Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1939 — Page 16

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

MONDAY, DEC. 25, 1939 !

CAMERA CATCHES SPORT THRILLS OF

ASLEEP

at home plate was Ernie Lombardi, above, of Reds when Yankee Joe DiMaggio scored from first on single in World Series finale in Cincinnati.

LUCKY

was Travis Webb, right, who escaped without scratch when left rear wheel slipped off his racing car at 100 mph. on Winchester, Ind, Speedway.

John Stonebraker, Southern Cal end, takes last-minute touchdown pass to beat Washington and keep Rose Bowl path clear.

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Junior Swim Meet Carded

Y. M. C. A. Announces

By HENRY M'LEMORE

Californians Snicker as Vols Put On Old-Clothes Act in Practice

TOPS

Best sports picture of the year came not from the bigtime spectacles like football, baseball, or boxing, but from a much less popular sport— life-boat racing. Shown right in remarkable graphic detail is the tremendous effort expended by this coast guard crew training for east coast surf boat championship.

Winning Plays

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said about us,” he said. “Ycu know, | work, work, work, for the Rose |

Indoor Event for Boys.

United Press Staff Correspondent

PASADENA, Cal, Dec. 25.— Merry Christmas to you and you

about us being penny-pinching for | not bringing the band. Well, to

| Bowl's a-coming. To judge from the | comments of the hundreds of Cite fornians who watched the Vols in

{and you and vou, and if you've writA junior indoor swimming tourna-|ten me any nice letters during the ment, sponsored by the Y. M. C. A.|Vear, a happy New Year, too. and open to all boys in the city] If you've written any of the kind . 4 {of letters that comprise most of my under 14 years, will be held nextimajl_you know, the sort that starts Sunday and Monday in Central “XY” [off “You Bum”—I hope there'll be pool, it was announced today. |too much sage in your turkey dressQualification events are to be run Ne to return to Sport, the ) a urday y | N 8 : v Chie OE leu 2Y, 012 the messee football team came in yes. “Y” New Year's Day Open House | Lerday and had its first workout for at 7 p. m. New Year's Day. Six in-| 1 Rose Bowl game with Southern dividual events and two relays will California on New Year's Day. The be included in the championships. band played Dixie as the Vols’ speThev are: 40-vard breast Stroke: 40 jcial train pulled in the Southern 100 and 220-yard freestyle; 40-yard | Pacific Station and it was touching backstroke and diving. "The relays to see old Southerners like George will include the 120-yard medley Cafego of Pennsylvania and El Moland 160-vard free style. © insky of West Virginia fight back

———————— the tears at the stirring music. . The Tennessee coach, Major Bob Lebanon Quint Raps Cathedral

(bring the band would have cost us $15,000 and that amount will sup-

| their first workout, the Tennessee (port the minor sport program at team made the least apessivel Tennessee for three years. Besides, howi > 1 visi ) ' ig se 1 visitor in what other team has ever brought | youre = of Why Ruse Bow , 1) {¥ , a Dang out here? ak | Never much of a hand at fancy| | Warmed by this greeting, I went yp siness, Major Neyland sent the | With Coach Neyland to the practice poys gut on the field in their oldest | | field, Brookside Park, which is just! uniforms. Jerseys were dirty and] a whoop and a holler from the torn. pants showed the beatings of | {Rose Bowl. The Volunteers didn't|s hundred scrimmages back in| have the light workout that a Rose knoxville. :

Bowl tcam usually gets the first] The Southern Californians, who tively by Chick Davies’ great Duafternoon off the train. dress twice for every occasion, |quesne quintet. The Major kept them out there couldn't get over this. Neither could, Player No. 2 bounce passes into until the sun dropped beyond the they get over tht small stature of the pivot as No. 3 cuts in front of | Inountains, and they did everything the men who have scourged the the pivot man, drawing defensive but scrimmage. He won't work the toughest league in football for two|opponent X3 with him. [boys today, however, but will take years. This defensive man is forced into them to a party. Half of Holly-| The Vols will be outweighed some- | Offensive No. 1 while Offensive No. wood will be there to look at the thing like 10 pounds to a man, but|3 cuts around and receives the pass boys, and undoubtedly the boys will will they be outrun? Every one of from Offensive No. 1. enjoy looking at half of Hollywood. them, despite the fact they were just| Offensive No. 3 then continues Tomorrow, the team visits a stu- off a train, moved about like into the basket with a short dribble dio, and from then on it will be! sprinters. - |and takes a lay-up shot.

Pass Path of Player

Here is a pivot play used effec-

Neyland, was awfully glad to see The Lebanon High School basket- | A t B Amateur Ba

me, | “My, those were nice things you ball team today had given a clear demonstration of its efficiency for

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sketball

: If Defensive No. 1 should switch / 0 pick th tting Offensiv Brafford Is First pick up the cutting Offensive In Casting Event

No. 3, then Offensive No. 1 can whirl off to the left and take a return pass from No. 3 for.a lay-up shot on the left side of the hoop.

Indianapolis fans, for the Tigers trounced the Irish, 52-39, in a game at the Cathedral gym Saturday

The schedule of play tomorrow night in the Em-Roe Holiday basketball tournament being held at night. {the Hoosier Athletic Club gym folCoach Paul (Butch) Neuman's lows: charges jumped away to a lead at| 7:00—Link Belt vs. Salvation Army Red the outset and Cathedral never was SBQ8s. Bureau vs. Pure Oil able to catch up. The Tigers were | 9:00—Greenshurg Millionaires vs. Stewin front, 14-5, at the end of the first | “10 00 Lebanon Bears vs. Liehr Tavern. quarter and 27-17 at the half. In the third quarter Coach Joe event and six teams survived the Harmon's Irish netters closed the first round test. A total of 18 squads gap to be on the short end of a 38- had been entered. In the closest 32 count, but then the Tigers pulled game on the card the Lebanon

away. Pacing the Lebanon team Bears shaded Sam's Men's Shop, were Morris and M. Watts, both of |33.32. Other scores:

whom counted 13 points. = ine 45; Hendricks County

Geiman “was high scorer for th flare, 80 Irish with 11,

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Firing started yesterday in this|Ti

us Millionaires, 41) Sewer

Individual three-game series honJohnson Creamery of ors at the Marion County Fish-O

|Casting League meeting yesterday Brothers, 64 and 65

'|at the Casino Gardens went to Don ; Following is the Bush-Feezle Brafford with a 257 after he and Are Active B owler 8 DETROIT, Dec. 25 (U. P.).—Ford

Downtown Merchants Basketball gjjie Baus had tied with 90 each League schedule of games for | for high single game scores. | Butler, 64, and his brother, Jack, 63, Wednesday night in the Hoosier] The three-game series winner in|are th eoldest pair of bowling brothAthletic Club gym: [the women's division was Mrs. J. E. ers in active competition in De1:30 WWilllam HW. Block vs. Mt. Jackson Lams ih a 172 and a high single troit. d Buti ized 0. i e . me o . utler organized a league in SRP Wasson Bol eg ores. In a special three-game series|1910 and has rolled in it continually ee ——— team match, Hoffman Sporting for 29 years, missing only three Women’s Wa Goods Co. scored a close 22-point nights i nthat time. The Butlers y Good ; ; : decision over the Bush-Feezle were the oldest pair to compete in WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 (NEA).— Sporting Goods Co. squad. The final the Brothers Dobues championship Helen Dettweiler, women's Western count was 1084 to 1062 in favor tournament last season. Open golf champion, believes two of Hoffman after the two teams | They were among the first to file rounds a too strenuous for a jo been tied at the two-game entrics for this year’s tournament woman, ~ |mark, | which starts Dec, 26.

NEXT: Minnesota.

Liehr Tavern, 35; Bigamin ton, 3. he :-Up, 47; 1 Brothers of Col y 3%. Kingan Reliables, 8%: Hope Merchints

maton

DRAMATIC

was Tony Galento's big moment, left, when he smashed

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vas in third round at Yankee Stadium. But Brown

Bomber got up a

foe in following round.

TRAILS

for Lou Gehrig,

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nd kayoed

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baseball history.

Prize Money Is Increased

‘Semi-Pro Runner-up Teams To Benefit.

WICHITA, Kas, Dec. 25 (U. P)).|

—Prize money for runner-up teams in the National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress championship tourney will be increased next year, President | Ray Dumont said today. An additional award of $5000 will | be prorated between the second, third and fourth place teams, Dumont said. The first prize money, a minimum cash award of $5000, an all-ex-pense trip to Puerto Rico to represent the United States in the Semi|Pro World Series, will remain the

Joe Rieff Joins Chicago Pros for Kaulsky Clash

Joe Rieff, former Northwestern its second straight loss to the Akron University basketball star, has been Goodyears. The All-Americans travadded to the roster of the Chicago gq to Akron Saturday and wound Bruins squad which will meet the dof 49-10-43 Kautsky All-Americans at Butler Up on the short end of a Fieldhouse Wednesday night, it was score, ° announced today. Rieff was an out-| Coach Ward Meyers of the Allstanding performer for three years Americans will hold a stiff practice at Northwestern and captained the session tomorrow afternoon for his Wildcat five in his senior year. He charges, with special emphasis on also oncé held the Big Ten season defense. A victory over the Bruins scoring record. | Wednesday would pull the AllThe Kautsky quintet was back in| Americans back up to the .500 mark Indianapolis today after suffering|in National Basketball League.

. Czech Tennis Stor Gridders Solve Seeking Haven Here Clothes Problem NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (NEA). —

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Conference

The Machester College Spartans have won four games and lost none in Indiana Intercollegiate Conference basketball competition. Other teams undefeated in Conference play are Franklin, St. Joe, Butler, Evansville and Indiana State, The

standings: All Games

Conference Games

| Francis Soyka, member of CzechoCOLUMBIA, Mo., Dec. 25 (NEA) | qovakian Davis Cup teams from —Four of Missouri's smartly-| 998 {5 1933 has fled to America. dressed footballers solved one of the pr. i) participate in United States major problems in conjunction with | rnaments. (their Orange Bowl game with Soyka, who had been an officer Georgia Tech in Miami, Jan. 1. How (in the Czech Army, had difficulty

to transport the proper amount of |in leaving his native land when clothing for a week's stay Germany took over. He literally

at Miami | Beach is no longer a problem for had to be smuggled out.

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of Kappa Sigma, they dispatched wardrobes from the fraternity house NORTH ANDOVER, Mass, Dec. 25 (U. P.).—The entire 39-man

lin one trunk bound for Florida | several days before the team left. | squad of the Boston College Eagles {is expected to entrain tomorrow for

Trap, Skeet Events Held at City Clubs pass, Tex., and the New Year's |Day Cotton Bowl classic in which

Byv breaking 49 out of 50 targets, they tangle with Clemson despite an H. Smith won the trapshoot at the attack of grippe that for 10 Indianapolis Trap and Skeet Club players, including several regulars yesterday while the 50 target skeet | to miss practice yesterday. affair was won by Clair with a 48. Coach Frank Leahy hopes that Harold Beanblossom broke 24 out|the entire squad will be able to of 25 targets to win the only skeet engage in scrimmage when ft drills event held vesterday at the Capitol at St. Louis, Mo,, during a six-hour City Gun Club. Skelton and Mor- | stop-over en route to Dalia, algan were tied for second with 21 though he hasn't had a full-squa each. i scrimmage for nearly a week.

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