Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1939 — Page 23

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McClure Se ‘Table Tennis

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As No. 1 Game

5 Local Paddle-Wielder’ Back i From 15,000-Mile Tour

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Of 35 Cities.

By LEO DAUGHERTY The youthful James McClure quit a sick. bed today to predict that table tennis will paddle its way to surpass bowling, golf and even basketball as the most played game in the United States. Jimmy, who held the national singles championship twice, shared the national doubles title twice and currently shares the worlds’ doubles crown for the third time, was back in the game after a vest following a 15,000-mile tour. ° :

The jaunt which began here about the middle of November took Jimmy and five other ace exponents of the game to 35 cities, most of which are on the route to be followed by Don

Budge and Ellsworth Vines on their|

current tennis barnstorming. * In the troupe with Bohumil Vanna, Czechoslovakia,

Rim were| |

world’s singles champion; Sol Schiff, :

New York, codoubles champ; Bernie Grimes, Columbia University, intercollegiate singles champ; Sander

Glancz, Hungary, former national :

doubles champ, and Jimmy O’Con-

nor, New York, singles champion of | |

Florida and Cuba. Faster Than Tennis, Jimmy Claims :

McClure, who is only 22, but who has played the game for six years both here and abroad, argued that it is “three or four times as fast as tennis.” He should know because he played the court game with Big Bill Tilden during an 18-week tour in 1936. “Strenuous pastime, too,” he in«After we finished this recent tour I was in bed four days. Of course, I had a cold, but barnstorming is rough going and when you play every night under those powerfully strong, hot lights you have to watch your health.” When the table tennis star predicted that the game would pass basketball in the number of people who play it, he wasn’t figuring the sport as an organized proposition.

\ He operates two clubs here.

“We have eight tables at one club

| and six at the other,” he said. “Sev-

{en leagues are in operation and faitree more are to :be organized. {There are more than 400 players «t' registered here of whom about 50

are women. “But when I talk about the

Nerowth of the game’s popularity I

mean this: It is estimated that there are about two million tables in homes in the country and I'll bet that there are tables in more than 500 Indianapolis homes.”

Appeared in N. Y. Hippodrome

He estimated that crowds which watched. his troupe averaged about 1500 each appearance, which. would mean an aggregate of more than 22,000. “Think of this,” Jimmy said, “Mike Jacobs promoted our exhibition at the Hippodrome in New

* York and about 2500 were in the

~ too.

gallery. And they paid a $3.30 top, We played before the same sized crowds in Boston and Providence.” Being one of the country’s outstanding exhibitionists of this pastime which is still ‘in its infancy, Jimmy is somewhat of a walking record book on the subject. “Funny thing about it is this,” he explained. “The governing organization, that’s the U. S. Table Tennis Association, is composed of amateurs, but the players don’t have to be amateurs to engage in championship matches. They can take money. We were on percentage on the tour. “About the only difference be-

~ tween the table game and other

tennis is that you can’t volley the ball. Instead of serving directly over the net you have to bounce the ball off the table. That’s because the ball is so small and.if you served directly you could hit it such g terrific wallop that no one would be able to slam it back at you because of the limited playing space.”

Players Cover Wide Range

The table is 9 feet long and 5 feet wide. At times the players range

as far as 15 feet back of it and]

10 to 15 feet to the sides. Because the game generates heat around the feet, a special shoe was devised for players. It has a tongue which permits ventilation and a

. steel arch support to give the pad-

dle wielder adequate bracing in his countless quick shifts. Because the small ball is white, the rules prohibit the traditional

J white uniforms of the tennis court.

Slacks are gray and jerseys are usually either dark blue or wine colored to provide better vision of

ithe pill. ;

Jimmy and Schiff won their title last year at the world tournament

" in .London. Them have to go far-

. ther this year if they want to de-

fend it. The matches are at Cairo,

/ Egypt, in March.

They're on the same dates as the

. national tournament at Toledo, O.

and it’s up to the national *association to determine whether the Americans will go to Egypt or vacate their world’s titles and content ihemgelves with national competion. Jimmy hints that maybe world’s titles would be more important bacon and that anyhow the pyramids would be a lot more to look at than the Maumee River.

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Amateur boxers of Indianapolis are down to heavy work preparing for the seventh. annual TimesLegion Golden Gloves tourney at the Armory Jan, 20, 27 and Feb. 3 and 10. Above is Don Day, 18, novice welterweight, working out at the heavy bag at the English Avenue Boys’ Club. He's strengthening his hands for the hard punching to come. At right is Dick Miller, 18, also of the Boys’ Club. He's the new y - county open fiyweight champion and last winter won the novice 112-pound title in the Times-Legion meet. Young Miller is one of the best prospects in the city at his weight and is eager to land a place on the Indianapolis team which will participate in the Tournament of Champions in Chicago in March.

Basketball

The Goldsmith Secos team and Chi Gamma Phi, local social fraternity, are to sponsor a basketball game and dance Jan. 15 at the National Guard Armory. Profits derived from the affair will go for the benefit of German Jewish refugees.

Three games in the Em-Roe Big Six League and a girls’ preliminary are booked Sunday at the Hoosier Athletic Club. The schedule: Hoosier Girls vs. Rhodius Girls. Falls City vs. West Side Cash Coal. Kempler Radio vs. Brehob’s Market. Hoosier A, C. vs. Lang’s Market.

Results in the Em-Roe Speedway League: Farm Bureau, 18; Bookwalter-Ball Printi : Liberty Magazine Aces, 29; Junior I O. 0. F, 19,

The Achad -Haams extended their winning streak to eight straight by defeating the Comunal Rens, 55-32. The Achad-Haams are

seeking games with strong state

teams in the 17-19-year-old class on a home-and-home basis. Write Martin Bottigheimer, 1432 Union St.

The = Smith-Hassler Industrial League resumes play tonight at Dearborn Gym| The schedule: 7:00~Feather Merchants vs. La Salle Cafe. 7:50—V. F. W. vs, Jones Studio. 8:40—Ex-Craftsmen vs. Indianapolis Flashes.

9:30—Castleton. Merchants vs. Bethany

Buddies. Last night in the Smith-Hassler Universal League, the National Malleable took a 38-to-12 victory from Holy Cross. The Indianapolis Pharmics defeated the Indianapolis Academy of Art, 34 to 24, while the Tic Toc Club subdued the Castleto Aces, 40 to 18.

Gets Trial With Reds

Lefty Fielder, former pitcher with the local Armour Packing nine, is to report for spring training with the Cincinnati Reds at Ogden, Utah, in March. Fielder pitched last season with the Panaca, Nev. Soil Conservation Camp| team and attended a baseball school at Salt Lake City sponsored by the Reds. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fielder, 41 N. Harding St.

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The rematching ¢f Dorve (Iron Man) Roche, 224, rugged excoal miner from Decatur, Ill, and Bob Bruns, 220, young Chicago mat stalwart, tops the Armory wrestling card next Tuesday right. It is for two falls out of thre: and serves as Bruns’ opportunity to be rated “big time” insofar as locgl fans are concerned. > } Bob turned in a surprise 30-min-ute draw against Dorve three weeks ago. Prior to that he had tossed Jack League, while two weeks ago he halted the winning streak of Ray Eckert. . Appearing in his first main event last Tuesday, Bruns annexed ‘two straight falls against John Katan. Bob is a former Northwestern University athlete. Roche is listed as a front line performer. A special semiwindup will find Billy Thom, mat mentor at Indiana University, in his first local bout of the season. Thom formerly was rated light heavy champ. His opponent is to be named later.

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Steeplechase Draws 5 American Horses

LONDON, Jan. 8 (U. P.).—Five American-owned thoroughbreds were included today among the 69 entries for the Grand National Steeplechase to be run at Aintree on March 24. : Heading the list of invaders was War Vessel, owned by Mrs. Marino Scott... Other American-owned entries: J.- B. Snow's Delachance, Ambrose Clark’s Flying Minutes and Latouche; and Mrs. L. E. Stoddard’s Milano. iio

2 More Giants Sign

NEW YORK, Jan. 6 (U. P) ~The New York Giants today announced the signing of. two more players-— First Baseman Johnny McCarthy

lof the evening was Pug Leppert of {a series of 689 at the Uptown Alleys,

lin which he rolled 247. First and third game scores were 197 and 221} | respectively. :

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Bowlers Roll | “In 650 Class Fancher Smashes Pins for

697 Total for High; Leppert Second. Eight bowlers rolled better than

650 last night in Indianapolis alleys to lead today’s list of shooting stars.

| | Owen Fancher of Print Craft, rolling| |at Pritchett’s, was high with a 6917.

He rolled 238 in his first game, fell to 225 in his second and came back {o make a 234 in the last.

. Fancher’s closest rival for honors the Intermediate League who rolled

In the first game he rolled 277 but in his next two he fell to 210 and 202 respectively. Graham Turner, rolling in the Indianapolis Railways loop at the Illinois Alleys, marked up a 667. Bob Kelley, also of the Intermediate League, had a series of 665. His best single game was the second

Three honor counts were turned in on the Parkway Recreation drives. Red Stuart rolled a total of

thews, 651. Coombs of Related Foods broke into the select group with a 657 and individual game scores of 226, 184

and 247. rT The handicap in the mixed dou-

bles sweepstakes at the Pennsylvania drives Sunday night is to be figured on a basis of three-fourths the difference between the combined :average and 400, it was reported today. Entry fee for the affair is $2 a team. Action is to get under way at 6 p. m.

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Steele Ladies League

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By DON BEATTY World All-Events Champion - Don’t sacrifice pins by attempting impossible splits. One pin has won many matches. Don’t be an alley wrecker. . Don’t throw the ball in the air. Place it on the drive. One of the more grievous errors

is throwing the ball heavily on the}

slide 5 or 10 feet from the line. It not only is injurous to the

boards causes it to lose much of

vollers.

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CCC Nines to Vie

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alley, but it spoils the bowler’s hook. | The impact of the ball on the}

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This is the reason why the ball] frequently fails to come up to the}

Naturally, throwing the ball causes :

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (U. P.) —{

nounced today.

Place the ball on the alley.

Do not throw it in the air. :

To Boos

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, Jan, 6—Don’t look now but there seems to be a faint

stock. Young fellows like Billy Conn and Pat Comiskey are coming in for much intent peering on the part of the experts, They are regarded as excellent prospects. Young Mr. Conn makes his local debut against Fred Apostoli in a 10-rounder at the Garden tonight. He is out of Pittsburgh, is a 170 pounder and Has yet to reach his full physical dimensions. In an-

He is the first youngster anyone has pointed to and said, “There's the guy who will beat Joe Louis one of these days.” Solly Krieger, the middleweight champion, made this observation

648) after Mr. Conn had smacked him 5/around:. Just how capable a critic 633 | Rrieger is we wouldn't know but it 622|is obvious he must have been im5 | pressed.

. And it may or may not be significant that quite a few of the sun

6 413 | dodgers along Jacobs Beach: think

Mr. Conn will outstab Apostoli tonight, despite the fact the reformed ‘bell hop from San Francisco is considered the best paleface fighter

600/in the ring today; that is, pound

for pound.

Praise From Mr. Johnston

Among the more laudatory tonsils lifted in behalf of Mr. Conn are those atached to the tireless sound box of Mr. James J. Johnston. He isn’t so sure the Pittsburgher will ever beat Louis but he likes him over Apostoli on class and speed, plus the weight. Hell have about a 10-pound edge. . Young Mr. Comiskey is even less experienced and he hasn't been winning over fellows like Krieger but in his first appearance in a Garden preliminary he practically stole the how. Even the old-timers went for him and the opinion seems to be pretty general that he has potential greatness. He's from over on. the Jersey side where he has been bouncing unknowns around with savage enthusiasm. It appears he is a good two or three years away and a whole lot depends on how he is handled and how seriously he takes to the business of training and preparation. A good Irish heavyweight would be something more than a shot in the arm to the beak busting business. Especially around here. True, Gene Tunney who was pure Irish didn’t command a fabulous follow-

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Resented Corbett’s Defeat of Sullivan

And ithe fact that Tunney beat Dempsey and repeated to prove it was no accident, may have had something to do with the lack of fervor with which he was received. Dempsey was only fractionally Irish but he fought in/ the legendary Irish manner, and

ney simply because he beat their idol. Jim Corbett was similarly received Ly the public following his knockout over John L. Sullivan. “Even my dad didn’t like it any too well,” Corbett once told us. Back in the white hope days Jim Coffey was a great favorite around here. He couldn’t fight much but he was from County Mayo and the Irishers went for him strong, particularly the coppers and the motormen. He was one of their kind. They filled the old garden to the eaves every time he showed. Will Gibson who latgF brought im and handled hi mwell. Mr. Coffey won a lot of matches by the simple process of bellowing like a stricken moose and tearing large, gaping holes in the air, the effect being to terrify the opposition. That the opposition seemed to succumb to terror very easily never struck Mr. Coffey as being peculiar.

Vols, Frogs Named

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 6 (U. P).— Texas Christian University and Tennessee were named cochampions of the United States today by Paul B. Williamson of the Williamson

Diz Is Read To ‘Fog 'Em

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Told Arm Is Healing.

CHICAGO, Jan. § (U. P).—O Diz may be “foggin’ ‘em through® again this season. : An injured shoulder which almast

- | wrecked Dean’s career last year

| dent he would win 20 games this" | season or “pitch for nothin’ in 1940."

Dean received the good news yes=

‘| terday and a few minutes later h | signed a contract for $20,000. For -

one of the few times in his life, Diz said he was not only satisfied but

Doctors had told him X-ray photo= graphs showed that a muscle tear + in his right shoulder was healing satisfactorily and that with six weeks more rest he should be abie to take his regular turn when : season starts. : Dean, who was obtained from thes St. Louis Cardinals last April for $185,000 cash and three players, ré+" quired only a few minutes to negos tiate his 1939 contract. Salary terms were not announced but owner Phil * K. Wrigley indicated six weeks ago that Diz would get approximately the same as last year, $20,000. °

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