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ously into the annual promises of the Dodger directors.

HIS week-end will give a splendid slant on the Big Ten basketball situation. . . . Five championship games scheduled tomorrow which will throw all member teams into action. . . . The program: Indiana at Iowa, Purdue at Chicago, Ohio State at Northwestern, Illinois at Michigan, Minnesota at Wisconsin. . . . ! And on Monday : Minnesota, Purdue at Illinois, Ohio State at Michigan, Chicago at Wisconsin, Northwestern at Iowa. Since two games have been played, the 10 coming up will give the dopesters plenty of statistics to ‘work over and figure out some deductions... . . The chips are down in these battles and players and coaches are under heavy strain. . . . Thus far Northwestern downed Wisconsin in : mild upset and Indiana outlasted Illinois in an overtime

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thriller. The basketball handicappers judged the Indiana-Illini affair as a toss-up and the contest proved them right since the teams were deadlocked at the end of regulation time. % o H % LI. the experts are waiting to see how Purdue goes in its Rig Ten opener at Chicago tomorrow. . . . Ward Lambert's nonstop team was the talk of the country during its preliminary campaign and is not likely to slow down now. . . . The Boilermakers led the Big Ten in total ts last vear with 511 in 12 games. . .. They have not played since Dee. 29. but have been blistering the floor in practice and the word from Lafayette indicates the Old Gold and Black netters still are hitting the hoop from

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angles, Purdue won eight and lost four in the championship race last winter and Chicago dropped 12 in a row. ... The Maroons are improved this season and proved it by win. ning three out of five prelim tussles, # E ” FERRY STEINER, the sophomore sensation with Butler, is 20 years « old todav and he'll celebrate the occasion by taking his first train ride to Milw where the Bulldogs are hooked to clash with the Marquette Hilltoppers tomorrow night . The lad from Berne has had

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a regular with the Bulldogs until the season was well under way, but yicked up speed once he became a starter and is now out in front of his on points with a total of 63 Steiner hurt his ankle during practice the other day and is a doubtful starter against the Hilltoppers in the Brewery City, . Jowa, the only team to defeat Butler so far, lost to Marquette, but Northwestconquerer of the Hilltoppers, was trounced by the Hinklemen Marquette has a squad of tall veterans and the Bulldogs will have to iepend upon speed and accurate basket sniping ” o ! Co still has four college quintets in the undefeated class 1 and will go to the post in games tonight and tomorrow V are A ee Indiana Central, Earlham and Manchester sntral tackles Kokomo Junior College at University Heights tonight, Earlham is at Wabash and tomorrow Manchester will go to bat against Valparaiso Notre Dame has completed its schedule with Big Ten teams and emerged with three victories and two defeats The Irish annexed a pair from Northwestern and one from Wisconsin They lost to Illinois in overtime and to the strong Minnesota Gophers ” rn n o INCRE DAME plays Pennsylvania in Philadelphia tomorrow and 1 Canisius in BufTalo Monday Coach Keogan's five will return to the home floor on Saturday, Jan. 15, to meet the University of KenKy Wildeats. . Keogan has been placed in a ticklish spot due to the ss of form by Johnny Moir, forward, and Paul Nowak, center. Brilliant last season, the veterans did an about face this year and will be dropped as starters while the Irish coach experiments with a new lineup Moir as ting

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the hoop for a marvelous average last winter and was snappiest forwards in the nation . A basketa batting slump in baseball, is s difficult to explain.

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Herb Bonn son's Duquesne guards for the local Kautsky

Amateur Basketball

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feature contest of last night's Man- | ufacturing League play at Dearborn | gym. In other games, Schwitzer- | Cummins downed P. R. Mallory, 24 to 21, and E. C. Atkins dropped Tex- | aco, 41 to 20

An inter-city serap between two! Omar Baking Co. fives will be played | tomorrow night at Dearborn gym. At 8:40 p. m., the Columbus, O., Omars will meet the local crew, dis The standing “and schedule of the | Indianapolis ‘Walther League, played | on Sunday afternoons, is as Rowe

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Tomorrow's schedule North Side Junnors at Cathedral

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Blue Devils | . Meet Tech in First Round

| Broad Ripple. Dark Horse, | Draws Bye; Series Starts Ja Jan. 14.

One hundred prep basketballers will carry the banners of the five local public high schools in the annual city series, to be played Jan. 14 and 15. These 100—half varsity and half reserve players—were nameg list made public today. The tourney will be played at the Tech gym. Following is the list of eligibles:

VARSITY PLAYERS Broad Ripple—Bower, Burger, Carpenter, Dawson, Duncan, Knipe, Miller, Perkins, Scott and Taylor. Manual—Hibner, Petroff, Robinson, Wyant, Phillips, Stevens, Snoddy. O'Neil, McCarty and Hansing. Shortridge — Allerdice, Breiner, Bruce, Burrin, Krampe, Raber, Schlake, Stautz and Swinford Tech—Christian, Evans, Hickey, Higginbotham, Holland, Hook, Kramer, MacDonald and Reed. Washington — Beasley, Beuke, Brunner, Canter, Carter, Dowden, Kersey, Leerkamp, WMeCalip and Meyer. RESERVE PLAYERS Broad Ripple—Christ, Cornelius, Dawson, Herrmann, Hyde, Meisner, MRK Powell, Scott and Tresser. anual — Timmons, Parkes. Dersch, Hickey, son, Smith, Koch, Mueller and Williams. Shortridge-—Billings, Gage, Hardy, Hesler, Levinson, Mercer, Merrill, Miller, Stiver and Williams. Tech — Bradford, Buddenbaum, Carroll, Engelking, Evans, Hayes, Howard, Kramer, Tolin and Von Spreckelson, Washington—Adjieff, Coats, Dimanchefi, Dragan, Gerrish, Gingery, Howard, Jones, Negley and Tullis. The draw matched the two. tourney favorites, Shortridge and Tech, in the first round of play. Broad Ripple, the dark horse in this vear’s event, drew a bye.

the title won a year ago by playing Manual in the first game of varsity play Among the second teams, Broad Ripple’s and Manual’s B outfits inaugurate play at 7 p. m. Jan, 14. After the Manual-Washington tilt, the reserves of Shortridge and Washington meet. Tech's second team drew a bye

Manual winner. The complete tourney Friday, Jan. 14 7 p. m.—Broad Ripple reserves vs. Manual reserves. | 8 p. m—Washington varsity vs. {Manual varsity 9 p. m-—Shortridge reserves vs Washington reserves Saturday, Jan. 15 1 p. m—Tech reserves vs. Ripple- Manual winner i 2%. -Tech varsity ridge varsity 3 p. m.—Broad Ripple varsity vs. Washington-Manual winner 7:30 p. m.—Shortridge-Washing-‘ton reserve winner vs. winner Saturday 1 p. m. game 8:30 p. m.—Tech-Shortridge varwinner vs. winner Saturday 3 p. m, game T. R. Smith of Lafayette and Tom Baker of Anderson are to be the officials

Less Lively Ball Adopted by A. A.

COLUMBUS, OO. Jan. %.—-The American Association has cast its lot with the National League and | has adopted a less lively ball for the 1938 season. George M. Trautman, |A. A. president, announced last | night that Minneapolis, Milwaukee, | Indianapois, Columbus and Louis- | ville voted for the new ball, while Kansas City, St. Paul and ‘Toledo voted to stick with the “rabbit” sphere. “The new ball, known as No. 4, is of the same construction as the No. 3 (American League ball) with the same c¢enter, same yarn and same winding,” President Trautman said. “The difference comes in the leather cover, the new ball being 1-128th inch thicker. It also has a five-strand thread seam, instead of four, with the result the seam is raised slightly. This gives the piteher a somewhat better grip. 2

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Davis Receives All-America Award |

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One of the features of the recent All-Star game at San Francisco between the East and the West was the presentation of blankets to the players named by the All-America Board of Football of which Christy center, is chairman. Shown with

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Joe Wonders Why F. D. R. Shows Such Neglect of Downtrodden (7) Ballplayer

JOE WILLIAMS oA, Special Writer { NEW YORK, Jan. 7—Mr. Roosevelt covered a lot of territory in his brisk workout on the Ye dian | field the other day but he didn’t get around to saying anything about the downtrodden slaves of baseball and this was an unfortunate omission Joe DiMaggio already has denied that he has signed for such a paltry sum as $25,000 | Any day now you will be read- | ing in the sports pages how others | of these oppressed people are having | the very juice of | life squeezed out | of their undernourished carcasses by the tories of the ivory | trust, leaving them no alternative but to refuse their contracts and go back to

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This is one of the economic miseries we have with us at iL} times, in prosperity, in depression | and in recession, and since Mr. Roosevelt seems determined to get | everything fixed up just peachy in | this country, it is strange he has | neglected to investigate this particular and peculiar problem. Of course, it may be that some | of the other problems in the social | scheme are more pressing and that | it is difficult for a humanitarian, | even of Mr. Roosevelt's dimensions, | to get sweaty about some clover | kicker who thinks he ought to | have $50,000 instead of $40.000 a | vear for nudging a baseball into | the stands. I wouldn’t know about that, but I | do know there is nothing so important to the demon athletes as!

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their pay checks, and come this time of the year they begin to put on the pressure, making all soris of silly threats as to what they will do with the remainder of their precious lives if they don’t get their | asking price. i These threats are seldom carried out for the simple reason that [in the end the demon athletes must | take what they are offered or stay | out of baseball, a forbidding sort of | situation which explains and prob. [ed ably justifies their loud talking and

swaggering antics.

{ If they make good their threats | and quit they are just through because as every l0-year-old child | knows baseball is the tightest | monopoly in existence; an office worker, a sales manager or an automobile VOTRE can quit in rebellion against what he considers unfair | trade conditions and run a fair chance of doing just as well or better elsewhere, but a baseball player | can’t because when he quits organized baseball he quits the only kind of baseball there is. This suggests tyranny in its most suffocating form until you consider that baseball by its very nature | must be patterened along monopo- | listic lines to exist. The business | would be reduced to complete chaos | with no profit for anybody including | the players if it were not for the | stern contractual arrangements | which practically wed the perform.

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This is the phase of the business that is always attacked when the antitrusters start viewing ‘with alarm, yet without it there ean be no organized baseball. Tt seems plain enough that baseball as =a monopoly could not have existed W

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Basketball Scores

STATE COLLEGES Evansville, 52; Indiana State, 32. OTHER COLLEGES Dayton, 36; Wittenberg, 35, William Jewell, 40: Culver-Stock-ton, 27. Wesleyan (Conn.), Loyola (Chicago), Waynesburg, 46:

50; Yale, 29. 53; Utah, 28. Salem Teach- |

Lawrence Tech, 40; Calvin, 36. Dartmouth, 60; Vermont, 32. Carnegie Tech, 39; Geneva, 32. Boston U,, 57; New Hampshire, 51. Texas Christian, 25; North Texas |

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Williamson Rates Irish And I. U. Among Top 24

By PAUL B. WILLIAMSON

HE Golden Bears of California, finishing their 1937 season by beat ing the powerful Crimson Tide of Alabama, 13 to 0, in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day, stand out as the most consistent national collegiate champion tor the vem Not since 1934 has the Williamson System named a national cham season just closed leaves 1937 leader leading 24 teams in the system an over-all consistency of 955 per cent. The 24 teams played in 194 games and in only seven did any one of them lose to a lower rated squad; in only 20 did a lower rated opponent get a tie. In only two of the tie games did the opponents differ in ratings by more than five points. Of the final 24 leaders 14 were | among the 15 leaders and the “dark horses” predicted by the Williamsoh [System back in September, Coach L. B. Stub) Allison's Californians showed xtupenduous driving force and well-balanced co-operation in defeating the Alabamans, Intersectional play this season involved 449 games reported. That was out of a total of 2728 games predicted en and reported in which there were 244 upsets, 102 upsetting ties, 238 upsets predicted as possible, ‘and 115 ties called as probable, That gave an over-all prediction efficiens

the Californians alone as the most consistent With the holiday games completed the

I'ey for the System of 88.2 per cent, or practically 90 per cent disregarding

ties. The System predicted as probable 53 per cent, more than onehalf of the season's 115 reported ties. More than one out of seven of

reported in the 1937 season were

01 all the games predicted on and intersectional games. If assigning national ratings means anything it should be a sound and efficient gauge for intersectional piay. Conversely, intersectional play should be strongly considered in arriving at national ratings The analysis should bring out the comparison of the football strength of the eight rootball provinces of the nation, But a true comparison cannot be arrived at by including in the comparative intersectionai table every intersectional game played. Obviously all “pushovers” and unequally matched games should be eliminated That is done in the following table, which covered 337 games, ine cluding the small schools and eliminating the “breathers” or obvious “pushovers” in all sections. The table includes every fairly matched intersectional game played between every ciass of team. The percentage included ties on half-game-won and half-game-lost basis. No game involving a minor team was considered unless the opponent wax in the same class; nor any involving a major team where the opponent was » minor or a decidedly off-yeéar “name” team

INTERSECTIONAL FOOTBALL RECORD OF 1937 SEASON Section Played Won Lost Tied Percentage

Southwest 92 51 32 9 601 Southeast 92 50 32 10 59% Coast, ...... 4% a5 19 1 563 East SPT 106 32 43 11 542 . Midwest cove rees 112 50 54 ® 482 . South Atlantic 92 37 18 440 Rockies y 4X 19 2% 41% . Missouri valley 84 25 52 330 After the holiday games had cleared the smoke of battle the above table was very significant in helping the Williamson System arrive at its [24 “best” teanis of the season. The following ratings were based on the

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Yanderbilt 948 20. Holy Crows 12.9 4 ennessee 93.8 . Indiana 21.8 2%. Btanford 93.5 24, Mich, State 08.4

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%. Rice 16.0 %. Alabama 95.9 9. Dartmouth 95.7 10. Auburn 95.5 11, Notre Dame 5.8 17. Duke 12. N. Carolina 982 18. Ga. Tech 1938. by United Feature B

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U.S. TIRES TO CLASH WITH WASHINGTON

Dave DeJernet t, former Washington, Ind. star, will lead the Wash | ington All-Stars against the U. 8, | Tires netters at Pennsy Gym toMatchmaker Lloyd Carter reports night. The Washington club is un« [ that an unusual amount of interest | yeaten this year is being shown in the main event, | Following the Washington game, which brings together two of the! [the Tiremen will resume their comnation’s best known light heavy- | petition in the Bush-Feezle Btate | weight, stars, the tricky and clever | League, going to Anderson Jan, 11 Walter (Sneeze) Achiu, 181, Chinese and Crawfordsville Jan, 15, | grappler, and the aggressive Billy| Preceding the Tires-Washington | Fhom, 180, Indiana University | | tilt, due to start at 9 p. m., will be wrestling instruetor. Roth are fast | two U. 8. Tires A. A. games

Wrestling's outstanding the 225-pound Milo Steinborn of Germany, will be in the semi-windup spot on the Armory mat card Tuesday night. Milo has not seen action here for =everal! months, His opponent has not yet

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