Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1939 — Page 6
By Eddie Ash 2 8 2 ; . CAGE NETS DOWN, SHOW IS OVER NOW FOR SOME BASEBALL NINES
"JHE high school hoop nets are down for another season, the big show is over, Frankfort’s Hot Dogs are cooling out after winning the Hoosier Hardwood Derby and the consensus is that three games in one day in the Butler Fieldhouse during a March heat wave takes it out of the fans as well as the players. At any rate, the fresh ozone in the big outdoors after Saturday night’s finale in the packed arena felt like a sweet tonic tastes. : Indianapolis is glad to play host to youth and its basketball and we hope the thousands of visitors enjoyed themselves while here for the big cage carnival. : More than one college coach cast admiring glances at the Big Four’s standouts and hastened to jot down names and addresses. . . . ‘College catalgs, postpaid, will be in the mails this week.
Outdoor Exercise Pays Dividends UTDOOR sports are next up in prep circles and once
: again the suggestion is made that the Indianapolis ‘high schools organize representative baseball teams. . . .
Technical was the lone public high school represented on the diamond last year. ; : Since this is baseball’s centennial year the schoolboys probably ‘would turn out and learn the game if given the proper encouragement. . « . Moreover, more paying jobs are open in baseball than in any other line of sport, the game gives the lads some much needed outdoor exercise and teaches them to think on their own. One reason Indianapolis lags in league baseball attendance compared with other cities of its population traces to the high schools which do not sponsor the game. . . . Baseball fans, like football and basketball addicts, have to be “made” in their junior years. ” ” » ” 8 t 8
YOLUMBUS may open the American Association season against Minneapolis with an 18-year-old kid at shortstop. . . . He is Bob Sturgeon, up from Albuquerque in the Arizona-Texas League, a Class D loop. : It’s a mighty jump from Class D to Double A and Sturgeon may not last, bit so far Manager Burt Shotton thinks well of the lad’s chances. . . . He is a. rangy six-footer who tips ihe scales at 170 pounds and his fielding in spring training has been excellent. At Albuquerque the youngster batted .346. . . . He was coached - and managed there by Bill Delancey, former Columbus and St. Louis Cardinal catcher who was forced out of a big league job by ill ealth.
Bud Remembers the Mule
Ngznt of the Philadelphia Athletics were polled on how they could make a living if their baseball careers ended suddenly. . . . Buck Ross said he could live better on $12 a week in his North Carolina tillage than on $50 a week in the city. . . . But Pitcher Bud Thomas had the best answer. . . . He said, “I'd have to get behind the mule again.” ; . Steve Mesner’s outstanding play at shortstop for the Chicago Cubs continues unabated in the exhibition games on the Coast. . . . The former Indianapolis infielder’s performance has eased some of the concern over Dick Bartell’s ailing legs. . . Steve has plenty of courage and may make the big league grade if the pitching isn’t too tough, : Although tears are being shed over the inroads of old age (at 35, no less!) on Lou Gehrig, he is younger by a month than Charlie Gehringer, the Detroit Tigers’ perennial second baseman. . .. Charlie will be 36 in May and Lou will reach that mark in June. > Probably a half dozen American Leaguers are older than Gehringer. . « « Moe Berg, Lefty Grove, Ossie Bluege and Ted Lyons are in that bracket, Cleveland has the smallest park in the major leagues (League Park 25,000) but the Vittmen also use Municipal Stadium on big days where the seating capacity is more than 78,000.
Joe Williams
AKELAND, Fla.,, March 27.—Putting one little word after another, and whatever became of the Technocrats? . .. We have just checked on a rumor that Henry
Armstrong planned to donate his welterweight title to
Davey Day this week for business reasons and found it isn’t true. A well informed racket gentleman tells us the boys will level, which means good night for Mr. Day. A newspaper clipping reads: “Regret, the only filly ever to win the Kentucky Derby, came from behind and reached the wire first after a terrific struggle.” . . . Which doesn’t happen to be so. Regret broke on top, led all the way, and won comfortably by two lengths. A quickie interview with Lou Gehrig, the Yankee first baseman: “The mistake I made this year was in thinking I was still 25 years old. I did nothing during the winter to strengthen my legs. I should have been up in the hills walking: instead I loafed around home doing nothing. Now I'm paying for it.” Gehrig takes a philosophic view of his threatened eclipse as the iron man of baseball. “If I can't make the team ‘I just can’t, and that’s all there is to it.” We wondered if worst came to worst whether he would retire and rest on his laurels. His evasive comment: “Well, I'm lucky in one sense; I don’t owe anybody a dime.”
Frostproof Gives Rainmaker a Chance HERE hasn't been any rain to speak of in the Florida citrus belt
since last October and the fruit crop is in a precarious state.
Lillie Stoat, 67-year-old Mississippi spinsters claims she can make rain fall. Her formula is quite simple. She just sits at the edge of a lake and prays for rain. Desperate, the fruit growers of a little town called Frostproof down here paid her way from Mississippi. If it rains she is to get a stipu-
lated fee; if it doesn’t she collects only her expenses. She has been trying to enchant the rain gods for two or three days now without any success. Meanwhile she is getting herself a nice sun tan. “Why she is just an old fool,” snapped one of the realists ungraciously, as he watched the strange performance. “No she ain't,” protested a practical minded bystander. “It’s the fellows who paid her money to come here who are fools.” . . . Thinking how helpful the lady might be to outdoor sports we wondered if she could make it stop raining, too. . . “How can you tell?” commented another witness. “She ain’t made it start yet.” Mr. Ed Barrow, the new president of the Yankees, has a novel way of dealing with his holdouts. He gave Frank Crosetti $500 to buy his wife a present and settled with Red Rolfe for $250 on the same gentimental condition. It seems to be Mr. Barrow’s theory that the best " way to satisfy a ball player is to make his gal happy. Everybody says Ted Williams, the Red Sox’ much talked of rookie outfielder, resembles Babe Herman at the plate, but whether he uses the fabulous Babe’s method of stopping fly balls with his skull we haven't heard. . . . The statement the Reds got Bill Werber from the Athletics for the waiver price is false; he cost them better than $20,000, according to their business manager, who ought to know.
~ California Waits 33 Years
~NALIFORNIA had to wait 33 years to get another fight for the { heavyweight championship, and then it drew Joe Louis and an unidentified stranger. The last heavy title fight they had out there was between Tommy Burns and Marvin Hart and it was nothing to cable the Marquis of Queensberry about. Some of the experts still insist it will be Bonura when he’s at bat and Booooooonura when he’s in the field. . . . Trainer Ben Jones doesn’t think much of the Kentucky Derby field this year. He says it’s like the national league race “and anybody can win it.” This goes for his colt Technician which he admits is not of real Derby caliber. ; . You hear the word “alibi” frequently at the rifle range.. A marksman will be pumping away at the target and suddenly he will turn to the official and call out “alibi.” This will mean one of two things: (1) Defective ammunition, or (2) malfunction of gun. If the officials sustain the alibi plea the marksman is permitted to shoot over.
Guldahl Counts Second
Stack of Winner’s Chips
GREENSBORO, N. C., March 27 (U. P.).—Golf titles have been won in pairs steadily through the winter circuit, and National Open Champion Ralph Guldahl counted the . winner’s chips for his second victory of the season today. Guldahl, who with Sam Snead won the international four-ball championship earlier this month, yed the final 36
of the
der par to post the winning total of 280 yesterday. It was the sixth “double” since the winter circuit began. Guldahl’s share of the $5000 prize money was $1200. Lawson Little and Clayton Heafner divided second and third money when they tied for the runnerup position with 283s. Each received $650. Ben Hogan, who with Little set new course records of 65 for the ! finished in
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MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1939
the $12,000
Day Off Triumphs NEW ORLEANS, March 27 (U. P.)— Mrs. Payne Whitney's 3-year-old colt Day Off scored a neck victory in the 18th running of
added Louisiana Derby, climax
to the Fair Grounds racing season yesterday.
State Curtsies to Frankfort Court Royalty
King Case On Throne 4th Time
Hot Dogs’ Basket Success Gives Those Who Guess “Chance to Brag.
By TOM OCHILTREE With coronation ceremonies for Frankfort's Hot Dogs completed, Indiana’s annual high school basket-! ball championship race passed on| today to the conversation stage, at least for those who didn’t develop larynx trouble at the Fieldhouse Saturday. To the laymen, who must wonder what secret system sports writers seem to use to manage to guess wrong so often, the most amazing feature of the finals tournament was that it came out pretty well according to prediction. The four competing teams performed about as the typewritersoothsayers had prophesized. You know by now, of course, that the Hot Dogs defeated Franklin in the title game Saturday night by a 36-to-22 score to win the championship
coach, Everett Case, for the fourth time.
FRANKFORT, March 27 (U. P.).—~The city of Frankfort today was recovering from a two-day celebration in honor of its high school basketball team, the 1939 Indiana champions. Nearly 5000 attended a demonstration in Howard Hall, high school gym, yesterday afternoon while virtually the entire city joined in a bonfire celebration Saturday night. At yesterday’s meeting Coach Everett Case said the team was probably the most courageous and most powerful he had ever coached. :
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Probably the only mild surprise of the tournament came in the first afternoon engagement when Bosse of Evansville made a gallant stand against Frankfort that would have done credit to Napoleon's Old Guard at Waterloo. .
Even at Three Quarters
For three quarters the smaller Bulldogs fought on even terms with the powerful Frankfort team only to drop behind in the Hot Dogs’ tornado-like finish. The final score was Frankfort, 32; Bosse, 28. Against Burris of Muncie, a team it outmatched in size, Franklin showed well organized offensive power. Never in danger after the first half, the Grizzly Cubs waded through the Burris Owls by a 3i-to-25 score in the second afternoon encounter, : The story of Frankfort’s two victories was one of integrated team play and not of individual heroism. The two teams defeated by the Hot Dogs produced the two outstanding players of the meet. In the Frankfort-Bosse James Myers, Bulldog scored six field goals and one free throw, a feat that was duplicated in the final tilt by Franklin's Negro center, George Crowe.
All Fine Sportsmen
That most prized of ail basketball trophies, the Gimbel award for fine sportsmanship and conduct, went io Myers, who blushingly accepted the gold medal and said: «I hope Ill be worthy of this honor. I had no idea they were considering me for it. The players on all the teams were such fine sportsmen. I'm happy I was selected.” : It is customary at the conclusion of the tournament for observers to select an all-finals team, although the system isn’t éntirely fair since many boys come to the Fieldhouse with greater publicity buildups. The following can be listed as outstanding on the basis of their Saturday record:
Name Position School James Laughner...F..... Frankfort James Myers ceseeeF.cessss.. Bosse Lewis Co0K..eoees.F.ceeo Frankfort Charles Johnson...C..... Frankfort George Crowe.....C...... Franklin William Ritchie...G...... Franklin Roy Kilby..eieeeesGuesess.. Burris Dan DaviSeceeses.G..... Frankfort
Coach Case, who directed Frankfort to its other championships in 1925, 1929 and 1936, matched Glenn Curtis’ four-victory record as a result of the success of his Hot Dogs. Before becoming coach at Indiana State Teachers’ College, Curtis won a championship for Lebanon High School and three for Martinsville.
Ninth for Conference
The Frankfott triumph also meant that for the ninth time in the last 12 years a member team of the North Central Conference has taken the championship. Probably no team at the Fieldhouse, unless it was Bosse, turned in the maximum performance of which it was capable. Playing before a crowd of 15,000 war-whooping people always gives the boys the
game,
early stages of the games. This year, too, the temperature made the atmosphere in the Fieldhouse as steamy as an African jungle, and that had its effect on players and spectators alike. After - a tolerably exciting first quarter, the championship game itself was about as anticlimactic as the last act of a 15th Century drama done in verse. Crowe and Johuson waged a spectacular duel, it is true, but it was a sight to please an analyst of the ‘sport rather than the more emotional spectator, Johnson was fouled twice by Crowe and he made two of the four free throws awarded him. His team
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Referee. Nate Kaufman: umpire. Tom Baker. :
Here are those happy Hot Dogs of Frankfort, Indiana’s 1939 high school basketball champions. Seated, left to right, are James Laughner,
_ Ernest McGill, Charles (Splinter) Johnson, Dan Davis and Harold Pyle.
Wetzel, James Stinson and Ellis Good.
“I hope I'll be worthy of the honor,” Jim Myers (left), Gimbel award winner from Bosse, tells the folks back home in Evansville by radio;
TITLE GAME Frankfort (36) FG F0A FT
AFTERNOON GAMES Frankfort, (32) FG Poa FT FTA TP PF
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Standing, left to right, are Lewis Cook, Loren Brower,
Joe Billy
Undefeated Tribe Faces - Montreal
Indian Nine Takes Week. End Games From Buffalo And Louisville.
Times Special BARTOW, Fla, March 27.—The Indianapolis Indians are bowling ’em over in the Grape Fruit League and with two week-end victories under their belts they took off for ‘Lake Wales today to battle the Mon treal nine of the International League. : ; By blanking Buffalo, 1 to 0, here Saturday, and swamping the Louisville Colonels, 15 to 7, at Arcadia yesterday, the Redskins stretched their winning streak to four straight. : They have defeated three American Association clubs and one Ine ternational in four starts and have tallied 31 runs to 14 for opponents. John Niggeling and Bob Logan worked on the Tribe mound Saturday and Lloyd Johnson and John Wilson did the chucking against Louisville on the Sabbath. The Col onels got to Johnson for five runs in the second stanza and for two in the fourth.
Wilson Checks Em
Wilson took up the pitching in the sixth and stemmed the home team’s attack. Manager Bush em’ ployed four hurlers and the Hoosiers pounded out 21 hits, including five doubles, two triples: and a home
run by Ray Thomas, rookie catcher from South Bend, Ind. Ray was the big noise with the bludgeon and garnered three blows, Bob Loane, cutfielder, also got three
iii safeties and two were doubles.
Times Photos.
This was an elated trio in the Fieldhouse dressing. room after
Frankfort’s victory. Left to right
and Johnson.
TOURNEY BOX SCORES
Franklin (31) FG FGA FT FTA TP PF
Burris (25) J. Echeidler,
FG FGA FT FTA TP PF
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Totals . —Score bv Quarters— 19 23—31 Burris 18 18—25 Wi Tom Baker: umpire. Nate Kauf-
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Greyhound’s Years Near the Wabash Fail to Prepare Him for Trot on Beach
By HENRY M'LEMORE United tress Staff Correspondent
AYTONA BEACH, Fla., March 27.—Time and tide wait for no man, and that goes for horses, too.
The time for my vacation to end came just at the time the tide was right for Greyhound, world’s greatest trotter, to test the sands of Daytona Beach as a track for a try at the world’s straightaway record. ’ So the two of us met there on the beach, Grey- . hound in the same old coat he was wearing when I last saw him in Goshen a few years ago, and I in the same old coat I wore to that running of the Hambletonian. It was nice to see Greyhound again after four years, He is the only thing I have seen after four years who didn’t look me over carefully and say: “My, you've put on a lot of weight, haven't you?” Greyhound paid no attention to my 180 pounds nor I to his 960,
it,
the ocean and kept swinging toward the dunes, away from the waves. Palin, who has driven Greyhound to all his records, believes that the big fellow can do a mile in
1:50 or better on the straightaway, and he feels that when the horse becomes accustomed to the marine track the beach is the place for him to do
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LOT of horse, Greyhound. Purchased by E. J. Baker, heir of “Bet a Million” Gates, for $000 as a yearling, he has done things that few believed possible for a trotter to accomplish. Blessed with a magnificent and loose motion, and a great stride (he covers better than 32 feet at one stride when going all out) he has +been clocked in 12% seconds for a an eighth of a mile, which is running-horse time, and good run-ning-horse time, too.
He is the only harness
2 2 = r fact, Greyhound paid little attention to anything except the ocean. He had the same look on his face that Balboa must have had when he suddenly stumbled onto the Pacific. Kentucky born and Indiana raised, the 7-year-old trotter
made it plain that the Wabash by moonlight and the smell of new mown hay had not prepared him Jord the booming of waves and the shrieking of sea
It was with much reluctance that the Grey-
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hound pulled his ra¢ing sulky and driver, Sep Palin,
horse ever to do a mile in under 2:01% on a halfmile track. Greyhound whipped around the bends in 1:59%. Speed isn’t all that is packed in his shiny grey coat, either, He has the stamina of a circus elephant. It is not unusual for him to be worked six or seven miles before an important race. He likes that sort of marathon warmup to get loosened and be ready to turn on the speed.
. Gentle as a child's pony, the big gelding is a
stable pet. Only one thing really upsets him, and that is to be refused an orange the first thing in the morning He is usually fed one before
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To Ft. W ayne
Central Catholic Adds U. S. Crown to State.
Central Catholic High School of Ft. Wayne, added the national Catholic
after defeating Leo of Chicago, 44 to 37, in last night’s finals. St. Ignatius of Chicago defeated St. George, Chicago, 27 to 24 for third place and Father Ryan of Nashville, Tenn., won the consolation title from Messmer of Milwaukee, Wis., 36 to 35, in an overftime. Ed Stanczak, Ft. Wayne center, was named on the all-tournament team which included: Forwards— Carl Reichert, St. Joseph of Collegeville, Ind.; Bernard Goldberg, Calvert - Hall of Baltimore; Jack Cella, Regis of Denver, Colo. Cener—Stanley Patrick, Leo, and guards —John Stanton, St. George, Evanston, Ill., Jerome Unites, St. Basil of Piftsburgh, Pa., and Joe Trosper, St. Gregory of Shawnee, Okla.
Decision Due on Deliberate Fouls
CHICAGO, March 27 (U. P.)— Delegates to the annual convention of National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball coaches decide today what penalty they want caller on a player who commits a deliberate foul. Since elimination of the center jump, it has become the practice of trailing teams to attempt to gain possession of the ball by fouling. Clair Bee, head coach at Long Island University and chairman of the . coaches rules committee, submitted a report suggesting one free throw be awarded for such a foul with the ball going back to the
offended team in the forecourt,
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CHICAGO, March 27 (U. PJ).—|1
interscholastic basketball champion-| ship to its Indiana state title today |s “ijn 1
Jesse Newman, who is one of three: candidates for first base, was tried out at third and came through okay and got two hits. Bob Latshaw and Doug Wheeler divided the work at the initial sack. Not all of the Indians made the trip to Arcadia and Manager Schalk remained in Bartow and sent part - of the squad through a hard drill. Coach Wes Griffin directed the team against the Colonels. .
Two Colonels Ill
Peewee Reese, Louisville's star shortstop, was out of action due to illness and Vincent, Sherlock, former Indianapolis second sacker, was another Colonel on the hospital list. Sam Liberto collected three of
|Louisville’s nine hits and Frank
Madura accepted 10 chances at sece
ond base to win the fielding honors.
The Indians will play their second “home” game tomorrow, meeting: Toronto on the Bartow dia=mond. Box score, yesterday's game:
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Runs batted in—Chapman 3, Ga Johnson, Stein 2, Newman 2 t 4 Thomas, Wheeler, Koster, Madura, Libetto, Irwin 2, Flowers. Two-base hits—Johnson, Katope, Liberto, Loane 2, Late shaw, man. Three-base hits—Latshaw, Clark. Thomas. Home run—Thomas. Sacrifices—Madura, Irwin. Double plays— rwin to Madura to Breese 3. Left on bases = Indjspanolis,
. he! e), Wi pitcher — Johnson. pitcher—Flowers. Umpires—Peters eafer. Time—2:15.
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Oregon Favored Over Buck Cagers
CHICAGO, March 27 (U. P).— Superior height made Oregon's Pacific Coast champions a slight fave orite to defeat Ohio State tonight for the first official basketball championship of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. , In everything else—season’s record, speed and scoring ability—they appeared virtually equal. The plucky Buckeyes from Columbus, O., were underdogs all sea= son and still they won. They captured a Big Ten championship with 10 victories and two defeats, then breezed through two qualifying games in Philadelphia’s N. C. A. A. trials with record scores. In 33 games this season, the West--erners averaged 49.7 points while the Buckeyes were rolling in an average of 439 for their 22 games.
Bill Reed To Play In Midwest Golf Meet
Times Special - FRENCH LICK, March 25.—Bill Reed, scratch player from the Highland Golf and Country Club, will join two other Indianapolis links leaders in the Midwest amateur golf tournament here Friday and Sat-
urday. : 2 Dick McCreary, Indianapolis
Country Club and John McGuire, 4] Golf Club, will ! =
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