Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1938 — Page 18

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By Eddie Ash

NET ..SCRAMBLE . IN ..BIG ..TEN

LOOK FOR THE USUAL FIREWORKS

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No Practice,

Jack Ryan, voted Northwestern's

Either

“most popular” footballer, gets a free

RACIN G through the Big Ten basketball campaign with- : out a setback is something that is rarely accom- "© plished. ... And this season coming up appears to be no ex- ~~ ception with unusually strong quintets being developed at

most of the member schools.

Purdue, last season’s

title winner, never is very far

- away from the championship class, and Coach Ward Lambert is reported to have another formidable entry. ~ The other Hoosier team, Indiana, has shown its hand under its new coach, Branch McCracken, and the Crimson

1s expected to go places.

Then there is Minnesota with its veteran lineup which

finished in high gear last Conference opponents this

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season and is rolling over non-

winter. ” 8 2

HIO STATE, with its brilliant sophomores of a year ago, hears the championship bee buzzing and Buck

-- followers see a rosy outlook and a chance to trip old rivals. : Wisconsin is an unknown quantity, but is one that fig- ~ ures now since its surprising defeats of a veteran Mar- ~ quette team and Notre Dame. ”. Michigan has a fairly strong outfit on paper and ex- - pects to pick up speed as the season advances, and Northwestern and Illinois are reported building better than av-

erage machines.

e Only Iowa and Chicago appear below the standard of ~ normal Big Ten squads and they, too, may show unex«pected form, upset the dope and scramble the race.

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i 2s Jo TOWNSEND, Indianapolis product, is playing pro basketball 8 Ls with the Hammond five of the National League. . . . Townsend, a former Tech High star, closed his collegiate career at Michigan last winter. . . . A teammate at Hammond: is Louis Boudreau, former Illini ace who was ruled ineligible when it was disclosed that he had ac-

= cepted advance money from the

Cleveland baseball club on a promise

to sign. . . . Johnny Wooden also plays with Hammond. The Hammond pros will be seen in Indianapolis opposing the Kautsky All-Americans on Dec. 26.

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= EKE BONURA may have his faults as a fielder around first base En buit when the big fellow has his eye on the hall he'll bat in sufficient runs to make up for letting a drive go through him now and then. ... And he’ll pep up that Giant infield.

The New Orleans Italian is

long on gab and talks a noisy game

even when in a slump. . .. In other words, he has color, something you

can't buy.

Bill Terry made a smart move in grabbing Zeke.

. « . Indianapolis

~ made a costly mistake by cutting him loose several years ago and Washington may regret selling him to the National League before the 1939 season is knee deep in June.

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ONURA has failed only twice to hit over the .300 mark in the big show. . . . Best average in the majors was .345 with the White

~~ Sox in 1937. ... His record:

Dallas

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Indianapolis ..... ceva. ~ New Orleans .............

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VW OLOLOSIOTWD

ing artillery to compete in Ray Schalk’s annual holiday sweep- . stakes in Chicago at his Beverly Recreation Alleys....Jan. 7 and 8. The Indianapolis ball club’s manager expects at least 60 rank-

Ing teams to enter the classic.

attraction. . . . The Bowes Seal

First prize may exceed $500 in this third renewal of the Cracker’s

Fast squad of Indianapolis won the

-event last winter and the Prager Beers of Chicago copped the duke

“in 1937.

«i. Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, Louisville, St. Louis will be repre -Bented by teams made up of powerful pinspillers.

‘| were beating everyone, so I decided

Joe Williams Has His Say

NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—“There’s one thing the profes- : sional football players will never have, and that’s the flaming spirit that marks the college game.”

Whenever there is a discussion of the two games

Somebody always brings up this point.

And I suppose

.as a game-in-and-game-out proposition it is more or less true. But don't let anybody tell you the cash and carry player can’t work himself up to a high pitch of emotion.

C2 If you weren't already convinced of this all you had to do to get 1 the true picture was to sit around with some of the Green Bay Packsrs « after they had lost the championship to the New York Giants. There is something that is at once comic and touching about the spectacle of a big, husky six footer blubbering like a baby with warm tears cascading down his poor but honest kisser.

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‘NAILT GANTENBEIN, the Packers’ big end, was inconsolable after

the game.

The linesman had called a penalty against him in

+ the last quarter when the Packers were moving down the field for what might have been the winning touchdown. The penalty stopped the Packers’ march and turned the ball over to the Giants.

“I lost the game, Curly,”

literally sobbed the big end. “But

honestly it wasn’t my fault. That linesman was wrong. I don’t care

_ so much for myself but it was squad.”

a blow that hurt every man on the

The big end was talking to his youthful coach, Curly Lambeau, who himself was in none too gay a mood. . . . “You didn’t lose the _ game, Milt. You're right. The linesman called the play wrong and the movies will show it. I was looking right at it and if that play was illegal, then every play in the game was illegal.” _

This was the play that mystified the stands. It was a first down

‘pass that put the ball in Giants’ territory.

Promptly the ball was

- called back and given to the Giants in Packers’ territory. Something had taken place in the Packers’ line maneuvers that had rendered the ‘big end ineligible to receive a pass. At least that’s what the linesman

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FP HIS broke up the ball game

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: They were steaming mad at what they considered rank injustice and proceeded to show it. Isbell looked to the sideline and motioned ‘as if he wanted to take the team off the field.

“I was pretty mad myself at the time,”

Lambeau admitted today.

And if T hadn't thought we still had time enough left to score I ‘might have been foolish enough to let him do it.”

While Lambeau had cooled out and had nothing but glowing words

of praise for the Giants, “one

of the best teams he ever saw any-

| where,” he was still insistent the decision which put them out of the

|. game was unjust.

“We had used it seven times

previously this year,”

he said, “and there never was a protest.” © Sitting in Mr. N. T. G.’s night club Lambeau sketched the play on 8 white table cloth and I regret to report it looked like all other ‘football plays look to me, a confused, bewildering spread of hen

scratchings, in which the “X's” - Tooful time cf it against the “O's.”

seem to be having a perfectly fright-

, Clarke Hinkle, who ‘will go down as one of the great fullbacks of ~ all time, was in the group. He had cooled out, too. “I'm sorry we

started to get rough out there,”

he said. “You never gain anything by

‘that. And besides it’s silly for grown men to lose their tempers in

_ @igame. Looks bad, too.”

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Listening to the large Mr. Hinkle, who is a very serious minded

Young man, you had to get a deeper and warmer respect for the fellows Who come out of college and go on to make professional football a

career. Obviously it takes more than weekly

pay checks to destroy a

~ man’s will-to-win or his enthusiasm for his favorite sport.

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1938

DODGERS, BEES SWING FOUR-PLA

Emphasizes Good Defense

Recalls How His 1929 Five Introduced Freezing to Beat Berries.

(Fifth of a Series)

By LEO DAUGHERTY Times Staff Writer FRANKFORT, Dec. 13.—Everett (The Stall) Case, high school athletic director and basketball coach, had the boys who were in gym togs skipping rope and having as much fun at it as little girls on May Day. And around the corner in down-. town Frankfort, chefs were frying, roasting, stewing, broiling and barbecuing “hot dogs” to any style the palate might demand. That was at Case’s “hot dog” place, The Campus, he calls it. : There wasn't ary stall in Case’s mind when he thought uc those two ideas. The rope skipping was to get the boys’ legs in better shape and to improve their footwork. And he shouldn't lose out on his “hot dog” stand venture for the Prasikjor Fighting Five also is kno as the Hot Dogs and when they think of basketball here fans think of the Hot Dogs. The Stall is a likable fellow and he smiles reminiscently of that game with the Logansport Berrys back in 1929 when he introduced the stalling system which put him and the Fighting Five (they weren't the Hot Dogs yet) into the national basketball spotlight.

the fans mad,” the drug store clerk recalled. “Logansport was about an hour late in getting here in the first

action.” After Him, The Deluge!

The Cases froze the ball so much that the chill shivered almost everyone in basketball. “Logansport had their best team in years and we were only mediocre,” Coach Case recalled. “They

on the stall plan to keep down the score and it worked even better than I had anticipated. “We grabbed the ball on the opening tipoff and ran back to the opposite basket. We got a two-point lead at the end of the first quarter, but they had us 7 to 6 at the half. Then they decided to hold the ball because they were ahead, and we didn’t go after them. But with only two minutes to go we finally wrangled the ball away from them and pulled ahead to a 10-to-7 verdict.” That game was followed by an epidemic of stalling by teams when they got in front. It wasn’t until three seasons later that the rules committee thought of the 10-second rule to pass the center line to elimi-} nate stalling in basketball games.

Combines Fast And Slow Break

But Case doesn’t stress the stall so much any more. Oddly enough, he would have liked to use it the other night against the Berrys, who had the first dish of this Case menu. ‘The Hot Dogs were setting the pace at 27 to 14 at the half and Mr, Case would have liked to have been able to have frozen the ball. But his team played the more aggressive type of game and they came out of an overtime contest on the short end of a 37-t0-35 count. “We now are using a combination of the fast break and setups off slow breaks,” the bespectacled mentor explained. “We use two men in and two out —they’re the guards—and manipulate the three men on every pass. The best you can do on the fast break, I think, is to get three men into the play. Those two guards have to be down there to get the ball off the board and get it up the floor to our basket. And you've got to keep someone down there doing sentry duty to keep the other fellows from scoring. “I like to send the boys up the floor on the criss-cross style. It may not be the fastest way of getting to your basket, but it means more deception.” At any rate, the new era in Frankfort basketball, even with The Stall in command, is a more aggressive type of game, says The Stall himself. But all his opponents still expect to encounter some ball passing which isn’t intended to do anything else but cutlast the stop watch. Case’s game again is one in which defensive play is stressed. Get a few field goals and then play catch with the ball is his idea. He mixes up his defense, man to man, man

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Coach Kern Wants ~ Getchell in 1939

Coach Elmer Layden of Notre Dame the Knute Rockne memorial tro-|Because of the great number of inphy given annually to the team he selects as national champion.

juries recently, and college hockey goalies will wear masks in regular games.

has graduated many youngsters to collegiate floors.

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CLEVELAND, Dec. 13 (NEA).—

local high school

SOUTH BEND, Dec. 13 (U. P). —William (Big Bill) Kern, coach of the Carnegie Tech football team which lost to Notre Dame this fail after Referee John Getchell's famous “third down” boner, suggested last night that Getchell referee the game next year.

He spoke at an annual banquet tendered the Irish by the Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley. John Francis Kelly, Rutherford, N. J, junior right end, was elected 1939 football captain. Prof. Frank G. Dickinson of the University of Illinois awarded

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Editors’ Poll Selects Cincy To Tackle Yanks in 1939 Series.

By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor

NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—When the

lcrowd sits tense and silent at the

opening game of the World Series next year, the word that will come

| | through the loud speaker, in the

opinion of the nation’s sports tors, will be— “Batteries for today’s game—for the New York Yankees, Ruffing and Dickey; for the Cincinnati Reds, Vander Meer and Lombardi.” The Yankees and the Reds will win the American and National League pennants in the opinion of sports experts of the nation who participated in the United Press’ annual year-end poll. They believe the Yankees will make another runaway race in the American League; they believe the Reds will win in another National League stretch fight involving the

edi-

- | Cubs and Pirates.

The one-two-three finish in the two leagues was predicted as. follows: : American League National League 1—New York * 1—Cincinnati 2—Cleveland 2—Chicago 3—Boston 3—Pittsburgh

Ninety-one per cent of the sports editors voting favored the Yankees, victors in the last World Series, to win the American League pennant again. Nine per cent thought Cleveland would win and 3 per cent favored the Boston Red Sox.

That Mound Talent

Fifty per cent of those voting picked Cincinnati, with a wealth of pitching material, a lineup of sluggers and a smart manager in Bill McKechnie, to win the National League pennant. The Chicago Cubs, according to 24 per cent of the sports editors voting, will repeat their 1938 triumph in the National League; 20 per cent of them favor the Pittsburgh Pirates, and 6 per cent believe Manager Bill Terry will be able to haul the New York Giants together and win the flag. Second to the Yankees in the voting for the outstanding team of 1938 came Southern California’s football machine, particularly because it stopped Notre Dame after the Irish had gone undefeated through a bruising schedule. Southern California got votes from 12 per cent of the sports editors participating in the poll followed by the Chicago Cubs with 6 per cent. Those voting for the Cubs did so because of the great drive Chicago made through the dying days of the season to win the National League pennant.

Indians Release Jimmy Pofahl

Times Special NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—Infielder Jimmy Pofahl of the Indianapolis ball club was given his outright release here today, according to Leo T. Miller, Tribe president, who is in New York attending the major league powwows. Pofahl, a weak hitter, was out of action two months last season as the result of a wrenched ankle. He resides at Faribault, Minn., and was obtained from the Springfield, O., club last winter.

Book Prep Feature

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13 (NEA) .— A picked group of local high school stars will meet a selected scholastic team from Chicago Dec. 30 in the first intersectional game of its kind on the coast.

Bowl players envious.

YER SWAP

Hassett, Outlaw Traded for Ira Hutchinson and Moore; . Rise of Redlegs Is Forecast

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Straight Player Deal Closed In National; Tigers Buy Fred Hutchinson.

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—The Brooklyn Dodgers traded First Baseman Buddy Hassett and Outfielder Jimmy

Outlaw to the Boston Bees today for Pitcher Ira Hutchinson and Out fielder Gene Moore. : “ It was a straight player deal. ‘Hassett, who played part of the time in the Brooklyn outfield last season, hit .292. The Bees plan to" use him at first b Outlaw: hit .338 with Syracuse of the Interna=tional League last season. Moore's 1938 batting average was 270. Hutchinson won nine Bames and lost eight. The deal was made as the major leagues convened for their annual meeting with the dead ball and night baseball as two of most important issues to be settled. Ups and Downs Outlaw, formerly the property of the ' Cincinanti Reds, Lp Py a merry ride through the major and minor leagues for two years. Cincinnati sent him to Syracuse and just before the 1938 World Series the Dodgers purchased him, Commissioner K. M. Landis ruled, however, that there was a technical flaw in the purchase agreement and’ the deal was called off. Then the St. Louis Cardinals drafted Outlaw from Syracuse, selling him, in turn, to the Dodgers. The Detroit Tigers still had the prize package of the year in Pitcher Fred Hutchinson of the Seattle Pacific Coast League. Hailed as another Christy Mathewson, HutchInson was the outstanding minor league pitcher last season. { Players and Cash Detroit outbid the Pittsburgh Pirates to get the 19-year-old hurler from the Seattle Pacific Coast # League club. ; The Tigers gave four players and cash estimated at between $35,000 and $50,000 for the lad who in his first year in professional baseball won 25 games while losing only seven. : The Tigers parted with outfielder Jo-Jo White, infielder Tony Piet, pitcher Ed Selway, last year with the Beaumont Texas League club, and first baseman George Archie, last year with the Toledo American Association club, in addition tn their cash. Archie played with In. = dianapolis in 1937. . The American League 1s expected to vote for night baseball. Cleveland is anxious to play seven night

games next season in the huge municipal stadium. Lobby gossips say the Vittmen already have mustered the necessary five votes. With Zeke Bonura to play first base next season, the New York Giants have sent Sam Leslie to their Jersey City farm club. :

Paces Hockey Scorers

MONTREAL, Dec. 13 (U. P.).— Johnny Gottselig of ' the Chicago Black Hawks leads the national «| hockey league scorers, according to | weekly standings issued today. Gotte selig made two assists this week to bring his point total to 15, thus thus breaking a tie with Tommy Anderson of the New York Ameri< cans who went scoreless.

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