Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1938 — Page 15
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WEDNESDAY,
JANUARY 26, 1938
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AANA ARRAN RR N A RR RRA 5h a SA IRA Basketball in Madison Square Garde the nation’s leading teams to combat crack Eastern arrays, has done much to standardize both rules and play. There is verve to this battle, which Illinois won from St. John's, 60-45. The ball is bouncing off the head of Gerry Bush, St. John’s forward.
» 8 » » 8 Ld PITY the poor basketball coach. . . « Most college teams these days play schedules which call for 15 or perhaps 20 games a season, and by the time his charges have been through the wars they will have met more styles of attack than you can shake the proverbial stick at. . .. There is the short-passing, fast-break attack; the deliberate setup game; the four-man weave, and the pivot. Coaches try to plan their offense according to the material they have available. . . . Ward Lambert of Purdue places a heavy premium on speed. . . . Consequently he uses smaller men than are found on the average big-time court team. . .. With small, speedy men, the short-pass, fast-break is found at its best.
Coaches who like to depend a great deal on set plays often resort to the deliberate passing game. ... A team sometimes passes the ball around a dozen times before someone takes a shot at the basket. . . . Big, rangy men are particularly adapted for this style of play. They simply pass the ball over the heads of their opponents until a clear shot is presented. »” HE four-man weave is a fast-moving attack that finds the ball being worked into definite scoring territory by four men—as the name might indicate—any one of whom is released at the first opportunity for a clean shot, while the fifth man guards against interception and a goal-ward dash by the opposition, Professional basketball introduced the pivot play and made it the deadliest maneuver on the court, when executed properly. . . . Dutch Dehnert, the New York Celtics’ famed pivot expert, was a master at the trick, and more often than not the defense was forced to foul him in order to prevent a score. The effect of the maneuver was nullified in college and high school competition when a three-second limit was placed on the time an offensive player could remain within the territory marked by the foul lines. . . . The complaint was that gigantic centers worked the pivot so much and so well, that it was impossible for smaller oppo-
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ICK FRASCELLA of Wooster College has scored 176 points in N seven games for an average of 25. . . . Some shooting. . . . He rang up 34 against Oberlin the other night, the third time this season he has tallied more than 30 in a game. . . . Capital University is Ohio's only undefeated college quintet. Lewis Dehner, Illinois’ scoring flash, lost the range against Ohio State and in 22 shots at the hoop only two registered. . . . Ward Lambert, Purdue coach, journeyed to Columbus, O, last Saturday to jot down notes on Illinois and Ohio State. . . . The Boilermakers meet the Illini at West Lafayette Feb, 7 and tackle the Bucks later.
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the California Redwoods, Stanford basketball players are cloud scrapers. . . . Hanl' Luisetti, 6 feet 2% inches; Phil Zonne, 6-414: Art Stoeffen, 6-415; Jack Calderwood, 6-32; Horace Lee, 5-10. . « . They form the starting lineup. Bob Hardy, star forward with the University of Oregon quintet, is out for the season with a broken leg. . . . He received the injury when his team collided with Oregon State. In addition to chalking 12 points Michigan's Jake Townsend did some accurate passing and ball handling when the Wolverines put the rollers under Ohio State on the Bucks’ floor,
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ARTMOUTH is undefeated in four starts in Eastern Intercollegiate League competition and Pennsy, last year's undefeated champion, has won one and lost two. . . . Dartmouth beat Pennsy, 43-38, and tallied 21 of its points on free throws. . . . The losers got 16 field goals to 11 for the winners. . . . The Big Green had only seven misses in 28 attempts from the foul line and Thomas, guard, turned in a total of 18 points on six baskets from the floor and six from the charity stripe. Join the Navy and you won't be overlooked. . . . The Middies used 18 players when they swamped Western Maryland in a recent game. . . . Even the fourth stringers got a chance.
ILL MARTIN, lone senior on Oklahoma A. & M.'s basketball team, B is all washed up with tradition. . . . When Martin was the only sophomore on the traveling squad two years ago, he was told that it was customary for sophomores to carry the seniors’ luggage. . . . However, in Bill's junior year there weren't any sophomores good enough to make the traveling squad, and he was notified that he'd have to carry on as baggage-master. This year, since there are four sophomores on the starting five, , Martin believed that his day had come at last. But the cocky firstyear men just laughed. «We're starting a new tradition this season,” they informed him. “The seniors are going to lug the luggage.” So Bill Martin, the lone senior on the squad, is still lugging the
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TRACKS TRACK Emil von Elling, New York University track and field coach, owns every book ever published on the sport, and has read them all critically, making notes of agreement or otherwise as he went along.
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Cheers Greet His Decision To Continue
‘Honored by Sports Writers With Hubbell, DiMaggio And Cochrane.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 26 (U. P). Connie Mack shook a half century from his shoulders last night and told the public that it would have to cut off his uniform to convince him--a 75-year-old. veteran-— that he was too old to run a baseball team. A tall, kindly old man, his face seamed with 54 years of baseball worries, but his eyes still alight with enthusiasm, he told 1200 guests at a sports writers banquet that his next address would be Lake Charles, La, where the Philadelphia Athletics train for the 1938 baseball sea-
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Philadelphia sports writers awarded medals to Carl Hubbell of the
| New York Giants, as the outstand-
ing pitcher of 1937: to Joe DiMaggio,
‘| 23-year-old slugging outfielder for il the New York Yankees, as the out-
standing athlete; to Mickey Cochrane as the “most courageous athlete in sports during 1937.” Cochrane, manager of the Detroit Tigers, suffered a near fatal injury last summer when he was struck on the head by a pitched ball,
Speaks of Iliness
«There has been for years talk of my retiring from the game,” Mack said. “This has been more evident this year because of my illness and my age. “They were saying ‘it's time the old boy got out and gave someone else a chance’ But I assure you it has always been my desire to go on just as long as I could in this game of baseball. “1 love it. a man of 75. “I love to be on the bench with those youngsters and to get me out they'll have to cut off my uniform.” Among the guests were members of the 1010 Athletics, termed by many the finest team in baseball history. They included Dick Bender, Eddie Murphy, Ira Thomas and Herb Pennock.
Veterans Cheer Him
Also present were at least one member of each of the five world championshlp veams Mack has managed. They—men who quit baseball because they were too old or had outlived their usefulness— were the first to stand up and cheer when Mack announced his determination to stick with the game. Mack said he wanted to manage at least one more world champion. Others who spoke were Stanley (Bucky) Harris, Washington manager; Joe Cronin, Boston Red Sox manager: Joe McCarthy, manager of the New York Yankees; Jimmy Dykes, Chicago White Sox manager, and Clark Griffith, owner of the Senators.
DEMAREE, JURGES REFUSE TO SIGN
CHICAGO, Jan. 26 (U. P.).— Frank Demaree and Bill Jurges aren't holdouts—they're just negotiating. The Chicago Cubs refused today to consider the two dissatisfied veterans as holdouts although both returned their 1938 contracts unsigned. Demaree, however, was a serious holdout last season and failed to appear until after the rest of the club had gone into training at Cataling Island.
BUTLER FIVE HAS OFFENSIVE DRILL
A light offensive drill was held by the Butler Bulldogs yesterday as they prepared to invade the state of Michigan this week-end for two games. Friday night the local five will be entertaincd by Michigan State at East Lansing and the following night by the University of Detroit at Detroit. With a season’s record of eight victories in 13 starts, Butler will attempt to stop their three-game losing streak. The Bulldogs scored a 27-to-21 triumph over Michigan State last year, Detroit upset Butler the previous year, 38 to 32.
BLONDY SIGNS CONTRACT
NEW YORK, Jan. 26 (U, P)— Shortstop Blondy Ryan.and Rookie Catcher Jimmy Sheehan have signed their 1938 contracts, boosting to eight the number of New York Giants now in the fold, Secretary Eddie Brannick said today. Only holdout worries thus far are the Giants’ two “Hanks,” Outfielder Leiber and Catcher Danning,
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Gomez Asks Pay Boost
Rejects Contract Calling for $15,000 Yearly.
RENO, Nev, Jan. 26 (U. P.).— Lefty Gomez, leading American League pitcher last year, joined the ranks of New York Yankee holdouts today by refusing a $15,000 offer for the coming season. Gomez, who led his circuit in strikeouts, earned run average, .omplete games and shutouts, wants the $20,000 salary he enjoyed in 1935 and 1936 restored. He was cut to $13,500 last year. Lefty came here to establish residence for a possible divorce next month. He said that a $1500 raise was not enough “by a long shot,” and that the next move would be up to the Yankee bosses. Gomez, who turned in 21 victories last season, said that a pitcher “ought to be paid on a basis of games won.” He joins Joe DiMaggio and George Selkirk in the Yank holdout brigade. DiMaggio, holding out for $40,000, has turned down Col. Ruppert's offer of $25000—an increase of $10,000 over last year’s salary.
Basketball Scores
STATE COLLEGES Manchester, 51; St. Joseph's, 42. OTHER COLLEGES Georgia, 24; Sewanee, 16. Michigan Normal, 3%; Central State Teachers, 36 (overtime). Assumption, 48; St. Mary's (Mich.), 41. Grove City, Teachers, 45. Tennessee, 38; Chattanooga, 18. Arkansas Tech, 56; Henderson State Teachers, 26. Washington State, State, 39 (overtime). San Jose State, 58; San Francisco State, 39, Indiana (Pa.) Teachers, 41; Slippery Rock Teachers, 39. STATE HIGH SCHOOLS Emerson (Gary), 50; Horace Mann (Gary), 19. Greensburg, 30; Franklin, 29. Greencastle, 50; Brazil, 13. Central (Ft. Wayne), 37; Huntington, 30. Alumni, 36; Marengo, 22, Sunman, 40; Moores Hill, 13. Brownsburg, 35; Zionsville, 34. Mitchell, 34; Oolitic, 18.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—As you may have noted the name of Grover Cleveland Alexander has been added to baseball's Hall of Fame, the shrine of the sport at Cooperstown, N. Y. It isn’t necessary to add his name belongs there, He was one of the great pitchers of all time, Alexander's off-the-field habits were hardly what you might call exemplary. He liked very much to gaze upon the pilsner when it was pale and the vino when it was vibrant. They called him Old Pete. In at least one respect he could have qualified as Don Marquis Old Soak. Perhaps these things shouldn't be mentioned in a family newspaper. They may be bad for the youngsters—the ones between the ages of two and seven, But history shows that some of our greatest athletes and most popular characters were not altogether immune to the more robust temptations of the mad social whirl. There was Tod Sloan the jockey. Some say he was the best ever. There was Walter Hagen the golfer, There was John L. Sullivan, Harry
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Greb, and Mickey Walker of the prize ring. All these men spurned the text book promise of early to bed, early to rise, ete. Their frequent hand-to-hand encounters with battling Bacchus probably didn’t add anything to their technical skill, but they did emphasize their human qualities. Somehow high talent serves to isolate a man from the masses, but the disclosure of a common weakness often makes for warmth and understanding.
Case of Burgess Whitehead
Burgess Whitehead, the Giants’ second baser, is a product of Larry MacPhail’'s farm system. MacPhail, who is the new Brooklyn boss, as you probably know, developed him at Columbus. A few minor difficulties had to be overcome. For one thing the Columbus manager wasn't sold on Whitehead. The manager was Nemo Leibold, the veteran outfielder. One day Leibold came into MacPhail’s office and said he'd have to get rid of two or three youngsters. Among them was Whitehead . . . “They're too dumb,” explained Leibold. Presently the youngsters appeared in MacPhail's office to receive transportation and instructions. “What's that hanging from your
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vest chain,” asked MacPhail That's what I thought it was. Well, you wait around here a day or so. I want to look into something.” MacPhail was reasonably sure a young man who had been able to win this scholastic insignia couldn't be completely dumb; he explained the significance of the key to the mildly stunned Leibold who' was persuaded to experiment a little longer with Whitehead. You know the rest. Whitehead (Turn to Page 14)
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SCHMELING TAPERS OFF FOR FOORD BOUT,
HAMBURG, Jan. 26 (U, P)) = Max Schmeling tapered off training today for his “tuneup” match Sune day against Ben Foord of South Africa. Schmeling, who has remained in strict training since beating Harry Thomas in New York last December, was a 6-1 favorite. The former heavyweight champion has planned one more bout before his scheduled title fight with Joe Louis in the United States next June, His trainer, Max Machon, pronounced Schmeling in fine physical shape.
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