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Hitting the deck is part of the job of a goal tender, and Jimmy Franks, Capitals goalie, does it cheerfully. Goalies assume this position as a last resort to prevent a scoring shot.

|’ SPORTS...

By Eddie Ash

INDIANAPOLIS GOES on a big skate tonight, but

it’s sports, not whoopla. . . .

Professional league hockey

makes its bow at the State Fair Ground rink and you've already learned that the Indianapolis and Syracuse icers will play before a capacity crowd. This is a speed-plus sport filled with stepped-up action, body contact, spills and what not. . . . Twenty-eight home games are to be played, so if you miss the inaugurat there will be plenty more to look at and get educated to

the game.

Hockey swings Indianapolis into new territory which

fts baseball team does not touch and that publicity angle

for the Circle City (or is it Cross Roads?) is worth a lot. . . . Yeah, team! Rah, rah, rah! ... Put that old ball (we mean puck) in the basket (no, cage) and everybody have a rousing time. All we know about ice skating is what we learned on Pleasant Run and the old Garfield Park lagoon when you shinnied on your own side and gave a battered tin can the works. . . . Warmth was provided at a bonfire on the bank of the creek and if you didn’t do your hitch in collecting tick it was just too bad.

PLAYER EQUIPMENT consisted of a stick and nothing else and a kid often was virtually vaccinated several times a winter by stopping the sharp pointed can or another player's club with his unguarded

shins. - But the potatoes baked black

in the bonfire were worth the

bruises and served as a feast to whet young appetites.

Hockey Leaguers Are Durable Athletes

THE AVERAGE league hockey player is durable and sticks in the

game many years. .

. « Cecil Dillon, now of the Detroit Red Wings of

the National League, campaigned 11 seasons with the New York

Rangers. . . knee forced him to take a rest.

. He played in 487 consecutive games before an injured

Dillon was born in Toledo, but he has never seen the Ohio city on the Maumee except going through at night on a hockey trip... . His New York Ranger pals always wakened him and made him give

a speech on the advantages of being an Ohioan.

. . « Cecil's parents

moved to Canada shortly after his birth, and he ‘learned hockey

fundamentals in the Dominion. 2 ”

JACK MARKLE is the coach of the Syracuse six which plays

the Indianapolis Caps tonight. . .

winger at Syracuse for years. member, Markle has a new squad.

. He is the youngest mentor in the International-Ameritan League. . . . » Like Indianapolis, the loop’s baby

. . He has been a fleet right

Jimmy Ward is the new pilot at New Haven and of course

Indianapolis’ Herbie Lewis is new at the helm. .

. . Until two years

ago Lewis and Larry Aurie, present coach of the Pittsburgh Hornets, were part of a great scoring combination af Datroit. Getting Back to the Gridiron

NOT THAT the hockey boys and basketballers are rushing the season, but there Happens to be a load of big football gamss still on

the calendar. . . . For instance, one

has been overlooked. . . . Bergen

Junior College plays Panzer at Teaneck, N. J., tomorrow. . . . Come on, Charlie McCarthy, block that kick! Iowa fans have got themselves believing that it will be an upset

Iowa gone daffy over its team, a turn out.

Ohio State is to start a reserve team against Chicago.

_ if their surprising Hawks do not beat Notre Dame tomorrow. . . . ‘With

crowd of 45,000 is expected to

+ + «The

squad that takes the field against the Maroons will consist of 11 men

who will be starting their first game for the Buckeyes. . .

. It’s

Chicago’s home-coming game but the Maroons appear little concerned

* about it.

SEWANEE, which plays Vanderbilt tomorrow, has lost 37 straight

Southern Conference games. . . .

It’s last victory in Conference

competition was a night game against Louisiana State in 1931. . . . Sewanee also is known as University of the South. Ernie Sargent’s dreams of a regular guard job with Harvard ended yesterday when he was ordered to give up football for all time. , . . Sargeant suffered from frequent headaches, the result of

a concussion sustained last year, and the team physician fears com-

plications. . . . Subbing for Sargeant

will be Dick Pfister, a sophomore.

. . + Capt. Torby Macdonald will not start against Army tomorrow, and he may see no action at all unless his leg shows improvement.

Little Giants Face Lake Forest Club

Times Special CHICAGO, Nov. 10.—Wabash College’s football team, making its final start before the traditional battle with DePauw Nov. 18, will meet Lake Forest College here tomorrow. The game is scheduled for 2 p. m. at the Lake Forest Field. Expected to start for the Little Giants are Gene Walker and Don Sheeler, ends; Tom Ryan and Paul Salyver, tackles; Barnes Calwell and Gene Moloney, guards; Payne Heimbrodt, center; Martin Quinn, quarterback; Walter Gray and Donald Battle, halfbacks, and Warden Harms, fullback. : Long drills have been the order in the Wabash camp this week as

Coach Pete Vaughn attempted to

iron out weaknesses in the Little Giants’ play and put more fire in their offense. Lake Forest, one of the few undefeated teams last year, downed North Central College last week. Tomorrow's game will be the third meeting of the Gold Coasters and

Boston May Join Pro. Grid Circuit

BOSTON, Nov. 10 (U. P). — A Boston team may enter the National Professional Football League in 1940, it was believed today. Edward N. Wyner, hotel executive and close friend of George P. Marshall, owner of the Washington Redskins, was reported heading the latest attempt to make a go of professional football here. Negotiations reportedly have reached a point where Wyner and his associates may forward a $10,000 check for a franchise to league officials.

if team—Donald John Deacon, center,

|star in big league hockey for 15

H.S. Net Scores

Trafalgar, 21; Nineveh, 11. Plainfield, 20; New Augusta, 18. Newton, 21; Plainfield “B,” (double overtime).

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Win Touch Title Howard Kirk’s eleven. won the Howe High School intramural touch football championship ° yesterday, winning from Hal Silver's

1195. He is as much of a scoring

| Racers in the British Ice Hockey As-

Game Time

Is 8:30 P.M. At Coliseum

Youthful Capital Players Due to Flash Fast Attack on Ice.

By TOM OCHILTREE

With a belief in the “always attack” type of strategy, the youthful Indianapolis Capitals, who are brimming with ambition, tonight will show their new constituents here the kind of ice hockey they can play. Their opponents are the Syracuse Stars, and a crowd of approximately 8500 is expected to cascade over

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1939

They pad hockey players like footballers. Here Bb Whitelaw, Capital defense man, getting into his playing armor,

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Indianapolis-Syracuse Hockey Battle Tonight

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i Eddie Bush, bone-crushing defense man of the Indianapolis Capitals, puts on the brakes after a fast trip | = down the ice, He will see action’ tonight at the new Coliseum against the Syracuse Stars,

y (First of a Series)

By CARL SHATTO . Times Special Writer

Hockey, which habitually wears the tag of “fastest game on earth,” is a cold weather pastime, but in ‘ew sports does the flame of competition burn so fiercely, the temperature and blood pressure of the fans mount to such heights.

The game is played by 12. men (six on a side), wearing skates, on a sheet of ice 200 feet long by 85 wide, who, by handling a 53-inch stick, curved at one end, attempt to propel a vulcanized rubber disc, one inch thick and three inches in diameter, into a net that is six feet wide and four feet high. The rink is surrounded by a fence of wood, which must be between three and one-half and four feet high, and the ice area between the

How to Watch Hockey

two forwards, join him in a threeabreast dash toward the enemy goal. Should the wings lag too far behind, the center will be without a teammate to whom he may pass the puck after crossing the blue line into the attacking zone. If, on the other hand, they are to far ahead, they must either stop at the blue line, and become at the mercy of opposing wings who make it their business to back-check check them, or precede the center across the line and thereby skate themselves offside.

Timing Is Important

The referee or linesman who detects this infringement then sounds his whistle, stops the play and orders a face-off. No goal can be scored on a play on which an offside has been called. . It can be seen. that to obtain the

best results the wings should both

the seats of the new $1,250,000 State Fair Coliseum to witness the first professional event of this kind ever held here. Starting time for the game is 8:30. | Like Hungry Tigers |

Determined to give the customers a struggle fit to be exhibited at the prices, the Caritals in their warmup practice sessions seem like so many hungry tigers, and it wouldn't surprise me if they didn’t wind up by stuffing the Stars’ goalie in the ice-making machine. Herbie Lewis, team manager, is proud of the squad he has collected, and he also is glad the Capitals will open their home schedule with a clean slate since they won their only two previous starts of the season in the International-American League. “We don’t have any first string lineup on this team,” Lewis said. “Our theory is to give the spectators aggressive hockey from the start of the game until the finish. The two oldest players on the

and Alex E. Motter, defense—are only 26, and the ages graduate down to boys just out of their teens.

They Have Powerhouse Plays

A front line in hockey consists of the two wings and the center, and Deacon is the member of the Capitals’ veteran front row group counted upon for the powerhouse plays. The others are Ron Hudson and Bill Thomson. Another rip-roaring group of .forwards are Joe Fisher, Connie Brown and Byron (Butch) McDonald, while three handsome young lads, Joe Carveth, Les Douglas and Archie Wilder form the third combination. The defensive combinations are Motter, a great spz2ed artist, and Alvin (Buck) Jones and Bob Whitelaw and Eddie Bush. Bush is one of the biggest men on the team, being 6 feet 1!2 inches and weighing 195 pounds.

Goalie Easy to Spot

Jimmy Franks is the goal tender and he will be easy to spot because he will be padded up like an overstuffed davenport. At a recent meeting in Philadelphia the circuit decided to allow each squad to dress 14 players including the goalie, one less than the National League clubs carry, and for that reason Lewis, a

years, will not be in uniform.

Players on Cap Team

All Canadians

The players on the Indianapolis Capitals, this city’s team in the International - American Professional Ice Hockey League, are-all residents of Canada. Two of them were born in Scotland, while most of the rest are native born Canadians of Scotch extraction. The team: | JAMES R. FRANKS, goal tender. Born: Melville, Saskatchewan, Nov. 8, 1914. Height, 5-11. Average weight, 162. Played with Regina, Kerrobert and Prince Albert team, all amateur organizations, and received Stanley

Cup seasoning with the Detroit Red |

Wings in the third game against the Montreal Canadiens.

EDWARD W. BUSH, defense.|

Born: Collingwood, Ontario, July 11, 1918. Height, 6-1'2. Average weight,

threat as he is a defensive player, and he thinks hockey is the greatest game ever invented—an opinion shared by all his team mates. ROBERT WHITELAW, defense. Born: Glasgow, Scotland, Oct. 5, 1916. Height, 5-11. Average weight, 185.; Whitelaw gained much of his experience with the Harringway

sociation. ALVIN (BUCK) JONES; defense. Born: Owen Sound, Ontario, Aug. 17, 1918. Height, 6. Average ~~ (Continued on Page 31)

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Sooner Back Tops Passers

Clark Has Completed 27 Out Of 42 Pitches.

SEATTLE, Nov. 10 (U. P.).—The American Football Statistical Bureau said today that halfback Beryl Clark of the University of Oklahoma was the nation’s leading passer. The bureau credited Clark with completing 27 of 42 passes attempted for a .643 average. It ranked Ernie Lain, Rice fullback, second with 50 completions of 122 attempted, adding he had thrown mniore passes than any other player. Rusty Cowart of Texas Christian completed 49 passes in 89 tries; Kay Eakin of Arkansas 42 cut of 97, and Paul Christman, University of Missouri, who is out to set an AllAmerican reputation for himself against New York iniversity tomorrow, were other passers among the nation’s first five.

Washington Wins 2

Manual High School's reserves bowed in yesterday’s home encounter to a determined Washington eleven, 27 to 0. The Continental freshmen scored a 13-0 triumph over the Red-

two goals,” which are 10 feet from either end of the rink, is divided into three zones of 60 feet each, by blue lines extending completely across the rink, ‘parallel - with the goal lines.

Blue Lines Bring the Blues

The zone in which the goal is situated is known as the. “defending zone” of the team defending that goal, center ice is known as the “neutral zone,” and the portion furthest from the defended goal as the “attacking zone.”

It is because there are blue lines that fans and players often are blue in a very big and decisive way, that the officials often are the targets for invective and even solid objects, and that play often is halted.

At that, the furious action in hockey is not halted half as often as is that in football or basketball, for example, and were it not for offsides, the play would go on without interruption for minutes at a stretch. Why Those Whistles Toot

It is because of the blue lines that there are offsides and resultant whistle tooting: by the officials. But it is because of the blue lines, too, that there is fast hockey which places a premium on skill, and a team that seldom is offside is likely to be dead on its feet.

When play is halted, nine times out of 10 it is because of an offside, and to enjoy fully hockey one must have a good understanding of this hockey term. A player is offside when he precedes a teammate across the: last blue line and into the attacking zone while that teammate is propelling the puck toward the attacking zone. To be onside he must

be speeding forward and arrive at the blue line almost simultaneously with the center. Interference by the enemy often spoils this timing and it is because of this that offsides are frequent and often excusable. Forwards so cautious or lazy as to never be offside seldom score. No offside is called when a player skates over the blue line separating the defending zone from the neutral zone ahead of the teammate propelling the puck. While he may stand in the neutral zone to await the arrival of a-teammate and the puck he cannot eive a pass until the teammate propelling the puck has arrived in that zone. Should a pass cross the blue line, the official is privileged to halt play and order a face-off, which is accomplished by dropping the puck between one member of either team.

These Infractions Common

While these infractions are hockey’s more common, both are of a minor nature and neither results in a player’s being sent to the penalty box unless the infractions are obviously intentional. One can best watch hockey with real enjoyment by gaining ‘an understanding of its rules. To this end, offenses of a more serious nature will be discussed next. :

Hockey

INTERNATION AL-AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDINGS WESTERN DIVISION

Indianapolis Pittsburgh Cleveland

trail the puck into the attacking |mersh

zone. When Pass Is Illegal

A forward pass is illegal if the puck, in traveling from the stick of a player to that of a. teammate crosses a blue line. . Most. offsides are called at the blue line which is the boundary of the attacking zone. At least 75 per cent of all attacking plays are organized in the neutral zone, where the center is given possession of the puck and where the wings, or other

DIVISION 2 Won Lost Tied Springfield 2 0 1; New Haven 1 Philadelphia Providence

EASTERN

INTERNATIONAL-AMERICAN ° LEAGUE RESULTS Providence, 3; New Haven, 0.

NATIONAL LEAGUE RESULTS

Montreal, 2; New York Americans, 0.

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The Butler Bulldogs, intent upon keeping their undefeated record intact, left this morning for Kalama-

z00, Mich.,, where they will meet Western State tomorrow afternoon in their final tilt of the season. Coach Paul D. (Tony) Hinkle and a squad of 28 players made the trip. A victory over the Broncos, from whom the undefeated Bulldogs have won one in the last five years, would give the locals a perfect season, marred only by a 6 to 6 tie with Washington University of St. Louis. However, the locals expect to be at the peak of their power tomorrow, mainly because of the return of Tom Harding, Indianapolis senior left halfback. Dick Freuchtenitcht

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is the only doubtful starter in the Butler backfield and he probably will be replaced by Ralph Swager, midget junior. Capt. Bob O'Connor will be at quarterback, and Bill Kreag at fullback. Tomorrow’s battle will be the final collegiate contest for eight Butler players. They are Harding, Melvin Vandermeer, Channing Vosloh, Kreag, Connor, Victor Lanahan, Phil Reisler and Don Rudd.

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Harriers Compete

Attempting to remain undefeated in seven starts, Manuals crosscountry team was to race Washington’s squad today between halves of the home-coming football game between the two schools at Delevan Smith field.

H. S. Football

Gary Emerson, 27; Hammond Tech; 0.

Valpo to Dedicate Gym at Irish Game

VALPARAISO, Ind. Nov. 10 (U, P.).—Dedication ceremonies for the new $125,000 Valparaiso University gymnasium will. be held Dec. 4 at the Valparaiso-Notre Dame basi:ieball game. The event has ben named “Keogen Day” in honor of George Koegen, Notre Dame coach and formerly coach at Valparaiso.

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