Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1940 — Page 9
~~ TUESDAY,
BACKBOARD
By J. E. O'BRIEN
Well, All Right
“Hello, Joe, Waddaya know?”
“Just got back from “Ko-|
~~ komo.” -“Wadda they say Up that way?’ “Say the Kats will have their day.”
» 2 = Backboard -less basketball | has undergone a test in New York, but the test didn’t turn out as they planned it. The tall boys still controlled the rebounds. The professional Jamaica Hebrews and Brooklyn Dodgers served as the hardwood - guinea ' pigs, with Jamaica taking a 25-21 decision. Only two goals were made by the players in motion toward the goal. The teams took only 80 shots . .. 65 of them
set.’ Many critics marked down the trial as an unsatisfactory one, although they believe more adventuresome and daring collegians might make a different game of it. Yet all the better minds are not opposed to the suggestion of Paul Mooney of Columbia 40 remove the . backboards. “As things are,” says Coach Dave MacMillan of Minnesota, team doesn’t necessarily have to play smart basketball to win. It can send its tallest men down under the basket and wait for a long shot to carom off the backboard..to one of those giants who has an easy time tipping it lin. “There’s not much skill in that.” Inventor Mooney believes| there would be perhaps a 25 to 30 per cent reduction in scoring if the game were played his way. A 40-30 game would come down to 28- 23 or thereabouts. “Doing away with the backboards . would improve the quality of shooting” explains Mooney. “It would eliminate wild, lucky shots that win too many games.
No Hard Feelings!
“It would result in more precise under-the-basket passing. Goals would be more valuable and, as a result, would be the products of a | more - carefully worked-out offensive.” -
—B. C.
Mr. Mooney had no intention of
starting a national argument, but he’s making life tough for the postman on his beat. Letters are piling in from all parts of the country. Sixty per cent of the fan mail is fayorable. These people would like to see the idea tried out. But the prize communication is from -a small town in the Pacific lumber country. “Don’t you realize that thousands of square feet of lumber are used every year in-the construction of ‘backbeards?” it reads. “Why don’t you try to support American industry instead of trying to hamper it?” That argument runs something like ours. After all, Mr. Mooney, if your idea goes over, just what would we call this column? » 2 8
What's In a Name Flat Rock, victor in the recent Wabash Valley tournament, was the first Illinois winner since Oblong in 1¢36. Flat Rock’s center was a gentleman named Short, while Garfield, the other finalist, sent out a forward named High. Short, ol
cidentally, was high on the scoring.
» t J 2 The :accountants who keep tab on Marion have figured out that the Giants can clinch at least a share of the North Central crown Saturday night by overturning Tech. The title will be all Marion's should New Castle drop another. If the Giants muff their chance here, they
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? ” Dear Backboard: I think you ought to know about Tech's freshman team, which has gone unbeaten in eight games. Its victims have been Southport, Ben Davis, Warren Central, Broad Rip--ple, Shortridge, Manual, Cathedral and Washington. . Moss, Larson, Pedlow, Cass and Evans are the first-string East Side Jearlings: Sports Fan. ® = = The standings in four college conferences: EASTERN COLLEGIATE
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Lead at Stake In 3 Leagues
H. S. Games Friday to Decide Who's on Top.
By UNITED PRESS ’ ‘The leadership of three of In-
diana’s major high school basketball conferences is definitely at stake in three battles Friday night, while present pacemakers in two other leagues face dangerous opposition. : The trio of clashes to settle who shall hold first place are in the Central, Southern and Eastern division, N. I. H. 8S. C. campaigns. In the first scrap Elwood, leading
the league with five straight triumphs and! no defeats, meets the onrushing Huntington five, holding second place with five victories and The | winner of this battle virtually is assured of at least a tie for the crown. Mishawaka and South Bend Central are tied for the lead in the eastern division. | Each has four league triumphs against one defeat, and as each team in the conference can play only eight loop games the victor also appears assured of a tie for the title.
Final game involving first and second place occurs at Vincennes where Washington's pacemakers, who have won six straight loop battles in the Southern Conference, tangle with the Alices, secure in second place with seven triumphs and two defeats. | While a victory for Vincennes would not move them into first place, it might produce a conference title when the season ends under the point system of scoring used in the league. Rushville and the Archers of Ft. Wayne South are the two teams ing must face dangerous competi-
Archers in Tough One
The Lions meet Connersville’s rough-and-ready five on the Rushville court and will attempt to gain revenge for a victory chalked up earlier this year by the Spartans. That.-game produced the only South Central defeat for the leagueleading Rushville. five, ended a pleasant winning streak, and seemed to start the Lions on a spurt of jitters that cost them three games before they pulled out. . The Archers, tied with Auburn for first place in the’ northeastern league, meet a city rival—Ft. Wayne North—in : a conference battle that counts for both fives. North, although it tasted its first conference defeat from Hartford City only last Saturday, still may have the power to make things difficult for the South Side five. South took a 33-10-30 decision from the Redskins in their first clash this year,
~ Muncie Visits Trojans One more conference battle, al-
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ership, should produce some thrills for the North Central league fans. travels to New Castle for combat that decides definitely which of the two teams shall trail Marion, the league leaders. Although Marion appears to vir-
|tually have the title on the wall,
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then the Trojans could tie for the title.
Two inter-conference scraps headline Saturday's parade of games.
Archers entertain Kokomo of the North Central Conference in a game
that is regarded as a natural while Ft. Wayne Central, probably the weakest of the Pt. Wayne fives, plays
‘fizzled out,
Both involve Ft. Wayne teams. The 8
Hostak Finds Too Much Steel in Tony Zale’s yun
By STEVE SNIDER United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, Jan. 30.—Tony Zale, an artful young veteran with a jaw every bit as tough as the finest steel ever turnéd out at the mills around his home in Gary, Ind., removed all hope of a quick settlement of the middleweight muddle today by his unanimous decision over
champion Al Hostak of Seattle.
Hostak now is confirmed as a champion with brittle hands.
He
injured his lethal left in the fifth round last night and the fight went
out of him so quickly he looked like a different man. One minute he was a raging tiger —of the sort Dempsey once was. In the next, the dynamite had spent against Zales steel jaw. From that moment in the fifth round Hostak was just another fighter. He was a man Mike Jacobs did not want for his projected championship bout with that other middleweight king, Ceferino Garcia of the Philippines.
Jacobs Is Satisfied Jacobs -hiked back to New York on the first plane apparently content to let the National Boxing Association championship go back across the Rockies. . He still holds promotional rights on Garcia. Recognized as champion by the New York and California commissions. While physicians were trying to decide whether Hostak’s hand was broken—Al said he was sure it was for he's done it five times before— Promoter Nate Druxman of Seattle announced he had obtained -exclusive rights to promote future bouts. “Tony goes to Settle with us,” Druxman said. “He'll fight the boy I had picked out for Hostak and when Hostak gets back in shape they can have a re-match. “It may be for the title. may not.”
OR to Goed Start
Hostak’s second appearance east of the Rockies started as impressively as the first, in which he knocked out Eric Setig at Cleveland in one round. He stormed over Zale with vicious left hooks in the first|y
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Hoosier for a count of two. regained his feet in time to whip three hard body punches at the surprised champion as the bell sounded. During the next three rounds Zale stabbed Hostak repeatedly with a sharp left jab, always managing to avoid damage from the titleholder’s looping hook, but in the fifth, Hostak overpowered Zale and sent him spinning about the ring, helpless under a two-fisted attack that permitted no , return blows. In this flurry, Hostak rapped Tony’s head once too often, and something gave way. From that point on, Zale was the aggressor, flinging straight righthand body punches past the weakened defense of the charhpion, He won the last four rounds g0ing away, sometimes throwing a dozen stinging blows without a reply from Hostak. It was Zale's eighth straight vic tory since ‘Manager Sam Pian land Art Winch obtained his coniract. For Hostak, it was the third defeat since 1934. A crowd of 11,112 paid $21,511 to witness the non-title match. Both boxers weighed in at 162 pounds.
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Bowling
Fred Pavey came within four pins of rolling a perfect bowling game during last night's session of the North Side Businessmen’s League at the Parkway plant. After hanging up 11 straight strikes, Pavey overturned only six pins on his final delivery. With that game of 296 he coupled scores of 223 and 191 for a 710 total, second high in the city. First place went to Danny Logan, with a 719 in the South Side Businessmen’s League at the Fountain Square Alleys. Logan had games of 256, 238 and 225. The list of “better-than-600" bowlers:
Danny Logan, S. Side Businessmen’s.. Fred Pavey, N. Side Busingssmen’s. .
19 . 110 . 667 Joe Argus Jr., Ortim 66 Jim Richwine. Side Businessmen'’s. can Harry Shanenberger, Kiwanis 65 Mattioda. North Side B-sinessmen’s .. Walter Kemper, Kiw Bust Ratliff, South Side Bue Heseinen's ‘ona Johnny Murphy,’ Qptim Art Sachs, Court gp Sansone, South Side Businessmen's ... Frank Krause, S. Side Businessmen'’s. Koehlef, Evangelica bit. Reformed Church Milan. Auto Trans Paul Clark, Branch 35 Colin Fulle, Wheeler Lunch Davenport, Fraternal . Beatty, South Side Businessmen’s es Jerry O'Grady. Holy Cro G. Bach, Evangelical Cox. Bran hs th Std "Busi urreilio ou e usinessmen’s Stuart, North Side Businessmen’s .... Rerger, vers Side Sousinessmen's en Wischmeyer, Sou e Businessmen’s. Whitesst Wheeler L
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Paul Haran. Little Flower Sims, ler Lunch Hickey. a th Side’ Busi endricks, Sou e Businessmen’s . Brothers, North Side Businessmen’s a0: Hanley. Fratern 606 C. McCann, South ‘Side ‘Businessmen’s 606 oombs, Court House “ Seigfried, Court House Frank Raftery, Little Flower S%0de, South Side Businessmen’ s es, Sou e Businessme: White, Court Hou ve Elmer Gehle, Fraternal Schier, Fraternal ... ................. 600 Evelyn Weisman: Antlers
Cooler Wins Second | In Billiard Tourney
Harry Cooler recorded his second straight victory in the state three-
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to 40 triumph over Joe Pilz last night in 74 ininngs. The defeat was Pilz’s second in three games. Cooler hit a run of seven for a wide lead after holding a 38-37 adPilz’s highest run was three. In tomorrow night's match Guy Moore will meet Al Green-
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Caps Off for
Indianapolis [cers.
With six hours of vigorous prac-
tice behind them, the Indianapolis Capitals were to leave late today for their hockey game tomorrow evening at Philadelphia against the Ramblers. The Capitals will return to the Coliseum ice to meet the Syracuse
Stars ‘vhursday and then will face their rivals, the Cleveland Barons, in a Sunday night tussle. Manager Herbie Lewis, disappointed over his Hoosier Skaters’ showing against Springfield Sunday night, sent the team through a three-hour workout today. A similar practice was held yesterday.
Al Nettlow’s Hopes For Title Go Fade
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 30 (U. P.). —Detroit Al Nettlow’s hopes for a welterweight championship bout ap-
+ parently faded today as a result of a 10-round draw with Bob Mont-
‘The bout was one of the hardestfought here in recent years. One
5% judge gave Nettlow the nod, but : oad the other judge and the referee 0 called the match a draw.
Advice for Bushers CINCINNATI, Jan. 30 (NEA).—
oe Charley Chapman, Cincinnati Reds’ "as scout, and Hank Severeid, old-time American League catcher, are col-
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Heavy Schedule Ahead for
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‘New Football Coach For ‘the Press.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 30 (U. P.), — Jock Sutherland, new Brooklyn Dodger football coach, will be “unveiled” before New York newspapermen by club owner Dan Topping at
Sutherland, no stranger to the big city, came to terms with Topping in Pittsburgh yesterday. Jock was believed to have accepted a three-year contract, starting at $10,000 the first season with an annual boost and a cut in the gate receipts over a certain figure. “I'm pleased to get into pro. football,” Sutherland said. “I've watched
last few years, and I can’t see where there’s going to be any vast difference between college and pro football. Naturally I have taken this job with a feeling that I can make it go. I never had a losing team and nobody likes to win better than I do.” Topping was jubilant at landing the four-time Rose Bowl coach for the Dodgers, saying “I'm sure it is
going to give him everything he wants, and I think we'll have a contender next year.”
Pitt Coach 15 Years The . former Pitt. Panther coach
one of the best football tutors in the nation during his long stay at Pitt, accepted the Dodgers’ offer after being unable to find a suitable posiHe succeeds Potsy Clark, Dodger coach for the past three years. Only last week, Sutherland rejected an offer from the University of Washington at St. Louis because, as he put it, “I must maintain certain standards for myself which I doubt if Washington could meet without embarrassment to itself.” Sutherland, nearing .51, quit at his alma mater after 15 years as head coach. In that time his teams won 111 games, lost 20 and tied 12. Pitt gained the reputation of a girdiron power and four times Sutherland-coached teams played in the Tournament of Roses.
‘Monday Night
Amateur Basketball
An Em-Roe trophy was presented to Englewood ;Christian Church which won all its 10 games in the Sunday School league at the Dearborn Gym. Waverly was second with eight victories and two losses. Results of last night's games: leNoad,, 35
ng averly, 32 ions 'Luthetan,
Lg 1. A, 26 1 Ast BE ehtonl, 20.
Three games will be played to-|%
morrow night in the Em-Roe Marion County Sunday School League at ihe ust Presbyterian Gym: away Baptist 101 Class vg,
}{ t Ch Cigimont. Oh K: st Presbyterian vs. Blaine Ave.
9:00—Central Christian vs. Pho, Blue Shields. The schedule in the Em-Roe-Bluff Road Wednesday Night League: 7:15--Bethany A. C. vs. Salvation Army
Red Shi p Ji1o—Blackhawke vs. Engineering Meial
Three Bush-Feezle Tuesday
20-Inch Coast Fish Is Traffic Victim!—?
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30 (NEA) — Take it or leave it, this 20-inch steel-head exhibited by U. 8. Engineer W. 8. Cowart ‘was a traffic victim. The trout, of a species not supposed to run as far south as southern California, was run down by a tractor in the usually dry Los Angeles River. Even if it were not true, this would be a fish story to end fish stories.
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