Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 November 1938 — Page 22

By Eddie Ash

SEVEN A. A. CLUBS GO TO FLORIDA

SEASON TO OPEN ON APRIL 13

ASEBALL stove league: Tentative plans for the 1939 Season call for the American Association to open its 88th campaign on Thursday, April 13, and to close on : Sunday, Sept. 10... . The Western clubs will again open in the four Eastern cities.

Seven of the eight clubs are certain to do their spring conditioning in Florida. . . . Toledo is leaning toward Texas, but hasn’t reached a definite conclusion. . . . The Mud Hens are to have a new manager now that Fred Haney has signed to tackle the St. Louis Browns problem.

Indianapolis will return to Bartow, Kansas City to Haines City, Minneapolis to Daytona Beach and Louisville to Arcadia. . . . Milwaukee moves from Hot Springs, Ark., to Ocala and St. Paul forsakes Marshall, Tex., for Tarpon Springs. . . .- Columbus has not announced its training spot, but probably will return to Winter Haven. t-4 ”® s 8 2 ” AY BLADES, the new manager of the St. Louis : Cardinals, was pitching and Branch Rickey, the Red Birds’ general manager, was umpiring in the same game at St. Louis, when the two first met. . . . It was back in 1913, when Blades was attending Franz Sigel grammar school in the Mound City. >

Ray was pitching for his school team in the final game of the Public School League's championship round and Rickey, then affiliated with the Browns as business manager, was the umpire. ?

After the World War, in which Blades served as a member of the 119th Field Artillery, 32d Division, Ray came again under Rickey’s observation in an exhibition game at Mount Vernon, Ill, in the summer of 1920. In the meantime, Branch had shifted to the Cardinals. « « . After the game, he called in Blades and two other members of the team and signed them to contracts, sending Ray first to Memphis and then to Houston as an outfielder.

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S* PAUL'S pennant winning Saints are filling the holes left by graduations to the big show. ... The Apostles have come up with Pete Fleming, star second sacker from Shrevéport to succeed Ollie Bejma, sold to the White Sox. . . . Fleming batted .299 in the Texas League, a high mark in that circuit. . . . Only nine hitters batted .300 or better in the loop last season.

Fleming batted in 114 runs and walloped 24 homers. .. .Pete’s power is reflected in his 315 total bases... . He was second in home runs, second in runs batted in and tied for third in two-base hits.

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owners and managers are peeved

at the St. Louis Browns because of the recent trade which gave

the Yankees Pitcher Oral Hildebrand.

. . . They say that the deal

has helped the Yanks immensely and makes them stronger for next

year. . Bill Knickerbocker to the Yanks and

. . The Browns did the same thing last winter.

. . . They traded it was his playing at second base

for a stretch that kept the Yankees in the race. The Yankee followers who have been worrying about the plight of

the champs when Lou Gehrig is forced

about Edward Levy. . .

out should make inquiries

. The Yankees had him at Binghamton last

season where he set up some marks for long distance hitting. .. . He hit for an average of .318 and made his 162 hits good for 261 total

bases. .

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«ue He had 35 doubles, 14 triples and 12 home runs. . . . He will be with the Kansas City Blues next season. : C

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SCHEDULE calling for 112 games has been announced by the National Professional Basketball League.

. . . Opening games are

booked for Wednesday. Nov. 23. . .. First tilt in Indianapolis will bring

the Pittsburgh quintet on Nov. 28, star ex-collegians.

J playing Frank Kautsky's team of . .. It will be the local squad's first tilt.

The league has eight teams, four in the East, four in the West.

. « . Western clubs are Indianapolis,

Hammond, Sheboygan and Osh-

Kosh. . . . In the East, Pittsburgh, Akron Firestones, Akron Goodyears

and Warren, Pa. Divisional winners will meet at championship. . . against the Goodyears at Akron. . . the pro loop.

the season’s end for the league

. Indianapolis’ first road date will be on Dec. 3,

. Warren replaces Ft. Wayne in

—And in This Corner

FEATHERS BACK WITH DODGER GRIDDERS

NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (U. P.).—Beattie Feathers,

of the Brooklyn Dodgers,

Indianapolis

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1938

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BUTLER ANNOUNCES HEAVY BASKET CARD

New Schedule Calls for 12 Home Clashes

Four Big Ten Teams Will Be Played by Bulldogs at Fieldhouse.

By LEO DAUGHERTY

While the Butlers Bulldogs’ interest today still centered on shooting touchdowns with another football game ahead, the university athletic officials untangled a net basket and out of it dropped the Bulldogs’ 1938-

39 basketball schedule. It’s a 20-game card, starting Dec. 10 and ‘continuing until March 1, with 12 home contests and eight on opponents’ floors. Seven of last season’s opponents, including the Pitt Panthers, were dropped for the coming campaign while four new foes were added, including the Wisconsin Badgers who replace Northwestern, keeping four Big Tenners on the program. \ Other teams which were met last season and which are not billed again \are Oakland City, Louisville, Boston, Cincinnati and Central Normal. Newcomers besides Wisconsin are Valparaiso, DePaul of Chicago and St. Joseph's. Valparaiso’s Uhlans come into the Field House for the opener, contemplated as one of those wellknown breathers. Then follow in rapid succession the four Western Conference dribbling, passing, shooting outfits, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan.

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Notre Dame

Notre Dame’s Irish, who beat the Blue and White twice last season, again are booked for games here and at South Bend. Marquette, which also bumped the Bulldogs twice in the last floor derby, are scheduled again, but for only a single contest there. Other teams outside the Indiana and Western Conferences which are to be opposed include Michigan State and Detroit. Indiana fives to be tussled with besides Valparaiso are DePauw, Franklin, Wabash, Indiana Central ‘and St. Joseph's. Coach Tony Hinkle hasn't started to worry about his basketball prospects and won’t until after his footballers put away their pads and cleats after Saturday's expected bruiser at St. Louis against Jimmy Conzelman’s Bears of Washington, a Missouri Valley Conference team with a football record similar to that of Butler, four payoffs against three deficits. But Coach Hinkle said that as soon as Saturday's game is over, he’ll forget about the football season and get those basketballers out there on the practice courts next week to try and put together a quintet that will better last season’s record of 11 victories against 12 defeats. There won't be much chance then

Bill Geyer, Butler forward last season limbers his arms. Gunn, Centerville, forward.

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Bulldog’s Net Program Dec. Jan. 27—Detroit there. Dec. Jan. 28—Michigan State there.

Dec. Feb. 3—DePaul (Chicago) there. Dec. Feb. 4—Franklin here.

10—Valparaiso here. 17—Iowa here. 19—Wisconsin here. 23—Indiana here.

These candidates for the team are not singing the blues. On top of the piano, left, is Paul Hermann Jr., forward, and Wilbur Whittinghill, forward. At the keys is Byron

Budge Signs

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month ago that Budge was willing to turn professional if he could receive a guarantee of $100,000 for his first year. The compromise on the $75,000 was reached last night, according to Pate, who aided Budge in drawing up the contract. ‘When the contract was signed,

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30—Michigan here. 2—Marquette there. 7—Notre Dame there. 14—DePauw here. 18—Franklin there. 21—Michigan State here.

who are not back are Arthur Cosgrove, guard, and Willard Fawcett, forward.

They don’t let any grass grow in

the interior of Butler's basketball palace.

As soon as the word got around

that the schedule was about ready for the addicts to clip and put in their little those early birds got on the practice hardwood and other students started rigging up the game floor in the main arena.

red reference books,

And that’s a bit of engineering

and labor.

They have to dig it out in pieces

from storage areas of the big house and then match it up something like a jigsaw puzzle.

It comes in 176 sections which sit

on 500 wooden blocks which are on top of cement blocks, the wooden blocks being fitted on bolts inserted in the cement.

Then about 15 gross of screws,

Feb. 8—Wabash there. Feb. 11—Indiana Central here. Feb. 16—St. Joseph’s here, Feb. 21—DePauw there. . Feb. 24—Wabash there. March 1—Notre Dame here.

that figures up to 2160, have to go in at certain points to hold the whole thing together under the strain of racing feet and bouncing leather. The Butler ballyhoo man wants it known, too, that this year the Field House is going to be decked out like it never was before. Pennants of all colleges, American flags and bunting are to flutter all over the place to delight the eye in case the games don’t, but Butler isn’t worrying so much about that.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

Rossville, 41; Attica, 26. Otterbein, 28; Ambia, 26. Linden, 36; Thorntown, 26. Wheatfield, 25; Mt. Ayr, 17. Westpoint, 27; Chalmers, 17. McCordsville, 26; Castleton, 23.

Charlottesville, 28; Union Township, 18. Madison, 26; Scottsburg, 20.

for the football players who also

smashing halfback

will practice with the squad today for the

first time since he was injured in the Brooklyn-Washington 6-6 tie 10

days ago. a pileup, but the injury was not as

He suffered a fracture of the frontal sinus when kicked in

serious as had been believed.

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FRENCH LICK, Nov. 10.—Col. M. J. Winn, Churchill Downs and American Turf Association presis dent, who is spending this week at French Lick Springs in a family reunion with three of his daughters, said last night that the 65th rune ning of the Kentucky Derby would “most likely” be May 6. “It'll be a bigger and better Derby in every way,” he added. . “The Derby played to 75,000 this year. Expectations are for a much higher mark in 1939 as a field stand seating 20,000 is to be added to accommodate the 50-cent fans.”

Young and Durable. CINCINNATI, Nov. 10 (NEA).—= Frank McCormick and Harry Crafty Cincinnati first-year men, were the only National League players to see service in every game of the past campaign.

Budge received a check for $25,000. He will get another $25,000 on March 1 and the remaining $25,000 at the end of his tour.

Pitt Has One Good Lineman for 1939

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 10 (NEA). Pittsburgh loses 10 members of its first string lineup this fall. Only Dick Cassiano, the speedy left halfback, remains. But Dr. Jock Sutherland will have at least one capable tackle, for Ted Konetsky, a sophomore who - replaced the injured Walt Raskowski, stood up in the Fordham battle,

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NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (U. P.).— Walter Pate, chairman of the American Davis Cup Committee, said today that Don Budge, world’s leading tennis amateur, had decided to turn professional. Budge was in Pate’s office here when the announcement was made. Pate said the contract called for Budge to receive a guarantee of $75,000 for one year’s play, with an option of taking a percentage of the receipts of his nation-wide tour. The tour will begin in Madison Square Garden on Jan. 38 with Budge playing Ellsworth Vines. Budge's tour will be made under the management of Jack Harris of Chicago, who said more than a

._ MIAMI, Nov. 10 (U. P.).—Col. Henry L. Doherty, utilities financier, Ct offered today to do the major financing for the International Four-ball Golf Tournament abandoned this year by the city of Miami. When Doherty canceled his annual $10,000 Miami-Biltmore Open this year, the city boosted the value of the Miami-Open to $10,000 and omitted the International Four-ball from the spring schedule.

BO DRILLS HOOSIERS ON OFFENSE

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Nov. 10 (U. P.).—Indiana worked on offensive methods today, priming for Saturday’s contest with the Iowa Hawkeyes. Coach Bo McMillin drilled his squad on power plays, short passes and place kicking,

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Red Jaggers, senior letterman guard and forward; Paul Herrman, junior forward; Wilbur Whitting, sophomore forward; Byron Gunn, junior forward; Jerry Steiner, junior forward; George Perry, senior guard from Indianapolis, and Laurel Poland, a guard. It's pretty early to contemplate Hinkle’s basketball worries, but the chief one no doubt will be to find a center. He lost both of last year’s better ones, William Manuel and

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INJURED HAWKEYES RETURN TO SQUAD

IOWA CITY, Ia. Nov. 10 (U. P) by the apparent return to form of

.—Iowa coaches were cheered today two Hawkeyes who have been out

most of the season. Nile Kinnick, left halfback, and Frank Balazs, fullback, took part in a dummy scrimmage against Indiana plays. The Hawkeyes play their last conference game of the season against the

Hoosiers Saturday.

MINNESOTA TO FACE IRISH ‘SHOCK TROOPS’

NOTRE DAME, Nov. 10 (U. P.

).—Coach Elmer Layden indicated

today that he would start the Notre Dame shock troops against Min- - nesota Saturday. “We'll be in there to win, but then we always are,” he said. The varsity took part in a light drill yesterday.

WINCHELL MAY BE REGULAR GUARD LAFAYETTE, Nov. 10 (U. P.).—Frank Bykowski and Jack Winchell

appeared to have earned Both are former reserves. because of their speed and drive. Saturday.

Reveal Olympics To Open July 20

NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (U. P.).— - Finland's official invitation to the | United States for the XII Olympiad

i. competition in 1940 will be held July 20 to Aug. 4. i“: The American Olympic Commit-

5 at New York to formally accept the invitation and to act upon other Olympic plans. Coincident with the invitation, the American committee received the first entry for the games. Donna Fox of New York, holder of the reecord for the St. Moritz® course where the Olympic bobsled races are to be held, sent in his entry for the

tryouts at Lake Placid, N. Y.,, Feb.

positions as the regular Purdue guards today. They were shifted to

the regular squad

The Boilermakers have an open date

10-13, 1939. Fox, captain of the No. 1 American team that went to the 1936 Olympics in Germany, was prevented from competing by a severe injury suffered in a spill during a practice run.

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MONTREAL, Nov. 10 (NEA). — Russ McConnell, McGill University hockey star who scored 41 points in 10 games last winter, has refused a contract with the New York Rangers, preferring to graduate first

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