Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1939 — Page 6

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By Eddie Ash

CHANGES IN THE BASEBALL CODE

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Y a recent decision of the Rules Committee of the major baseball leagues, a couple of changes have been made in the playing code for 1939. . |. . These changes, and the sacrifice fly, which was restored in the scoring rules, will offer an interesting angle to the new diamond campaign. : : One alteration has to. do with Rule 49, Section 2, ‘and incorporates into the code the new, construction of ‘the dropped fly ball, which the National loop adopted last July. iy The new rule makes it mandatory for the umpire to declare a catch if he believes that! an outfielder, in an effort to bring about a double play, deliberately has dropped a line drive or a fly. . . . It means additional grief for the guessers. : A The changed section, with the new material, follows:

If, before two are out, while first and second, or first, second and third bases are occupied, an outfielder, in the judgment of the umpire, intentionally drops a fly ball or a line drive, he shall immediately rule the ball has been caught. {Note—Base runners will be obliged to “tag up” after the out has

- been declared before they can advance under this ruling.)

Cases such as that covered in this new rule are few and far between, and it would seem that the change is much ado about nothing.

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HE Rules Committee also changed Rule 27, Section 1, which gov-erns-the pitcher. . . . In the past the rules stated that before delivering the ball the hurler had to have both feet on the rubber. . The new rule permits the hurler to deliver the ball with only his pivot foot in contact with the rubber. . . . His other foot may be behind or in front of the pivot but.not on the side. As heretofore, the pitcher cannot take more than one step in such delivery. . . .After he assumes his legal position previous to delivering the ball to the batsman he may take only one step—and that must be forward. . . . If he steps back it will be a halk. v 2 8 8 1 FALE a >’ EMBERS of the Rules Committee went into detail] when they shook .up the code governing moundsmen. . . . It's a break for the pitchers. . . . The new material:— | “Prelimmary to pitching, the pitcher shall take his position facing the batsman with both feet squarely on the ground, but his pivot foot must be on or in front in contact with the pitcher’s plate, his other foot may be directly behind or in front (not on the side) of the pitcher’s plate, and in the act of delivering the ball to the batsman he must keep one foot in contact with the pitcher’s plete. “He shall noi raise either foot until in the act of delivering the ball to the batsman or in throwing to a base; ‘nor may he make more than one step in such delivery. ft “With a runner on first base or on second base ,the pitcher must face the batsman with both hands holding the ball in front of him. If he indulges in a preliminary stretch by raising his arms above his head or out in front, he must return to a natural pitcher’s position and STOP before starting his delivery of the ball to tlie batsman.” Rule 31, Section 3, “Balks,” has betn amended to read as follows, to conform with new Rule 27, Section 1:— “Any delivery of the ball to the bat by the pitcher while the foot is back of and not in contact with the pitcher's plate.”

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TANLEY TODD, righthander of the Columbus-Red Birds, who won 18 games in the Piedmont League in 1937, actually knocked himself out of the circuit last season. Todd started the 1938 campaign by winning four games for the Asheville Tourists without a defeat. . . . Pitchers so often are minus quantities with the bat that it is strange to picture one as clouting himself out of anything. . . . But in a game against Portsmouth, Todd fouled a piteh which struck him on the leg, about six inches above the ankle. : : ; He tapped the next pitch to the pitcher and crumpled with a broken leg. . . . Catcher Dick Luckey, the umpires and several of the players heard the snap of the bone that wrote a finish to the 1938 career of Todd. .

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Toledo Bows DETROIT, March 4 (U. P..—University of Toledo was edged out in the last 57

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seconds of play last night, 53-52, to drop a

hotly centested basketball game to the Unis

|Huntingburg, Crawfordsville And Columbus Tripped. In Sectionals.

By United Press : Some entirely new and unexpected faces appeared for the last two rounds in the Indiana sectional high school basketball tournaments today after a night of astonishing upsets. : Two games this afternoon and the

finals tonight will determine the 64 sectional winners who survived the 779 original entrants in the state tournament and who will battle it out in the heart-breaking regionals next Saturday. : The blues are being sung the loudest today because of the following: 1. A crossroads team named Darl-. ington pounced on Crawfordsville for a stunner, 25 to 21. 2. Another tank-town quintet called Waldron swarmed over Columbus, 43 to 32. 3. And the clincher—Huntingburg, the so-called class of southern Indiana, collapsed before Jasper, 34 to 26. This season Huntingburg amassed 19 straight victories. The Hunters had a comparable record last year. But an in-and-out Jasper team for the second straight time proved to be the Happy Hunters’ nemesis. :

More to Come

Those three are most important; but there are more. Washington of East Chicago, which holds two victories over the bone-crushing Hammond quintet and was expected to bar Hammond’s path to the regional, was scuttled by Hammond Clark, 35 to 20— not even close. Hammond now must face its home-town rival, Hammond Tech. : Valparaiso accomplished the wellnigh impossible once yesterday by knocking off Gary Emerson, Northern Indiana's western division champs, 26 to 21, and then coming back te throttle Gary Horace Mann, - |29 to 22. This means that the crucial Valparaiso sectional is between Gary Froebel, a team with a spotty record, and Valparaiso.

Burris Squeezes Through

" @ @ > Joe Williams— N IAMI, March 4.—We will be happy when the $150,000 worth of races are over today. It will be Stagehand in the $50,000 Widener Cup and Whichee in the $100,000 Santa Anita, of course. With the big winter races out of the way we will be free to devote our scholarly attention to the Derby. As far as we are concerned the racing sea-

son doesn't open until the Derby, anyway.

Col. Matt Winn hasn't announced the nominationg yet. He always holds this announcement up until the winter season has passed its. peak. The Colonel is a shrewd old gaffer and never overlooks a publicity bet. He knows by withholding the announcement at this time he will get a bigger newspaper spread later on. 8 2 =» 2.8 2

IE always turns out that way despite the fact that when the nominations are finally presented they contain practically no element of surprise, All the well-known 3-year-olds are usually in there. This year will be no exception, although we note that Volitant is being held for the Preakness. We suspect this is a gesture on the part of George Bull and John Morris toward young Alfred Vanderbilt ,who is trying to build the Preakness up to the national stature of the Derby, a praiseworthy if futile ambition. The Derby will always be the people’s race and the Preakness just another $50,000 race. Incidentally, Volitant isn’t likely to add much to the Preakness, rating him off the form he has shown in Florida. : Chewing the suet with horsemen down here, we find New York is in a formidable position with resgect to both the Derby and the Preakness. Which is to say New York owners hold title to some of the best colts in the country. !

” 2 ” 2 2 . HESE include El Chico, Johnstown, Eight Thirty, Third Degree : snd the aforementioned Volitant. 3 : .. We hear from the horsemen that El Chico probably will be the winter book favorite. And in the next breath uk say fe isn’t. good enough to win, either the Derby or the Preakness. El Chico won seven straight last year, including the United States Hotel, Hopeful and Janjor Champion; that’s why he’ll probably be the winter book avorite. But the horsemen insist he isn’t bred to go a mile and a quarter and for this reason they don’t want any part of him. Sometimes it shocks you to hear the scornful way the horsemen talk about the mammies and pappies of various colts. ‘His daddy was a quitter” . . . as mother was a tramp” . | . frightful things, they say, but mostly correct. : 2 The list of thoroughbreds named as possible starters in Col. Winn’s fixture always exceeds the century mark. Last year 105 were ‘named and when it came time to run the race only 10 answered the. bugle. That's how it generally works out. . It’s a simple matter to nominate a horse for the Derby; developing him to a point where it

| - is not sheer nonsense to start him is something else.

8g 8 8B N 2 = » C= ED BRADLEY, the gambling man, will have a starter this year, a thing called Benefactor, which was shipped. here from Kentucky but didn’t start. He had a real nice workout the other ' morning and our friends, the horsemen, say he may be dangerous. Last vear Benefactor started five times, won three, placed once and was far back the other time. He was second choice in the Futurity but ran a bad race. i | Bradley's horses are usually short priced in the winter books because of the fervor the hard boots show for his stable. Whenever Bradley has a starter the hard boots go for it hook, line and saddle cloth, regardless. This is why the horsemen think Benefadtor will be rated higher in the winter book than his revealed form would seem . to permit. | And, of course, there will be scads of other pretty good 3-year-olds in the nomination list. Technician, for one. From all accounts he is the best colt the winter season has developed and the outlook is he will be ranked right up there with El Chico in the winter. book prices. You know, we are sure, his half-brother Lawrin won the Derby last year after a similar successful Florida campaign.

Basketball Scores

COLLEGES U. of Detroit, 53; Toledo, 52. | Westminster, 26; Drury, 25 (overtime), Coe, 36; Cornell (Iowa), 33. Grove City, 41; Slippery Rock, 34. Concord, 56; Morris Harvey, 39. Montana, 66; Montana State, 52. Utah, 52; Brigham Young, 47. Denver University, 34; Colorado | State,

Eau Claire (Wis.) Crosse Teachers, 32.

Teachers,

stitute, 28. Drake, 64; Grinnell, 32.

SOUTHERN TOURNEY At Bowling Green, Ky. Louisiana ‘Normal, ) State Teachers, 41 Jacksonviile town (Ky.) Co

28. Qregon, 39; Washngton, 26. | Washington State, 47; Oregon ‘State, 41. Allegheny, 43; Hiram, 28. | 4 Minot Teachers, 44; Valley City Teachers, 39. | Long Island. 28; LaSalle, 21.

27 (overtime) byterian (8. C.), 2%.

38; La North Dakota State, 3%; North Dakota,

Superior (Wis.) Teachers, 44; Stout In-

43; Murray (Ky. (Ala.) Teachers, 87; Georgey llege, 29. Morehead (Ky.) Teachers, 30; Erskine, estern Kentucky Teachers, 51; Pres-

Temple, 42; St. Joseph’s, 38.

Beloit, 46; Knox, 45. ba 3 TE METa : Dubuque University, 33; Central, 2. Th Hulile 01 i 0 Li 1B

Ripon, 85; Lawrence, 33. ol 0000

California (Pa.) Teachers, 45; Shippens3 | Meridian at New York. RI. 1594 at N. West: 1X

Millersville Teachers, 55; Indiana |(Pa.), a (W. (Va), 61; Fair oun

Michigan 2644

| A victory which was almost an si upset was scored by Burris of Mun“|cie, which needed an overtime to nudge Royerton, 32 to 30. One of the sectional 6 surprise teams has turned out to be Akron. After ganging on Rochester last night, Akron went on to jolt Pulaski, 28 to 21, and enter the semifinals, Swinging to the other side of the ledger, North Liberty proved to be the tournament disapointment. After having won 23 straight games and averaged 51 points a game, North Liberty only revealed that it isn’t in the big leagues by bowing to a mediocre Mishawaka quintet, 30 to 24. However, the State's other undefeated team came through with its 24th consecutive win this season when Gosport overwhelmed Quincy, 37 to 7. .

South Bend Central Advances

South| Bend Central, which also racked up 19 straight wins, moved ehead with a 53-t0-29 victory over Washington-Clay of South Bend. The defending state champion, Ft. Wayne, South Side, took their second sectional victory with a win over Leo, 34 to 17, and will encounter their neighbor, Ft. Wayne, North Side, today. Maybe the experts are overlooking Anderson, the state champs in 1935 and 1937, but the Indians rolled over Summitville, 49 to 18, and look as though they are in tournament form. Frankfort Coasts

Frankfort, which is being backed by some master-minds for the state title, cruised through Sugar Creek, 65 to 14, and won't. encounter any real opposition until the regionals. Both Bosse and Reitz of Evansville, the two toughest teams in the “pocket” area, came through unscathed. ‘ Hagerstown, Martinsville and Richmond came through among the other potential trouble-makers, while Tipton knifed Noblesville, 46 to 24. Noblesville won its first game of the season Thursday after dropping every other contest until it met Cicero. : On the wacky side, Idaville was forced to play three overtime periods before it finally photo-finished Round ‘Grove, 21 to 20.

Hart and Weaver In One-Fall Bout

Two air-minded matmen will collide sin the semiwindup on the

Armory wrestling program Tuesday night. They are Frankie Hart, touted as the “Flying Dutchman,” and Buck Weaver, the “Flying Hoosier” from Terre Haute. The two are speedy and their match probably will be peppy all the way. It is for one fall. Weaver is a former Indiana University athlete. Hart impressed fans in his first, local appearance two weeks ago. Both scale around 180 pounds. Irish Dan O’Connor, 225, Boston, goes after Dorve (Iron Man) Roche, 220. Decatur, Ill., in the main event. Both are near the top in heavyweight ranks and have been consistent winners here during the past several ‘seasons. .

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Shortridge Takes on Hawks ~ In Semifinals; Southport Meets Oaklandon.

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By LEO DAUGHERTY

county basketball hurricane penetrating deep into the realm of city teams were increased today.

It already has wreaked havoc in the current sectional tournament at Tech, being partly responsible for

fore this afternoon’s semifinals. The basketball weatherman forecast that it will gain momentum seasonally with the sport. The Blue Devils of Shortridge, defending champions, alone were able to withstand its devastating effect, and they feared an increase in its intensity as they prepared to stave off the Decatur Central wave in the second game of this afternoon’s semifinals. The first game at 2 p. m. was expected to be a “twister” for it was to be between two county teams, Southport, who banished Tech, and the Oaklandon Oaks.

Southport Smashes Speedway

Southport whirled into this afternoon’s two-game fight for a place in tonight’s title game by smashing

wreck. . Tne Oaks earned the right to meet Southport by outlasting Warren Central last night, 42 to 39, after an earlier victory over Castleton. Shortridge’s way into the semifinal wasn’t easy. After polishing off Broad Ripple easily, 36 to 23, yesterday afternoon, it found a tartar in Washington last night and eked out a 34-to-30 edge with difficulty. : The Continentals had come up with a

Lawrence, 30 to 26. : Decatur advanced by lacing Beech Grove, 31 to 23.

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an outside chance against Southport. They likewise were inclined to give the nod to the Hawks over Shortridge, describing them as the coolest and most polished outfit

.|which has been on display.

They liked Decatur for the smoothness of passing attack. Coach Bob Gladden’s boys do pass with a rhythm, either slowly or when in high gear, then whipping the ball one-handed. Their fumbles are at a minimum. The Hawks are exceptional in taking the rebounds after their own missed shots. They rarely let the ball hit the floor because they never bunch up. They see to it in a jiffy after a shot tha} there is a man on

front, and the triangle is hard to penetrate.

Hoffman and Shanklin Shine

Decatur has an array of gunners and several of the finest players who have appeared in the tourney, Howard Hoffman and Charley Shanklin probably being the standouts, : Decatur pulled itself away to a 14-8 lead at thé half over Beech Grove last night and then slowed down, and while the Hornets neared them the ynever let the game get away from them. When it was time to pull away again they opened up and did it without a whole lot of effort. After all, it was the long-range shooting of Paul Wilkins which enabled the Hornets to ease up on the victors. He roped four from the outfield.

What More Could You Want?

The experts, for they must be regarded as such because they either coach or officiate, say Southport’s greatest strength jis in drive and stamina on the defense and a welloiled passing attack and shocting talent on the offense, which doesn’t leave much to be asked. Southport climbs on top the foe when the latter has the ball. The Cardinals keep pushing them back to the center line, halting the cannonading or forcing it from long range. They are good on rebounds, but rated below Decatur in that department. | They have a scoring ace in Ed Schienbein, a gqat-getter in Johnny Williams and a smooth floor performer in Haroid Miller, along with a squad of other hardy basketeers.

Show Them No Mercy

Coach Buc Plunkitt is inclined to close the gates of mercy when his team plays. He likes to. win by big margins and never injects his second stringers until he has the game in the bag and securely tied. If Southport and Decatur meet in the final, toss a coin. Connoisseurs of the game say that the “outside” basketball is coming to the fore because the boys get earlier training in grade school ball, practice more and because the pressure is on the basketball team and coach, basketball being the big thing in the community. And that coach and team feel the pressure and take the game in the most serious way. hey say that “you can’t excel in the game when you're on the fence about it and don’t want to put the emphasis on it.” Rh Particularly true is the early training advantage found in the cases of Decatur and Southport,

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with the former predominating in tutoring lads from the sixth grade up. True, there are some fine performers in the city, Shortridge and Washingtonn probably providing the largest number of individual stars. But the pressure is not on to win all the time. The Blue Devils, already victimized by Washington, obviously were fearful when they tackled the Continentals, last night and welcomed nothing more than the final pistol

It was a speedy encounter with

and forth two and three-point margins for either team down to the finish mark. Bill Hardy, with his far-sighted bombarding, and Fred Krampe, taking the humps in. the pivot, kept Shortridge going while Roland Sanders and Don Beuke were the prominent cogs for the losers. Dopesters, basing their opinions on past performances and a study of the teams, are inclined to deal the Blue Devils out of the picture this afternoon. - The Warren Central-Oaklandon fuss last night was a rough affair in which the team luckiest at the hoop won.

Dehner to Play With Hammond

Two former Illinois: University basketball players will appear here with ,the Hammond Ciesar team Monday : night when the upstate five meets the Kautskys. Lewis (Pick) Dehner, recently made a unanimous choice for allconference center in the Big Ten, will team again with another Illini star of the past season, Tommy Nesbitt, who has been playing with

season. In the other half of the feature card the Akron Firestones will come against the New York Rens.

Layton Advances in Billiard Tournament

By United Press Johnny Layton, New York, mavad up a notch, into third place, in the world’s champion three-cushion billiard tournament today on two victories over Arthur Thurnblad, Kenosha, Wis. Layton beat Thurnblad, 50-29 in 6 innings and 50-38, in 50 innings New York yesterday for a record

percentage of 556. Thurnblad dropped from third place to a fourth place tie, at .500, with Tiff Denton, Kansas City. |

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NEW YORK, March 4 (U. P.).— Wayne Sabin of Portland, Ore.. shot for his sixth straight tennis title of the winter season today in meeting Frank Bowden .of New York in the final of the national indoor singles championship. The women’s title will be decided when Pauline Betz, 19-year-old sensation of the tournament, from Angeles, meets Helen Bernhard

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