Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1938 — Page 8

By Eddie Ash

THEY'RE OFF IN THE BIG TEN

TOWNSEND, CHUCKOVITS IN TIE

ITH student rooters recovered from the holiday stretch and back on the campus to lend support to alma mater, college basketball swings into heavy duty this - week all over the nation. . , , Indianapolis will be ‘the scene of one of the featured attractions tonight when > * undefeated Michigan tackles Butler, and reports from the | _ fieldhouse indicate a brisk sale of pasteboards. .,. It’s a : safe guess that attendance will crowd 10,000. i: The Wolverines have won six straight and the Bull- | - dogs six in seven starts. . . . Enough said, what with . Johnny Townsend, the hometown product, leading the: : invaders. : ! : The Big Ten championship race opens tonight with - Wisconsin at Northwestern and the casualties will start . from that skirmish. . . . Illinois invades Indiana tomorrow night in a second Big Tenner and on the same evening in a non-Conference affair Notre Dame is booked to test the Gophers at Minnesota. . . . The Irish handed the .. Gophers a T-to-6 headache in football and a crowd of == 14,000 is expected to watch the hardwood battle. EL 8» 8 : 2.8 ® ’ PURDUE waits until Saturday to play its Big Ten in- = augural and it will be with Chicago at Chicago. . . . i Saturday will be the big night on Western Conference floors with all teams down for action. . . . Indiana will get - its second test at Iowa, Minnesota will be at Wisconsin, : Illinois at Michigan and Ohio State at Northwestern. Other games involving Big Ten teams: Ohio State at George Washington, tonight, and California at North- . western, tomorrow. . . . Following the Minnesota tilt tomorE ° row, Notre Dame heads East to play Pennsylvania in Philadelphia Saturday. ; : = » » 8 8 »

INCINNATI got out in front of Butler at the fieldhouse Saturday night, 16-13, at the half, but the Bulldogs were equal to the challenge and broke loose in the second half to win, 38-25. . . . The locals ‘found the basket on 11 of 25 shots after the intermission and held : the Bearcats to nine points. . . . Jerry ‘Steiner paced the Bulldogs : with 10 points and Art Cosgrove was close up with nine. E : In the other Hoosier game Saturday Evansville fell before Boston Gt University as Kopecky, Boston center, dropped in nine field baskets h and one foul to total 19 points. . . . Katterhenry and Harold Selnp led + the Purple Aces with 10 points each. . . / Final score was 47-39. .., o- Boston won one game in three starts in Indiana. a 2 2 = 2 = = & J TOWNSEND, Michigan's captain, and Chuck Chuckovits, Toledo University’s high-point wizard, put on a stirring scoring :% battle in Toledo Saturday night and wound up even at 19 points apiece. *=. . . Townsend tallied eight field baskets and three points from the .- foul line, Chuckovits seven baskets from the floor and five free throws. : In the second half the Rockets pulled up to within two points of * tying the score, but were distanced when Townsend cut loose on a «= scoring surge and led his team to its sixth straight victory. . .. The .> score was 50-38. . . . Townsend missed three free throws and Chuckovits

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. . LJANK LUISETTI, Stanford’s scoring ace, kept the. Cleveland fire

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>- threatened to set the baskets ablaze. . . . As it was, a detail of police -. escorted the Italian from the hall to save him from a crush of admirers: -» after he rolled up 50 points against Duquesne on 23 field goals and four t; foul shots. . . . And the basketball world is willing to settle on that <- accomplishment. . . . Stanford won, 92-27. : Luisetti’s total tops the 41-point spree achieved by Chuckovits of ‘Toledo against Adrian College early in the season. . . . Hank poured ‘em - in from every conceivable angle and on every type of shot known to © the game. . . . He played 38 of the regulation 40 minutes and the large 5 crowd stood and roared its acclaim as he left the floor. A

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> JRUTLER’S first road game will be with Marquette at Milwaukee - AD Saturday and the second with DePauw at Greencastle on Jan. 12. . « « After the Michigan game tonight, the Bulldogs will be away from hel home oor until hey Solude with Central Normal on Jan. Ea l1D. e big attraction e opin, ~ Central is on the fieldhouse slate for Jan. 18. 8 Sreyhiounds of Indiana 5 Butler probably will make an Eastern trip during the 1938-39 Soasun andl sek a Mais Saus's Garden date. . . . Coach Hinkle = ently geography in when he arranged y schedule, . . . First eight opponents are from eight Bo is seasons follows: Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio and Michigan. . . , It's a rare assortment for the fans. ss = =» : ® 2 #

CLUDING he customaty 12 Big Ten games, Ohio State’s 1937-38 4 con | engagements. . . . Purdu : . but Indiana is not scheduled this winter. . Ye ont — fo Ohio State in 1922 from Ripon College. ... He was graduated som - the University of Wisconsin and in 15 years at Ohio State his * © teams have won 160 games and lost 118. , . . Lettermen lost from last : season: Tippy Dye, John Raudebaugh, Earl Thomas and August

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as selected by Western Conference coaches. . . . Hoosiers on this win- . ter’'s Buck squad are

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a department on its toes Saturday as he turned on the heat and-

George. \ : Dye, at rd, was a sparkplug, made . Ten team: CXS SC IAeT, ; : Dy gua Vg, and the all-Big TX - | two-mile event of the Sugar Bowl|

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» On this side are some of Johnny Townsend’s teaminates on the Michigan five: 1. Russell Dobson, guard; 2. Robert Palmer, forward; 3. Robert F. Long, guard; 4. Dan Smick, center; 5. Leo Beebe, guard; in the center, No. 6, is Johnny Townsend himself, posed for one of his bes; Sunday shots.

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Locals Seek 7th Victory

Michigan Thirt Big Ten Foe For Bulldogs.

The Butler Bulldogs will face their third Big Ten opponent tonight at the Butler Fieldhouse, when they take on the mighty Wolverines of Michigan University. This contest will conclude the local five’s eightgame home stand. Next Saturday the Butler team will journey to Milwaukee to play Marquette. > Michigan is-undzfeated so far this season while Coach Tony Hinkle’s squad has suffered one setback. Iowa edged out the Blue and White last month.

Michigan will he led by Captain

Coach Cappy Cappon’s team will be Edmund Thomas, who will share the starting forward berths with Townsend. James Rae; sophomore, is the probably center, and Herman Fishman and Leo Beebe are slated to answer the starting whistle at the guards. The Bulldogs, victorious in six of seven starts this season, held a practice session yesterday morning. Hinkle is expected to use the same team which started against Cincinnati Saturday anc defeated the Bear‘cats, 38 to 25. It consists of Jerome Steiner and Bill Geyer at the forwards; George Perry, center, and Art Cosgrove and Laural Poland, guards. In case of reserve power, the Butler mentor will have Chester Jaggers and Bill Merrill on hand. The Wolverines indicated their strength Saturdey night by stopping the rambling Toledo University five, 50 to 38. The Bulldogs dropped a hard-fought 36-t0-27 contest to Michigan a year #80.

Kautskys Card Pittsburgh Five

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After losing to the New York Renaissance, 47 to 37, the Kautsky A. C. basketball team will resume its schedule in the National Profes< sional League against the Pittsburgh Hebrews at the Armory next Sunday afternoon.

The Rens exhibited their razzledazzle brand of game before the biggest crowd of the local pro season, i persons, at the Armory yesterIn the first period, the Kautskys showed improvement over their previous appearances here. The quarter ended with the score tied, 10 to 10, the teams being deadlocked four times during the session. Tarzan Cooper, who made 17, points, and Fats Jenkins starred for the Negro cagers while Harlan ‘Wilson and George Chestnut led the Kautsky scoring. Summary: Renaissance (47) | Kautskys (37)

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| Pitcher. In the curtain-raiser at the Armory yesterday, the Eli Lilly quintet downed the Goldsmith Secos, 26 to 20. \ v

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NEW ORLEANS, Jan. §. — Don| Lash, former Indiana U. track star, > today had avenged his defeat of last | S20

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As Well as on Hardwood

Johnny came marching home again today anid even though there was a pack of bold Wolverines trailing him, local basketball fandom was expected to send ifs largest delegation of the year to Butler Fieldhouse tonight to ‘welcome Johnny on his annual visit. Capt. John Townsend of Michigan, former Tech High School net wizard and regarded by many as © .

this city’s greatest contribution to collegiate basketball, is expected to give one of his customary exhibitions of magic with the basketball, an event no true hardwood fan would care to miss. : He leads Michigan’s unbeaten

Wolverines ‘against Coach Tony

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the Wolverines’ last warm-up game before they open their 1938 Big Ten title pursuit against Illinois at Ann Arbor Saturday night. Johnny hasn’t grown much since he left Tech. He still weighs 200 pounds, and still stands 6 feet 4 inches. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl C. Townsend, 6120 E. Washington St. Honored in Big Ten Twice named on the All-Big Ten team and last year tied for runnerup in the loop’s individual scoring race, Townsend, who is “Jake” to Coach Franklin - (Cappy) Cappon and the other Wolverines, is a strong favorite to gain All-America honors in this, his last year. Michigan just has completed an extensive Eastern tour during which the Atlantic seaboard and New England observers were treated to the fancy ; this 21-year-old youth who has been dubbed the “Houdini of the Hardwood.” Johnny was just a sophomore in 1932 when Tim 8S Tech netters went proudly to that year’s state tournament. Bosse of Evansville stopped highly favored Tech in the second round, ending Town-

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Johnny will play tonight, but this time Tech went to the last game, meeting Logansport to decide the championship. : Throughout the year, Hoosier coaches had concentrated on stopping Tech’s master ball-handler. Coach Cliff Wells of Logansport, whose team had won a season game from Pech while Townsend was out with an injury, decided to leave Tech’s back guard to do as he pleased and put two men on Townsend. By doing so, the Berries held Johnny to four points and grabbed the state title with a 26-to-19 vic-

tory. As Modest as Ever

Stopping Townsend was such a feat that Wells later devoted a large part of a national article to describing how his team throt-

tled the Tech star. : : Despite the fame which has come to Townsend, he remains as self effacing, as serious as he was in 1931 when he was just another soph trying to make the team at Tech, known only to his coaches and teammates. He was named Michigan’s candidate as the outstanding

athlete-gentleman in 1936-37 and

stands on that record this year. With the popular fancy shifting toward those athletes who know how to behave in classrooms, Town= send should receive even more acclaim for he is as alert and smart in the recitation room as on the ketball floor. He is almost to join Whizzer White and other student-athletes as a wearer of a

Penn State, 43; Western Reserve, 34.

Butler team which will try its best to defeat the strong Michigan team at the Fieldhouse tonight: 7. Jerry Steiner, forward; 8. Art Cosgrove, guard; 9. Chester Jaggers, guard; 10. Laural Poland, guard; 11. Willard Fawcett, forward. In the background, a typical . Fieldhouse crowd,

Basketball ‘ Scores (Games of Saturday)

STATE COLLEGES Butler, 38; Cincinnati, 25. Boston, 47; Evansville, 39.

OTHER COLLEGES ' Michigan, 50; Toledo, 38. Stanford, 92; Duquesne, 27. Marquette, 36; Iowa, 23. Ohio State. 53; Baltimore U., 37. Michigan State, 48; Case, 34. Loyola (Chicago), 34; Carnegie Tech, 25.

St. Joseph’s (Philadelphia), 50; Creighton, 40. Nebraska, 43; Niagarz, 37. . Marshall, 52; St. Louis U,, 24. George VWashington, 35; Minne-

sota, 27. Marietta, 38; West Virginia, 32. LOCAL HIGH SCHOOLS " Richmond, .28; Tech, 22. St. Paul's (Marion), 24; Sacred Heart, 20. Shortridge, 36; Bloomington, 23. St. Mary’s (Anderson), 29; Cathe-

OTHER HIGH SCHOOLS (Dunkirk Tovaney)

Dunkirk, 34; Albany, 30. Portland, 24; Redkey, 23. Dunkirk, 26; Portland, 26. (Fort Wayne Tourney) La Porte, 23; Kokomo, 22. South Side (Ft. Wayne), Horace Mann (Gary), 21. La Porte, 25; South Side, 24 (overtime). (Hartford City Tourney) Hartford City, 31; Decatur, 29. Bluffton, 29; Berne, 24. Hartford City, 24;:Eluffton, 17. (Martinsville Tourney) Martinsville, 29; Monrovia, 25.. * Columbus. 37; Greencastle, 31. Martinsville, 40; Columbus, 22. (Muncie Tourney) Muncie, 35; Newcastle, 26. Anderson. 27; Logansport, 17. : Muncie, 25; Anderson, 12, (Vincennes Tourney) Washington, 20; Bedford, 14. Jasper, 22; Frankfort, 20. Jasper, 32; Washington, 26. (North Manchester Tourney) . Warsaw, 36; North Manchester, 33. ‘Huntington, 27; Wabash, 22. Warsaw, 30; Huntington, 27 (overtime). (Lebanon Tourney) : Advance, 24; Dover, 16. Pinnell, 24; Thorntown, 20. Advance. 23; Pinnell, 21, : (Lawrenceburg Tourney) Milan, 27; Batesville, 25 (overtime), Lawrenceburg, 32; Aurora, 26. Lawrenceburg, 49; Milan, 24. (H2mmond Tourney) _ Whiting 32; Hammond Clark, 31. Hammond, 39; Hammond Tech, 22. Hammond, 40; Whiting, 25.

{ Ellettsviile, 21; Spencer, 15. ’ Bloomfield, 25; Lyons, 14. Stillivan, 29; Clinton, 28. Dugger, 43; Linton, 28. Midland. 36; Jasonville, 19. Wiley (7, Haute), 40; Garfield (T. Haute), 16, :

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Riley (South Bend), 22, 4 : Mishawks ; Mappanee, 29. Kendal ville, 33; ‘Ligonier, 15.

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off the host Vincennes team, Frankfort and Washington ir. their dash to triumph while Washington’s downtrodden Hatchets did their bit with a 20-to-14 win over Bedford's Stonecutters, who had boasted an 11-game winning streak-—including a tourney victory over Huntingburg— before they - ran into revitalized Hatchets. Chet Kessler’'s Hammond Wildcats cpntinued their nonstop journey through Northwestern Indiana net clubs by copping the four-team tourney at Hammond, downing their neighborhood rivals, Hammond Tech, for the secorid time this season and knocking off the Whiting Oilers in the final round of the tourney. In the north, tke La Porte Slicers siashed their way to the front with an unexpected victory in the four-team match it South Side of Ft. Wayne, La Porte startec. its play in this event by snapping the winning streak of the tall Kokomo Wildcats, then beat South Side out of the title with an overtime decision at night. : Most other holiclay tourneys went as expected, although Muncie was not expected to double the score on: Anderson, which it did in winning the Big Four tourney at Muncie. i Martinsville found Columbus easier to beat than when the two clubs met last November, thus winning its own tourney while Warsaw, Lawrenceburg, Hartford City and Advance emerged on top in various other holiday sessions. Dunkirk, coached by the lanky Fred Fechtman, ex-Indianapolis

| and Indiana U, net ace, downed Al-

bany and Portland to cop the tournament at Dunkirk.

Local Prep Teams

Face Busy Week

Local high school net teams began preparations today for this week's 12-game schedule with Friday's - Manual - Cathedral and Martinsville = Shortridge battles heading the list. Shortridge, only Indianapolis five to win Saturday night, will be host to Coach Glenn Curtis’ sturdy Martinsville Artesians, who have lost only three izames out of 13, two of these by narrow margins. Shortridge’s margin Saturday over Bloomington was 13 points while the Artesians won by only three points from Bloomington in their bitter Morgan County rivalry tilt Tech, dropped hy Morton of Richmond after a thrilling two-point win from Shortridge, will go to Logansport Friday for a North Central Conference engagement with the oftbeaten Loganberries of Coach Cliff Wells, returning to their East Side basketball home Saturday against another foe of fair ability, Rush-

ville. * Although. Cathedral and Manual

Points for Salem After Triumph in Tourney

Wildcats Score Upset in South by Beating Vincennes, | Frankfort and Washington.

Jasper’s amazing Wildcats looked forward today to their scrap Friday night with the Salem Lions, Southeastern Indiana conference 1 after having thrown southern Indiana basketball standings into turmoil with an upset victory in the Old Post Tourney at Vincennes Saturday. The Wildcats, coached by the ex-Indiana star, Woodrow Weir, knocked

have won only three games between them so far this season, their forthe coming meeting at the Cathedral

hot affair due to the two schools’ keen riva.ry. Cathedral was easily |

Saturday.

Giants will inake their second trip to northern Indiana within three . weeks, going to South Bend Friday for a “brotherly” game with Johnny Wooden’s Central of South cagers. Cat and Johnny Wooden are members of a well-known Mars tinsville family of basketball players, The complete local schedule for the coming week: Ta FRIDAY

Martinsville at Shortridge. Alexandria at Washington. Manual at Cathedral, Tech a; Logansport. ; Broad Ripple at Plainfield. Crispus: (Gary). SATURDAY

Washirgton at Greenfield, Danville at Cathedral. Manua.. at Southport, Rushvi'le at Tech. Brownsburg at Broad Ripple. Kirklin. at Park.

Katherine Rawls Takes New Title

CORAL GABLES, Fla., Jaf..2=¢1J, P).—Katherine. Rawls. of Fb Lauderdale, Fla. today added ane other national swimming mark ta

her long list of records.

Swimming over the 20-yard. course in the Miami Biltmore pool here, Miss Rewls sped to a new 50-yard breastrcke record. Her time was 34.6 seconds, which knifed 1.4 sece onds off the standard set 11 years ago by Agnes Geraghty of New York. 4 Two other national records were sent into the discard. ‘ Peter Rick of New York sliced

style record held by George Kojaclke of New York. He streaked over the short course in 28.6 seconds. = The third record-breaking effort was turned in by Dorothy Forbes of Philad¢lphia who swam the 100< seconds, lowering Eleanor Holm's mark by 4.6 seconds. ; be

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