Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1939 — Page 22
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By TOM OCHILTREE
What poison is to ivy, what a match is to gun powder— that's what “Hurling Harold” Hursh, Indiana University halfback, is to opposing football teams this season. This spring steel member of the Hoosiers’ backfield —he only packs 170 pounds on his five-foot, 11-inch frame —has made a science out of heaving a football. A science that has given Indiana 58 per cent of all its yardage this
fall.
A science that has enabled him to complete 37 out of 69 passes this season—a pitching average of .536 per Six of these passes have gone for touchdowns. It’s a science that has cost Indiana but few yards in the four. games. Seven passes were intercepted. Hursh, in turn, has intercepted three enemy heaves. It’s a science that goes hand-in-foot with his Kkicking. His punting average this year is 38.4 yards a kick. But that isn’t all that distinguishes the pigskin whipHe has the personality touch defined so
cent.
- persnapper. loosely as “color.” fried oysters.
For instance:
of sunstroke.
as a catcher,
Although free from injuries, he is constantly complaining of pains in his legs. And as the accompanying picture shows, on bright days he sometimes practices in a sunbonnet instead of the traditional helmet, apparently to minimize the chances For the future, Hursh hopes to break into organized baseball; not as a pitcher, strangely enough, but
other guy
he tosses.
But,
His favorite dish is
Last year as a sophomore it was hard for Hursh to find a regular position on the bench. He was just anLast summer he stayed in school and worked on ‘the university buildings and grounds crew. —Sometime and somehow during those months he struck upon the secret that already is pushing him into the atmosphere of All-American possibilities.
Fanciest thing about Harold is his coolness under fire.
He drifts back for one of his tosses with all”the nonchalance of a movie cowboy in a barroom gun battle. Then The ball travels on a straighter, flatter trajectory than a shot from a cannon. Just about the time it gets to a receiver the ball’s momentum slows up and it nestles down into the hands of an end or back. After Hursh has thrown a few of these, the other team’s chances of winning the ball game begin to disappear like a Congressional appropriation. In I. U's four games this season—against Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois—Hursh’s pitching average passes in 69 attempts) stands at .536 per cent. - Some of the incompleted ones would have been good, ~ too, if the receivers badn’t suddenly been stricken with dizzy spells. Six of his passes, as we've said, have gone for touchdowns, and the total net gain from all his tosses is 538 yards, an average of more than 14% yards a completion. To show more clearly what his arm bas done for
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of 38.4 yards a kick.
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Indiana this season, the Hoosiers have made a total gain by running and passing of 916 yards, which means that Hursh’s tosses have accounted for all but 378 yards of the
In attempting to pass, Hursh has lost only 13 yards, although he gets a bigger rush than a debutante at a night club. If a receiver isn’t open he is smart enough to take the loss instead of throwing the apple away. While seven of his pass attempts have been intercepted, he, in turn, has snared three enemy tosses to return them 17
Harold handles most of Indiana’s punting duties. He has kicked 28 times for a total of 1076 yards, an average
His longest boot was against Illi-
-nois last Saturday, which was good for 74 yards. Indiana has an open date this week-end, and Harold won't see action until Nov. 4 at Columbus, O., when the Hoosiers go against ‘an Ohio State squad which has plenty
On the basis of what he has done thus far, Hursh seems to have proved his right to rank with Vernon Huffman and Frank Filchock as one of the greatest leather chuckers in I. U’s history. Coach Bo McMillin hopes
that he is destined for an even greater season next year.
Wellington.
Hursh says that he regards Sammy Baugh as the greate est college football player ever to lace on a shoe. Which is sort of like Napoleon admiring the Duke of
SPORTS... By Eddie Ash
A DAY at the races. . , . The champion older running race horse of 1939—among the 4-year-olds and upward— will be established in the creation of a new voting division in the fourth annual Best Horses of the Year Poll sponsored by Turf and Sport Digest of Baltimore. Previously the divisions of the Poll were for 2-year-old colts, 2-year-old fillies, 3-year-olds and all-ages.
The revision was made
at the suggestion of the
majority of the 50 turf and sports writers polled annually who pointed out that in seasons when a 3-year-old dominated the racing there was no recognition of the best
older or handicap horse.
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ANOTHER CHANGE was made tRis season in the method of voting in the all-ages division, which establishes the North American
champion of the year. . . others on a 1-2-3 selection basis.
. Formerly, this division was voted as the
‘This year, and in future, the sports and turf writers will name
only one horse selected by them as second or third choices.
the best of all divisions with no
Plaques, such as presented to the owners of Seabiscuit, Stagehand, Inscoelda and El Chico, the 1938 divisional champions, now will go to the leaders in the all-ages, 4-year-olds and upward, 3-year-olds,
2-year-old colts and
2-year-old fillies sections.
Goal Posts Back to Zero Line
MEMBERS OF the football rules committee are said to be toying
‘with the plan to restore the goal posts to the goal line next year. . . .
The field goal is an attractive adjunct of the grid sport and placing the posts at the zero line is sure to lead coachss to develop more
goldentoe artists.
Football fans idolize kicking specialists and the rule makers want
. The professionals have capitalized on
this colorful feature and it is paying big dividends at the box office. . « .» To date this season the New York Giants have played before nearly 300,000 in seven games, including three all-star contests.
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BIG LITTLE game in the South this week. . . dega at good old Tougaloo, Miss. . . . Paul Quinn vs. Mary Allen at Waco.
west as boy meets girl. . Colorado State has no coaching
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. Tougaloo vs. Talla= . Big little game in the South
problem. . . . Harry Hughes has
been on tlre job 28 years. . . . He started there in 1911 and never
has changed his address.
Illinois Wesleyan is under a new coach this year. .
mer Northwestern star, is directing
. Don Heap, forthe team and he is S assisted by
Bob Voights, also an ex-Wildcat gridder.
Illini and Wildcats in Long Series
FOR 47 YEARS lllinois and Northwestern have been feuding on the gridiron and the Illini hold the edge in the series with 17 victories
. Three games have been tied.
Seven of Northwestern's triumphs were in the last 10 years. .. . However, the Illini staged a stunning upset two years ago by defeating
the heavily favored Purple, 6 to 0. . .
. The rivals go to it again at
Northwestern Saturday and both teams played their best football
of the season last week.
‘The Illini-Wildcat series was launched in 1892 with a 16-16 dead-
lock and the next year it was a scoreless deadlock. . . was 66 to 0 in the 1llini’s favor in 18%4. . ..
fall, 13 to 0.
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STOVE LEAGUE baseball chatter. . the Milwaukee Brewers and Brooklyn Dodgers. . Milwaukee had with the Cubs was only for the 1939 season.
. Highest score ‘The Wildcats won last
» .". A tie-up rumored between . The agreement ... Out-
fielder Dan Hafey will be back in the Southern Association at Memphis. . He was purchased by the Reds from Knoxville last mid-season
and later shipped to the Phillies. . . Reds’ bumper crop of left fielders. . .
. Just another member of the . That spot was a pain in neck
to Bill McKechnie throughout the pennant campaign and World
Series.
BILL DeLANCEY, now in improved health, is reported. in line to
become a coach for the St. Louis Cards. .
. He went to the Southwest
for his health after a physical breakdown, which ended his career as
a star young catcher for the Mound City team. . .
. Bill was named
manager of the Albuquerque club in 1937 and made good. Benny Borgmann, former professional basketball star, managed the Sacramento nine in the Coast League this year and the fling in
Class AA earned him a 1940 contract at an increase in pay. ...
The
club is a member of the St. Louis Cardinal chain.
Barrow Still Denies That Yanks Are After McQuinn
By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—If Zane Grey hadn't been so determined to put one little word after another in the literary league he might have been a real good ball player. At least that’s what Ed Barrow, New York Yankees’ president, told us today. Barrow ought to know. Grey played for him back in the
. Gay Nineties. He was an outfielder.
He could run and throw and it looked as if he would hit. “Grey came out. of college to play for me at Wheeling in the old TriState League,” said Barrow, “but I
Coach Steward of La Porte Dead
Times Special LA PORTE, Ind., Oct. 25.—Funeral services were being completed today for C. C. (Jack) Steward, La Porte High School basketball and assistant football coach who . died yesterday. He was 34. He suffered a heart attack Monday and died at the Holy Family Hospital. He succeeded -Claron (Lefty) Veller, as coach at the beginning of last year’s school term. He previously had been connected with the Lima, O., High School Athletic Board for 11 years. Coach Steward guided the Slicers to sectional and regional championships last year, and was eliminated in the semi-final round of the state tournament by the Frankfort team. He was a graduate of DePauw University. His wife and two daughters survive. <
could sense he didn’t have his heart in baseball. Even then he wanted to be a writer and the only reason he played with us was to pick up some cash.”
Barrow Denies It Again
On the way to the Cincinnati-end of the recent World Series we quoted Barrow as saying the Yankees in all probability would stand pat for 1940. This would include the relatively light-hitting Dahlgren at first. Two days later one of the press services quoted the Yankee president as saying he was trying to buy George McQuinn from the St. Louis Browns to play first base next year. This apparent confusion and disparity brought letters to our desk. What about it? Today was the first time we had seen Barrow since the conflicting quotations appeared in print.
Night Games Are Out
“I saw that quotation about MecQuinn and I promptly denied it,” he said. “What’s more I am denying it again, here and now.” “Then the Yankees will stand pat for 1940?” we pressed. “Right now I'd say yes with the exception of a couple of young pitchers. But if we see where we have a chance to improve the club— a chance which we would be foolish to ignore—we might make a deal, though I'm not sure even of that.” To reports that the Giants are ready to install lights in 1940 and the Yankees may follow suit, Barrow said “What the Giants do is their own concern. Bui you can say for us we will not play night baseball next year, the year after, or any other year where I have a voice in the subject. My estimate of night baseball is that it is strictly a novelty
and I feel confident it will go the way of all novelties.”
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New Honor Caps Joe's AceRecord
DiMaggio Is Now Officially No. 1 Star on No. 1 Baseball Club.
By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—An individual baseball record without equal was capped today with another achievement—Joseph Paul DiMaggio was voted the American League’s most valuable player award. The Yankee center fielder received 280 out of a possible 336 points among the committee of 24 members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (three from each of the eight American League cities). DiMaggio, who won the American Leagpe batting title, with an average of .381, drew 15 first-place votes, three second, three thirds, one fourth and six fifths. The black-thatched Italian boy who grew up along picturesque fisherman’s wharf, San Francisco, and spent his early days crab fishing, thus in four years graduates to the most coveted spot in baseball—No. 1 star of baseball’s greatest team. Not that DiMaggio hasn't been the sparkplug which made the Yanks go ever since he joined them, but it’s now official beyond all argument,
Makes It Look Easy
Until DiMaggio joined the Yanks they had the ‘second-place staggers” but from the day the lithe-limbed San Francisco boy appeared in their cast the Bronx Bombers have never known anything but pennants and world’s championships. A picture player, DiMaggio’ makes baseball playing look easy. In long, graceful strides he eats up ground in the outfield to make catches no other outfielder of his time has been able to duplicate. Blessed with photographic eyes, DiMaggio is tough to fool at the plate. His four major league batting marks are .323 in 1936; .346 in 1937; .324 in 1938, and 381 in 1939. Although he takes a full swing, DiMaggio uses a snap wrist action to get added power into his drives. Since he donned a Yankee uniform, DiMaggio has been a contender for the most valuable player award. He finished eighth in his freshman year, second in his sophomore year, and sixth in his junior year. Charlie Gehringer, Tigers’ talented second baseman, nosed out DiMaggio in 1937, 78 to 74 votes (the point system not being used at that time). Jimmy Foxx, Red Sox first baseman who underwent an appendectomy in September, finished second Vote for Leonard’ Bob Feller, Cleveland’s fireballer, received three first place ballots and finished third with 155 points, Ted Williams, Red Sox’s freshman sensation who led the league in runs batted in (141), came fourth with 12¢ points, although he failed to get a first place vote. Charlie Ruffing, Yankee pitching star, finished fifth with 166 points but received no firsts. Bill Dickey, Yankee catcher, polled three No. 1 votes but was unmentioned by 11 committeemen and wound up sixth with 110 points. Only other players who received
ard, Washington’s knuckle ball pitcher who won 20 games for a sixth place club and beat the Yanks four times, and Mike Kreevich, White Sox outfielder.
Silents Register 20-0 Grid Victory
The Silent Hoosiers. scored in the second, third and fourth quarters to register a 20-0 football victory over the Indiana Boys’ School yesterday at the Deaf School field. Fullback Kaim, Silent Hoosier captain, tallied all three fouchdowns. He scored his first from the 2 after a 60-yard march downfield, and Elmore plunged for the point. Kaim went over for the second after Applegate had set up the scoring chance with a 47-yard gallop, and on the third marker the Silents’ captain got away for 27 yards. Grimes passed to Patton for the point.
nig Butler and Irish To Play in Garden
refr————— NEW YORK, Oct. 25 (U. P.).— A record schedule of 15 doubleheaders with basketball teams from every section of the country taking part,| will be| played in Madison Square Garden this season, it was announced today. Nine Conference champions or co-champions will be among the 19 teams to invade +t Garden. Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Santa Clara, Butler and‘ Michigan State are the newcomers. Other teams include Southern California, Oklahoma Aggies, Colorado, Syracuse, New Mexico Aggies, Temple, Duquesne, Notre Dame, DePaul, Georgetown and Pittsburgh. i
The schedule opens Dec. 16 and concludes March 5,
first place votes were Emil Leon-
‘Most Valuable’
Thesz Wins in Straight Falls
Gains Revenge for Previous Defeat by Roche.
Two straight falls last night gave Louis Thesz, 230, a verdict over Dorve Roche, 222, in the main go on the Armory wrestling card and
brought revenge to the former heavyweight champ for his defeat by “Iron Man” Roche two weeks ago. An airplane spin and slam floored Roche, Decatur, Ill. coal miner, in the first eight minutes. Following a 10-minute intermission, Thesz, a St. Louis product, applied a drop kick and ‘body press to score his second fall after 42 minutes of rough grappling. The semi-windup exhibition saw the Japanese jiu-jitsu expert, Kiman Kudo, 170, take a one-fall decision from 180-pound Tug Wilson of Jackson, Miss. ‘Kudo’s skill overcame his opponent’s superiority in weight and he won the lively match with a wrist lock after 28 minutes. Juan Humberto, 225, Mexico, used a legbreaker to down Jim Coffield, 223, Kansas City, in 22 minutes of the slow-moving prelim. The Armory was almost filled to its 2500 capacity.
Two Local Grid (ames Postponed
Heavy rains and resulting muddy fields forced the postponement of two local high school football games originally scheduled for this afternoon. The feature clash between Shortridge and Cathedral was called off and will be played at 2:15 p. m. tomorrow at the Shortridge field. Manual’'s game with Westfield at Delavan Smith Field was rescheduled for Friday afternoon. School officials said the Conners-ville-Washington and Warren Cen-tral-Broad Ripple games would be played, while Tech was expected to go into action against the Indians at Anderson.
M anual at Ben Davis
Nine members of the undefeated Manual cross-country team journeyed to Ben Davis today to meet the Giant harriers.
Needed a Tent
BALTIMORE, Oct. 25 (NEA).— John Wetzelberger, 6-foot 4-inch, 260-pound tackle for City College of Baltimore, missed the opening game because none of the uniforms would fit him,
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Wolverines Given Edge Over Yale
Michigan to Throw Harmon And Kromer at Elis; Irish in Tune.
By STEVE SNIDER United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Oct. 25.—Shooting the angles on this week’s football games involving Big Ten teams and undefeated Notre Dame: Cornell at Ohio State—This one overshadows the day’s two Big Ten contests. Ohio State has the power to-match Cornell’s and if the Bucks are operating as they did against Minnesota last week, they will bounce one .of the East's few remaining prize teams from the undefeated class. Cornell shows blocking and tackling, at its best, but Don Scott’s passing, good for three touchdowns and victory over Minnesota, gives the Bucks an edge.
Wolverines Loaded
Yale at Michigan—Another Ivy Leaguer invades the Western Conference and the margin in favor of the Big Ten team is decidedly great-
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Michigan, at full strength. for the first time since the opener against Michigan State, will throw both Tommy Harmon and Paul Kronier at Yale’s improving eleven. It was Harmon who whipped Yale last year, 15 to 13, but over the season Kromer proved to be the better scorer. Archie Kodros, one of the Midwest's outstanding centers, also returns to the lineup. Illinois at Northwestern—Here’s the toughest game of the season to pick. Northwestern has the manpower, but the Illini, despite that heartbreaking defeat by Indiana, appear to be better organized. It will be bitterly contested for there are few rivalries to match theirs. Northwestern rates a slight favorite because of the buffetting Illinois has taken against South California and Indiana. It may be scoreless since neither has had much of an attack all season.
Piepul Likely to Star
Iowa at Wisconsin—A wide open contest. with Iowa's passing = the probable difference. Nile Kinnick still is. the punch for Iowa while Wisconsin, for all its ground gaining, has virtually none. Purdue at Santa Clara—Passing figures in this one, too. Purdue, facing its third Notre Dame styled offense. this season, has two expert tossers in Mike Byelene and Johnny Galvin. - IV's a question whether Santa Clara, somewhat weaker than the last four years, can stop these boys. Notre Dame at Carnegie Tech— Remember that famous “wrong down” decision of Referee John Getchell that helped the Irish defeat Carnegie last year? They won't need a break Saturday. The Irish are loaded with power that’s bound to start rolling up touchdowns soon. Five Notre Dame backs each outgained the entire Navy team last week. Probable star: . Milt Piepul, rated as No. 2 fullback at Notre Dame, but—he’s one of the nation’s best.
Dates Set for U. S. ‘Women’s Golf Meet
NEW YORK, Oct. 25 (U. P).— The 1940 National Women’s Golf championship will be played Sept. 23-28, the U. S. Golf Association announced today. The U. S. G. A. previously had accepted the invitation of the Del Monte Golf and Country Club at Del Monte, Cal., to act as host, for the title play.
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COLUMBUS, O,, Oct. 25 (U. P.) — Scoff, you cynics, but zealous Ohio State football gang has inoculated a sophisticated campus and footballblase Columbus with the: old ‘“college spirit.” Sounds phoney in this modern age? Maybe—but Columbus goes for anything that produces successive victories over Missouri, Northwestern and Minnesota for a team that
of the three. So High Street and campus are digging up old pennants and megaphones to root for the Buckeyes next Saturday when Ohio Hjeets Cornell,
Witek of Newark ‘Most Valuable’
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 25 (U. P.)— Mickey Witek, Newark Bears’ shortstop was 1939's most valuable player in the International League today according to a poll by the Sporting. News, national baseball weekly. : In the selection made by 23 official scorers of the league, Witek got 119 ppints, leading Estel Crabtree,
John Dickshat, Jersey City outfielder, was third with 93 points. Next in order were: John Gee, Syracuse, Carnegie, Buffalo, 55; Howell, Baltimore, 43; Glen Stewart, Jersey City, 41; Louis Boudreau, Buffalo, 37; Si Johnson, Rochester,
71; Ollie
31, and Harry Davis, Rochester, 27.
Stahl to Tour
LANSING, Oct. 25 (NEA). —Marvin Stahl, Michigan ‘Open champion, will make the winter professional golf circuit again. Last winter he and Chick Harbert, Battle
was supposed to be lucky to win one
Rochester outfielder, by 20 points.
Blase Columbus Gripped By Old ‘Rah Rah’ Spirit
also undefeated and untied, in the “game of the week” in Ohio Stadium. Perhaps native son patriotism is responsible for the sudden outburst of do-or-die for old Ohio spirit. The geographical distribution of the current Ohio aggregation is a strange phenomenon in this era of assembling a big time football squad from far afield. Only two of the first 33 players were graduated from high schools outside Ohio. , The two exceptions hail from western Pennsylvania, a few miles across the state line. This is a. black-slapping, we-won’t-be-beaten outfit, The boys run signals en masse just before the kickoff. They cheer from the sidelines and run forward to greet mates leaving the game. They hold meetings to check on observance of training rules. They even refuse substitutions during a game. That's all right with Coach Francis Schmidt, happiest benefactor of the “spirit.” Although facing a tough schedule, Schmidt was placed on the spot. for ‘the High Street fanatics last summer. He had to produce, they whisnered, or else . . . and production in Columbus means well-nigh perfection. = Schmidt must worry about a natural letdown by Ohio State against Cornell. The Bucks had a gruelling 23 to 20 game with Minnesota last Saturday. Earlier they beat Missouri, 19 to 0, and Northwestern, 13
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Cards to Try New Offense
Southport Eleven Host to Columbus Tonight.
The Southport High School Cardie nals will put some of Coach Waiter Floyd’s new offensive strategy to a test tonight when they meet the Columbus football.team at Roosevelt Stadium. Floyd has been drilling the boys on a new “five-man” backfield formation and is anxious to see how it works against the downstate eleven. The probable starting lineup for’ the "Cardinals: Bridges and Nuckls, ends; Chew and Roquett, tackles; Haag and Tabor, guards; Huxley, center; Higgens, quarter; Schienbein and Kesterson, halves, and Webb, full. - In the other county tonight Ben Davis will be at Seymour. Tonight's game will be Ben Davis’ first since Oct. 13, and the Giants are reported at full strength for the tilt. Tomorrow Crispus Attucks will journey to Lexington, Ky., to meet Dunbar High School, and Saturday Park School’s unbeaten squad will invade Louisville to do battle with the Kentucky Military Institute. The Park backfield, back in shape after the Shelbyville game, will be out to maintain its four-touchdown-a-game average. Charlie Williamson and Herman Kothe, injured linemen,’ are expected to be ready for action,