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

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By Eddie Ash

OLD CHAMP ONCE HAD GALENTO

JACK DISCUSSES THE HEAVIES

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MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1939

title.

in Miami Finals CORAL GABLES, Fla., Jan. 23 (U. P.).— Wilford ‘Wehrle of Racine, Wis., meets L.

golfing Coral Gables minister,

today for the Miami Biltmore amateur golf

ACK DEMPSEY dropped off in Minneapolis the other day for a short sports chat and what he had to say _ about the boxing business was plenty. ... The old Mauler discussed Joe Louis, John Henry Lewis, Lou Nova, Max

Baer and Tony Galento. About Galento, Demp

sey

“was outspoken and he “let him _ have it.” . . . He revealed that | Two-Ton was under his management five years ago and says he’s no better today than he was

when he was stopped in two

of §

three fights under Jack’s man-

agement. “Why,” said Dempsey,

know at.least five heavyweights who afe willing to meet Galento and I think three of them can _ beat him and that includes Bob §

Pastor. and Roscoe Toles.”

- As far as John Henry Lewis

Jack Dempsey

is concerned, Dempsey dismissed the 175-pound cham-

pion with the statement that

no light, heavyweight that

ever lived would have a chance against Joe Louis. Jack is enthused about Lou:Nova but believes the Californian needs more work before stacking up against a. fighter of Max Baer’s experience.

Dempsey waxed hot and

heavy about the training

methods of Galento whom he believes is doing the boxing game and sports in general much harm with his publicized stunts. . . . “That line of publicity doesn’t belong in the fight picture nowadays,” Jack voiced.

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NCIDENTALLY, the Lou Nova-Max Baer heavyweight elimination

bout will be held early in June in instead of on May 25, as originally decided the other day.

the Yankee Stadium, New York, planned, Promoter Mike Jacobs

Mr, Jacobs, who made the match before the American League baseball schedule was released, has set June 1 as the tentative date. “I learned that the baseball schedule has the Yankees at home against Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia the week of May 25,” the.

promoter explained.

“I think Thursday, June 1, would be a suitable

date, but won’t be able to tell for sure till I talk with Yankee officials.’

I will definitely put the fight in the » ” 2 ORACE STONEHAM says that

stadium, however.” 8, ” ” if Col. Jacob Ruppert and his

. father, Charles A., had been left alone, the Yankees would still

be playing in the Polo Grounds.

Charley Stoneham had John McGraw and Frank McQuade to

consider as associates. . . . McGraw

Nothing that had anything to do with the American League was . It was like waving a red flag in front of a bull.

any good to him. ,

was a National League die-hard.

“That’s why,” ‘asserts Horace Stoneham, “McGraw was glad to see the Yankees pull out and build Yankee Stadium.”

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7OUNG STONEHAM points out that in anything that had to do

with baseball Col. Ruppert was a man afterward.

baseball man first, and a Yankee

He explains that he found that out when it was necessary for the Giants and Yankees to pool their interests and talk over things that had more to do with the general welfare of the game than with the

individual clubs.

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ITCHERS farmed out in the Northern League last season are ex-

pected to make good with the 1939 Minneapolis Millers. . .

. They

are Mike Kash, southpaw, who won 20 games and lost five at Crooks-

ton, and Bill Butland, righthander. club. . . . Butland led the loop in down.

won 19 and lost 6 for the same strikeouts and Kash was nof, far

: The Minnesota Fieldhouse capacity has been increased to 14,300 :to take care of the crowd at tonight's Big Ten hardwood clash be-

tween the Gophers and Illini.” The Miami Open golf tourney " profit of $14.90. . . . But it got enou

barely squeezed through with a gh ink in the press to make it a

paying venture in the publicity league.

City Men’s Pin Tourney Attracts Record Entry

Setting a record of more than 300 teams, the annual men’s City bowling tournament is all set to begin firing at the Indiana Alleys, Feb. 4.

Entries closed Saturday night and they rolled slightly over the 300mark and surpassed last year’s total, which was 298.

Tournament officials were check- 4 ing the lists today for duplications but stated that “300 or more” would be official without question. It will be the 32d championship of the. Indianapolis Bowling Association and will be held over five week-ends.

+ W. L. Birthright today boasted his first perfect bowling score. He scattered the pins for a 300 count in a nonleague game yesterday at the Fox-Hunt Alleys. Birthright is a 158-average pinman and has been bowling <or about two years.

One-hundred six teams are entered in the 20th annual women’s ‘city bowling tournament, which will begin at 2 p. m. next Saturday at the Parkway Alleys and continue through Feb. 4 and 5. This is an increase of 42 teams over last year. The tournament is to be conducted in three classifications in the] team events and two in the minor events. There are 17 Class A, 16 Class B and 33 Class C teams entered. Averages included in each of the class are as follows: Team—Class A, 726 and over; Class B, 576- 725; Class C, 575 and under. Doubles—Class A, 291 and over; Class B, all under 291. * Singles—Class A, 146 and over; Class B, all under 146. All averages are to be taken as of Jan. 1.

The team of Withers and Furge posted a 1327 score to capture first place in the mixed doubles sweepstakes at the Pennsylvania Alleys yesterday. Other high teams were: M. Fischer and J. Hurt Jr. 1303; Mencin and

Middlesworth to Be Speaker at Dinner

“Dressing Room Scenes” is to be the topic of Hugh (Wally) Middlesworth, assistant football coach at - Butler University and city recrea- __ tion director, at a dinner meeting of the local Butler alumni club at 6 p. m. at the Canary Cottage. Special guests at the dinner will be Mr. and Mrs. Glen R. Maynard, Dr. and Mrs. Roy M. Robbins, Dean nd Mrs. M. O. Ross, Dr. Amalia ‘Lautz, Prof. and Mrs Charles KinMr. and Mrs. Joseph Lautner, s Audrey E. Callander, Miss da ene. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. ov , Mr. and. Mrs.

Mencin, 1285; Pearl Weaver and D. Gray, 1273; Ennis and Nalley, 1268; E. Finn and C. Garrison, 1253; Brammel and Brammel, 1248; V. Plunkett and H. Thoman, 1246; M. Fisher and Lieh, 1245; F. McFeeters and J. Frieje, 1243; L. Alexander and J. Markey, 1242. Prizes are to be distributed Wednesday night. The next mixed

{doubles is to be held at the Penn-

Sylvania drives Feb. 12.

Cecil Conner posted a 540 for high honors as play opened yesterday in the new Fraternal Order of Eagles League at the Illinois Alleys. The loop, composed of six teams, is to bowl at 3 p. m. each Sunday.

The Central Bowling Alleys is to hold a 200 scratch handicap singles sweepstakes Feb. 4 and 5. The handicap is to be figured on twothirds the difference between the

bowlers combined average and 200.

Don Abbott will be in charge.

Falls City No. 2 men’s team gefeated Budweiser women’s squad, 2566 to 2531, in a match at the Parkway drives. The women's team rolled with a handicap of 90 pins.

Posting a 621, Carl Schaffer topped the Link Belt League at the Sturm Alleys yesterday.

Boxers Drill for 2d Gloves Bill

Times-Legion Golden Glovers resumed heavy training today for the second night of eliminations at the Armory this Friday.

Several of the weight divisions still have plenty of eligibles, boys who won on the opening night and many others who were not called in the initial drawings.

Indianapolis will be busy this week as instructors increase -the pace. The lads got off to a flying start on the opening card and of the 28

the customers with exciting entertainment. Competition is being fought in both the novice and open classes and the caliber of punching in the early matches looks of higher grade than last year. Ticket prices for the second show are 75 cents ringside and first row in the balcony, 40 cents general admission. Reserved seat tickets are on sale downtown at Haag’s Claypool Hotel drugstore. Indiahapolis sports goers rallied to the Golden Glovers last week and an even better attendance is expected for the second night of ring warfare, Sixty per cent of the tournament profits. go to Legion Lhilan

h yopies and amateur

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All boxing training quarters in|

bouts staged the majority supplied]

Chillenger’ S Hopes Rest on Boxing Ability

Odds Favor Joe to Retain Heavyweight Crown in Go Wednesday. John |Henry Lewis, who decided the light heavyweight title was about as

likely| to make him a rich man as would a career in the Army, tapes

his Hands and pulls on the six-| [8 ounce mittens for a crack at Joe] §

Louis] gold - bearing heavyweight crown Wednesday night.

cessfully defending the 175-pound championship last October, Joe has been amassing wealth. The heavyweight titleholder banked $321,245 after (knocking out Max Schmeling in June and he hasn’t fought since because proceeds from another bout would have sent him into a higher income tax bracket. According to the odds established by the betting public the title is not Sain to change in this Madison

Square Garden 15-rounder. Lewis backers are asking 10-1 and there is a lot of wagering reported at this figure. Depending on Speed Lewis, . who has never been knocked out in 99 starts, will be

in si upon his speed and box-

ing ability, while Louis’ best assets will be a 20 pounds weight advantage and a dynamite punch. John Henry will |weight about 183, Louis close to 203. Both men will go through final sparring drills today and rest tomorrow before leaving their New Jersey training camps to come here for the weighin at noon Wednesday. Louis worked six rounds yesterday and planned the same number toif his mates hold out. John Henry, at the peak of his form, will box only three or four heats. This will be the fifth title defense for Louis since he kayoed Jim Braddock to win the championship in June, 1937. After taking Braddock| he rested only two months before |outpointing Tommy Farr. He next knocked out Nathan Mann, in February last year. Harry Thomas and |Schmeling were the last two victims of his lethal wallop. Promoter Mike Jacobs, who expects a crowd of 18,000 to pay more than $100,000 to see the fight, already is trying to match Louis for a return bout with Bob Pastor, New York heavyweight who back-pedaled 10 pounds to last the distance, early in s

NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (U. P).—|

While Lewis has been fighting for % “peanuts,” such as $2600 for suc-|:

The Champion—New or. Old—May Well Watch This Young Fellow

Patrick Edward Comiskey, 18-year-old. heavy-

weight of Elizabeth, N, J. (left),

from his trainer, Johnny Lane. The 200-pound youth standing 6 feet tall has drawn high praise from

|Bell, Juelich Sign

Eckert, Dorve On Mat Card

Mephisto and Rattan Will Tangle in. Feature.

Ray Eckert, 217, young St. Louis

wrestler who has dropped but one bout in nine appearances, will step into “fast company” at the Armory tomorrow ‘night when he tackles Dorve (Iron Man) Roche, 222, Decatur, Ill. Dorve has been a consistent winner. “The Great” Mephisto, recently crowned light heavyweight champ, will take on Silent Rattan, local favorite, in the main go. Ii is for two falls out of three. : Two former grid stars clash in the semi-windup. They are Jim McMillen, - 228, Chicago, and Charlie Strack, 234, Boston. McMillen performed at the University of Ili-

nois, while Strack played at Colgate and Oklahoma A. and M.

Moves Ahead

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Times Photo.

Willard Reed, Northeast Community Center amateur, is one of

seven boxers remaining in the 160-pound open class of The TimesLegion Golden Gloves tournament, He surprised the dopesters last Pe day by outpointing Wesley Kemp, South Side Turners, who had

been picked as one of the favorites to win the middleweight title.

Ree tourney.

d won the 160-pound crown in the novice class of the Sity-county

Potsy an Early Bird

NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (NEA).— Potsy Clark, coach of the Brooklyn Dodger professional football team, sends a formal contract

L AUTO AND DIAMOND

LOANS

: 20 Months to Pay

|ite distance will be: Speed to Spare,

{Motorcycle King

‘| (U. P.).—Bernard Campanale today

machine upset.

boxing critics gets a rub-down

Pirate Contracts

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 23 (U. P.).— Outfielder Fern Lee Bell and Infielder Jack Juelich, recruits drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates, have signed contracts for 1939, President William E. Benswanger announced today. Bell, 26, of Los Angeles, was drafted from Louisville in the American Association after he batted .327 in 129 games. Juelich, 22, of St. Louis, was ‘drafted from the Rochester club of the International League, where he batted .262.

L A. C. Girls Take Swimming Meet

Indianapolis Athletic Club girl swimmers will go after their second victory over the Milwaukee Athletic Club.in a meet Feb. 10 at Milwaukee. - Placing. first in all events except the 50-yard backstroke, the local girls defeated the Milwaukee squad, 62-20, in a meet here yesterday. TFwelve-year-old Patty Aspinall set a mew Indiana A. A. U. mark of 1:18.7 to win the 100-yard breaststroke. She also clipped four-tenths of a second from the 150-yard individual medley mark to negotiate the distance in 2:00.2. Also on the I. A. C. girls’ schedule are a meet with the Rockford Girls College squad at Rockford,

HAR.

who have seen him in action.

Comiskey is said to be the possessor of an exceptionally hard punch, having scored knockouts in every one of his eight professional fights.

|Oshkosh Foe Of Kautskys

League Honors at Stake in Game Here Tonight.

Several National Basketball League. honors will be at stake tonight when the Kautsky All-Amer-icans and the Oshkosh All-Stars meet in the Butler Fieldhouse at 8:30. ~The two clubs are in a bitter fight for the lead of the Western Division of the league and if the Kautskys are able to trip the Stars tonight

the local club will become a favorite to capture’ the division honors. In addition Jewell Young, Kautsky forward, and Le Roy Edwards, high-scoring pivot man with Osh- |

have passed their 21st birthday.

Times-Acme Photos.

Comiskey" gives the bag some punishment in this view. New York state law bars boxers from engaging in 10-round bouts until they

Meanwhile Comiskey’s New York

. activity will be confined to six-round preliminary bouts.

Irish-Gopher

than ordinary interest since the

kosh, are battling for individual high-scoring honors. Young is: now pacing the league individual list with an average of near 13 points per- game, which is slightly more than one point per game better than Edwards. The preliminary game between the Lang Market five and Royal Crown Colas will begin at 7:30. Probable starting lineups: KAUTSKYS OSHKOSH Faisnsvaasn. Preboski eaves Fas swess Armstrong Schuessler ...sveee::Cicveveses. Edwards

Ill, Feb. 11 and one with the Medinah Club of Chicago here Feb. 18.

Downey

The mighty Seabiscuit, Charles S. Howards handicap champion, “might” make his 1939 debut in a six-furlong sprint at Santa Anita track next Saturday, Tom Smith, taciturn trainer of the ’Biscuit, admitted today. The race is the $10,000 San Felipe Handicap featuring some of the best sprinters in the country. Smith would not say definitely if the horse was an entry and the racing secretary, Webb Everett, will not make public the entries and weights until Wednesday night. Although the distance is far short of what Seabiscuit likes, his workouts indicate that the champion can run in sprints as well-as over a route. In a recent afternoon test, Seabiscuit was clocked going six furlongs in 1:113-5, and in hand. Among horses expected to challenge - Seabiscuit over their favor-

Sets New Mark

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. Jan. 23

retained his title as’ the nation’s top motorcycle rider after exceeding his own record to win the American Motorcycle Association’s eighth annual national road and beach race. Campanale took the 63 laps around a 3.2 mile track at an average of 76.59 miles an hour yesterday. He bettered his record bf 74.90 set here last year. He finished in 2:36:28, three minutes and 16 seconds ahead of Ray Eddy, San Francisco. Bill Anderson, Houston, Tex., was third. J. B. Jones, Marion, Ind, finished seventh. Grif Kathcart, Milwaukee, re-

Seabiscuit May Run Ne Saturday, Trainer Admits

ARCADIA, Cal, Jan. 23 (U. P.) ~~]

winner of the San Felipe last year; Rye Beach and Leading Article, joint holders of the track record of 1:09 4-5; Airflame, Pre-Eminent, Clingendaal, Sun Egret and others,

Pitt Track Stars May Be Kept Idle

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 23 (U.P.)— A controversy between the Allegheny Mountain Association of the A. .A. U. and the University of Pittsburgh over the listing of Pitt athletes in local track events may keep Johnny Woodruff and other Pitt track stars from four major

Muncie to test the Cardinals.

DePauw is third in the race, Cen-

‘tral Normal seventh, and Ball State is in a three-way tie for eighth with Earlham and Hanover.

Manchester, in a tie with Indiana

Central for fifth, tackles Indiana State at Terre Haute Wednesday.

Notre Dame gets off to a Mon-

day start in a tilt at Cleveland

against John Carroll. A number of state teams left the week open on account of examinations and only 14 games are sched-

«led. The card:

MONDAY Ball State at Central Normal. Notre Dame at John Carroll.

: WEDNESDAY DePauw at Ball State. Manchester at Indiana State.

THURSDAY Central Normal at Eastern Illinois. Indiana Tech, Ft. Wayne, at Tri-State.

FRIDAY Butler at Detroit. Giffin at Anderson. N. C. A. G. U, at Huntington. Western State, Kalamazoo,

at Man-

chester. .

Concordia at Taylor. SATURDAY Minnesota at Notre Dame. Butler at Michigan State. Earlham at Taylor.

Deer Killing Increase

AUGUSTA. Me. Jan. 23.—Hunt-

ers killed 18,363 deer in Maine last fall for the second largest total on the records of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Game. exceeded the 1937 kill by 200 and nearly reached: the 1935 record of 19,726.

This

Tilt Heads

College Card for Week

Highlighting this week’s Hoosier college basketball schedule is the Minnesota at Notre Dame game Saturday night. Gophers are contenders for the Big Ten crown and the Irish usually are at their best when confronted by a Western Confereiice foe in any line of sports competition. Purdue and Indiana are idle and Butler is away from home, playing at Detroit U. Friday and at Michigan State Saturday. ~ In the Indiana College Conference Ball State and Central Normal open the firing at Danville tonight, and tomorrow DePauw goes to

a Sle Standing of teams in the state

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conference:

Pet. Butler .... 1.000 900 | 875 800 867 667

Franklin ...... Manchester Indiana Central . Central Normal Earlham Hanover .... Ball State . Wabash .... Valparaiso .... Indiana State ccecece. Oakland City ..... Rose Poly .... St. Joseph's ..coo0. essences Evansville .... Taylor .....cc00 ase sssssees ustingten

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Cagirs Draw NEW YORK, Jan, 23 (NEA).— Collegiate basketball in Madison Square Garden outdraws hockey by, an average of almost 2000 a contest;

Still Coughing?

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meets this year. Pitt athletic officials want Panther stars entered in local meets as unattached participants, while the A. M. A. wants them listed as University of Pittsburgh athletes. As a result of the controversy the registration commission of the A. M. A. has empowered SecretaryTreasurer John T, Taylor to refuse registration or certification of Pitt athletes so that they would be ineligible to compete in the big meets in the East. Those games are the Milton Gomes in New York on Feb. 4; the Penn A. C. Games in Philadelphia Feb. 10; the Boston A. C. Games in Boston Feb. 11 and the N.Y. A. C. Games in New York Feb. 18.

Recruit Is Versatile

DETROIT, Jan. 23 (NFA)—Jim Lynn, pitcher obtained by Detroit from Columbus, has played basketball, football, boxed, wrestled; and sppeared in rodeos.

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