Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1940 — Page 6
SPORTS.
2y Eddie Ash
“FIFTH FLOOR! draperies—kitchenware! ! Roger Birtwell, a young
House furnishings—curtains—
man who writes sports for
the New York Daily News, cocked his head. . . . The voice
of the department store elevatd
ring.
Birtwell looked closely at
r operator had a familiar
e tall, young, uniformed
Negro. ... Then he recognized him. : It was Johnny Woodruff—the Long John Woodruff who thrilled hundreds of thousands of sports fans at Randalls Island, at Berlin, at Tokyo, at Philadelphia—the lean, lank Long John Woodruff who came from last to first in the 1936 Olympic Games 800-meter
championship.
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BIRTWELL PROMPTLY made an appointment with the young man who came from Connellsville, Pa., to the University of Pittsburgh, to New York University, there to pursue a sociology degree in graduate
school. . . .
They met later in a neat apartment on Edgecomb Ave. on
the fringe of Harlem, and Long John told his story.
“I'm studying sociology in the
graduate school of N. Y. U. and
running that elevator to pay my expenses,” Woodruff explained. “No, I haven’t given up running,”-Long John guessed the question.
“I work out several days a week on
the New York U. track.”
Day Starts Early for Great Athlete
BIRTWELL IMAGINED that a young man going to graduate school and running the half mile wouldn't spend much time operating a department store elevator, but Long John said: “You think not! Only from 6:30 in the morning until 4:30 in the
afternoon, six days a week!”
Does Fritz Kreisler swing a pick and shovel? Does Lawrence Tibbett call trains in a railroad terminal? No—but the fastest, longest-striding legs in the athletic world stand stiffly, protestingly, all day in the cramped confines of an elevator cage no longer or wider than one of Woodruff’ s copy-righted
strides.
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“I GET UP at 5 a. m.,” Pitt’s only Olympic champion began to
unfold his story.
the effect of the elevator work on my legs.
“For 15 minutes, I do stretching exercises to offset
Then I take the subway
downtown, about seven miles, and start work a 6:30 a. m. “For three hours before the store opens, I hall scrub women up
and fows, and other employees who come in early.
4:30 p
I finish work at
Per three days a week, I go to classes from 6 until 10 p. m. On
Mondays, Tuesdays and Sundays, I
go out to Ohio Field for work-
outs. Then I come home and study. Except for my workouts, I
spend all day Sunday doing researc
h work in the library, or writing
here at home, I'm studying for a master’s degree, and I have to write
theses.” Grew Up in Pennsylvania
proj ention of crimes.
SO
of mischief at Centre Avenue Y.M. at Pitt.”
Virg to Connellsville, his father working tall half
» ®
in Connellsville High School. . . .
Coal Fields
{WHAT KIND of sociology does he study? “Children’s problems,” Johnny explained, “juvenile delinquency and I grew up in the coal fields of Pennsylvania, know there are a lot of kids who never had a chance. “I supervised kids in their games and helped to keep them out
C. A. in Pittsburgh, when I was
Johnny told of ‘his forebears—his grandparents as slaves in the inia tobacco fields, his parents born free in Virginia and moving
as a coal miner, his mother, a
woman from whom he got his height and his great nine-and-a--feet stride, the longest in the legend of ehejnpionship racing.
HE CRACKED a world’s scholastic mile record while he was
He won the Olympic 800-meter
championship between his freshman and sophomore years at Pitt.
sho: runnin
Golden Boy McCoy Faces CONNIE MACK will get back a
g—that’s broad jumping!”
investment during the spring exhibition games. . .
. . + He ran an 800-meter race in 1937 in 1:47.8, two seconds under the | world’s record, but officials found the track to be a few feet of the full distance and the record didn’t count. . Birtwell heard 1:47.38, then observed:
“Whew! That's not Problems
neat chunk of the Benny McCoy . Baseball's Golden
Boy| is sure to receive a carload of publicity in ink and pictures
just|as soon as he dons a uniform.
ncle Sam rubbed his hands after the Athletics shelled out a young fortune to the ex-Tiger, baseball's newest gate attraction. :
e young bachelor will have r hence. . . . Not even Judge f the box when March 15 rolls
ince, come spring and summer
shots whistle by his ear . . tlhe wall.
Golden Boy McCoy’s problems are just beginning. . . .
to pay income tax on $55,000 Landis can knock ‘Mr. Whiskers around. For he will have to stand guard at
nd base in 22 games against the Yankees and hear the cannon . see the hits pin the rightfielder against
ST. LOUIS FLYERS of the American Hockey Association chalked up 17 consecutive home victories before the St. Paul Saints knocked
’em off the other night . . string at 14.
The Flyers are well out in front_in the A. H. A. race.
. and last year the Saints stopped a Flyer
a
that loop ties do not count in the points standing—just the victories
at two per.
The Saints are running second, the Millers third and Kansas
City’s Greyhounds are Bot going as
fast as their name indicates.
Joe Williams Says—
NEW YORK, Jan. 31.—Connie slick ivory peddlers these. days but
Mack seems to think he struck a _ good deal for himself when he gave Benny, McCoy a $45,000 bonus and a two year contract at $10,000 to play for his drab Athletics. This should be sufficient. After all it was the old geezer's own dough and if he winds up with a dud no one else will be called on to share in the grief. There’s an old saying that you can’t rule a guy off for trying and this would seem to apply to the ancient Mr. McGillicuddy in the McCoy transaction. Still, you'd be surprised how many - baseball men think the old fellow made a bad deal. “Entirely too much dough,” they say. Yet it should be kept in mind that at ~ Jeast 10 clubs were angling for the services of the young man who was taken away from the Detroit Tigers and made a free agent by Judge Landis because of certain irregularities in the original signing. Some of the magnates who are criticizing Mr. McGillicuddy’s busi-
ness acumen undoubtedly are draw- |
ing a red herring across their own lack of daring and enterprise,
Bad Deal?
But there is one magnate who subscribes to this criticism and his opinion is important though he had no interest in the acquisition - of McCoy from the begnning. Had no place for him and made no attempt to compete in the bidding. This gentleman calls it a bad deal,
too. “It’s bad from the point of view of straight business but it may be all right as a gesture,” he said. “There comes a time when club owners must make gestures to show they are trying to do something to improve their teams. Possibly this is what Connie had in mind.” But the magnate wasn’t so sure even about that. Listening to him you could see he was trying to be ‘charitable. He didn’t say it in so many words but he has the feeling that Connie has lost some of his old time sharpness as a dealer. “There was the case of Bill Lillard, the San Francisco infielder,” he pointed out. “A sports writer sold him to Connie in the lobby of a Cleveland hotel a year ago. Just said he was a great infielder and on this recommendation Connie bought him. Shelled out $35,000, if my memory is right. Lillard was back in the minors before the season was over,” ‘Well, it may be that Mr. McGillibecome a soft touch for
we must repeat the old saying that they can’t rule you off for trying. And no one can get away from the fact that the oid gentleman outbid everybody in baseball for McCoy, who, incidentally, must have something besides an appetite if nine other clubs wanted him.
The Giants explain that they might have topped all bidders if MeCoy hadn’t insisted on playing second base. Their manager, whose name escapes me at the moment, called attention to the fact that they had just paid out good money for a rookie second baseman, Nick Witek, who ironically; comes up from the Yankee chain. All of which is true enough and having seen both McCoy and Witek perform, your correpsondent feels disposed to make the rash and very likely characteristically cock-eyed statement that McCoy can’t carry Witek’s glove as a second baseman. In short, it's our opinion the Giants made a fine deal in getting Witek. But let's discuss the reason the Giants gave for withdrawing from {the competition for McCoy. It seems the young man insisted on picking his own spot in the lineup, second base. The Giants’ manager said he ‘had been around a long time and this was the first time he ever heard of a ball playing making such a demand.
I's Unusual, Sure
Maybe so. We grant it’s unusual. But how many ballplayers can you name who had their own way once
they signed a contract? You can start with Cobb and end with Ruth. Say McCoy was signed as a second baseman. The manager studied his performance for a fair period. At the end he said, “You'd go better in the outfield.” Where do you think the young man would go? To the outfield, of course. Baseball is a business of tyrannies. Perhaps practical and necessary tyrannies. And, we hasten to admit, in most cases painless ones, and in many cases, profitable ones. But just the same when baseball tells a player he must do so and so, there is but one alternative: he does or goes back to the farm or the filling station or the what have you. We don’t want the Giants—or the Dodgers either, because they have presented the same defense—to tell us the only reason that quit’ bidding for McCoy is the fact that the young {man . insisted on playing second base.
Rain Clouds May Block Seabiscuit
May Be Taken Out Once Again.
ARCADIA, Cal, Jan. 31 (U. P.).— Clouds drifted over Santa Anita Park today, threatening rain and
another delay in the comeback attempt of Charles S. Howard's Seabiscuit. Trainer Tom Smith said he was anxious for Seabiscuit to run his first race in almost a year and that only a downpour would keep him out of the mile feature today. The forecast was for cloudy. weather, probably with showers. Bad weather and unfavorable track conditions already had. caused Seabiscuit to be declared out three times within a week, twice because of mud and once because he drew a ‘bad post position. Seabiscuit was assigned 124 pounds for today’s race, the Anita Chiguita, heaviest impost in a field of six. The sturdy T7-year-old champion was spotting Heelfly, a horse which dead-heated with the Biscuit once in a mile race, 14 pounds. Heelfly has been working well and ran third in the New Year Handicap. In four other entries, there seemed to be plenty of able competition for the long-idle Howard ace. They were Mrs. Teresa Loeff’s Bubbling Boy, 104; Valdina Farms’ Viscounty, 104; Circle S. Stable’s Hysterical, 108, entry with Heelfly, and Millsdale Stable’s Firezepore, 103. Howard today made a bid for the $50,000 Santa. Anita Derby by purchase of Mioland, promising contender for the 3-year-old classic. Terms of the purchase were not disclosed but the previous owners, Hawthorne Stable, reputedly rejected an offer of $15,000. A bay son of Mio d’Arezzo, Mioland won an impressive mile run Saturday.
Long-ldle Howard Horse
Heavy Glover
Henry Freeman, Senate Avenue Y. M. C. A. boxer, is entered in. The Times-Legion Golden Gloves tournament and hopes to knock off the championship in the heavyweight Open class. He's a clever leather pusher and its going to take high-grade talent to beat him. The third Times-Legion show is to be held at the Armory Fri.day night and 25 to 30 bouts are to be staged with action starting at 7:30. Reserved seat tickets are on sale at Haag’s Claypool Hotel drugstore. The price is $1. General admission is 50 cents, with ducats available on Friday evening at the Armory box office.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 31 (U. P). —Robert E. Allman, 22-year-old law student and former captain of the University of Pennsylvania wrestling
team who won 44 of 58 intercollegiate matches despite the handicap of blindness, today held the “Most Courageous Athlete Award of 1939” by the Philadelphia Sporting Writers Association. Joe Burk, national and diamond sculls titlist, was given a special award as the outstanding athlete of 1939. The honor guests at the association’s 36th annual dinner last night
tial aspirant, Connie Mack, Tony
included Paul V. McNutt. Presiden
Blind College Matman, 22, Awarded Courage Prize
Galento (in white tie and tails), Coaches Carl Snavely of Cornell and Major Emery (Swede) Larson of Navy, Chairman Leon L. Rains of the State Athletic Commission, Bucky Walters, and Davey O’Brien. A surprise appearance was made by Benny McCoy, just acquired by the Philadelphia Athletics for a bonus of $45,000 and a two-year contract of $10,000 after being declared a free agent by Baseball Commissioner K. M. Landis. Called from the balcony by Mack, the former Detroit Tiger second baseman told the gathering that he wasn't a “gold digger” and would ignore the ublicity and “just hustle as well as i know how.”
Table Tennis—
Commercial League results last night at Jimmy McClure’s: WIRE, 13; Wessler’s Market, 5. L. S. Ayres, 13; Kroger, 5. Medical Center, 12; Millers Lunch, 6. American National Bank, 9; Hoosier Outfitting Co., 9 (tie). ”
Results in the National League games at the Paddle Club: Columbia Club, 12; Stokely-VanCamn, 10. International Printing, 10; Paddle Club, 8.
6 Schools Enter Wrestling Meet
Six school colors will be flown at the central Indiana high school wrestling meet Saturday at Southport, Cardinal officials announced today. Competing with the host school will be Rushville, Ben Davis, Bedford, Muncie and Bloomington, present Indiana champions.
with preliminaries at 9:30 and the championship series at 2 p. m. Among top performers will be Ralph Burnuff and Rober Bader of Bloomington, Bill Owen and Walter Louden of Bedford, Bromign of Rushville, Preeda of Ben Davis, Geiger and Higgins of Southport and Bayer, Mitchell and Bundy of Muncie.
State Meet Set Feb. 23-24
Times Special
BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. Jan. 31.— High school wrestling teams will meet here Feb. 23 and 24 for the state championship, Z. G. Clevenger, Indiana University athletic director, announced today.
By JOHN L. BOWEN
Take this fellow Bronko Na— Nagur— Nagurski. Pouf! Wesslers is de cwaziest peeple! But anyway take Bronko Nagurski. Yes! Take him. Go ahead. Take him. He's— 4 But we didn’t intend to get out of control on this thing. We started to say that Na— Nagurski, a thin, weazened man ‘of 230 pounds a1 mere bagatelle) is a sissy. Right! We said Shae. He’s so chicken hearted he’s afraid of his own strength. Sad commentary on the laddo whose brute savagery has carried him to the heavyweight wrestling championship of the world. Well, at least, Bronko is recognized as da champ by the National Wrestling Association. Yup, . yup. Nagurski is still the titleholder after winning last night’s Paralysis Fund benefit “I strangle you and you strangle me,” from Dick (Texas Tornado) Raines at the National Guard Armory. Trains run on schedule, you know. Planes fly on schedule. And nats champions win on— | But thats beside. the point.
Action is planned in all 10 classes, |
H.A.C. Swim
Set Saturday
The annual Hoosier Athletic Club swimming championship meet will be held at the club pool Saturday night. Events will include the 100-yard breaststroke for men, 100-yard backstroke for women and the 100yard backstroke for girls. In adidtion to the club championship meet, the H. A.|C. junior boys will meet the Vincennes Y. M. C. A. junior boys. Swimming for H. A. C. will be Buddy Ratcliffe. Warney Bogard, Howard Smothers, Bob Alen, Bob Brogan, Clarence Caldwell, Sidney Ratcliffe, and Robért Hart. Th first event will get under way at 7:30 p. m., acording to Mrs. Flora Kinder, H. A. C. coach. More than 100 club members and their guests are expected to attend the meet,
Peterson to Show Cue Wizardy Here
Charles C. Peterson, fancy shot champ, will give demonstrations be-
Billiard Association officials announced today,
Peterson will show his assortment of trick shotssand describe the play of such stars as Wilile Hoppe, Welker Cochran and Jake Schaefer.
Noblesville to Play Cathedral Tonight
Reported in top form, the Cathedral basketball team will meet Noblesville at the Irish gym tonight. On Saturday Coach Joe Harmon's boys will perform at Southport.
It took Na— Nagurski exactly 39 minutes to temper the tornado into a zephyr, before 4000 odd fans. Straight falls, it was. Da
champ won the first fall in 21 minutes with a body press and -Referee Harry Burris handed him the second 18 minutes later because of Raines’ unnecessary roughness. . Unnecessary roughness? That's the laugh Na— ek could have been rough had he wanted to. In one of the many suspenseful moments of the match the wheezing cries of the 4000 odd fans stilled in their 4000 odd throats. As they saw Nag— Nagurski’s powerful right arm bend around Raines’ block-like head with its short cropped black hair, the champion’s mastodonic muscles contracted until they were white. Raines’ head all but vanished within the great crook of Na— Nagurski's elbow. Tighter and tighter, da champ tightened that terrible crusher. Raines’ hands, flailing wigly at first, dropped to his side in a, gesture of locomotor disorganiza~
fore boys’ clubs here Feb. 9, National |
Bromwich
And Quist
uU. S. Decides Challenge to Alssies Wouldn't Be Proper Now.
By LESLIE AVERY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Jan. 31.—It would be something less than cricket to fling a bold Davis Cup challenge at a nation in the throes of war, so the United States will pass up the midnight deadline and give Australia ample opportunity to rehabilitate her tennis forces before challenging for the big international trophy again. Both John Bromwich and Adrian Quist, the conguering Anzacs who lifted the cup from the United States and sailéd back ‘‘down under”
swered the call to colors and the unwritten laws of sportsmanship preclude the bares suggestion that Australia should be asked to defend
| the trophy with her depleted ranks.
Under the rules governing Davis Cup competition, however, no provision is made for war, and the United States or any other nation is at liberty to challenge.
‘It Wouldn't Be Sporting’
Holcombe Ward, president of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, announced that the United States not only would pass up the challenge
lians at least a year or two after the war ends to restore her tennis team to full strength. “It would not be a sporting proposition for us to do otherwise,” Ward said. “The wars in Europe and elsewhere in the world propably will result in shelving the competition until peaceful, happier times.
are known to he doing war duty. Any nation that might decide to ignore the war conditions would be strictly within its right by filing a challenge, but according to the information we have here, none has done so.” Coincidentally, Australia won the cup from the United States in 1914 and held it four years without challenge during the World War. Tony Wilding, one of the Australian aces who downed the United States 3-2 in that series, marched off to war and was killed in action. Despite the loss, Australia successfully defended the Cup against Great
Britain in 1919, and the United
States team, led by Bill Tilden and Bill Johnston, won it back in 1920.
Challenge Reports Spiked
If the present war hinders development of young Australian players or lasts so long that its established stars go stale, this country will wait, as it did in 1918, until the Aussies can put a strong squad in defense of the cup “We just wouldn't feel very sporting,” one of the flannel pants officials explained, “to challenge a nation that had been at war for any length of time. While our players were being developed theirs would have been busy with war occupations. Our future policy with regard to challenging for the cup will depend upon - how long, and how serious this war is.” The same official doubted reports that one or more of the Latin American countries contemplated last minute challenges, but added “even if they do they will still be defeated. Australia could field a team of young players—under war age—who could beat any but the most powerful tennis nations, such as Germany, France or England, and they are all in the fight. Italy might be the exception, but I understand that Italy, like the United States, does not desire to play anything but. Australia’s No. 1 team.”
Patty Entering 2d Round Today
CORAL: GABLES, Fla. Jan. 31 (U.P.) —Patty Berg of Minneapolis, bidding for her fifth consecutive Miami Biltmore women’s golf championship, meets Louise Suggs of Lithia Spring, Ga., in a secondround mateh today. Patty breezed through the opening round of match play yesterday, disposing of Mrs. Richard B. Jarrett of Philadelphia, 9 and 8, on the 10th green. Threatening Miss Berg’s bid were Medalist Grace Amory of Palm
|| Beach, National Champion. Betty
Jameson of San Antonio, Tex., and Dorothy Kirby of Atlanta, who also turned in sparkling sub-par performances yesterday. = Miss Amory plays Jean Bauer of Province, R. I.; Miss Jameson meets Mrs. Leon Solomon of Memphis, Tenn., and Miss Kirby takes on
Ellamae Williams of Winnetka, Ill.
that had been his legs, sagged limply. The crowd was hushed by the awsome spectacle. To all appearance, Nagurski was waggling about the ring with a corpse. in his elbow crusher. ° Was Raines dead—his skull and brains mangled by: the stupendous strength of the former University of Minnesota football player who later ‘was starred with the Chicago Bears pro club? No! No! No! Four thousand cheers rang into the rafters as Raines, with. an adroit twist of the body and a miraculously fast piece of foot‘work pulled himself loose and |dived for the ropes and a merci(ful moment of rest. “Bah! Fakir. Lousy. Phony.” | Convinced that Raines hadn't been murdered before their very eyes, the crowd now reversed its sentiment and turned their fury upon Nagurski, standing a little stupidly and contrite in the cen={ter of the ring. “Why didn’t you kill him when you had the chance? You phony.” “Sure,” Der Bronk admitted later in the dressing room, “I de-
In Army
with it last year, already have an-
this year but would give the Austra-|
“The leading Australian players
Caps Are Waiting for You, Max!
for the Syracuse Stars.
WEDNESDAY, JAN, 31, 1940
Capitals to Meet Lowly Ramblers Tonight ,
Syracuse
Tomorrow
Indianapolis Is Well Ahead But Stars of Jan. 14 Aren’t Forgotten.
The Standings
INTERNATIONAL-AMERICAN ‘ Eastern Division
w L T Indiahapolis «19 "11 Cleveland 14 16 Pittsburgh .... Hershey Syracuse
6 82 15 (i 33 91 Western Bivisi F GA Pts. New Haven ... 15 09 41 Providence
6 6 6 4 6 sion T 1 5 5
G i 1 7 13 97 92 Springfield ..., 18 109 105 Philadelphia .. 10 17 5 7 95 . TONIGHT’S SCHEDULE Indianapolis at Philadelphia. Pittsburgh at Hershey. New Haven at Providence. LAST NIGHT'S RESULTS New Haven, 2; Cleveland, 1, Springfield, “ Pittsburgh, 1,
Philadelphia today, anxious to bet-
: ter their lead in the International | American western division at the
expense of the lowly: Ramblers,
After this evening's game, the Hoosiers will have to hustle back to Indianapolis to take on the Syra-
|cuse Stars ‘at the Coliseum tomor-
& = row, ’
This star-spangled gentleman on skates is Max Bennett, forward The Stars will be guests of our Indianapolis
hockey boys tomorrow, although it’s improbable the Capitals will treat
them as such. The two teams last
met Jan, 14 at Syracuse, when the
Stars hung one on the Hoosiers, 8-3, Mr. Bennett had a lot to do with that victory, so you can figure for yourself what kind of reception
he’s going to get.
Bowling
Ed Gaalema, City League pinman rolling at Pritchett’s, leads the bowling class today with a 695. Rolling games of 235, 233 and 227, Ed paced the Dr, Paul Schmidt team to team honors. And in that he was given some god assistance by Ray Schonecker and Paul Moore, who got 672 and 661, respectively. The Schmidt was high with 3206. The 600 ranks:
shawl ey ae. esses 895 & Light
Power
State Champs ‘Cooled’ Again
Frankfort Drops Seventh Straight, 38-30.
. By UNITED PRESS Frankfort’s defending state high
school basketball champions dropped
: their seventh straight contest last 3 night to virtually sink forever what
scant hopes their followers had of a return to the final series this year. The defeat was inflicted by Lafa-
848 | vette Jefferson, 38 to 30, and was the 14 second decision which the Bronchos
have taken from the Hot Dogs this year. The game was a North Cen-
3| tral Conference clash.
Gary Lew Wallace showed signs of returning to its early season form
629! that carried it through a six-game
winning streak by defeating Gary Emerson, erstwhile northern power-
623| house, 41 to 36, in a Western division
623| N. I. H.'S. C. game.
It was Emerson’s second straight defeat, having dropped a 41-39 decision to South Bend Central Saturday. In another conference game Hart-
616| ford City dropped Decatur in a
Northeastern league battle, 46 to 36. Seymour of the South Central
3 : Conference avenged an early c2ason
defeat by Bedford, playing five reg-
o11 ulars for the full 32 minutes to win,
& Where to Go—
30 to 22,
TONIGHT
4! Pro ‘Baskethall—Kautskys vs. (300d-
years, Southport Gym, 8:00. Basketball—Noblesville vs. Cathedral, Cathedral Gym, 8:00.
TOMORROW
oo Hockey—Indianapolis vs. Syracuse,
Nathan Mann Wins Over Colonello in 5th
NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (U. P.), — Nathan Mann, New Haven, Conn. heavyweight, knocked out Italo Colonello in the fifth round of a scheduled 10-round bout at the Coliseum last night. The fight, for the benefit of the Finnish Relief Fund, drew a crowd of 5000. Referee Johnny McAvoy stopped the fight after 2:04 minutes in the | fifth when Colonello ran into one of Mann’s left hooks and. suffered a badly torn upper lip.
Yanks Sell Judnich
NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (U. P.)— The New York Yankees today an-
Coliseum, 8:30.
FRIDAY Amateur ‘Boxing — Golden Gloves Tournament, Armory, 7:30. . SATURDAY Basketball—Butler vs. Ohio State Fieldhouse, 8:15.
Basketball Scores
STATE COLLEGES °
Butler, 61; Franklin, 13 Miami, 43: Ea riham, Manchester, 51; Wes Tia State. Olivet, 40; Tri-State (Angola, nd). 38.
OTHER COLLEGES | Wake Forest, 42; North Carolina, 36. Davis-Elkins, 6%; Bethany, 33. Otterbein, 41; Wittenberg, 35. Roanoke, 47; Bridgewater, 34.
Towa Wesleyan, 53; Central (Pella), 47. Duke, 48; Maryland, 37.
Mississippi State, 58; Mississippi College,
nounced the sale of Outfielder Wal- 47%.
ter Judnich to the St. Louis Browns. Judnich, who bats and throws lefthanded, hit .284 and clouted 19 home
out
ok
liberately let Raines pull his head
runs for the Newark Bears of the International League last year.
Der Bronk Mean? Ach! —Just an Old Head Squeezer-:
was wrestling phony, but because . I didn’t want to kill the guy. Once when I was a boy on my
father's farm in Minnesota, one of our horses, a big Belgian, got mired in a mudhole. We tried every way in the world to get him out without doing so. Finally I wrapped my right arm around his head and gave a yank. Out came the Belgian and he fell flat on his stomach ...dead. My dad looked at him sorrowfully. The big Belgian’s“head had been crushed like an egg shell. Tonight I thought of that horse when I had my arm-lock on Raines. I didn’t want the same thing to happen to him. So I let him go. I've always been afraid of that right elbow.” Before Der Champ came on, Ro~ land Kirschmeyer; 250, Oklahoma City, bested Hans Schnable,, 227, Holland, in 16 minutes with a body press. Dorve Roche, 222, Decatur, Ill, won a decision over Juan Humberto, 226, Mexico City, in the second squeeze show. And just to make everybody happy, Matchmaker Lloyd Carter
announced that Jumping Joe Sabe- here next |
old Bs going
Arkansas State Teachers College, 37; hers, ‘26.
Henderson State Teac Western Illinois Teachers,
* (Neb.), 49; Midland, Kirksville (Mo.) Teachers, 35; Birksvitte Osteopaths, 28. New Mexico 44; Teachers, Beth
40; Illinois
ie Mines, New Mexico 30; College of Emporia, 23. Ma ville (Mo. Teachers, 23; Warrensur, 'eachers, 21. Loyola . (New Orleans), 31; Co lege, 2. York, 39; Doan Erskine, 38; A roiSom., 25. Carbondale Teachers, 38; Cape Girardean Teachers, 25. Misasitr] Valley, 28; Central Missouri, 26. ayle r, 68; Texas Aggies , 36. Abilene Christian, 35; Howard Payne, 27. Cincinnati 48: Akron, 31. St. Olaf, 48; Gustavus Adolphus, 34. oS Mary’ Ss, ’30; Winona (Minn.) Teach-
india 44; Slippery Rock, 41. Concord, 66; Emory-Henry, 41. St. Bonedler’ t's, 50; Rockhurst (Kansas
City), SER Sate, 49; Washington, 32. Mines, 62; Arizona
Texas Sc! of
tate, 32. Hebron Colles, 60; Nebraska Central, 24. Bider College, 61; Geneva, 49, OFESSIONALS Detroit, 43; Oshkosh, 30.
Manual Frosh Win
Howe’s frosh basketballers were edged out by Manual’s five, 17 to 186, yesterday afternoon in the victors’ gym. Jack Buchanan led the losers with eight points. The Hornets next engagement will be with Tech’s un-
Louisiana
a (Pa.) Teachers,
'| defeated rhinies, tomorrow in the
Irvington Preshyterian Church gym.
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Margin’s Not Too Big
Although the Caps’ lead in the west seems safe for the time being, they haven't much of a margin if the whole league is considered. New Haven bested Cleveland last night, 2-1, to boo: t their total points to 41. The Eagles, incidentally, have played o 34 games, while the Capitals h 44 points on 36 games. Things are in a happy state in the western division, however, as far as the Capitals are concerned.
Watch Pittsburgh
Cleveland and Pittsburgh each have played the same number of games as Indianapolis, yet they trail by 10 points in the standings. Pitts= burgh has its chance to take undisputed second place this evening in its game against Hershey. You can expect the Capitals to be out for blood when they meet the Stars at the Coliseum. The two teams last tangled Jan. 14 at Syracuse, and the Stars that night made it very embarrassing for the division leaders by scoring an 8-3 victory,
Bonnie Hudson 2d in Scoring League
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Ronnie Hudson of the Indianapolis Capitals seriously threatened the lead of Tony Hemmerling, New Haven ace, for the scoring leadetr= ship today in the Internatione American Hockey League. Hemmerling has 40 points, with Hudson only two behind, The leaders:
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Bruins Sneak Up On N.Y. Rangers |
By UNITED PRESS
The Boston Bruins, strengthened by two deals last week, headed back
{into the thick of the National Hock-
ey League fight today as they pulled within three points of the leading New York Rangers, With Eddie Wiseman and Des Smith in the lineup, the Bruins pounded home five goals in the final two periods to humble the Chie cago Black Hawks, 5-0, last night. In the only. other game, the Americans, with Shore in the lineup, slapped the Montreal Canadiens
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Garden Hoorays for
: ‘Old’ Shore
NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (U. P.).—It was a slim crowd for Madison Square Garden, only about 7000, but it might have been three times that judging from the ovation accorded Eddie Shore when he skated out on the ice wearing the star-spangled uniform of the New York Americans last night. An old man in this fast and furious game of hockey, the 37-year-old Shore still is one of the best defensemen wearing skates, and he helped the Americans to an easy. 4-1 victory over Montreal's Canadiens. He didn’t start against Les Cana~
diens last night, but he was on the
ice before the game was three minutes old. And he wasn’t in there 10 seconds before he stole the puck, and carried it right up to Montreal’s blue line before he passed to Armstrong, and moved close to the net, then relayed the disc to Boll, who flicked it back to Sorrell. The latter scored the game’s first goal at the four-minute mark and the Canadiens never caught up.
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deeper into the cellar with a 4-1. s-