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ing for a postseason invitation, finds
itself behind the Eight Bowl.
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T seems certain that the 25-player limit, cut by two ‘when depression struck the professional pastime, will be reinstated by the major baseball leagues at their annual sessions in New York, beginning Dec. 13. . . . Ford Frick, president of the National League, said the other day he already had enough votes to put the change into effect in so far as his circuit was concerned. Ed Barrow, general manager of the Yankees, pre-
dicted the American League
would concur. . .. If there
be a deadlock Judge Kenesaw M. Landis will cast the
deciding vote.
Boston in the American loop has fought the addition of two men to the roster, but it is believed that Tom Yawkey and Eddie Collins have shifted to the Yankee
side.
It will be recalled that last September the Red Sox were so hard hit by injuries that they had to send in Doc Cramer, center fielder, as a relief pitcher.
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F the major go back to 25 men after May 15 places will be made for an additional 32 players in the Big Time. . . . This will facilitate the development of replacements, and will furnish a greater incentive to those 82 who otherwise would have to remain in the
minors.
Any plan which looks toward more work for more men certainly deserves strong support these days, even in the financially successful major leagues.
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EKE BONURA has been kicking himself ever since the White Sox swapped him to Washington for Joe Kuhel last spring. ...
Bonura held out persistently. . . .
Park, where he did so well and was so well liked. ...
He stalled himself out of Comiskey
The huge
Italian was voted the most popular player in Chicago in 1937. Now he doesn’t care whether he lands with the Pale Hose or Cubs, just so long as he returns to Chicago. “I want to get away from Washington,” says Bonura. “I'd go better in either Chicago park. I feel better in Chicago. I hit better in
Chicago.”
Repentant, Bonura would even get along with Jimmy Dykes, who
didn’t like his attitude at times. .
when he was well off, is hopeful. . ..
trading him.
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OE BEINOR, Notre Dame tackle, was named on the New York
World-Telegram All-America grid team. . “made” the second team and Ed Longhi,
Dame end,
+. Earl Brown. Notre Notre Dame
center, and Lou Brock, ‘Purdue halfback, were honored on the third
squad.
Other first team selections: Ends, Young, Oklahoma, and Wyatt, Tennessee; tackle, Wolff, Santa Clara; guards, Roth, Cornell, and Smith, Southern California; center, Aldrich, Texas Christian; quarterback, O’Brien, Texas Christian; halfbacks, MacLeod, Dartmouth, and
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OTRE DAME went down fighting as its winning streak was nipped
by Southern California. . . .
Bucking the law of averages as the
weeks go by in Big Time football places a strain on any team. ... The Irish capitalized on several breaks of the game during the season
but the Trojans got them Saturday
and were geared to cash in.
Notre Dame’s record of eight victories in nine starts against power-
ful teams is one of the best, and to be one of the best in modern foot- . The Irish and the Purdue Boiler-
ball is no mean achievement. . .
makers placed the Hoosier State high in the national picture and were recognized everywhere as glittering machines in victory or defeat.
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ONZAGA UNIVERSITY backs didn't run to many touchdowns
this season, but when they did run they traveled far. . .
. In fact,
Gonzaga is claiming the national championship for long-distance runs
-of 100 yards or more.
When Tony Canadeo, swift-footed sophomore halfback, returned a kickoff 102 yards against Loyola of Los Angeles in the last game of the season, it was the second time this year that he scored by running
more than the length of the gridiron. ...
against Washington State 105 yards.
He ran back a kickoff
Jim McGuire, fullback, started the business of marathon touch-
downs, when he rambled 101 yards
on the kickoff against Idaho in
one of the early games of the season.
— And in This Corner
TOE ARTIST CLINCHES TITLE
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 5 (U. P.).—The Louisville Tanks today held the championship of the American Professional Football League by their 3-0 victory yesterday over the St. Louis Gunners in a league title playoff. With two minutes to play, End Max Reed entered the game to kick a field goal from the 25-yard line. The game was played before 7000 fans.
FRESHMEN SHOWDOWN HERE AGAIN
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 5 (U. P.).—The long-awaited
“showdown” on
the scrambled athletic situation at the University of Pittsburgh was expected to develop before the day is over. John Weber, Pitt business manager, may announce what steps the university will take to meet the demands of freshmen football players, whose refusal to honor $150 tuition notes precipitated the latest crisis
in a long series of “crises.”
GERMAN-AMERICAN CYCLISTS WIN :
BUFFALO, Dec. 5 (U. P.) ~Pressed throughout a week marked by sensational riding, Gustav Kilian of Germany and Bobby Thomas of Kenosha, Wis., appeared today the team to beat in the world of six-day
bike riding.
The German-American team took first place in Buffalo’s eighth international six-day bike race with a total of nine laps won and 1310 sprint points at the end of the 2004-mile grind last night. It was Kilian’s 14th American victory, and his first race paired with Thomas.
Williams Is Early Bird; Picks the Bowl Winners
By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—Putting one little word after another: Our
# motto is why wait? Accordingly we pick Carnegie Tec
beat Texas
Christian, Tennessee to beat Oklahoma and Southern Ca lifornia to beat
Duke in the various Bowl games. . Now that’s out of the way. . make predictions of this sort .
It s practically settled . . well, who can question the old Colonel?
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. But what this? ... A letter from Mr. Roger Meloche, 935 Brandon
Ave., Montreal, Canada. . And he writes: “After saying
‘Garcia came in rushing for the kill.
that Garcia was dumb you wrote, One more punch would do it. He
started a right uppercupt from the fioor—his most effective punch.
Armstrong weaved to the right. Had ‘he bobbed to the left he would have run right into the punch and Referee Arthur Donovan would be counting over him yet. Bui luck was with him on this occasion.’ . .. “What do you mean, ‘luck was with him? When a fighter wins 40 fights in a row and three world championships in less than a year, he must be good. It can’t be luck. Why not give credit to a fighter who is smart and has a magnificent defense. Don't try to alibi your mis~ Correspondent ‘Meloche is more "or less right... . Consciously or otherwise we do try to alibi our i mistakes. . . . We have seen Armstrong in all his important fights. .-In most of them he Jocks) bad even when winning. . Against Garcia he looked great . ...and we said so. . We ales said he was lucky not to run into a knockout, punch and we still believe that. . We still believe he could have bobbed into instead of away from that lethal
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And nobody is ever going to tell us he is such a Napoleonic ring neral ‘that he could designedly move his jaw this way instead of that way, particularly when he is glassy-eyed. rubber-legged and wondering what it is all about. . . . We, | want to come right out ane
admit we looked pretty silly the way the fight turned out. ... But we aren’t going to back water much. There's only one thing we - will admit being wrong about, and that is Armstrong’s ability to go fhe limit at top speed. ... He fooled us on that. . .. All we've got to go by is past performances. ... And in the past Armstrong folded in the later rounds. ... We feel this is something he should answer for rather than us. Also, we'd like to know if the readers would prefer us to speak our mind, no matter what kind of a mind it is. By that we mean, do you want us to try to tell you what we think about a fight or give you
what is the equivalent of a weather report?
Myatt Usually Safe
NEW YORK, Dec. 5 (NEA).—Before George Myatt - went to the Giants, he stole 45 bases for Jersey City last season. The San Diego third baseman was thrown out only four times for a .918 average. He found Montreal the easiest victim, stealing 13 bases in an many attempts against the Maroons.
M'CRACKEN
Baseball Men Fire Up Hot Stove Session
New Orleans Is Mecca of Magnates; Dixie, Texas Leagues Meet.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 5 (U. P.) — The 37th annual convention of the National Association of Professionai Baseball Leagues was unofficially opened today by meetings of two circuits. The Southern Association and the Texas League started sectional meetings this morning. The American Association and International League meet tomorrow. Delegates to the N. A. P. B. L. formally open their three-day convention on Wednesday. Maj. Trammell Scott of Atlanta, Ga., technically was not qualified to open the southern’s meeting because his contract as president expired Nov. 1 but directors of the Association were expected to waive this detail, re-elect him and boost his $3500 salary.
Pro Football Discussed
Judge John D. Martin, whose contract as chairman of the board also expired last month, received more than $8000 when he retired after 20 years as president to be succeeded by Scott. It was reported that Martin would be asked to accept an honorary post. Other matters for discussion inincluded the 1939 schedule and a proposal that the league enter the professional football field for a winter sideline. Directors noted that more than 7000 fans attended yesterday’s pro grame here between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Cleveland Rams. While .the Association chose its president three clubs—New Orleans, Memphis and Chattanooga—looked around for managers. Scouts for major leagues also sought talent from the delegates. It was announced that George Toporcer had been signed.to manage the Little Rock team next season. He directed the Hazleton, Pa. club this year and formerly managed the Rochester Internationals. 1000 to Attend
More than 1000, headed by Presi-
| dent W. G. Bramham, were expected
at Wednesday’s opening. They will vote on 35 amendments concerned with drafting of players, options, minimum playing dates, contracts, bonuses and salary limits. Bramham suggested an amendment which would bring uniformity in rookie and nonclass rules in the minor loops
Two National Association offices|
will be filled. One is the three-year term of Chairman George Traut= man as Class AA representative on the executive committee. The other
|is the term of Elmer Dailey, repre-
sentative for Class B, C, D and = teams. Both men are eligible for reelection.
Old-Time Slugger Dies at 82
WOOSTER, O., Dec. 5 (U. P.)— Guy Hecker, holder of' the major league record of scoring seven runs in a nine-inning baseball game, died yesterday at his home. He was 82. Hecker, a teammate of Connie Mack and a star in the early days of league baseball, set his all-time mark playing for Louisville against Baltimore on Aug. 15, 1886. He made six hits, including three home runs, that day. Hecker also was the first to play a nine-inning game at first base without a putout, which has been equalled twice since his feat in 1887. He pitched a no-hit, no-run game against Pittsburgh in 1882. Hecker managed Pittsburgh in 1890.
Rename Hoyt Amateur Head
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (U. P.).— Judge Samuel E. Hoyt, of New Haven, Conn., was re-elected president of the Amateur Athletic Union in the closing session of the golden anniversary convention yesterday. Miami was selected as the site for the 1939 meeting after a close race with Portland and New Orleans. A report proposing a return to the linear system of measurement in national championships was defeated by a large majority. Candidates Listed The Sullivan Award Committee presented to the convention a list of 10 candidates for the medal which is awarded annually to the year's outstanding amateur athlete. Sport writers throughout the nation will cast the final ballots to decide the winner. Those on the list were: Patty Berg, Minneapolis, national women’s golf champion; Charles Fenske, Wisconsin, mile runner; Joe Burk, Philadelphia, sculler; Charley Yates, Atlanta, British amateur goif champion; Mrs. Katherine Rawls Thompson, Pt. Lauderdale, Fla. swimmer; Adolf Kiefer, Chicago, swimmer; Fred Wolcott, Rice University, hurdler; Ray Mallott, Stanford, quarter-mile runner; Ben Johnson, sprinter, formerly of Columbia University; Don Lash, middle distance runner, formerly of Indiana University.
Packers Trounce Seymour Pro Five
Hilgemeier’s Packers broke the winning streak of the Seymour Hoosier Petes by defeating them, 45 to 27, in a professional basketball game yesterday at the Pennsy gym. Cy Proffitt, former Butler player, scored six field goals to lead the Packers’ scoring. In a preliminary game, Kingan’s
nosed out the Royal Crown Colas,
36 to 3%,
Times Photo.
Coach Tony Hinkle of Butler Sos Byron Gunn, junior forward from Centerville, how to start a dribble.
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Hurry ’Em Up and Get Ball Down Floor, Is Plan Of Tony Hinkle.
(First of a Series)
By LEO DAUGHERTY No one, especially this department, is going to try to tell Hoosiers how to play basketball. Most everyone . on these here plains from six up has his own ideas of fancy dribbling and hoop ringing. Coaches alone reserve the right to say a thing or two of how it ought to be done and each has pretty much his own system. Coach Tony Hinkle has his ideas of the method Butler shuld use in reaping field goals and stopping the Bulldogs’ adversaries from pocketing the big pill. Tony's ideas must be pretty fair, too, because in 18 seasons his teams have won 274 games and have dropped only 115. Their feats include the winning of one national championship, two Missouri Valley titles and three State crowns.
Feed Shooter in Swift Fashion
His idea is that the fast-break type of offense is better and Butler resorts to the slow-sét attack only when swifter tactics to get the ball into the hands of a player within shooting distance fail. “We use the fast break every time the. opportunity comes,” he said. “The idea is to get that ball off the
backboard and down the floor and into the hoop as fast as possible. We want to get the ball into the shooter’'s hands before the defense can get set. “There are different types of fast rushing, the criss-cross and straight running. We employ the latier on the old theory that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points. - I think the criss-cross is slow. . “For the fast-break style, the offensive team lines up like the figure five on dice and the idea is to get the ball to the man in the middle and then to a man in shooting territory. “When we go into the slow-set offense we send three men through the opposing team's defense and keep two men beck.”
One in Three Is Tony's Theory
Coach Hinkle works on the percentage system. He figures that every time his team has the ball it should get a shot and that if it doesn’t, someone has made an error in the form of .a fumble, a missed dribble or a bad pass and the ball is lost. He rcalizes that there is no such thing as perfection in sport and that there probably never will be the perfect basketball team whose offense clicks without a hitch and which c>n make every shot it tries. Tony works on the theory that his shooters should ring one in every three attempts. “We would like to cut our errors to about 10 a game,” the Fairview maestro said. “I figure that we will have the ball about 70 times a game. If we make only 10 errors then we will have 60 shots. Then
if we make one out of three shots we've got 40 points, plus free throws and that ought to be enough to win any ball game, Mix Things Up Like Quarterback “It’s our policy to keep the middle area near the foul circle free for fast, center breaks. We run men in there, but do not keep & man in there all the time as is done under the pivot style of play.” N This may sound queer, but for the benefit of teams that are to be met, Coach Hinkle says ‘“‘we have no set plays. We don’t make a boy do any set thing on the offensive. There are five or six things he can do and he should mix them up like a quarterback.” Hinkle, to help the sophomore— if there are any in Indiana basketball—explained that there are three systems of defense, the straight man-to-man, the man-to-man shifting and the zone style.
“On the defensive we do one of |’
two things,” he explained. “For instance, I may be assigned to you before the game starts and I follow you all during the contest. Or I may be assigned to follow you until a screen occurs and then I shift to the man coming off the screen and I am responsible for him until another screen occurs. A screen, it may be explained, is a “legal block.”
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Rangy Squad Offers Marion A Problem; Anderson, Muncie to Meet.
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By United Press Take a tip from the Kokomo Kats.
If you do you can beat ‘em. . Six-foot 10-inch Chet Gabriel led the rangy pack that shattered the hearts and nets of Tech here Saturday night, 53 to 25, and he’s the one Hoosierdom’s prep coaches are
wondering how to stop, Coach Orville Hooker and his Marion
Playing slightly more than half the game, Gabriel scored eight field goals and a free toss on under-the-basket follow shots. He's been as powerful throughout Kokomo’s four victories this season. Flanking him are Carl Campbell, a six-four sophomore, and Red Dunn, who's six feet one. The first string averages nearly six-four, Kokomo, Anderson Ahead
Ahead at the first turn of the North Central Conference race are Kokomo and Anderson, the latter boasting a record of five consecutive wins. The Indians get a test of
stamina this week, playing the Muncie Bearcats at home Wednescay and traveling to Jefferson at Lafayette Friday. Other tilts in the Big Ten are Logansport at Frankfort and Richmond at Muncie Friday, and New Castle at Tech Saturday. . The champion South Side of Ft. Wayne team also gets into a heavy week-end, starting at Bluffton Friday and going to Connersville the following nig ht. Connersville whipped a previously unbeaten team, Greencastle, 39 to 22, and should be able to square off with the Arch-
ville Friday. In addition to the South SideBluffton battle, which will count only for the Archers in the Northeastern Conference standings, there are Kendallville-Auburn, Columbia City-Central of Ft. Wayne, and North Side of Ft. Wayne-Decatur pairings. The games won't go on the league record for North Side and Kendallville.
Wallace Faces Hammond
Lew Wallace of Gary and the Hammond Wildcats meet Thursday at Hammond in a western division, Northern Indiana Conference, encounter. The Hornets have taken three victories this season on the power of their huge forward wall
but Hammond can more than match them in both respects. Hammond Tech at Whiting Wednesday, Roosevelt of East Chicago at Horace Mann, Gary, Thursday, and Valparaiso at Froebel, Gary, and Washington of East Chicago at Emerson, Gary, Friday, complete the western schedule for the week. Most interesting tomorrow night is a battle on the shores of the Ohio River—Martinsville’s Artesians at Jeffersonville. The Seymour Owls meet Johnny Sines’ North Vernon Panthers on their rivals’ floor in another hot game Friday. New Albany entertains Central of Evansville Friday. ;
Ruddy, Olympic Swimmer, Dead
NEW YORK, Dec. 5 (U. P).— Ray Ruddy, 26, former American Olympic swimmer, died last night of a brain concussion received in a fall down a flight of stairs. He was a member of the:1928 Olympic; the 1932 and 1936 teams, on which he was a water polo player. During his career he set 15 American records and one world record, the latter for 440 yards. His specialty was distance events and he won the National A. A. U. long distance titles in 1927, 1929 and 1930. While leaving the Forest Hills home of an aunt, Mrs. Walter Leary, Saturday, Ruddy caught his foot in the carpet of a stairway. He lost his balance and fell nearly the entire flight, striking his head against
Hoosiers
set to Kokomo
Crimson. Squad Will Lift Net Curtain Against Ball State.
By United Press 5 Last season with Ball State College Branch McCracken made his bed. Tonight, at Indiana University, he must lie in it.
The former All-America center of Old I. U. makes his debut as i head basketball coach tonigh against the same pupils he taught at the Muncie school during 1937-38. Last spring when Everett Dean decided to leave Indiana to become coach at the University of Southern California, the long arm of the I. U. athletic department reached out and tapped the Big Branch, who had been reeling off amazingly successful seasons with the Ball State Cardinals since 1930. Tonight is his test. It’s the pupils against the master. Veteran Cardinals Who should know what McCracken has up his sleeve are Norman Johnson, Merrill Hole," Robert Risinger and Roy Gardner. Their coach is Pete Phil lips, former Indiana University athlete who last year was Blooming ton High School athletic director. Capt. Ernie Andres, who shattered the Big Ten Conference single game scoring record against Illinois last season with 30 points, will lead the Hoosiers. Marvin Huffman will team with him at guard, Bill or Bob Menke, sophomore brothers of Huntingburg, will take the pivot, and Bill Johnson and Ralph Dorsey probably will start at forward.
This Week
(State Colleges) TONIGHT Ball State at Indiana Oakland City at Franklin, TOMORROW Manchester at Anderson. Oakland City at DePauw. WEDNESDAY St. Josenn’s at Valparaiso, Rose Poly av Earlham, ; ZHURSDAY
Louisville at Han Taylor at Co Aeron at Waba
FRIDAY Cape Girardeau at Oakland City.
SATURDAY
Notre Dame at Wisconsin, Miami at Indiana. Valparaiso at Butler. Evansville at Franklin. Southeastern Missouri at Indian State. ndiana Central at Ball Sta
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Defiance at Tri-Sta Concordia (Ft. Re. at St. Josenh’s,
N.Y.U.Back Honored
NEW YORK, Dec. 5 (NEA). — Stanley Mikulka, New York Unie versity halfback and leading groundgainer, has been elected to Tau Beta Pi," national honorary engineering fraternity. The Bronx boy, a brilliant student, is the first N. Y. U, football player to gain that honor.
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