Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1938 — Page 8

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F events of the past week-end offer an accurate line on the future, the race for the 1938 Big Ten football title will be an interesting scramble to the finish. The first full Saturday of Western Conference competition brought out in bold relief the fact that Minnesota and Ohio State have some high, wide and handsome batg ahead of them if they are to maintain their preseason cofavorite Michigsn, Rorinvadter and Wisconsin shape up as st serious rivals, and all except Chicago and Iowa make a dog-fight of the title chase. elling g, however, will net begin until this e cofavorites go to the firing line against toughest contenders in the circuit— battles Minnesota, and Northwestern, State.

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—And in This Corner

PHILS NEW BOSS RETAINS COACH LOBERT PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 11 (U. P.).—Thomas today that he was retaining Hans Lebert as coach in 1939.

ELBOW OPERATIONS FOR FERRELL AND CHANDLER NEW YORK, Oct. 11 (U. P.).—Spud Chandler and Wes Ferrell. New York Yankee pitchers. entered St. Elizabeth Hospital today for elbow operations. Both have chipped bones in their elbows. They will be attended by Dr. Emmett Walsh, club physician.

TIDBALL MEETS HOPMAN IN TENNIS FINAL BERKELEY, Cal, Oct. 11 (U. P.).—Jack Tidball of Los Angeles meets Harry Hopman, captain of Australia’s Davis Cup team, today in the final for the Pacific Coast tennis championship. Tidball upset Bobby Riggs in the semifinal yesterday, while Hopman, who previously had eliminated Don Budge, defeated Gene Smith of Berkeley. The women’s singles title was captured by Simone Mathieu of France.

WRESTLERS VALET FLASHES ROBE—TAKES CCUNT DETROIT, Oct. 11 (U. P.).—Lord Finnegan, the grunt and groaner claiming titled ancestry, defeated Stacey Hall here last night but his | prim valet, Jeeves, fared not so well Jeeves bouliced into the ring to hold his majesty’s robe in the best | valet fashion after Lord Finnegan had won the bout. Hall took one! look at the tilted valet chin and delivered a fast right. the dressing room feet first.

YATES AND GEORGIAN CHAMP LEAD FAVORITES ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. 11 (U. P.).—The Georgia team of Charley Yates, British amateur champion, and Dr. Julius Hughes, state titleholder, was

favored today as the second annual Southern States four-ball golf cham- |

pionship entered the second round.

Yates and Hughes eliminated George Helm and Jimmy Stein of Ken- |

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be cut into very small slices, as is their usual series custom.

Minnesota Tussle May Give

talked about football team in the

CRISLER PUTS MICHIGAN BACK ON MAP

‘Wolverines Flourish in Early Tilts

Strong Slant on Midwest Supremacy.

By ERNEST BARCELLA United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Oct. 11.—Clear the tracks for Michigan—the most

Midwest today. The Wolverine Express, with a new coach at the throttle, is picking

|up momentum with each Saturday |

land retrieving some of the glory it |

|under Crisler, {swept through Michigan State and |

|standout Big Ten game of the com-

| team.

{Doc) Prothro, who suc- |* ceeded Jimmy Wilson as manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, announced |

| velopment

{ Pennsylvania, Harvard by

Jeeves went to |

|lost five seasons ago to Minnesota |

which virtually has monopolized the | Big Ten since. Herbert O. (Fritz) Crisler, vho put Princeton back on the football map, is doing the same thing at| Michigan. In their first two games | the Wolverines have |

slaughtered Chicage. Fast backs, a |

[smart line and a team well-versed |

in the fundamentals of football are | a gridiron Yen- | aissance at Ann Arbor.

The supreme test of the Ooiyley crew comes Saturday when clashes with Minnesota In wl

Supreme Test Saturday A

ing week-end—a battle thag will go a long way toward deciding not only the Conference championship, but | sectional supremacy as well. Though it has beaten Washing- | ton, Nebraska and Purdue on suc- | cessive week-ends, Minnesota has vet | to prove that it is as great as the Gophers of the past four seasons. In Michigan, mighty Minnesota will | be running up against a team which possesses perhaps more offensive | guns than any other team it has| faced so far. Ohio State, the cofavorite with | Minnesota, saw its dreams of an!

(undefeated season shattered by too |

many mistakes against Southern! California. The Ohioans showed an | improved line against the Cali- | fornians, but they they still are vulnerable in pass defense. Unless this shortcoming is corrected, the Buckeyes can look for

a lot of trouble Saturday when they the Holy Trinity team clashes with |average under 170 pounds.

meet an airminded Northwestern eleven which is calculated to go places in the Conference chase. Then you have Wisconsin and Illinois, both of whom are very] much in the running. Wisconsin, which dusted off Mar- | quette and hapless Iowa on succes- | sive week-ends, faces its big test] Saturday against Pittsburgh. The] Badgers have balance, a good of - | fense and adequate reserve strength.

Penn, Columbia Strong in East

NEW YORK. Oct. 11 (U. P).—| Columbia and Pennsylvania, whose] teams were severely pushed around | shaped up today as strong] for Eastern football]

last vear, contenders honors, Bot h owe their success to star halfbacks who in two games each have led the victory marches. Co-| wi 1bia has Sid Luckman, who has| been bidding a long time for All-! America honors and looks like hej might make it this year. PennsylFrancis Reagan, a| sophomore who is what is known as a triple-threat. Columbia, which pulled out al last minute 20-to-18 victory over] Army last week, tackles Colgate this | Saturday while Penn, which handed | Yale its first shutout in years, takes on Princeton. On Oct. 22, those teams will clash at Philadelphia in a game which should be one of the best in the country that day. { Pittsburgh, Dartmouth and Cornell also are up near the top, while | Fordham, one of the powers last vear, meets its first serious opposi-' tion this week against Purdue. i Out of the Dartmouth-Cornell-| Pennsylvania - Columbia muddle, should come one clear-cut standout! Before the season ends all] will have played at least two of the other. | Pittsburgh tackles Fordham later in the year. itt, which scored its third straight victory of the year | in subduing Duquesne, this week | plays Wisconsin at Madison. Dart-! mouth plays Brown and should re-| main undefeated. Cornell faces

| Syracuse. |

Perhaps the most startling dein the East last week-| end was the failure of the once renowned big three of Yale, Harvard and Princeton. All were shut out) on the same day and old-timers] can’t remember when that last hap- | pened. Yale was goose-egged by | Cornell

and Princeton by Dartmouth.

Danville Plays for the Fun

Hubert Scott, left, of Martinsville is doing the fullbacking for

Central Normal and Eddie Pilarski,

center, om South Som snares =

4 Parochial

Games es Carded

passes for the teachers.

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Coach Lei tzman Praises

Unbeaten Amateur Squads. Mentor Also Explains How He Got Nickname of ‘Piggy’; Teachers Have Lost Three Games in a Row.

Seek Third Victories.

The undefeated and unscored up{on St. Philip's Grade School eleven {will tangle with the undefeated Cathedral squad at Riverside Park | | tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 Coles in the Parochial Football League. St. Catherine's, champion for the | past two seasons, meets the Lady |

| Park. | In other games Little Flower plays St. Patrick at Garfield and |

the St. erside.

Joan of Arc squad at Riv-| Holy Cross drew a bye.

By LEO DAUGHERTY Times Staff Writer

DANVILLE, Oct. 11. —“We've lost three, but we play it for the. fun|

that’s in it; win or lose.”

It was Piggie Leitzman, athletic director and football coach here at |

| Central Normal who was speaking.

It is his eighth year at the helm of the Teachers and he has seen a

| to say of his 1938 squad: ‘of boys than these.”

demonstrated sf Lourdes eleven at Ellenberger | lot come and a lot go. But in the face of continuous defeat he has this “I've never climbed into a bus with a finer lot)

These coming teachers are small as the football wars reckon. They'll

they're playing nowadays.

Harold Wallace and Max Bell are the passers of the outfit.

Too light for the rushing, roaming game that

The

The league is sponsored by the | former is from Lafayette and the latter from Willow Branch. Both are

Sportsman's Store. The St. Philip, Cathedral, St.| Catherine and Holy Trinity teams have won two games each and lost! {none this season. The St. Joan of |Arc and Lady of Lourdes teams |have lost a game apiece and won | none while the St. Patrick, Little! Flower and Holy Cross teams have lost two games each and won none. The remaining schedule after to- | MmoOITrow:

}

Oct. 15—9:30 A, M. Cathedral vs. St. Patrick at Riverside. Little Flower vs. St. Joan of Are at Brookside 1. | Holy Cross vs. St. Catherine, at Garfield. Holy Trinity vs. Lady of Lourdes, at Ellenberger. St. Philip drew a bve. Oct. 22—9:30 A. M. St. Patrick vs. St. Joan of Arc, field. St. Philip vs. St. Catherine, at Brookside 1. { Little Flower vs. Lady of Lourdes, at Fl- | {lenherger. | Holy Cross vs. side, Cathedral, bye. Oct. 20—9:30 A. ML Cathedral vs. St. Joan of Arc at Riverside. St. Patrick vs. Lady of Lourdes, at Garfield. St. | side 1. Little Plower vs. Holy Cross, at Ellen-| | berger. St.

at Gar-

Holy Trinity, at River-

Philip vs. Holy Trinity, at Brook-

Cztherine, bye. Nov. 1—2:30 P. M. Cathedral vs. St. Catherine, side, St. Joan of Arc vs. Lady of Lourdes, at Brookside. St. Patrick vs. Holy Cross, at Garfield. St. Philip vs. Little Flower, at Ellenberger. -Holy Trinity, hye.

Nov. 5—9:30 A. M. vs. Lady of Lourdes,

at River-

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Cathedral Riverside. St. Catherine vs. Holy Trinity, at Gar- | fiel St. Joan of Arc vs. Holy Cross, at Brookside, St. ger. Little Flower, bye. Nov. 12—95:30 A. M. Cathedral vs. Holy Trinity, at Riverside. Lady of Lourdes vs. Holy Cross, at Ellenberger. St. Catherine vs. Little Flower, at GarHo . Joan of Arc vs. St. Philip, at Brooki 1. St. “Patrick, bye.

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{ freshmen. Jack Kennedy,

{of the crew and its best blocker. Vying with Kennedy in |speed department are Bell

from Linton, | playing halfback, is the speedster Wallace, vette and Kennedy; the guard from Lewisville; Merrill Miland ler, a senior end from Linton, and

a halfback from LafaPaul Jones, a

‘Harry Clark, the latter from Mich- [Hubert Scott, fullback from Mar- | tinsville’s health country.

igan City. Touchdown fare has been light |

for the Purple Warriors thus far | like to hear about here. They have not tasted | |nois State Teachers blanked them, But locker room hopes |§

this year. victory. run high. They are out of the running for the Normal School championship but they hope to find scores and consolation against the rest of their foes. Coach Leitzman said that while is the team that he has sent out to uphold Central Normal’s name, it is the smartest, fastest and shiftiest team that he has ever tutored. The fashion of football heye runs Mr. Leitzman employs the and the Minnesota shift for his front wall. He played here himself and so his loyalty runs mighty high. It is well for his team to follow his nickname. Piggie it is and he got it in his high school days at Clay“hogged” the ball whenever there was a fumble, his side or the other. There are no professional tapers or trainers here at Central Normal. The fare is lean.

Gymnasium asThey

{it on each other. pirations are high.

cheers. They just play.

The red brick citadel from which | Indiana recruits some of its finest {school marms and masters has only

seven who manned its lines of pig[skin defense last year. They are Bob Hendrick, a tackle from Lewisville; Clarence Kelly, a center from Mishawaka; Harold

ET REY RL SAY FOX DE-E LUXE!

A touchdown is something they'd The Illi-

to 0. Then along came that

{tough Ball State outfit and blasted them, 26 to 0, and last Saturday

little Hanover pummeiled the boys, 25 to 0. They go down to Eastern Ken-

| tucky State next Friday.

smallest and lightest |

The coach ap- | \plies the adhesive or the boys wind |

don’t | stadium or throngs or |

FORMER STAR DIES AFTER LEG INJURY

BOSTON, Oct. 11 (U. P.).—Irving Lipman, 24, who never suffered serious injury during his footballplaying days at University of Miami, died as an indirect result of injuries sustained as a football spectator. He was watching a sandlot game near his Dorchester home Sunday when a player crashed against him, breaking his left leg. While doctors were setting the leg at a hospital

last night, Lipman, under a ei

anesthetic, died.

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Redskins Lead Football Loop -

NEW YORK, Oct. 11 (U. P).— The champion Washington Redskins contiue to lead the National Professional Football League in all cflensive departments, statistics

showed today. In the league standings, team statistics follow: WESTERN DIVISION

Chicago (Bears) Detroit Cleveland

EASTERN DIV ISION

Washington Brookly

Philadelphia Pittsburgh

YG—Yards gained; TP — Total points; P—Passes, PC—Passes completed.

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