Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1938 — Page 8

' By Eddie Ash

BIG TEN TITLE POSSIBILITIES

BUCKS’ SIX GAMES IMPORTANT

Lefty Is Left Out

Lefty Gomez, the Yankeeman,

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STRIPPED of much of its football prestige, the Big Ten > will decide its 1938 champion this week-end from a confusing jam of contenders including every team in the first division of the race. : : There isn't a giant-over-all team left in the Western . Conference, but if Minnesota, Wisconsin or Ohio State can hieve greatness for just 60 minutes Saturday one of the three may yet carry away an undisputed championship. Otherwise there are plenty of possibilities: 1. Winner of the Minnesota-Wisconsin game at Madiwill gain at least a share of the championship. 2. Ohio State can share it by defeating Michigan at IS Stumbus or win it outright if Minnesota and Wisconsin tie.

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: 3. In case of a tie at Wisconsin and a defeat of Ohio State, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Purdue and Michigan can

‘share the championship. ; 8 nn 2 8 8 = tio STATE, despite its tie with Northwestern and de2 feat by Purdue, still maintains an excellent chance of ‘coming through because of its six-game schedule. A 32-to-14 triumph over Illinois last Saturday indicated that the Bucks may have found their offensive thunder and must be regarded as a distinct menace to Michigan. x 4 a = = 2 8 =a = = oo aL dopesters are concerned about the starting time of the Te Notre Dame at Northwestern game. . . . It’s still set at 2 o'clock and unless the fracas is exceptionally fast darkness may catch up with a the boys in the fourth quarter and cause a lot of uneasiness and anx- ~ defy. .. . Daylight wanes at a rapid rate in a big stadium as midNovember passes. - : Notre Dame went to the 1:30 kickoff against Minnesota last Saturday and Indiana and Purdue will kick off at 1:30 in the Hoosier ~ Classic. . . . Gathering darkness can ruin a game for both the customers and teams. 8 tJ ” 2 2 2

= T= law of averages will be working against Notre Dame this week. : . . « They have won 10 in a row, seven this year. ... Another angle is that even when the Minnesota Gophers lose they take a lot out of an opponent by their power style of play. - Only one team which has met the Gophers this season has won its ~ next game. , , . Here’s the record: : | : Minnesota defeated the University of Washington, 15-0. .. . The next week Washington was held to an upsetting tie by Idaho and dropped the next three starts. Nebraska lost.to the Gophers and the next time out the Cornhuskers got knocked off in an upset by Iowa State. . . . Then tied * Indiana and lost to Oklahoma and Missouri before regaining form. weer Lis Jetore ihe Goppers and tied Fordham the following - « « « Michigan lost to Minnesota, 7 to 6, and had to struggl ~ beat Yale, 15-13, a week later. Jere Northwestern edged Minnesota, Wisconsin the following Saturday. : Iowa was crushed by the Gophers and Indiana downed the Hawks next, 7-3. . . . Last fall Notre Dame edged Minnesota, 7-6, and a week later collapsed in the fourth quarter and lost to Pittsburgh, 21-6,

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ROM the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “The Butler-Washington U. : game was a thriller of thrillers, one of the most exciting ‘football tilts St. Louis fans have ever seen, a struggle worthy of packed stands instead of the small crowd of 3000 that attended. : While it was a happy victory for Washington, it was a heartbreaker for the courageous Bulldogs, who had to accept defeat afte making one of the best 1ate-game comebacks you'll ever see. }

“The Bears will always remember the hear the Bulldogs.” art and the muscles of

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NOW IT’S A ‘FISH BOWL’ GAME

A J GLOUCESTER, Mass., Nov. 15 (U. P.).—An annual “fish bowl” game between a leading Western high school football team and a championship Basie club was proposed today by leading citizens of this famed fishing ort.

GOLF PROS TEE OFF AT PINEHURST

PINEHURST, N. C, Nov. 15 (U. P.) —E. J. Harrison of Little Rock, Ark., defending champion, teed off today with Gene Sarazen in the opening round of the 1938 Mid-South Professional golf tournament. More ~ than 100 pros were entered. Eighteen holes of best ball today and another 18 tomorrow will harrow competition for the individual play which starts Thursday.

DODGERS, COLLEGE GRIDDERS TO PLAY BENEFIT

NEW. YORK, Nov. 15 (U. P.).—The Brooklyn Dodgers National League football team will meet an All-Star Metropolitan College eleven at Ebbets Field Dec. 3 in a benefit for German, Czechoslovak and Austrian refugees, it was announced today. Athletic directors of Columbia, Fordham, N.Y. U. and C. C. N. Y. have approved the benefit and their players will be allowed to participate. /

6-3, then bowed. in an upset to

Football Over, Local High Players Join Net Squads

. The Shortridge hardwood squad was to hold its second strenuous of- - fensive scrimmage today in preparation for their season’s “opener with Greenfield Nov. 23. Yesterday the Blue Devil five

were ooached in under-the-basket

- plays by Kenneth Peterman and they also held a scrimmage with L the reserves. ~~ The squad, strengthened by the return of athletes from the football team, now numbers 15 players. ‘These boys are the group to survive the final two cuts made since the pening of practice three weeks ago. . The team includes Fred Krampe, Bop Raber, John Allerdice—the only returning letterman — Bill Hardy, Pick Gage, Harry Billings, Jim Stivers, Ralph Hesler, Gene Miller, Dick Mercer, Frank Levinson, Walfer Williams, Walt Freihofer, Byron West and Charles Benjamin. West ind Benjamin-are the only sophomores on the varsity. - “Russel S. Julius, Shortridge athc director, today announced that

ral of Evansville on Dec. 30. This d been an open date. It will ke g first meeting of the schools.

s who also play basketball were , join the hardwood squad today » begin practice for the Redskins’ ening game Desc. 2 with Ben vis. The first team includes Marshall oddy, Fritz Mueller, Elmer Parks,

Edward Dersh.

Royce Stevens, Glenn Smith, Oscar Vie Wiegh, William Kniptash and ractice yesterday stressed new play , formations, fundamentals, under ‘the basket shots and a scrimmage.

“You can win many games on paper,” Coach Oral Bridgford said today when questioned about his team’s. prospects, “so I'll wait until the team plays before making any predictions.”

The Washington basket squad is working overtime this week. They will not only be attempting to retain their city championship crown this season but they have also been admitted to the strong South Central Conference. Seymour has also been added to that loop. The Continentals open their season against Broad Ripple Nov. 23 at the new Washington Gym.

Their schedule follows:

. %3—Broad Ripple. . 2—Rushville. Ger.

puthport. : « 17—Wiley of Terre Haute. . 21—Danville. . 30—At Connersyille, STIL Mutingeille v ai Took. - y Tourney at Tec . 20—Manual. y . 25—Crawfordsville, . 3—At Greensburg. . 4—At Shelbyville. . 11—Cathedral. . 12—Greencastle, . 17—Ben Davis. . 21—At Franklin, . 25—Technical.

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By LEO DAUGHERTY Times Staff Writer FORTVILLE, Nov. 15.—There are more than 800 high school basketball teams in Indiana, but here in this Hancock County city there is portrayed the picture of high school basketball in Hoosierdom,

Only 1300 persons live here. But on the evening of Nov. 22 Fortville, its high school and its citizens will dedicate a gymnasium which has a capacity of 1500. And they expect to fill it! . Where do they get those other 200? Well, of course, when the Pur-

‘ple and Old Gold Demons play,

every house in Fortville is not dark. The. opposition brings some of the fans. It’s a great season for this town and this school, because never before have they had their own gymnasium. They previously played their “home” games at McCordsville. This year the dream has come true. A new high school and a new gymnasium! The town’s hot on the cage game this year. It’s sizzling! Fortville might well be regarded as the crossroads of the game in Indiana, just as Indianapolis is the crossroads of America. Now the team wasn’t here today. The new gym isn’t completed yet. Coach Jack Brown had the boys over at McCordsville High School. Every afternoon, until the Fortvills hardwood and bleachers are completed, he and the boys trek over there to practice for at last 21% hours. While the kids—about 20 of them, a2lmost one-third of the boy population of Fortville High School—were practicing dribbling, passing and shooting, the citizens back here were singing their praises.’ :

Demons Have Already Won Three Games

From the man who operates the weekly newspaper to the pretzel peddler on the main stem, they were telling with boasts and smiles that the Demons already had won three games. They beat Alexandria, 40 to 24; Beech Grove, 36 to 24, and then Mount Comfort, 34 to 20. They have 15 more games to play, eight of them on the home floor, and you can bank your seat check that on those eight nights there won’t be much electricity or lamp oil burned in the homes of Fortville. The ticket sale has been brisk. And there is no scalping on the prices. Here in this town where the du Ponts’ manufacturing of silica of soda is practically the only industry, the school officials make it possible for everyone to go to the basketball games.

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Here’s the way the Fortville weekly announces the ticket sale: “Due to the demand for season tickets, they will be offered for sale ‘this season. Student tickets will sell for 75 cents, except for band students, who may purchase tickets for 50 cents. Adult tickets will sell for $1.25 in the reserved section. This makes it possible for businessmen to come late -and-still be assured of a good seat. : “Some may wish to take advantage of the family season ticket. Two adult members of the family may purchase tickets for $2, with additional children’s tickets at 25 cents each.” See, the town goes for the basket shooters.

Will Play Lapel in Gym Dedication The dedication game at the new gymnasium is to be with Herman Hinshaw’s Lapel Bulldogs and the Demons want to make the rafters ring with baskets that night. Not

only will it be a gal® occasion, but Lapel is a traditional feudist. Fortville is an old town and basketball has been played here ever since there were two house-. Coach Brown, who went to Central Normal and Columbia and played about 12 years of the cage game, four of them with Tangier High School and eight with independent teams, thinks it’s a pretty tough sport. “Certainly,” he said. “I. don’t think it’s as tough as football. But the kids must be in condition. Why we diagram plays just like they do in football and every boy has to know just what to do.”

Just about this time he had his first five boys walk through a play. “See,” he said, “If takes three passes to get that ball®o the basket and the fourth kid shoots. Yep, that fifth man doesn’t seem like he’s in the play at all. Well, he’s blocking out the incoming guard. Don’¢ call it blocking in basketball. Screening is the word.”

The kids were shooting at the basket from the right, from the left and from the center of the ring. “Don’t shoot those long ones,”

Coach Brown shouted. “You can make this ball club if you can shoot them from short distances.” The boys were dropping them in from all angles far and near. °

It’s Easier to Teach Mathematics, Coach Says

Coach Brown teaches mathematics when he isn’t teaching basketball. “Why mathematics is a cinch,” he said. as teaching basketball. You know that two times two is four and it always has been and always will be, but you don’t know who is going to stop that dribble or screen that shot when they twirl it at the basket.” “There are baskets in every yard and ‘vacant lot in town,” Coach Brown smiled. “Why they play ‘alley ball’ as early as August and it sure does help when they come out to practice. They’ve sharpened up their eye for the basket and they can ring ’em right off the reel.” Coach Brown says you can’t stall in this floor game, and he'll admit that it isn’t as strenuous as the gridiron sport. But it develops hunger. One kid said that he, after practice, ate all the meat, vegetables and potatoes that his mother could put on the table .and that maybe three or four slices of bread would satisfy him. + Another boy said that he wouldn’t stop before eight or 10 slices of bread.

Mother's Home Cooking Is Training Table

Coach Brown was saying that he tells them tb eat whatever their

mothers put on the table and to eat heartily. : But he was saying that one time one of his best players seemed to be muscle bound, seemed to be sort of stymied in everything he did. “I found out,” he ‘said, “that his family couldn’t feed him and that for a solid week he ‘had had nothing to eat but soup beans. game him some good square meals and his appreciation was some

mighty fine basketball for Fortville and for me.” : a

“It’s not nearly as tough,

and Harold Braden Ft. Wayne; Robert Dietz, Jack Clayton and Lester Coombs, Indianapolis; George Rich-

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JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED

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Over here at Fortville, they go in a big way for their basketball. Here’s Coach Jack Brown (extreme left) diagramming a play for: his first six men. They are, left to right, Whitman Brown, Allen Barnhart, Bob Humfleet, Frank Venus, Larry Alleyne and Dave Thomas.

It’s Hard to Hold Demons as They Tune for Foe on Night of Dedication

Butler Cagers Begin Drills

Coach Tony Hinkle of Butler has shelved his gridiron paraphanalia for the year and donned a pair of blue silk basketball trunks. Yesterday he issued his initial call for hardwood aspirants. Thirty candidates answered, including 15 sophomores. It was best talented crop to report in recent years, Coach Hinkle said. Hinkle has five lettermen back for the coming campaign which will get under way, Dec. 10, with Valparaiso playing in Butler Fieldhouse. Returning lettermen are William Geyer, Ft. Wayne; Chester Jaggers, Louisville, Ky.; George’ Perry, Indianapolis; Laurel Poland, Brownsburg, and Jerome Steiner. Berne. All of the lettermen are seniors with the éxception of Steiner who is a sophomore. Eight juniors, two of whom saw considerable action during the past season, will form the nucieus of the reserve power. They are Loren Joseph, Frankfort; Byron Gunn, Centerville; Rex Blacker, Remington; Paul Herrmann, Brownstown; Earl Gibson, Shelbyville, Harry Thomas, Marion; George Knobel, Nappanee, and George Dick, Angola. : Thre sophomore talent, which represented the undefeated freshman squad last year, includes Wilbur Whitinghill, . Jamestown; Robert Wildman, New Castle; James McCray, Bluffton; William and Robert Ostlund, Webster City, Iowa; Armsted Elkin, Max Davis, and William Hamilton, Louisville, Ky.; Lyle Neat

ardson, Anderson, and Paul ‘Arm-

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facturers League will continue tonight on the Dearborn floor, with four net tilts on the schedule.

night’s feature dontest. Both quintets took their opening tilts last week,

Paper tussle at gone looms as the

play last night in the Smith-Hass-ler Co-Operative League at the Dearborn with the Salvation Army subduing the Brooklyn Merchants in the night's feature tilt, 3¢ to 29.

edge at fhe half, but were led by Homer Stull, school player, who tallied 11 points for the winners and paced the Army squad tory. / Baylife, with 12 points, led the Merchant quintet. :

Factory basketball league playing at the Hoosier Athletic Club. tonight:

Mathers, president; vice president, and D. H. Giffin,|

secretary-treasurer. .

day afternoon Intermediate Basketball League call Christamore House, Belmont 1175.

West League playing at the Holy Trinity gym.

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Dreams Come True at Fortville—Basket Team Has Its Own Gym

} : : Times. Photos. The youngest on the squad at Fortville is Jimmy Hudson. He's only

14. Here he is studying the new rules. :

Amateur Basketball

Play in the Smith-Hassler ‘Manu- [may attend a meeting tomorrow at 7 p. m. at the gym~at W, St. Clair St. and Holmes Ave. :

The Packard Flashes want to book games in the City and nearby. Write James Wilson, Chillson Motors, 923 N. Meridian, or call Riley 2401. \

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The Meridian Club WPA Senior basketball league is to open play tonight at the club gym, St. Clair and Meridian Sts. The schedule; Rosedale Milk Co. vs. Phillip 66 of Greenwood at 7 p. m. Edinburg Tigers vs. Brightwood Boys Club at 8 p. m. : Meridian Club vs. M. I. As at 9 p. m. The Brookside WPA Senior basketball leggue is to open tomorrow night at the Brookside Community House. The schedule: %. Indianapolis Cubs vs. Brightwood Boys at 7 p. m. J. D. Adams vs. Bethany A. C. at 8 p.m. : _ Mayer Buddies vs. Shawnee 9 p. m,

Tonight's schedule:

7p. m.—Wilkinson Lumber Co. vs. Fashion Cleaner Aces. 7: p. m.—East Side Boys Club vs. Schwitzer-Cummins Buddies. 8:40 p. m.—Polks Milk Co. vs. H. P. Ransburg Co. 3 p. m.—Stokely VanCamp vs. Beveridge Paper Co.

Close games marked the evening's

The Merchants held an 18 to 16

ex-Southport high A. C. at

The Blasengym Funeral Home team, formerly the South Side Craftsmen, defeated the Mt. Jackson Tire & Battery quintet, 37 to 25. For games call DR. 2565-R and ask for Eddie.

the second half for a vic-

Other scores last night were: Royal Crown Cola, 38; Kingan Knights, Trimble Oilers, 28; Waverley Oil, 21.

Noblesville Quakers, 27; Degolyer Printers, 21. :

Schedule for the Bush-Feezle

U. S. Tires vs. P. R. Mallory, 7:15 P: Hoosier A. C. vs. Stewart-Warner, 8:15 "Bazan A. A. vs. Rockwood Manufacturing, 9:15 p. m. Officers of the league are Robert L. P. Esarey,

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