Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1939 — Page 24

By Eddie Ash BESS IS CALLED TO CHICAGO = 8 8 8 : ? CHANCE FOR INTERCITY ACTION: ILTON BESS, Indianapolis Times-Legion (Golden Gloves lightweight champion, is back in the running for a “place on the Chicago Tribune team which is to battla the New York Eastern all-star squad at Chicago Stadium March 29... . Johnny Behr, the Tribune team’s cosch, saw a weak spot in his 135-pound division #nd sent a rush call to The Times for Bess’ services. Milton left for Chi-

cago last midnight and

will. report for training with the Tribune squad at the Illinois Athletic Club today. ... He las not boxed since losing a, close decision in the second round of the Tournament of Chanpions on Feb. 27 but) is in good physical condition and near the li gh t-

weight poundage.

Sixteen boys will be chosen to tackle the team from the Atlantic Seaboard ‘and Biss is determined fo win a berth and prove his defeat list month was a fluke. .. . As a member of the Chicago squad last year, Milton ouitpointed his New York cpponent at Madison Squere Garden and helped sew up victory for . the Western Golden Glovers. Later, in the Internatior. al matches against the a amateur chaipions, the Indianapolis lid, who is a Crispus Attucks High School graduate, oute boxed the German champion in a thrilling bout. . . . Sixteen bouts--iwo to a divi= : sion—will be fought in tire Milton Bess intercity punchfest and if “ Milton makes the grade. Lis father, Lee (One Round) Bess, will work his corner along with Coach Behr. : Carl Gates, of the Bruce Robison Post, American Legion, manager ‘<iof The Times-Legion Tournament of Champions team, also will make 4ithe trip to the Windy City for the gloves fireworks against tae 23 “invading leather throwers. a 8 = 8 8» 8 HE Joe Louis-Tony Galento heavyweight title brawl may be held 5 in July instead of June to take advantage of the large number 8 ot visitors in New York tor the World's Fair. . . . July is a hea y vacation month.

Galento, who has been fighting 10 years, owes his cr ack at Louis “to high-pressure ballyhoo by his manager, Joe Jacob, who master

ET indeq Max Schmeling intg the championship. . The consensus ~among experts is that Galento won't last three rounds against the “Detroit Bomber. "However, the large number of requests Promoter Mike Jacobs has ‘received for tickets indicates the boxing public in the East wants 0 see such a match.

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T. PETERSBURG, March 16.—The older newspaperrien x sit in the chicken coop press boxes around the Grape 2 . Fruit League and watch Lou Gehrig go . through ihe “ Jaborous movements of ‘playing first base, and wonder" : “ithey are seeing one of the institutions of the American

i: League crumble before their eyes. = 2 They were somewhat younger themselves when they saw Gehrig, big, strapping kid, fresh out of Columbia University, joir the Yank b 2 back in 1923. In a baseball sense, some of them have grown up with him. ” 2 o o ” Eid

HEY liked him as a kid and they | grew to like him better as he matured and blossomed into one of the all-time stars of the game. He always had a friendly smile and a simple, generous philosophy, and there never was a time when he wouldn't storm through a brick wall to help win a ball game for the Yankees. _ They recalled that with all his ability he had never had a chance to be the one headlined performer of the team. In the peginning his glory was dimmed by the glittering brilliance of the Great Ruth, and at a later stage, with Ruth gone, the sensational DiMaggio came along to command the individual spotlight. So it is with mixed feelings of ‘hope and regret. that the older .newspapermen sit in the press boxes down here and wonder if they are witnessing the climax of a heroic baseball career. They keep on telling themselves that Gehrig is getting along in years ‘He'll be 36 in June) and that 1it takes these veterans longer to get in shape than the frisky § green peas. £ They watch him at the bat ¢ and note he isn't hitting the bali well; they watch him arond the bag and it’s plain he isn’t getting the balls he used to get; they watch him run and they fancy they can hear his bones creak and his lung wheeze. Every mental note they make contributes to the broad conviction of ‘phys- ; cal disintegration. ; { Yet they aren't suré. To begin with they don’t want to be even half sure. Their fondness for the great star is deep rooted. They hate to think of rattling around the circuit without Geirig. So they take consolation in the reflection that all the old giivs Jook pretty terrible in the spring. i g..8 = . 2 = = i No any too sure they are right, but earnestly hoping they are, older newspapermen are trying to make themselves believe tk that’s what is happening to Gehrig down.here; that he’s just an geezer who is having a tough time getting in shape. Very patiently they tell this to the younger newspapermen wi have no reason to be sentimental about Gehrig, and the younger net's papermen scoff and say, “You guys must be blind if you can't see ti. i fe through.” Then they offer to bet that McCarthy wort have hi im on first base after May 1. v i 2 8 8 8° 8 8 : sought out Joe McCarthy, the manager, for a little comfort on the subject yesterday. Gehrig has long been McCarthy's Kall player. He thinks he is the greatest ball player of all time. | This is a tender subject with McCarthy. He has seen the sae . things the newspaperment have seen. He realizes, too, Gehrig is getting ¢ along in years and inevitably the time will come when he will be foré¢cd ‘to turn to him in the dugout and say, “You had better sit ‘his one today, Lou.” > “That will be the death sentence. Sooner or later it corass to ev! great player in the game,

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RANKLY, I don’t know about him,” McCarthy said, and you cold tell by the way he spoke the uncertainty cut him deep. “This much we know definitely, he has lost his speed and at his age tiis is something he will never get back. What we don’t know is whether ' he has lost his wrist action at the plate: If he has lost that, then ve have no alternative; we will have to give up on him and get some alse.”

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THURSDAY, MARCH 16 1939

~ New Grid Coach - . PITTSBURGH, March 16 (U. P.).—Duquesne University officials last night named

to succeed John (Little Clipper)

Smith, who resigned a few hours earlier, as head football coach and athletics director.

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Tiger r Cubs Also Flash Net Speed

Mutiny Is Over and Team Is All Set to Battle Anderson Here.

‘By TOM OCHILTREE : Times Staff Writer

GREENCASTLE, Ind, March 16. —The Tiger Cubs, a high school basketball team with a pants-kick-ing sense of humor and more speed than ‘Halley’s Comet, today were

which they plan to use agiinst Anderson’s Indians. Rivals of many years standing, these two teams meet at the Tech-

nical High School gymnasium, Indianapolis, Saturday afternoon in a

ball tournament game. Both teams are made up of basketball sophisticates and it is going to take more than newspaper clippings, muscle flexing and loud noises to impress either side. They can’t have many secrets from each other, either, since they met Dec. 17 in a regularly scheduled game. Greencastle took that one, 34 to 30, after guarding the Indians tighter than a Pullman window, but at that, the Tiger Cubs had to hit a high percentage of their tries from the field to gain the victory,

Fighting Spirit Up The old “they shall not pass” spirit that Greencastle showed in

Glynn Downey thinks his boys have an excellent chance of repeating against the Indians. He said he recognized the fact that playing Anderson in an ordinary game and meeting Anderson in a tournament is almost like coming up against two different teams, but added that his boys can pull at least as many tricks as a vaudeville magician on the old four-a-day-circuit. Coach Downey, a Purdue graduate of the class of 1937, has had a fairly rocky time of it in his first year at Greencastle, He had to quell a mutiny among some of his players and sickness and injury have kept George Taylor, center, and Ben

These are his two tallest boys, and their absence cuts down on the team’s ball recovering abilities. Both are back in the lineup now, although Taylor still is favoring an injured ankle. Hanlon has a great value for his steadying influence on a team that has an almost acute sense of the comic.

Fast on Floor

One of the cutups is Don Frazier, a 5-foot, 8-inch guard, who plays a blistering floor game. His specialty, which has a nerve-racking effect on the coach, is to wait for a tight point in the game, dribble up to the man guarding him, bounce the ball between the defensive man’s legs, run around him and continue the dribbling down the floor. He and Raymond York, guard; John Koessler, forward, ard Floyd Goodman, forward and guard, also can hit when they are right. These first six men are all seniors, but only Taylor and Frazier are left over from last year’s varsity. Hanlon and Goodman spent their first three years of high school at Putnamville while . Koessler and York didn’t gain starting berths until this year. | Other members of the team are Ed York, a guard and brother of Raymond; Carroll Hammond, guard; Dick Coffey, forward, and Howard Buis, guard. All of these boys are underclassmen.

Broke Even On Season

The team has a record of 10 won and 10 lost during the regular season, and played four games in the sectional, beating Russellville, 42 to 28, to advance to the regional. In the latter tourney Greencastle defeated Clinton, 29 to 21, after elimi-

game. Coach Downey solved the discipline problem earlier in the season when he suspended four players, two of whom later were taken back. He hopes the hex of sickness and in{jury has run its course. “Often a bridesmaid and never a bride” might describe the basketball situation at Greencastle as far as State championships are concerned. They were runnersup in 1919 and 1933, losing to Martinsville on the latter date. They went to the old l6-team State tournament from 1929 through 1933, a stretch of five years, and they were always powerful contenders.

That First Hurdle

Their chances of being one of the four teams to participate in the State finals March 25 at the Butler Field House will be a lot brighter if they get by Anderson, although they jn would have to face a doughty oe.

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The other two teams competing in the semifinal tournament at Indi|anapolis Saturday are Franklin and { Aurora, who meet in the second {afternoon game. The winner of the | Anderson-Greencastle tilt will play the victor in the second gaine Saturday night. Although he is very fond of his brood and believes in ability of each boy, Coach Downey says he has one complaint: “I wish sometimes down in the dressing room they would talk something about the game they are going to play instead of asking

"All-Round A thlete

Times Special "NEW YORK, March 16.—Jim Poole, New York Giant star end, will report to Evansville, Ind., in the Three-I League, a, Boston Bee baseball farm, at the close of the bas-

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George Taylor, Greencastle High School center, gets taped up by Coach Glynn Downey, the old Purdue star, before a hard prastice session.

Greencastle Mixes Humor With Goal Shots |

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Hot Dogs’

By Unit The pot of gold at! the end of the rainbow beckoned today to 16 Hoosier high school basketball teams. Each of the 16 will take the boards Saturday in the trials which will decide which of their number will comprise the four finalists for the

Hoosiers Play Coast Team

KANSAS CITY, Mo. March 16 (U. P.).—Eight teams still were around to answer roll call in the National Intercollegiate basketball meet today, but the defending

champions, Warrensburg, Mo., Teachers, were wondering if it wouldn't be better for them to play hookey. The Missourians found their path to the quarterfinal round more rocky than the others, because. every opponent has pointed for them, hopeful of being the team to eliminate the champs. A scrappy quintet from Nebraska, the Peru Teachers, get their chance tonight. It will be the first time the Mules have opposed a team which utilizes a fast breaking offense and it will be a test of their powerful zone blockade of the basket. Other quarterfinal pairings put Glenville, W. Va., against St. Ambrose, Davenport, Iowa; Southwestern, Winfield, Kas., opposite Maryville, Mo, Teachers and Manchester College, North Manchester, Ind. against San Diego State. ‘Manchester defeated Murray, Ky., Teachers yesterday, 41-38.

Three Valley Fives

Advance at Denver

DENVER, March 16 (U. P.) —The big time teams pushed out the col-

legians and the unknowns and prepared today to fight among themselves for the National A. A. U. basketball championship. The eight teams remaining for the quarterfinals were standouts from their particular sector of the country. Three were members of the Missouri Valley circuit, the major league of A. A. U. basketball. Today's pairing: Seattle, Wash., Alpines vs. Denver Nuggets. Colorado Springs Antlers Bartlesville, Okla., Oilers. Hollywood Metros vs. Oklahoma City Parks. San Francisco Olympics vs. Chicago Harmons. - The Valley League teams, Bartlesville, Oklahoma City and Denver, were favorites to go into the semifinal round.

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CLEARWATER, Fla, March 16 (NEA).—Coach Bill Killefer of the Brooklyn Dodgers was greatly surprised when he discovered Paul Paynick, rookie pitcher, was from his home town of Paw Paw, Mich.

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ed re 1939 Indiana title at Indianapolis next week. At this stage of the game, after sectional and regional tournaments which were disastrous for the favorites, ly one genuine “boomer” remained—Frankfort, which has been favored since midseason. Going by season records, and: by reputation, the Hot Dogs should have no trouble in going through the Hammond semifinals, In the-first game of the semifinals the Hot Dogs will face the La Porte Slicers, who knocked off Hammond’s Wildcats, another favored in the first game of the regionali Hit Stride in Tourney

The Slicers have been finishing the season with a bang. They had a disastrous record over the scheduled route, but have been gaining strength in the tourney play. Although Hammond may have been off form when the La Porte quint tossed! them over, the Slicers, one

due for another one. Frankfort, of course, is a high scoring squad. In Laughner and Johnson, Hoosier experts say, Coach Everett Case has two of the hottest ball players snywhere. And another fellow named Cook is practically on a par with this pair. La Porte, however, relies more upon balance in its scoring. And every man on the first string can hit the bucket. Scoring throughout the tourney play has been nearly evenly divided among ‘the squad. Only three failed to hit the net at least cdnce in the regional and they didn’t play anywhere near full time. So No. 1 danger to the Hot Dogs is La Porte. In the second game of the Hammond fiesta, Elkhart's Blue Blazers will bump into the Logansport Berries. And this will be fully as rough a settp as cen be found anywhere in the state.

| Blazers Are Blazing

The Blazers have been piling up a reputation for the last two weeks. They were rot particularly picked to go through their sectional and regional, and did. Their season record is only fair. But the Blazers are another hot scoring team, Glen Mast, a senior guard, poured 19 points through the

aged tp lead his mate, Charles Eger, either | forward or guard, by only two points. Elliott, center, trailed Eger by three points. And every man on the Elkhart tourney squad hit the bucket at least once during the regional. The Logansport Berries have been rated as a tough squad for the entire season. They walked through their sectional and regional contests with Ie opposition. ‘And in every to contest they have shown a wi ha ess to play the game the hard way, getting: points when they were needed. The Berries have even more balanced | scoring power than the Slicers, Only five points separate the high-point man from the lowpoint man on the first five. Picking the winner of the Logans-port-Elkhart game is a practical gamblé—and no matter which team wins, the winner is to Frankfort menace No. 2.

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Irish Five to Play In National Meet

Cathedral High School's basketball squad began its drills today for the national Catholic high school tournament, to be held March 22 to 26 at Loyola University, Chicago. The Irish, who bowed to Ft. Wayne Central Catholic in the state meet finals, yesterday received an invitation to the national tourney. Eight members of the Cathedral squad, along with Coach Harmon and Brother Octavius, faculty athletics manager, will make the trip, Players chosen are Lou Ostheimer,

Paul Moxley, John Mattingly, Don Potter, Howard Barnhorst, Joe Quill, Jim Fitzgerald and Bernie Minton.

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Gomez Rushes North; Wife Is in Hospital

NEW YORK, March 16 (U. P.).— Lefty Gomez returned to New York from the Yankee training camp today tc be with his wife, who is ill in Polyclinic hospital. Lefty, who pitched three innings in an exhibition game in Florida yesterday, caught a plane last night after receiving word that his wife was in a serious condition. Mrs. Gomez, the former musical comedy star, June O'Dea, was “rest-

ported today.

Legion Appoints Stub

BERKELEY, Cal, March 16 (NEA).—Stub Allison, California coach, has been named state chairman of the American Legion Recreation and Athletic Program.

Golf Balls Have New Markings

Times Special CHICOPEE, Mass, March 16. — An innovation in golf’ ball designing will be inaugurated when famous golfers tee off in the North and South Open at Pinehurst, N. C., March 21. For many of the competing professionals will be using for the first time on any course the new Spaulding dot and dash balls. The balls are available in 480 color

combinations and will provide the personalized ball. Eight different colors were used to allow a sufficient number of variations in the service stripe markings to create enough different personalized balls to avoid duplication within the same club.

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