigan down for long,” said Kipke. “Support my successor and stand by the team, I say to Michigan men everywhere.”

Offers Are Reported

Even while Kipke was speaking other iichools were seeking his services. Twp Southern schools, rumored to be Mississippi and Mississippi State, tiready have opened negotiations with him. Kipke’s name also was linked with the coaching job at the University of Pennsylvania, which ‘Harvey Harmon vacated on Mond: y. Several other coaches here are in the sare boat with Kipke. They include ‘Ed Walker, ex-Mississippi coach; {Harry Mehre, who resigned after |i years with the University of Georgi: ; Don McAllister, recently dismisigd by the University of South Caroliia; and shorty Propst, fired by Scufthwestern. University (Memphis).| Like Kipke, they all hope to land 1¢w jobs. Othe: coaches whose jobs are safe are willing to talk about the rules. Glenr 8. (Pop) Warner, Temple, whose team played four scoreless ties 11:; season, advocated adopting some «f the rules used-by profes-

|, Bo Shows Movies “Wy should we let professionals cash ‘n on spectacular football while! ve are playing scoreless ties?” asked Warner. “The defense has outgrywn the offense, and I am in favor of a change to help the offen;e.” Mo: of today’s session of the footbi!l coaches will be confined to a discussion of rules and a study of moviz; of prominent games of last

Golden Gloves . Boxing

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Colleges in the Southern Cone

North Carolina’s All-America ‘éiid, but the Tarheel star dismayed them all by bobbing up again on -the basketball floor, where ‘he plays a great game at forward.

ing in at The Times-Legion Leads quarters at 119 E. Ohio St. Bud Cottey, a former champion, was among the early birds and he’s going after honors in the 126pound Open class. Bud is an exe perienced amateur and is a member of the Oliver A. C. at Oliver’ and: Warren Aves, where Tom Leeper and Johnny Denson are dishing out instructions to a group of young glove tossers. :

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Upset Is Scored

olis tournament.

Junior and boy aspirants to the nae tional indoor tennis championships,

.with one seeded player already

eliminated from each division, batYe for quarter round ‘berths toe

y. Eighth seeded junior, Ralph Daw son of Forest Hills, N. Y., was the victim of a minor upset when he bowed 6-0, 8-5 to George Kraft of New York, yesterday. Third among the four seeded boy players, William T. Vogt of Philacempmnia, tee faulted to. Joseph Barber of Perth Amboy, N. J. Kraft meets David S. Johnson, Washington, D. C.,, and

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TOURNEY DATE SET . BUNKER HILL, Ind., Dec. 20.

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