Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1938 — Page 12

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HE bi gest boon to basketball from a player's stand

| ® a 2 #2 = . ~JHOWE ER, officials will deny that they call ’em close one [night and let ’em slide the next. « . « They

+ maintain| there is only one way to call ’em and that’s by the book |of rules.

Naturally, basketball officials have their off nights.

the same as baseball umpires and football arbiters, and

since the hardwood game has become the national indoor.

pastime there is a shortage of seasoned men to handle ! the countless contests.

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2 2 2 ” = N the old days of baseball a veteran player could step out of the : ranks and become an umpire. . . . Nowadays diamond umpires are . trained in|the minors first before receiving important assignments. Schoo s for umpires have been established and while attendance isn’t compulsory to break into organized ball, there is a definite trend ’ toward giving the ‘graduates” early tryouts in leagues. $ : Baskefball officials just sort of grow into the business and it’s no ‘ easy matter to have every game handled and officiated in uniform _ fashion, : - 8 8 =» : ® =» = EFORE the Chicago Cubs reach Catalina Island for 1939 spring : trai ying, Trainer Andy Lotshaw will have been on the scene for ‘a week directing the preliminary preparations. ., . It will be the In,.dianapoli§ man’s 18th year with the ‘Bruins. : Lotshaw also serves as trainer of the Chicago Bears professional - Tootall te m and is now snatching a rest with relatives in Indianapolis.

: A= is a ‘former Indianapolis Indians player, coach and trainer and performed on the 1917 championship club. He wants old friends here to get in touch with him at HU-7282 particularly desirous of contacting Hump Pierce, Louisville . club trainer. Lotshaw belted 29 home runs in one season in the little minors in the days before the ball became a rabbit, 2 a as} ! PE 'S a lull in stove league baseball until after the New Year's fest vities and celebrations are out of the way. . . . President : Leo Miller of the local Redskins will be out of town until Jan. 3 and Manage Ray Schalk is directing his Chicago bowling alleys. The [Tribe officials have a large job on their hands to assemble a team before spring and will tackle it in a big way shortly. The|sale of Fuck Fausett, the team’s leading hitter, has perturbed the. loca fans and they are anxious to learn what President Miller has up his sleeve for a replacement at the hot corner.

” » x ” un 2 . G=® tGE ZAHARIAS, the wrestler, known as the heartlock king : since he won Mildred Babe Didrikson for a bride, says he wouldn’t trade his heartlock for all the headlocks, armlocks and wristlocks in| the world. The Crying Greek from Cripple Creek who really surprised the boys by getting hitched, called it a romance of the golf links which ‘had its inception in Texas, home of the former queen of all-around athletics. a . Zaharias once threw a baseball 296 feet, which is some dis- - tance f rther than her husband ever tossed a mat foe over the ropes.

Joe Williams—

NE YORK, Dec. 28.—Our annual preview of the new ear, presented herewith, is as usual, marked with dreanjy optimism and brave high hopes.’ : e hope Jim Braddock will not retire from the ring permanently more than two or three times; that there e no more books printed on how to improve your

‘golf when all such books seem to ruin your golf. . . .

. That those social register dames with thin, tinny voices will con=- - fine their yodeling to week-end parties on Long Island and stay away from [the professional microphones; thatvthe' A. A. U. will: subject ‘amateur boxing toa vigorous scrubbing back of the ears. .. . : ~ That the Erooklyn ball club’s noble efforts to relieve distress and misery among the aged will be appreciated; that the hockey promoters may Be persuaced to believe that repetitious fist fights, many of which seem |inspired, are not essential to the customers’ enjoyment of the

sport, . wu. T AT the Duke and Duchess of Windsor will light somewhere and i ake up housekeeping or something; that college presidents will . not. wait until the football receipts have been counted before issuing their|inevitable blast about overemphasis. . . . “ We also hope the female of the species will try to develop a sense . of humor that is not expressed in silly hats; that radio comedians will stop howling at their own jokes, if any; that sports editors will get wise [to the fact that nobody reads fielding averages. . . . hat the all-America football team will become more and more ous; that the Broadway. columnists will continue to come up those incredible news beats about head waiters eloping with hat

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k girls. . ; ra the boxing commission will be overcome with a sudden fit of sanity and admit championships are won only in the ring; that Follywood will discover John Barrymore is the most gifted comedian in the film ; that the National Leaguers will concede they add nothing to thei prestige by stocking up with American League castoffs. . . . | ¥ #5 #2 : 2 » #n AT) if there is another Orson Welles panic it will frighten the ; right people into leaving the country; that every 2-year-old that win fee races in a row will not be promptly acclaimed as another o> war. .. hat Helen Wills Moody will come out openly and admit she prefers to play in English tournaments to American tournaments which seems to be pretty obvious by now, anyway; that the British Government will be able to make at least one move that is faintly pleasing to Lloyd George. ; * | That nothing so shocking as a victory will develop to mar Tommy 's career as & successful failure; that if Dizay Dean’s arm comes back there will not be a proportionate improvement in his tonsils; that one of two things will be done about the point after touchdown, (1)| abolishec!, or (2) banned as a controversial topic. . . . A

College Net Tourheys

In Kansas City Likely

By CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Staff Correspondent

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 28.—Basketball fans were bewildered to-

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1938

Reinstatement Of His Wife Is Zaharias’ Goal

Babe Seeking to Return to Amateur Ranks; George . Loses Match Here.

By LEO DAUGHERTY Probably the most important phase of the latest visit to Indianapolis of George (Cry Baby) Zaharias, the rassle man and beet farmer of Pueblo, Colo. was an announcement he made concerning his bride, Babe Didrikson. George said that ‘the former greatest woman athlete in the world soon will press her plea before the United States Golf Association for reinstatement as an amateur. “After all,” the big puff and grunt man said, “all she did was to drive a car with a sign on it saying how good it was. Sure, right now she’s working for an Ohio company which makes golf clubs. She just uses them and indorses them. “She’s going to .quit that jab pretty soon and I'm going to help her get back her amateur standing.

ments.” . Zaharias insisted that he’s good for a long time in the mat game, explaining that he had to wrestle to pay for the .beets because the beets pay only the taxes ¢n the 50-acre farm, It was just as well for Mis. Zaharias that she stayed in St. Louis “to take care of ‘our temporary apartment” instead of coming here to see her husband in his first bout since she became Mrs. Zaharias. . - He lost his bid at the Armory last night for Everett Marshall's National Wrestling = Asscciation heavyweight title on a disqualification. :

Marshall Turns

Cry Baby After there had been two ([alls, 6ne credited to each grappler, Zaharias started using what the experts term a throat hold on the LaJunta blond. A throat hold makes one very uncomfortable around the breathing pipe, is no good for the sinus and is barred in the wrestling square. When Zaharias was disqualified after five minutes of this throat holding, Marshall did more crying than the ‘Cry Baby. He insisted that he didn't want to win oh a disqualification, that he wanted to go on and subdue his man decisively. Marshall won the first fall in 17 minutes with what is described as an Irish whip and a body piess. This combination was employed after Marshall had fired Zaharias to

|the boards a half dozen fimes in

machine gun fashion. Zaharias won the Second fall in eight minutes with a rolling head lock.

Barefoot Bruns

Wins Match

' Bob Bruns, 220, the Chicago attorney, who wrestles in his bare feet and finds it annoying to his opponent to keep his undraped pedals in or in the vicinity of his opponent's face, won the opener from Ray Eckert, 217, St. Louis. He did it in 19 minutes with & toe hold and a body press. Dorve Roche, 223, Decatur, Ill, won the second bout from Billy Bartush, 233, Chicago in 16 minutes. The grab Roche pinned Bartush with is known to best wrestling minds as a reverse Indian death lock and surf board, :

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Hockey Loop Lead

By United Press

The Boston Bruins held a safe lead again today in the National Hockey League. The Bruins regained a four-point margin with an 8-2 victory over Toronto while the New York Rangers were idle. In the only other game, the Chicago Black Hawks = defeated the Montreal Canadiens, 4-1, and moved into a tie for third place with the idle New York Americans. The Bruins went on a scoring spree as they scored their eighth victory in nine starts. Leading, 2-1,

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at the end of the first period, the Bruins chalked up four goals in the second and another early in the third before Toronto got back in the ball game on Harvey Jackson’s goal.

to be held at the English Avenue

Gopher and Illini Fives Win in East

NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (U. P.).— Two of the Big Ten’s best basketball teams, Minnesota and Illinois, headed home today with victories over New York teams.

Minnesota scored its 15th consecutive victory. a string started last year, against New York University, 39-32. Illinois crushed Manhattan. 60-41,. in the second half of -a double-header at Madison Square Garden. Neither of the winners was headed, although Minnesota did have to fight late in the game when N. Y. U. brought the score to 27-25. Lewis Dehner of Illinois scored 25 points against Manhattan to break the old Garden scoring record of 23 held jointly by Wes Bennet of Westminster and Jack Bromberg, Long Island University.

Kokomo Kits Nip Frankfort, 28-25

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The Kokomo Kats blazed to their eighth straight victory last night over Frankfort, 28 to 25, and now have won as many basketball games as they did last season before going into a fatal nosedive from which they never recovered. £ The Kats edged the Hot Dogs at Frankfort, using their giant pivot star, Chet Gabriel, only one quarter. The big center scored only one field goal and made three personal fouls. Frankfort pulled within a point of the invaders: in the final minutes but “Jaysee” Frazier, Kat forward,

Lewis Cook, six foot five-inch Hot Dog forward, led scorers with five field goals and four free tosses.

of Ft. Wayne, mowed down Central Catholic of the same city, 44 to 34. Catholic started fast, chalking up a 4-to-1 lead but ‘its leadership From then on the Archers had

their sixth straight win of the

Capt. Gene Anderson of Franklin (left), Purdue’s brilliant center, discusses with Coach Piggy Lambert the Boilermakers’ chances this season. Anderson, who was unable to play last week against Southern :

connected to make a safe margin.

The state champions, South Side,

ended almost as soon as ‘it began. everything under control. It was

Results last night in the Sportsman’s Store holiday basketball tournament at the United Brethren Church gym, 11th and Olney Sts.: Link Belt, 23; Ft. Harrison Medics, 19. (overtime.) : Englewood, 36; ExCrafismen, 25. United Brethren, 26; First Friends, 19. W. Washington St. Boosters, 30; Rosedale Dairy, 16. Tonight’s schedule: w—Link Belt vs. Englewood Church. 8—Brookside United Brethren vs. Washington St. Boosters. 9—Pure Oil vs. Indianapolis Bankers. 10—Tabernacle Presbyterian vs. Mt. Comfort. : Four contests are on tonight's schedule in the 10th annual Dearporn gym holiday tourney. The

Stuhldreher Sees Grid Huddle’s End

CHICAGO, Dec. 28 (U. P.)— Harry Stuhldreher, the little man who used to kark signals for Notre Dame's famed “Four Horsemen,” predicted today that the huddle

would disappear from Iootball within the next five years. Replacing it will be the good, oldfashioned system of direct signal calling, he said He is here to attend the annual meeting of the National Football Coaches’ Association, of .which he is president. “From my Own experiences as a quarterback,” he said, “I'm convinced there is no substitute for direct signal calling.” : : Lou Little of Columbia University, chairman of the Rules Committee of the coaches’ association, said he believed the gridiron would get a “preathing spell” from major rule changes.

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is not expected to adopt any radical revisions. The coaches opened their four-day annual meeting last night. EE,

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Three Hoosiers on Wolverine

Squad; Hinkle Makes Lineup Changes.

Three Hoosiers will be on the

| {Michigan basketball team. Friday | | night when it invades Butler Fieldhouse to battle! the Bulldogs.

California, is with the squad on its Southern trip and is expected to see action in the contest tonight |Townsend of Indianapolis, who capagainst Arkansas, Conference, at New Orleans.

champions of the Southwest

Liehr Tavern clash with the [eng Market quintet at 8:40 p. m. is expected to be the feature game of the evening. The remaining card:

%“—Lux Laundry vs. Kingan A. A. %:d Blasengym = Funeral Home Greenwood Phillips 66. : 9:30—Falls City Beer vs.

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Colas. Last night favorites ran true to form with the Hazelwood Kinney Cubs defeating the Mt. Jackson Buddies, 41-26. Mt. Jackson Tire & Battery subdued the SchwitzerCummins Stokols, 36-27, Dave Eader’s Kingan Knights toppled the McCordsville Merchants, 33-27, while the Fashion Cleaners downed the Brownstown Merchants, 40-29, in the nightcap. Davis and Kasnak were outstanding for the Cleaners,

The Riverside Trojans, in the 14-16-year-old class, are seeking Thursday and Friday night games with teams having access to a gym Call Harrison 2444-R.

The Medora Melodiers dropped their first game of the season to the Columbus, Ind., Hoosier Tigers, 39-35. - The Melodiers are seeking a home game for next Sunday. Write or call Bill Phillips, Medora, Ind,

Gaels Ready to. Leave

MORAGA, Cal, Dec. 28 (U. P.). —St. Mary's Galloping Gaels leave tomorrow for their Cotton Bowl engagement in Dallas Jan. 2 against Texas Tech with only one member of the squad not in peak condition. The ailing player is Eddie Hefferman, left half. He is expected|to be in shape for the Bowl game. |

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The Indiana boys are Tom Harmon and Michael Sofiak of Gary and John Nicholson of Elkhant,

Harmon is the| sensational allround Wolverine athlete whose gridiron feats parallel his hardwood ability. Michigan will be the fourth and final Big Ten [team to play Butler here this season. Iowa and Wisconsin were decisioned by the locals but Indiana racked up a lopsided victory over the Bulldogs last Friday night. | Paced by five lettermen, the Michigan squad, with a new coach, Bennie Oosterbaan at the helm, will seek revenge for the 38 to 35 setback handed them last year by the Bulldogs. In the two previous campaigns they sqored narrow victories. Meanwhile (Coach Toney Hinkle has lengthened his practice sessions. He drilled his basketballers for three hours yesterday to wear off the holiday vacation staleness. The Butler mentor is trying to rebuild the fast-breaking offense that crumbled before Indiana. Free throw practice also has received major attention since 35 shots have been wasted in the last three games, 17 against Indiana.

Reserves In Rehearsal

A new varsity five that includes a senior and junior lettermen and three sophomores worked in yesterday’s rehearsal. The new combination consists of veterans George Perry at center and Jerry Steiner at one of the forwards. The remaining berths are filled by Bob Dietz, forward from Indianapolis; and Lyle Neat and Harold Braden, sophomore guards from | Ft. Wayne. Micigan’s mew coach this season is: well acquainted with the game. It was at Michigan where Oosterbaan collected nine varsity ‘letters. For three years he was all-Ameri-ca in football, a high scorer and allconference |basketball player and at one time (declined overtures from major league baseball teams. Assisting | Oosterbaan is Johnny

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Starting 1 From the standpoint of season's performances Tech willl be the underdog tonight when the Shortridge basketball team plays the Big Green at t East Side gym. But - the intracity fray is comparable to the Indiana-Purdue feuds—pred tions are foolhardy and any can happen. x The only other Indianapolis tet in action today was ‘Washin The Continentals were booke meet Seymaur’s Owls in the Gre! burg four-team invitational tourfiament. The Continentals were to play at 3 d’clock and, if they win, play the winner of the 2 p. m. Co-lumbus-Greensburg game. The two afternoon [losers meet in the 7 o'clock consolation battle and the championship tussle is at 8 o'clock. On Friday Cathedral travels to Ft. Wayne [to meet Central Catholic, Washington goes to Connersville, Tech is at Richmond and Short ridge plays at Central of Evans= ville. | ; Both Tech and Shortridge have played five games. Shortridge has: lost one and Tech haf lost all five. The Blue Devils have scored 176 points and held their opponents to | 115. Coach Bayne Freeman's crew | has scored 133 points while their | opponents| have tallied 186. i Tech has been vanquished by Cathedral, | Kokomo, New Cast Frankfort/ and Columbus. Some the contests were fairly close, bu the Big Green, in each case, lacked scoring punch.

radford May Start in lineup may achieve that deficiency. Coach Freeman expects to| start Jack Bradford im ank Buddenbaum. Bradford demonstrated in the Frank-

tained the Wolverine five last year and garnered 226 points. Townsend, a graduate of Tech High School, was all-America three years and is considered |as Michigan's greatest

passer.

Three No. 1 Men In Baseball Named

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 28 (U. P.).—The three No. 1 men of the 1938 major leagues, as announced today by baseball’s newspaper, The Sporting News, were: |

Executive: Warren C. Giles, Cincinnati Reds’ vice president and general manager. Manager: Joseph McCarthy, New York Yankees, Player: Johnny Vander Meer, who set an all-time big league record by pitching two consecutive no-hit, norun games for Cincinnati. The corresponding. minor league honors went to Lou McKenna, secretary and business manager of the St. Paul American Association; Paul Richards, | manager of the Atlanta club, and | Fred Hutchinson, Seattle Pacific Coast League pitcher, who won 25 games and lost only seven during the season.

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fort ga that he is a good basket= | sn. is fast and is a good de- * n. And Tech needs’ all | those qualities—and a little height, too. : Coach| Freeman hopes his team will be |able to repeat last year’s | performance when Tech beat Shor" = rige 26 to 24 in the regular sch uled game. Shortridge won fro Tech, 30 to 23, in the City tourn ment and in the Sectional, 32 to 28 The only tussle Shortridge h lost this yea: was to Shelbyvilk Golden Bears, and that by point. (Those who have fallen fore the Blue Devil barrage a! Greenfield, Noblesville, Greencas and the powerful Cardinals. Southport.

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Robert D. Lindgren, son of and Mrs. John A. Lindgren Jr., 5 N. Meridian St.,:is student manage of the University of Michigan ketball team and will ‘accompan the squad here Friday for its gam with utler. : * {

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day became the new head coach of |yi the Detroit Lions of the. National fi Professional Football’ League.: Henderson, coach of the Los An- Hi geles Bulldogs for the last two. sea- fii

day at the prospect of having two national tournaments in. Kansas City, both of them for the national college championship, with the added possioility that they might be held during the same week in March. In/the same manner that wrestling promoters present their “world” championship grapplers, the sponsors of the two tournaments insist that

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theirs is “official” and that no national recognition . should be given .-to. any other tournament winner. : he | priricipal dfference between e groups is that the one, repre{senting the National Athletic Association, permits competition only among colleges observing the three-year playing rule. This group, headed by Dr. Forrest C. Allen, University of Kansas basketball coach, and Harold G. Olsen, Ohio State University coach, in~cludes most of the “big name” col~deges. ; Emil 8. Lister, athletic director of Baker University” at Baldwin, + “Kas. is chairman ofthe hoard of anagement of the National InterCollegiate group, which had its first annual tournament here a year ago “with 32 {eams participating. This group already has arranged dates for the 1939.tournament which is open NS all teams which qualify

Collegiate | - represent standard four-year col-

peting,

The intercollegiate group divides the nation into 16 districts, permitting two teams from each to qualify. Teams in order to qualify, must

leges or universities on the approved list as to academic rank. The N. C. A. A. tournament di-

vides the U. 8S. into eight districts. A selection committee has been named to pick outstanding teams in each area from. the 205 N. C. A. A. member schools A round robin series of the four Eastern teams will be played, probably in Madison Square Garden, New York, with the four Western teams meeting in a similar elimination on the Pacific Coast, The two winners, with possibly the runnerup teams also comen would hold the finals

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Gloves events to be staged at the Armory beginning on Jan. 20. Unattached boxers wishing to train for the Golden Gloves are invited to use the facilities at the English Avenue Club and receive free instruction by a WPA Recreation Bureau trainer.

West Scrimmages SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 28 (U. P.) —Coaches Babe Hollingbery and Biff Jones sent their West team against a squad of Stanford players today in their first real scrimmage practice in preparation for the Shriner's East-West game. Jan. 2.

Bruins Recall Frost

Boston “Bruins ‘of the National Hockey League, handicapped by in-

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BOSTON, Dec. 28 (U. P.)..— The.

juries, recently recalled Harry Frost, pr t 3]

University of California, 49; Ohio

ate, . Illinois, 60; Manhattan, 41. Minnesota, 39; N, Y. U,, Akron, 35; Centenary, 25. Carleton, 59; Coe. 42. Cornell, 52; Canisius, 32. - Oregon, 60; Western Illinois Teachers, 45. Grinnell, 43; Cornell (Iowa), 24. Nebraska, 35; U. C. L. A., STATE HIGH SCHOOLS Ft. Wayne (South Side), 44; (Central Catholic), 34. Dugger, 33; Terre Haute (Wiley), 22. Bicknell, 34; Linton, e PROFESSIONAL National League Akron Firestones, 60; Hammond, Ind., 35. Washington State, 55; Ellensburg, Wash.. Normal, 31. ride Idaho, 44; Utah, 38. Brigham Young, 50; Montana, 45. . Gal fornia, 49; Ohio State, 35 §

Ottaiva, 60; Haskell Institute, 17. _ Soutnwestern, 47; Mec ¥

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