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FOOTBALL PLAYER . EQUIPMENT : 2 8 8 : J INJURIES TRACED TO ARMOR

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Irish Favorite Jimmy Crowley's touring football team is to visit in England and Ireland before coming home. The Cora

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29,1938

rigan fans would like the reverse plays “especially. ; ;

a 2 ER ER J . HE Rules Committee of the National Football Coaches * Association has finally got around to the subject of player equipment. .. . In Chicago yesterday members urged a careful study of equipment in the interest of safety to the players and that all equipment including the “ball rigidly comply with the official specifications. ~~ The subject of equipment is far more important than ‘grid fans think. . . . Some teams have taken advantage of the laxity of enforcement of the rules governing the type of helmets, shoulder harness and cleats and many coaches say that countless injuries to players can be traced (directly to steel-like armor worn by some of the warriors. 2 8 8- www OU M’KENNA, business manager and secretary of the St. Paul L American Association club, 1938 pennant winners, was named the Np, 1 minor league executive by Sporting News, the national ‘baseball weekly. McKenna took a seventh place 1937 club, made several. smart “deals, named a néw manager who knew the league, and not only won “the pennant but set a new attendance record at St. Paul. McKenna stepped from the sports desk of a St. Paul newspaper and showed the veteran A. A. club executives a thing or two about - promotion. . . . He went to work on the 1938 team before the close of the 1937 season and by midwinter had organized a new outfit of

hustlers.

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HE Saints played like a bunch of ~ collegians and made every -

move count. : . . Instead of leiting down in the second half of double-headers after winning the first half, they hustled all the more and tallied more twin bill grand slams than any of their rivals. And if a game was close—any game—the Apostles usually the marbles by keeping on their toes. \ i RR 8 # 8

OOR: pitching and fielding dropped the St. Louis Cardinals to sixth place in tlie National League race last season. . . . The Cards allowed the enemy more runs than any other club in the league—a total of 721. . . . And the Cards were the seventh poorest fielding unit in the circuit. In other departments of play the records cause the: Cards to look the part of:champions. . . . What the fact finders found: The Cardinals: topped the league in batting, with .2789. They scored the most runs, 725. Had most hits, 1542, and the highest total of bases, 2251. Mz:de the most doubles, 288. _ Finished second in triples, 74; third in homers, 91, and second in steals, 55. ] Batted in most runs, 680. Provided the leading slugger in Johnny Mize, who had 326 total bases, and the best run-batter-inner, Joe Medwick, with a total of 122, 2 ” 2 ® ”® ”

~ ONE-YEAR contract at an increased salary was the New York LX: Yankee organization’s gift to Bill Meyer, manager of the Kansas City Blues. ; Meyer upsét the dope by leading his team to victory in the Amer_ican Association playoff and in the Little World Series. . . . Defeating the powerful Newark Internationals put a tall feather in Bill’s cap.’ Only eight states now are without representation in Organized Ball. . . . They are Montana, Nevada, Wyoming, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island and Colorado. . . . Utah and Idaho are coming in under the banner of the new Pioneer League. ” 2 > ” 8 ”

Jz LOUIS has departed for the East to open training for the fifth defense of his heavyweight title against John Henry Lewis on Jan. 25. : Joe will pitch camp on the outskirts of Pompton Lakes, N. J,, and will be ready to call on his sparring crew to start earning their pork chops py the middle of next week, 2 = 8

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C athedral Is Oaly Quintet Playing Here

Shortridge Tackles Central Of Evansville; Tech At Richmond.

Tomorrow Cathedral at Central Catholic, Shoriridge at Central, Evansville.

Washington at Connersville. Tech at Richmond.

Saturday Crispus Attucks at Stinesville.

Sunday

St. Mary's of Anderson at Cathedral. (Afternoon.) ;

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Indianapolis high school basketball quintets will spread to the opposite ends of the state this weekend. Only one of the six games involving Indianapolis teams is in a local gym.

Traveling north into snow-cov-ered country will be Joe Harmon's Irish of Cathedral. They are booked at the Central Catholic gym in Ft. Wayne. Going southward will be the Blue Devils of Shortridge. In Evansville they meet the Central Bears. Washington’s Continentals go to Connersville to meet the Spartans and Tech’s Big Green will be Rich-mond-bound to battle the Red Devils. On Saturday Crispus At- ‘| tucks goes to Stinesville. : Joe Harmon’s Cathedral Irish will leave town tomorrow morning for Ft. Wayne. On New Year's afternoon the Gold and Blue will meet

These two Southern California Trojans are all set to mar the Duke football team’s perfect record when the two outfits clash Monday in the Rose Bowl. At left is Harry Smith, Trojan guard who is a likely starter against the .” Blue Devils. Right is Bill Sangster, speedy fullback of the West Coast team who is expected to divide time at that pest with Bob Peoples.

Purdue Trips

By LEO DAUGHERTY

Basketball hopes at Shortridge High School today soared to their early season peak while there was

Shortridge Net Stock Up

Arkansas Five

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 29 (U. P.). —Purdue added the Sugar Bowl championship to its list of basketball titles today as the result of its

CITY PREP FIVES ON ROAD THIS WEEK-END Bring On Those Undefeated Blue Devils F rom Duke! |

Blue Winds Up Net Drills for Michigan Tilt Hinkle Still Seeking Five to

~ Cope With Height of sm ‘Wolverines.

A final workout‘ emphasizing a fast break was held by the Butler quintet ‘today in. preparation for Michigan tomorrow night at 8:15 ‘o'clock in the Fieldhouse. . . Two varsity men have been’ tem- Ng porarily slowed in practice as the VY result of. minor injuries received. in yesterday's practice. . : i] Bill Geyer and Laurel Poland, senior lettermen from. Ft. Wayne and Brownsburg, respectively, saw little action yesterday. Geyer received a bruised leg in the morning drill and Poland has been bothered with a slight’ back injury. : "1%" Neat Is Newcomer - Coach Tony Hinkle is still search : ing for a starting combination to | cope with the height of the Michigan five. He worked a combina= tion yesterday comprised of Jerry | Steiner and Bob Dietz, forwards; George Perry, center, and Lyle Neat and Charles Richardson, guards. Neat is the only newcomer into the

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first five. During the past four games he has been the sixth man. . The invading Wolverine five has three members towering above the six-foot mark, Danny Smick, for ward, is 6 feet 5 inches; James Rae, center, 6 feet 4 inches, and Capt.

After Victory Over Tech

out in city competition, their exhibition was such as to win them a rating as the class of the ‘pack, judging by the performance of the other - teams.

57-51 victory over versity hefore a re 6000 spectators last night. The Big Ten titleholders led, 2620, at the half and advantage through

Arkansas Unicord crowd of

held the slight an even second

Goes to Bees

BOSTON, Dec. 29 (U. P.).—The Boston Bees have purchased Outfielder Al Simmons from the Washington club of the American League, Secretary John Quinn announced

‘Leo Beebe, 6 feet 2 inches. The two remaining starters are. just below the mark, ity Hy "* On the other hand Butler has only two six-footers. George Perry is |6 feet 2 inches tall and Richardson stands one inch below Perry.

St. Mary’s of Anderson at the|pnew gloom at Tech. : Cathedral gym, The Irish witnessed |" By vanquishing the Green Wave, the game between St. Mary's and|37 to 28, before a packed Tech Central Catholic last week at An-|house last night, the Blue Devils derson and are especially interested | served a “look out for us” warning in these games as they may meet |to other local foes. both foes again in the State Cath-| While it was the Devils’ first time

It was a typical Shortridge-Tech |N8lf.

battle with the Green sharpened to its highest pitch of the seasen for its ancient athletic foe. The high soprano squeals of the feminine fans and the constant din which was manufactured by other throats and a variety of noise-making: devices must have rocked the East

Conference points.

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two free throws. Tech Still Hunts Victory

The summary:

John Adams of Arkansas was high point man for the champions

Bob Igney paced the Boilermakers with seven field goals and

Southwestern with 18

today. The price was not disclosed. Last season Simmons made 21 home runs, 21 two-base hits, six | three-baggers and batted in 92 runs. His batting average was .302. The veteran is 35 years old and has been a major leaguer since 1924:

All race horses and Hankus Pankus Greenberg will be one year -

When Tech tackles Richmond’s Red Devils the Big Green, in seeking its first victory, will be scrapping with a quintet that has subdued Liberty, Fushville, Winchester, New Castle and Connersville. Elder Eberhart’s team has been defeated

@ @ Joe Williams — EW YORK, Dec. 29.—There are some who argue the

Lo nost vital comeback of the year was the return of | the — skirt. We beg to differ. We think the most important comeback was the return of Jimmy Foxx to batting pre-eminence in the American League.

It was a comeback of major dimensions, too. Mr. Foxx was just another big guy going through the motions last year. As one of the siege guns of baseball he wasn’t ‘much more destructive than a wooden musket.

Any one of several factors may contribute to a grisly collapse on the ball field. Poor condition, waning enthusiasm, domestic violence, “ete. Mr. Foxx suffered from none of these; at least not in excess of ‘the normal scale. His trouble went deeper. Sinus infection had spread to his eyes. : 8 8 =» s n= SSS can be more than faintly distressing even to a mere side line observer of sports; to a ball player who depends on the sharpness of his vision for his coffee and cakes it approaches the calamitous. Mr. Foxx experienced many moments of mental despair last season. There were times when he wondered secretly if he'd ever be able to play real baseball again. A similar affliction had forced George Sisler out of the game just after he compiled his most brilliant season. For many months he sat ir. a darkened room nervously speculating on whether he'd ever be able to follow a fast pitch over the plate again. And when he did come back a year later he was a jumpy, uncertain hitter. Chick Hafey, who was a splendid outfielder with the Cincinnati Reds, had his career shortened in much the same manner. Mr. Foxx knew all about these cases and as he continued to swing futilely against pitchers he used to murder, his concern mounted. Was he going out of baseball the same way?

Sometimes a fellow can whip it himself. That's what Mr. Foxx thinks he did. He went into the Wyoming hills with his boss, Tom Yawkey, last winter and spent weeks banging the fuzz off native animals.

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Ws saw him when he came to Florida for spring practice this year “and he was dripping with optimism. Said he never felt better in his life and predicted he would tear the league apart. We were inte ested but none too cor vinced. : : Mr. Foxx must have been right. Anyway his comeback was emphatic. | He got himself 14 more home runs than the year before, made 35 more hits for 92 additional bases and improved his batting average by 64 points. : : The official records, incidentally, show the Yankees use the bunt with greater infrequency than any other club in the league. This year the whole Yankee team made only 61 sacrifice hits. Essentially a power team on attack, the Yankees aren’t supposed to bunt. You even hear it said they don’t know how. to bunt. . a 2 85 2 2 = OU GEHRIG says this isn’t so. His explanation for the Yankees’ seemingly poor showing with the bunt is intéresting. Tt is also a high tribute to the mental alertness of Joe McCarthy, the manager. “We probably have the. hunt sign taken off more times than any other club in baseball,” says Mr. Gehrig. By this he means it has been canceled from the dugout. ) Mr. Gehrig insists that McCarthy took the bunt sign off five or six times during the World Series against the Chicago Cubs, ordering a full swing. instead of a delicately tapped ball, and on two occasions the switch produced results which were vial in the final score. “Don’t know how to bunt?” ‘scoffs Mr. Gehrig. “Why we practice the bunt as much as agybody in baseball. Why shouldn't we know how? The difference between us and other teams is that we know when not to bunt, that is, we do after we're told.”

Apparently there isn’t much, that can be done about sinusitis.

by Lafayette’s Jeff and by Muncie. Coach Mark Wakefield’s Bears of Evansville Central boast victories

over Vincennes and Sullivan and have bowed to LaPorte and New Albany. On the credit side of the Shortridge ledger are the triumphs over Greenfield, Noblesville, Greencastle, Southport and Tech while the one point defeat by Shelbyville is the only loss for Coach Kenneth Peterman’s quintet this season. Connersville’s Spartans have given the short end of the score this season to Liberty, Greenfield, Jeff

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byville. Coach Mose Pruitt’s squad has been beaten by New Castle, South Side of #t. Wayne and Rushville, Coach Rowland Jones’ Washington Continentals have taken whippings from Columbus, Térre Haute Wiley, Danville and Rushville, but trounced Broad Ripple and Southport’s Cardinals. Both Connersville and Washington have lost to Rushville. he Continentals lost by two points in an overtime game and the Spartans lost by one point. The Crispus Attucks Tigers renewed practice sessions yesterday for their Saturday skirmish at Stinesvillee. "The Tigers’ victory string this season includes Bates of Danville, Ky., Putnamville and Smithville. They lost to Freetown, Forest and Roosevelt of Gary.

Basketball

Results in the Sportsman’s Store holiday basketball tournament in the United Brethren Church gym, 11th and Olney Sts., last night:

Pure Oil, 20; Indianapolis Bankers, 14. Englewood Christian, 33; Link Belt, 24

W. Washingtor: St. Boosters, 30; United Brethren, 17

Tabernacle Presbyterian, 88; Mt. Comfort, 32

Friday night's semifinal and final schedule: .

v—Englewood Christian vs. W. Washington St. Boosters. Pure Oil vs. Tabernacle Presbyt 9—Final between 7 and 8 p. m. ners.

Results in the Meridian Club Senior League: Meridian Club, 13 Rosedale Milk, 28.

Greenwood, 31; nburg, 21. Brightwood Merchants, 44; M. L A., 27.

The Emmaus, Grate and St. Paul teams, each with two victories and one defeat, are leading the Senior Walther League at St. Paul’s School gym. The St. John outfit is pacing the girls’ league and the Trinity five, the junior loop. ‘

Play will continue tonight in the Dearborn Holiday tourney with four tilts booked, Tonight's schedule: 7:00—Texaco Oilers vs. Fashion Cleaners. 8:00—Firman Simms Realty vs. Salvation

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Basketball Scores

: COLLEGES GARY TOURNAMENT

Purdue, 57; Arkansas, 51. ‘Froebel, 24; Emerson, 20. Grinne, 84; © on, 25. : Horace Mann, 28; Lew Wallace, 26.

Sata ei Sierson, 31; Lew Wallace, . osep ’S, ’ oming, . > . Fri Pittsburgh, 50; Cornell, 39. Horace Mann, 18: Froche AMET Detrpit, 25; Santa Clara, 23. Greensburg, 31; AIMS, 24 Wayne, 42; Centenary, 30. 39 Washin

Seymour, gton Michigan State, 85; Penn State, 21.

27 (overtime). . Wooster, 57; ee Bow itand Rapids, 46; Bowling Green, 86. gu uthern Methodist, 45; Bradley Tech, “Cornell (Ia.). 38; Coe, 30. i= ; eon k Fi: pe.

n). Greensburg, 28; Seymour, 24. NATIONAL PRO LEAGUE thton, . Rockhurst Ye

Sheboygan, 45; Kautskys, 42. 81. lana, 35: Br ham Young,

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i _ College of Emporia, 41; Kansas Wesley-

g “ ‘STATE HIGH SCHO % Richmond, 41; Hartford Cit 450. y New Castle, 25: Jefferson, Lafayette, 28. Rushville, 32; Lawrenceburg, 21.. Martinsville, 28: Logansport, 19. 5 Otay reek, & sport « o:

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Army Red Shields. ~=Mt. Juckson Tire & Battery vs. Hazelwood Kinney Cubs. 10:00—Hoosier Athletic Club vs. Lang's Market. The Kingan A. A. five toppled the Lux Laundry team, 47 to 21, in last night's play. Greenwood Phillips 66 quintet downed the Elasengym Funeral Home, 33 to 28. Lang's Market took a 32-to-19 decision over the Liehr’s Tavern five, and the Royal Crown team took a forfeit from the Falls City Beer quintet which failed to appear.

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Greensb urg Wins Tourney

By United Press

Greensburg and Horace Mann of Gary today held prep cage tourney titles, the latter also holding indisputable claim as the screwiest team in Indiana.

In the Gary tournament fireworks started when Froebel shattered the five-game winning streak of Emerson’s Norse, 24 to 20. The Horsemen of Horace Mann scraped past Lew Wallace, 28 to 26, then faced Froebel—a quintet that rubbed hardwood splinters into them last week, 37 to 15—in the evening final. They knocked off the Blue Devils, 16 to 12, for the championship. The victory was a fitting climax for Mann, whose list of ups-and-downs includes defeats by Hammond and Roosevelt of East Chicago, and wins over Frankfort and Valparaiso.

Norse Defeat Lew Wallace

What little consolation there was for the humiliated Norse was gained in their 31-t0-23 triumph over Lew Wallace for runnerup. honors. The Greensburg Pirates charged up and down the planks in fairly easy fashion to grab their tourney. They bowled over Columbus, 31 to 24, watched Seymour take an overtime to defeat Washington of Indianapolis, 29 to 27, then put the pressure on the Owls, who weren't their best in the evening, to win 28 to 24. In the consolation the Columbus Bulldogs walloped Washington’s Continentals, 38 to 27. Tracy and Laupus tossed two free

in its overtime win. North Central Conference fives furnished most of the action on the slim state games, the biggest

surprise registered at Martinsville

when the Artesians rose to whip Logansport, 28 to 19. In a league encounter Mew Castle edged Jefferson at Lafayette, 25 to 23. Richmond defeated a team from the Northeastern Conference, Hartford City, 41 to 20. The big Hammond roundup begins today with the host quintet trading shots with Hammond Tech. Frankfort plays Clark of Hammond in the second, and the winners meet Vincennes and South Side Ft. Wayne, respectively. The finals will be completed tomorrow.

Ex-Big 10 Head Dies . SYRACUSE, N. Y.,, Dec. 28 (U. P.).—~Funeral services were - conducted today for Dr. Charles P. Hutchins, former Indiana University athletic director and former president of the Western Conference. Dr. Hutchins, stricken about a week ago with a heart attack, died yesterday. He was’66.

throws to give Seymour the edge|®

Side. \ Shortridge, as usual, resorted for

attack which Coach Kenneth Peterman has carpentered around tall Fred Krampe. But at times the Devils changed their - pace, using three players out and two under

the boys in close shooting range.

the most effective and brought ul timate victory. Meeting the invaders at their own

side or near the circle.

North Siders were able to grab the

with greater speed. Allerdice and Howard Shine as Guards

to the Blue and White’s.

win the game if Carroll had been fouled more. They should label him “Dead Eye” at the foul line. He pegged from there eight times and seven times he hit. ) Tech was able to keep the margin in the scorebooks rather close until the late stages of the game, then Shortridge pulled away to its decisive edge in the last five minutes of play. Is Tech was determined to get away to an early lead, resorting to pitches from most every angle, especially during the first half. Forty-six of them went wild during the entire ame. Shortridge was more content to confine its shooting from more sure angles and from its set plays, but even so the Devils missed 39 times. The summary: Shortridge (37). FG FT PP

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The Devils, too, tried numerous |: long shots, but the pivot play was |:

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o Ambers Signed for Go PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 29 (U. P.). —Signing of former lightweight champion Lou Ambers of Herkimer, N. Y., and Mexican Joey Silva of California for a 10-round bolt at

Steiner is the shortest of the squad, being only 5 feet 7 inches tall.

° ® 3 Rodak Risks Rating CHICAGO, Dec. 28 (U. P.).—Leo Rodak risks his No. 1 feather weight rating tonight in a 10-round headliner against Leone Rfrati of] Italy, who claims the European featherweight boxing champion= ship. Rodak recently. was named by | the National Boxing Association as | the leader of the featherweight ranks. He recently defeated Freddie

the Arena Jan. 16 was announced stoday by Promoter Herman Taylor.

Miller, the former titleholder; in 15 rounds: at: Baltimore. :

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