Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1938 — Page 8
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Times Photo. It must come down! And that's when the players under the basket hold their breath and get set to snatch the ball on the rebound if it misses. Tall boys leap and stretch trying for that old tip-in shot to add to the excitement as hoop hysteria sweeps the country. Picture shows Shane of Martinsville (No. 8), Bruce of Shortridge (No. 4) and Pearcy of Martinsville (No. 3) keeping their eve on the ball in a recent game in which the local Blue Devils upset the Artesians,
= 2 = = os = HE group of undefeated college hardwood teams in Indiana thinned out since last week and now stands as - a mere pair consisting of Purdue's powerhouse Boilermak"ers and Indiana Central's galloping Greyhounds. . . . Earlham was removed from the unbeaten elite on Friday by Wabash and on Saturday Manchester fell out of the select + class when Valparaiso tripped up the Spartans. . . Purdue has won nine straight and Central 10, and both machines will have their victory strings challenged again this week. Purdue is booked twice in the Big,Ten major league and Indiana Central once in the Hoosier Conference. . . . The Boilermakers play at Illinois tonight and Wisconsin at Lafayette Saturday, and the Greyhounds travel to Hanover tomorrow. . . . The Hilltoppers of southern Indiana tallied 51 points against Evansville Saturday and are reported at the peak of form for the important clash with
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OOK at Northwestern! . . . The Wildcats, picked by many to wind up behind the eight ball in the Big Ten . race, are riding high with two victories gained at the ex- : pense of Wisconsin and Ohio State. ... The Western ! Conference chase is only a week old but enough has hap- ' pened to scramble the dope. Illinois, cochamps last year, is down at the bottom "with two defeats, and Minnesota, the other 1937 champion, "was knocked off in its first 1938 Big Ten start by the Badgers. . . « This was the upset that sent all experts to
* the crying wall. Just four teams remain undefeated after seven games, which is ample evidence of a ding-dong season. . « . The front runners are Northwestern, Purdue, Michigan and
Towa. “ # 4 “ & 4 EN Western Conference games are scheduled this week with all rs booked for two performances. , . . The program: a Puriue at Mlinois, Indiana at Minnesota, Ohio State at * Michigan, Northwestern at Iowa, Chicago at Wisconsin. Saturday—Northwestern at Indiana, Wisconsin at Purdue, Mich- . igan at Minnesota, Chicago at Illinois, Towa at Ohio State. The unbeaten list will be reduced by one at Iowa tonight and, of course, it may receive a further unexpected puncture elsewhere if the underdogs get going. ” 8 8 = ” 2 LAYING without the services of the injured Jerty Steiner, their sparkplug, Butler's Bulidogs lost to Marquette in Milwaukee Satur‘dav. . . . The margin was seven points, 39-32, and ‘Butler muffed . 10 free throws out of 20 while the Hilltoppers made 13 in 16. . . . Cos- . grove, with 10 points, and Geyer, with nine, paced the Bulldogs. . . . The * rivals will play a return tilt in Indianapolis on Feb. 12. . . . Butler's * next date is with DePauw at Greencastle Wednesday. Accurate basket sniping by McCracken played a large part in . Franklin's 36-26 victory over DePauw. . . . He dunked five from the - field and one free one for 11 markers. . . . It was the Grizzlies’ ninth : straight triumph on the home floor over a two-year span.
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: EWELL YOUNG, Big Ten individual point champion last season, : J picked up where he left off as Purdue opened its 1938 Conference * campaign by slamming Chicago, 50-34. . . . Young garnered 14 points * and after he started clicking the Maroons were sunk. . . . Indiana . yan into a snag at Iowa and a crowd of 6000 saw the Hawkeyes down ! the Hoosiers, 48-39. Benny Stephens, Iowa forward. staged a scoring spree at the - expense of Indiana, with 10 field goals and three free throws. . . . He . was too hot for the Hoosiers to cool off. . . . Huffman collected 13 : points for Indiana and the reliable Andres tallied 11.
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ENNSYLVANIA caught Notre Dame on the rebound and the Quakers were trounced, 45-25. . . . Pennsy has yet to defeat the Irish in basketball and it was Notre Dame’s 10th consecutive triumph over the Keystone five. . . . Coach Keogan changed his lineup and the Irish responded in a big way, paced by Ed Sadowski with 16 * points. . . . The Irish play Canisius in Buffalo tonight. : Johnny Townsend of Indianapolis added to his prestige at the . expense of Illinois. . . . Michigan's giant captain chalked 15 points : as the Wolverines won, 45-37. . . . His accurate passing also was a + factor in turning back the hard-fichting Illini who pulled up even, ! 27-27, at one time in the second half.
UDICEL of Ball State bagged 14 points as the Cardinals dropped : Western State at Kalamazoo, 43-35 . . . Central Normal experi- "+ mented with a new lineup and barely edged Taylor University, 32-31. + ... The winners used 11 men. . . . Ruhr and Bauer tallied 14 markers each and led Valpo to a 55-40 win over Manchester. . . . Pruett of Hanover couldnt miss and his 18 points featured the Hilltoppers’ + victory over Evansville, 51-20. : Van Dvke of Anderson College tossed five field goals and five free + throws as his team downed N. C. A. G. U. at the Gymnasts’ gvm, 42-34. . . . Van Dyke, a freshman, is the state's newest scoring ! sensation, : ® 8 = ® & =
: WY STERN CONFERENCE coaches chose the following players, . by vote, for the all-Big Ten honor team at the close of last + season: Jewell Young, Purdue, and Harry Combes, Illinois, forwards; + John Townsend, Michigan, center; Martin Rolek, Minnesota, and . William Dye, Ohio State, guards. : The coaches’ second team: John Kundla, Minnesota, and Mike + McMichaels, Northwestern, forwatds; Bob Riegels, Illinois, center; + Vernon Huffman, Indiana, and Glenn Downey, Purdue, guards.
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Jimmy Hines, Johnny Revolta and Lloyd Mangrum Are Tied for Second.
By HENRY M'LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10.—Sixtynine finalists started today down the hill-rimmed Wilson course at Griffith Park in hopeful pursuit of chunky Jimmie Thomson, a boyishlooking Pennsylvanian who holds a 3-stroke edge on the Los Angeles Open golf title. As the surviving professionals and a few outstanding Western amateurs teed off for the last 18 holes of medal play, the key to the championship was a battered putter that Thomson picked up in a secondhand store. Known as the longest driver in the world, the blond professional suddenly found his touch on the greens and in the first two rounds set a new P. G. A. record of 131 strokes for 36 holes of medal play. But while the field was narrowed to 70 players yesterday, Thomson's new skill deserted him twice, and his 6stroke lead was cut in half. One over par on the fourth and ninth holes, Jimmie rounded the turn in 38. He was under, over and under again, picking up a stroke along the way, until he reached the par-five 14th. In the rough on his first shot, he recovered nicely, only to see his third blow land in the trap. Out of this, he three putted for a seven for the hole, a 74 for the round and 205 for the first three days. Three Tied for Second
Jimmy Hines of Garden City, New York; Johnny Revolta of Evanston, Ill, and Lloyd Mangrum of Dayton, 0, all tied for second at 208, picking up from three to six strokes on the faltering leader.
One stroke behind in another tie, were Henry Picard, Hershey, Pa.; Ben Coltrin, San Francisco; Willie Goggin, San Bruno; Lawson Little, San Francisco, and Olin Dutra, Los Angeles veteran who turned in yesterday’s lowest round score, 67. The gallery yesterday was the largest in several years. The Los Angeles Times, which guaranteed the $5000 prize money so the tournament could be held, announced that it would boost the purses to $7500. Aided by a hot sun and balmy breezes, the event has drawn $4800 at the gate in three days.
Favorites Fall Behind
Aside from Thomson's loss of three strokes and the recovery of
the three players now in second place, third-round play produced few changes. The early favorites, Sam Snead, Harry Cooper and aging Mac Smith, were far behind; Cooper and Smith with 215 and Snead with
219. Those holding an outside chance of catching the leader were Horton Smith, Chicago; George Von Elm, Los Angeles, and Emile Mashie, Fitchburg, Mass, at 210; Harold MecSpaden, Winchester, Mass, at 211; and Jim McCormick and the amateur, Bruce McCormick of Los Angeles: Leonard Ntt of Denver and Harry Bassler of Long Beach, Cal, at 212. Players above the 212 mark could land near the top only with a sen-
ROUND BEGUN IN LOS ANGELES OPEN
The wrestling ability of the nationally known Billy Thom, 181 (left), mat mentor at Indiana University, will face an “acid test” at the Armory tomorrow night when he exchanges grips with Walter (Sneeze) Achiu, 181, Chinese grappler who is a front-line performer. ning-like maneuvers of Achiu are well known to local fans. believe he might have the edge on Thom who is recognized in some states as world's. light heavyweight champion.
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By JOE WILLIAMS
Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—There's danger in them thar goal posts—-or at least, officials seem to see imminent threat to undergraduate health lurking in a couple of sticks poking out of the ground some 30 feet be-
yond the scoring line at each end of what the boys have pithily named the gridiron. The peril is so omnipresent, although it would take a long, duil search of the records to discover even a bruise on some player's pinky, that Mr. Walter R. Okesun now proposes one of those light beams for crossbars. You know, Williams like those doors in the Penn Station that you couldn't get little Horace away from the other night—opened and closed by photo-electric cells. Don’t dare tell me that you do not know who Mr. Walter R. Okesun is! Why, Okey is high mucky-muck of football. He almost makes the rules. Or if he doesn’t then he sees to it that no one else does. Okey comes from Lehigh, and his exact title in the gridiron (there's that word again) realm is chairman of the Football Rules Committee. Until Mr. Asa Bushnell, the exchief of Princeton sperts, came up and took office last Monday, Mr. Okesun also was chief commissioner of the E. I. A, which in score sheet terms means chief of football officials and the last word in assigning them to the “draw” games like Yale-Harvard, Army-Notre Dame and the like instead of Hokey-Pokey U. vs. Bast Nassau Aggies. Mr. Okesun was in town, with other delegates of the E. I. A, for the annual meeting over the week-end.
What Next in Football? Bar of Light May Replace Goal Posts! Joe Reports
the light bar will replace the good /to placekick or dropkick the ball
old two-by-four right away. But | he thinks that it may come and that the danger elements of the goal posts thus would disappear.
Walt also said it should be easy
Two Title Swim Meets Scheduled
More than 200 entry blanks have been mailed out by the Indianapolis Athletic Club for two swimming championships to be held in the I. A. C. pool in February. Middle States and Indiana-Ken-tucky A. A. U. championships head the program for the first meet Feb. 5. The men's National Junior 150yard individual medley is to be featured during the second meet Feb. 26, According to Dick Papenguth, I. A. C. athletics director and swim coach, the meets are being sponsored to stimulate interest in swimming in the state. The featured event for the Feb. 5 championship is to be the Middle States 150-yard individual medley swim for women. Other events for women include the 100-yard breast stroke, 100-yard backstroke and 2£20yard relay. Girls’ open events include a 220yard free style for girls 12 years and under, and a 50-yard free style event for girls 14 years and under. Men's events are the 100-yard and 220-yard free style, 150-yard medley relay and low board diving. Boys’ open events are 50-yard free style for boys 12 years and under and
100-yard free style for boys 14 years and under.
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over a bar of light as it is over a bar of wood. The idea being, too, that automatic legality would be established because if the ball hit any part of the light bar, it would register as a miss,
New Peril Is Seen
I wouldn't want to discuss the mechanical aspects of Okesun'’s proposed bar of light, but it seems to me that it would need some equipment to project it, and wouldn't the poor little boys down there on the field hit these projections as often as they do the present equipment? Or would they? I say, yes, to my own question, chiefly because I think the possible dangers of football players injuring themselves seriously against goal posts, even if they are put back on the goal line where they belong by tradition, is about as remote as Fordham’s chances of getting to the Rose Bowl apparently are. Every year somebody hollers and shouts to bring the posts back where they were from the time Rutgers and Princeton had that little get-together back in 1876. With the whooping at its peak when the rules committee meets in annual conclave, it suddenly dies a stricken death. It goes in with a yell, and drops dead on the committee's threshold. It isn't even mentioned once the session is on, since various bigwigs go about shushing the subject lest it bring pain to some poor harassed college athletic official who is easily wilted—or something,
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Jeffersonville Waits Clash With Muncie
Game Wednesday Between Intersectional Rivals in State Spotlight.
By United Press
Hopes of the “solid South” today were pinned on Jeffersonville as the Muncie Bearcats prepared to carry the prestige of Central Indiana basketball to one of the state's strongest cage centers, Although the Red Devils were given a startling upset in week-end play by the Wabash Apaches, they still rank with New Albany and Huntingburg among the top teams of southern Indiana. Holding three victories over North Central foes—Anderson, Frankfort and Logansport—the Devils hope to win and conclusively establish their superiority over teams from the “best conference in the state.” Undefeated quintets were at a premium today following Warsaw's major upset of the big Elkhart Blue Blazers, 26 to 25. It was a duplicate of last week's Horace MannHammond upset as the Warsaw five blasted through 14 points in the last quarter Saturday to overcome a 19 to-12 lead. Detterman dribbled the length of the floor for a last-minute basket to give Warsaw the edge.
ning streak at eight. The outstanding battle of the week-end was South Bend Central's double-overtime victory over Ben Davis, 25 to 23. With the score tied at 23 apiece after two minutes of the second overtime, Harold Gensichen, diminutive Central forward, tossed the winning basket—a long shot — automatically ending the game. It was a conflict of strategy between brothers as Johnny Wooden, former all-American from Purdue, coached the winners and his brother, Maurice (Cat) Wooden, handled Ben Davis. The New Albany Bulldogs today had the Southern Conference leadership and the distinction of sharing the throne of the undefeated with Monticello. Washington, who previously had stopped Bedford's long victory string, couldn't halt the vicious Bulldog offense and lost its ninth battle of the season, 33 to 24. The Western Division also was busy as Whiting gained second place by giving Washington of East Chicago its fifth conference defeat, 45 to 17. The victory placed the Oilers next to league-leading Horace Mann, whom they meet Jan. 21. The division cellar-mates, Lew Wallace of Gary and Roosevelt of East Chicago, broke their positions when Wallace stepped upward, 37 to 34, leading Roosevelt to worry over its sixth loss. Roosevelt plays Hammond Tech Wednesday night.
State College Leaders Busy
Important Games Contained On Tomorrow’s Schedule.
Leaders of the Indiana InterCollegiate Conference tangle tomorrow night to start a big week on the college cage schedule. The league-leading Indiana Central quintet goes to Hanover, which has won three and lost one, in the feature game of conference play. Franklin, in second place with four victories, will visit Terre Haute to take on Indiana State which has not yet won a game. Wabash, another undefeated team in loop standings, will get a test on the Evansville court and Valparaiso, with two conference wins, meets a nounleague foe, St. Viator, at Valparaiso. Wednesday the Butler Bulldogs re-enter state competition by meeting DePauw at Greencastle. Butler has won a single Conference game and holds victories over Northwestern and Michigan, strong Big Ten teams.
Tickets on Sale For Race Classic
Tickets went on sale today in the Indianapolis Speedway office on N. Capitol Ave. for the 26th annual 500-mile speed classic here Decoration Day. “The advance demand for tickets has been greater than ever,” said Pop Myers, Speedway general manager. This year's race should be the greatest in history, Speedway 8fficials said, pointing out that restrictions have been lifted and drivers will be allowed to burn any type of fuel they desire.
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By JOE FALCARO Match Game Champion
E'VE discussed the importance of picking a spot from 12 to 14 feet down the alley and delivering the ball so that it strikes thas
spot on its way to the head pin. But sometimes, due to alley conditions and too little or too much delivery twist, the ball will break on the Brooklyn side (to the left of the head pin), or break too soon and give you a thin hit on the right side. Either hit, if too thin, well may result in a split. If you find your ball breaking too far to the left, move five inches to the left. This will correct your fault if you deliver the ball with the same motion. Make sure that you shoot for the same spot on the
position, If the ball is breaking thin on the right side, move six or seven inches to the right to remedy this. A lot of bowlers bemoan their luck when they get a split. Nine times out of ten it isn’t luck that gives them this setup. It's just lack of mechanical bowling that brings the ball up to the pocket. Aim for the pocket, hit it, and your splits will be as rare as sauerkraut in an Italian restaurant,
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Bowes Team First In Chicago Tourney
Bowes Seal Fast pinmen were back in town today, $500 richer for winning Ray Schalk's second ane nual invitational bowling classic as Chicago yesterday. A powerful last-game assault brought the Hoosiers home in front of a field of 40 entries from Mide (Continued on Page 9)
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