Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1940 — Page 8

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By Eddie Ash

THE Chamber of Commerce Athletic Committee is toying with the idea of holding an open house for Indianapolis baseball fans on the night before the Indians

open the 1940 - championship : The Tribesters will pull

season. in from the South on the

morning of Wednesday, April 17, and lift the lid on the

American ‘Association season the following afternoon, opposing . the ‘St. Paul Saints. hg

Therefore, the fans open

house party, if it becomes a

reality, would be held the night of April 17, with all Tribe players present and on parade to shake hands with the rooters and auto-

graph anything proffered.

A baseball movie probably would be included in the scheme to

pep up the party. . . . Chairman Art

Grossman of the C. of C. Ath-

letic Committee will give further thought to the plan before giving

it the “go” sign.

: 2 » 2 LUNCHEON CLUBS will start an opening day ticket selling drive shortly -and “live wires” are being rounded up to do the pitching. . . . Indianapolis finished seventh in American Association opening day attendance last year and the Chamber of Commerce plans to appeal

-to firms, business houses, plants and individuals to hustle up enough boost the prestige of the Hoosier capital in the national

civie spirit to

pastime,

‘ADVANCE SALE OF 4000 IS GOAL

IT IS estimated that.it will require the sale of 4000 seats in advance of opening day to make any kind of a showing with the

league’s other seven clubs.

. Louisville and Kansas City are setting an early pace that will be hard to match by any rival, and Indianpolis will be more than

satisfied to finish stile count. : 2 8

WELL, the Chamber of Commer

among the first four high in the inaugural turn- -

# ce Athletic Committee has started

the old ball rolling, ‘at any rate, and with Arch Grossman doing the twirling there may be a happy ending to all this preliminary business

after all

The boys are going to give it the old try to stimulate interest,

and are rigging up several ways to

accomplish their goal.

MILLER BUYS PASEK, SEEKS OTHERS

AFTER CLOSING a deal for

Catcher John Pasek of St. Paul

late yesterday, President Leo T. Miller of the Indiaps shoved off on a player hunt and may come up with another deal or two before

the week is out,

Pasek is a veteran of major and minor league ball. . . . In 68

games with the Apostles last year steady job of backstopping. . . . Detroit, Philadelphia Athletics and

he batted .274 and turned in a the majors he saw service with Chicago White Sox.

] His best years are behind him, but 33 is not too old for a catcher if you look up the ages of Gabby Hartnett, Mickey Cochrane, Cy

Perkins and several more ball players.

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who lasted far beyond the average span for

AN OLD HEAD like Pasek frequently pays dividends in developing young pitchers. . . . About 15 years ago when Ownie Bush man-

aged the Indians he signed Claude of the Texas League. .

(Pop) Robertson, a veteran out

. . Robertson had been in harness so long he

had to be taped up to catch when Bush took him on. But Robertson’s skill and steadiness in handling Fred Fijtzsimmons led to the latter’s sale to the New York Giants for a big price. . . . Fitz threw a knuckleball that the young catchers couldnt handle and old Pop was delegated to work all of Fred's games. . le It was a smart move on Bush's part. . Old Robbie turned the trick and sent the young Hoosier to the - big time where he still is in service as a member of the Brooklyn

Dodgers.

Don’t sell the old fellows too short, particularly catchers,

Hammer Henry Pines to Be Cultured—Like Tunney

By HENRY M'LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Feb. 13.—With the whole wide world to: choose from, Henry Armstrong has selected Gene Tunn the man in whose footsteps be warts to follow. Already the little welterweight champion has set the date for his retirement from the ring—the end of this year—and he ‘hopes to hang up his gloves undefeated. With the money he has accumulated from nine years of battling he plans to settle down quietly and start leading a literary life. He wants to read and study thes classics; faarize himself with - the old masters: of art; and acquire an appreciation of wl the finer things Armstrong music has to of- . : fer. Tunney, of course, has done all these things since his final night of fighting when he bathed himself in the blood of poor Tom Heeney. . The chances are that before he finishes with the quiet life Armstrong will have outdone Tunney. He intends to be creative in a literary way. - Already he has started work on “The Road to Glory,” his autobiography. He has written some. poetry but does not feel that he has yet done his best work. a Armstrong makes it clear that he

Where fo Go—

TONIGHT Wrestling—Hans Kampfer vs. Ray Steele, Armory, 8:30. : - TOMORROW Pro Basketball—Kautskys vs. Hammond Ciesars and Birr’s All-Stars vs. Chicago Crusaders. Butler Fieldhouse, 7:00. THURSDAY Hockey—Indianapolis vs. Providence, Coliseum, 8:30. ; FRIDAY Amateur Boxing — Golden Gloves tourney finals, Armory, 7:15. : : SATURDAY Basketball—Butler vs. Marquette, Fieldhouse, 8:15.

Indianapolis, Hoosier Riflemen Win

The Indiangpolis Rifle Club eked out a 892-891 victory over the Pennsylvania Rifle Club at the Pennsy range last night. The summary: : . Pennsy « 185|Hostetler 4| Chaplin

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172|Hask .... lose

Total ... The Hoosier Rifle Club played host to the J. D. Adams Club last night and won, 929 to 917. The summary:

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unds—Logan (O) 64 feiss {I), $3; 165 ——| Won decision ove

7¢| before Purdue

is not retiring this year because he feels he is through as a fighter, but because the atmosphere of gymnasiums, training camps, and the like, are not conducive to literary output. JH 5 : ‘It is the long trainin ind for fights that runs Henry iii Eddie Mead, Armstrong’s manager told me. “All he really needs to get ready for a scrap is five or six days. Take the one he is going to

: [have with Ceferino Garcia here this

month. He could start work a week before the fight and be in top shape. But he can’t do that. With publicity being as necessary to a fight as it is, he must start a month early so that the newspaper men can write about him and the fight fans can go out and see him work. This sort of thing is particularly hard gn a Solow ho knows it is all useess anc at he is just worki for nothing.” J orsing

Garcia Taken Seriously In regard to Armstrong’s fight

‘|with Garcia for the middleweight

championship Mead, one of the mos} Sonsiute managers in the game, oesn’t lightly dismiss the chanc of the Filipino. ances

“Garcia hits so hard that he will have a chance against anybody as long as he is able to climb into a ring,” Mead said. “That bolo punch of his, which is nothing more than a dressed up right hand uppercut, isa heller. When Henry fought him in New York Garcia caught him back of the ear with the bolo in the 12th round and Henry started dropping. He managed to come out of it before ' falling, but he wouldn't have had the: punch caught him on the chin. Garcia will stiffen anybody he hits squarely.” Did Mead think Henry could go against the bigger and better Garcia of joday 2h still wi “I honestly do. Henry never looked better than he did in stopping Montanez. He weighed nearly 140 and was punching harder than ever. He didn’t throw as many punches as he usually does, but he wasn’t wasting any. Every one he threw landed and meant something. He won’t be quite as fast against Garcia as he was in New York, but he'll be much surer and stronger. I don’t think the Filipino will be able to get to him in 10 rounds. Henry'll get his fourth title, and, after one or two more bouts call it quits.”

I. U. Matmen Beaten By Oklahoma

Times Special : BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 13.— Winning six bouts as their opponents took two, Oklahoma A. & M.’s matmen defeated I. U. here last

night, 18 to 6. Oklahoma is national collegiate champion and Indiana Big Ten title-holder. The summary:

121-pounds—Ritt (0) won decision over Tiovich FURL toma od ov, 18-17 ) | on ov ntonacei (I), 1

bright (0), Sunds man, ( ) a decision c ; , 8-3, an eavyweight, a (O) won decision over White D, pp

Purdue Wins

Times Special . . BLOOMINGTON, Ill, Feb. 13— Illinois State Normal wrestlers fell

Total coveserss 930] Total weoerress O17

here last night, 17 to 13. : fi: ‘a

Nelson Takes Texas Open, Forges on

Links Elite

SAN ANTC IO, Tex., Feb. 13 (U. P.).—Byron X :lson, pro and national

‘lopen golf che mpion, held the Texas

Open golf c¢ ampionship today as the pro brige ie"packed their duffle for the $50 0 Western Open at Houston, Feb 16-18. Nelson wor the Texas open title by a ope-st oke margin over his former fellow caddy, Ben Hogan, in an 18-hole playoff yesterday. Nelson carded 36-34—T70 to Hogan's 37-34-11. ; i A muffed uit by Hogan on the 18th green c: st him the match and gave Nelson first prize money of $1500 from t: ec $5000 meet. Hogan’s

-|share was ¢ 50 and both received

25 per cent ' £ yesterday's gate for their extra wrk. | : Hogan dro} Jed behind on the first nine, turning in a 37 to Nelson’s 36 | but overcame the handicap by making ‘birdies ¢1 the 11th and 13th.

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Basket all Scores

Ar . STATE COLLEGES Indiana, 5%; Michigan, 80. Purdue, 52; Chicago, 30. Notre Dame, 33; Toledo, 30. Earlham, 49; DePauw, 41. Manchester, 63; Huntington, 27.

OTHER COLLEGES

Illinois, 35; Northwestern, 33. 36; Minnesota, 34. Towa, 43; Ohi¢ State, 33. : Kansas, 36; Icwa State, 34. 11, 30; Akron, 27. Marquette, 25. 8%: Xavier, 29. § hn’s, 43; Loyola (Chicago), 2%.

Loras, 43; Parsons, . ; Butler, 38; New York City College, 36. Bucknell, 350.

. Lebanon" Valley, 59; ~ Geneva, 56; Bethany, 38. Duke, 39;. Clemson, 37 (overtime). Virginia Military Institute, 28; mond, 26. Georgia, 46: Florida, 86. Alabama, 26; Tennessee, 28. Columbia, 48; Pennsylvania, 84. ‘ South Dakota State, 47; Omaha Uniyersit 4 West Virginia, 40; Georgetown, 38. Creighton, 49; Drake, 45. : Catholic University, 44; St. Peter's, 35. Tulane, 36; Mississippi, 34. North Carolina State, 40; Davidson, 27. Missouri Valley. 39; Central, 28. Trinity, 47; Howard Payne, 36. New Mexico Teachers, 55; New Mexico Normal, 29, ’ Friends; 46; Bethel, 40,

Abilene Christian, 43; McMurry, 28.

Dregon, 71; Washingzton State, 41. Kansas Wesleyan, 60; Bethany, 43. . ouisiana Normal, 64; Centenary, 46. Rice, 59; St. Mary’s (San Antonio), 43. Augvstana, 40; Knox, 25. Bradley Tech, 34; DePaul (Chicago), 83. HIGH SCHOOLS

St. Patrick’s (Kankakee, IL), 45; St. Joseph’s (Collegeville, Ind.), 34. h 3 8

Deaf Schools in Tourney Here

Five schools will compete in the 16th annual basketball tournament of the ‘Central States Schools for the Deaf to ke held here Feb, 23 and 24. : The five entered are Illinois, Wisconsin, Missou:i, Ohio and Indiana. It will be a round-robin affair with each team me:=sing the other once. In ‘the event ¢f & tie the winner is to be decided ky percentage of points scored over op onents. 3 Illinois has won the meet six times, Indiana four, Wisconsin three, Ohio an Kent icky once each. Officials for the: tourney here will be R. Smith ' Iafayette;: George Bender and A J. Thatcher, both of Indianapolis. : : Illinois is the defending champion, winning at Fiiton, Mo., last year. The Silent Hcosiers were unable to compete in 1£32 due to a quarantine. ced A national «eal school tourney is held each yea. with the winners of four tourneys, Central, Midwestern,

Eastern and £)uthern, competing in March, : Indianapoli: League results last night at Jimry MecClure’s: ment Compensation, 8. : Binger Adver ising, 12; Sportsman’s BoE 5p 0 pm Ogg Co 8 Street Methocists, 15 to 4, in "a match last nit at the Y. M.' 0. A. 3 ° "i g ! ® Riggs P ays Again HAMILTOY,” Bermuda, Feb. 13 stars, "includir;g national champion Bobby. Riggs if Chicago, will comChampionshif;s here . March 11-18, Chairman W H. Freisenbruch an-

Rich-

® . Table Tennis American National Bank, 12; UnemployStare, 6. Kro, The Y Juniors beat the Meridian (U.P.) —Eleven top-ranking tennis pete inthe ancual Bermuda Tennis

nounced todey.

Chicago's Crusaders (who recently adopted ‘¢ more militant name that Savoy I.ig Five) come to the Butler Fieldl suse tomorrow to mee Jim Birr’s A l-Stars in one half of a double hea ier professional basketball game. {autsky’s ‘All-America team takes o 1 the Hammond Ciesars in the other attraction. Since 193: the Crusaders have established . record of 489 victories in 532 starts. In fact, they've been recogri zed as one of ‘the country’s lea ling teams. "A fast-breiking team, the Crusaders cente: their plays around big Dave I :Jernmett, who will be remembered fcr his high school

land college =:ploits in Indiana. Also in 122 Chicago lineup .is §

Big Train Johnson, who played

0) with the Re¢ 1s two seasons. Ros-

sie Hudson, formerly of Marquette,

¢ (Xi|nas average: 15 points a game this

season and igis Brag high-scoring forward, ' One of the Eig shots on the Hammond team .i5:Jim Currie, a 6-foot 2 guard. J m was prominent in

is the other

he was playi gz for Northwestern. Tonight the Kautskys play at Detroit, where thie Eagles are leading the Nationa! League. ] > pa

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Presenting an Early Prevue Of the Battles to Come

By UNITED PRESS

A glance at the week’s slate of high school basketball games:

Tonight—-Shelbyville at Martinsville. The Artesians despite their overtime loss to Washington last

Friday are still tough and rate as one of the South’s best. Shelbyville hasn't been too bad—and it’s the old time neighborly rivalry. Frankfort at Vincennes—Frankfort holds the state title, you know, but the boys have only broken even in 18 games this season.

Tomorrow — Lebanon at Crawfordsville. = The Athenians took their first victory since 1931 over Lafayette Jefferson Friday. Lebanon ran up a fine winning streak at the start of the season and slumped. They recovered later to take Frankfort among others. A good dogfight. :

—Friday—

Alexandria at Huntington — Th Alexas ran up 73 points against Ben Davis Friday, all of which: doesn’t mean much except ability to hit the basket. Huntington ranks up at the top in the won and lost roll. It's a Conference game and Huntington’s tied with Elwood for the top. Bedford at Jeffersonville — The Red Devils haven't been too hot despite the arrival of three of last year’s stars who were ineligible for the first semester. Bedford started fast, slumped, and then conquerored Vincennes Friday on the Alice court. Besides Bedford and Jeffersonville are only about 60 miles apart. Brownstown at Greenwood—The Greenwood five has won 17 straight:

Seymour at Columbus—Seymour held the lead in the South Central Conference for quite some time. Columbus Friday knocked off Rushville, the present conference leaders. New Castle at Connersville — Connersville hasn't lost a game at home this season. New Castle started fast and slumped when injuries struck. Are they or dren’t they back on the track? Whiting at East Chicago — The Senators hold first place in the Western division, N. I. H. S. C. Whiting hasn't been too bad all séason, although tremendously unpredictable. : Elwood at Tipton — Elwood’s “giant killers” meet a Central conference rival. Both are high scoring teams—and 11 miles apart. Evansville Central at Evansville Bosse — Intra-city scrapping, and Central’s supposed to be all sophomores. ! : , Franklin at Rushville—The Lions lead the South Central. Franklin needs to show something ‘to be favored to retain that there record of winning 20-odd sectionals in a row what with Gdeenwood in the offing. : : : Gary Lew Wallace at Valpa They've ranked Lew Wallace: high all season and Valpo’s been in and out but it’s a battle anyhow. Martinsville at Jasper — Again those Artesians. But Jasper knocked the whey out of Evansville Central last Friday. :

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Big Ten circies back in 1938 when

Logansport at Lafayette—A North

Four Teams Ready for Pro Doub'e Bill Tomorrow

on the Tribe roster at present is Birmin,

Purchased from the St. Paul Saints, John Pasek, veteran catcher, will do a hitch for the Indianapolis Indians the coming season. He’s 33, but due to the dearth of seasoned backstops, Tribe President Leo

investment. The only other catcher young Roy 'Easterwood, up from

Central Conference mess that should produce plenty of fireworks although neither team stands any chance in the title run. : La Porte at South Bend Central— Both teams are tough, despite the better La Porte record against all teams. Central is rated as the toughest in the sector and if it wins can improve its conference standing.

Muncie Central at Marion—The Giants have the North Central title cinched but Muncie should start to roll anytime now. And might Friday. a Muncie Burris at Peru—The Owls have been drifting along for some odd weeks now without a show of that old winning streak spirit. Maybe it’s time for them to begin a little tourney preparation. :

—Saturday—

Anderson at Indianapolis Technical—Anderson supposedly is getting in shape for the state tourney, but they knocked off New. Castle Saturday and have won eight out of the last nine regular battles. Tech hasn’t done a thing, except drop its last two conference battles by one point each. This one could be — could be—a preview of the Anderson semi-final. East Chicago Washington at Gary Lew Wallace—Again those leagueleading Senators. This one might well decide the final league rankings, if both teams keep going. ; Elwood at Mishawaka—Elwood, tied for the lead in the Central Conference. Mishawaka, the leaders in the Eastern N. I. H. S. C.

2d Round Begins In State Meet

Times Special : ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 13.—Second round play in the Indiana State Independent Tournament will be resumed here tonight, with the right to enter the National Tournament of Champions at Indianapolis at stake. The national basketball meet will be held Feb. 18-23. Several of the strongest teams in Indianapolis are competing, with Stewart-Warner dubbed as one of the favorites. . Stewart-Warner plays Western Southern of Anderson in the feature game tonight. Dan Zels will play the Clifford Aces of Columbus at 6 p. m. and Lucerne’s Woodmen meet Prunty Artists at §. The Anderson Eagles, district champions, play Anaconda Wire and Cable of Marion, another district champion at 9. The winner of the Dan Zel-Clif-+ ford Aces game returns to action against Haynes-Stellite at 10 to conclude the second round.

Nine States Entered In National .

While - the Spokane (Wash.) Round Table team winds its way through North . Dakota via taxis, other state tournament organizations were finishing up play today for the National Tournament of Champions starting Monday night at the Butler Fieldhouse. With the recent entry of North

| Dakota, the list for the national

represents nine states. Illinois, Washington, Idaho, Wisconsin, Georgia, Kansas and Ohio have

from the State Independent Tournament now in progress at Anderson, Ind. eff

It's a 6:Pound Girl At Clipper Smith’s BRYN MAWR, Pa. Feb, 13 (U. P.) —Mrs. Charlotte Smith, wife of

Maurice J. (Clipper) Smith, newly appointed football coach of Loyola

i | University at Los Angeles, was rei |ported doing well at Bryn Mawr Hospital today with her 1-day-old,|Su

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six-pound, 10%-ounce daughter. The child, the Smiths’ second, ‘was born last night. The Smiths’ Best child, Caroline Anne (Sunny), Smith said today he planned to leave Villanova College, where he coached for four years, within “10 days or so” to assume his duties on the West Coast.

Greenwood at W. C.

The cagers éf Warren Central will play host to Greenwood at 8

tonight, the game having been postponed from Jan. 26. Samad

entered and two teams will come|

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Gunn Fires 9 Goals for 38 to 36 Victory

By YX. E. O'BRIEN Times Staff Writer

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 13. —A little basketball difference between Indianapolis

i land New York was settled

down here south of the border

! [last night with the decision

going to the Hoosiers, mainly be-

~ Specifically, Butler overcame the chattering and long-range accuracy of Nat Holman’s City College of New York team to a score a 38-36 victory. : ‘The game originally was scheduied as part of the dedication ceremonies for Male High School's new gymnasium, but the workmen apparently went into a fast break and finished long before they were

{supposed to

Louisville folk decided they couldn’t wait to break tha bottle of champagne over the baskets or whatever they do to dedicate new gyms, so last night’s program was

“| just basketball without trimmings.

All of which was very nice, since we feared any kind of ceremony calling for speech-making on Lincoln Day in Kentucky would be somewhat awkward, to say the

least. Ah, Those Slickers

As it was, the City College boys took care of the vocal proceedings with their ceaseless ad-libbing, and were smart enough not to anger their hosts by reference to those embarrassing activities of the Sixties so closely associated with Mr. Lincoln. To get back. to Butler's Ben Gunn, the night was his. gether, he tossed in nine of Butler’s 16 field goals. Among these goals was just about any sort of shot you'd care to sample. First fhere was an__ cai early pushup shot that gave Butler a 4-2 lead. No long after thathe § produced a one handed looper to strengthen th Bulldogs’ margin at 8 to 3, and then. it was a one-handed flip § == that, tied the§ score at Sia si He came r back to bat in a Ben Gunn rebound and used two hands on a close-in attempt to put the Bulldogs on top, 16-14. His long one just before the fire bells sounded ending the half pulled the Bulldogs to within four points of C. C. N. Y. at 26-22. Incidentaly, those bells apparently are something new in the way of gadgets to stop basketball action. They seem to be built into the automatic clocks at each end of the gym. When they go off, the whole faces of both clocks turn red. Altogether you'd think someone had turned in a second alarm at the Brown Hotel. And now about Mr. Gunn again. His second-half activities included the tossing in of an under-the-basket goal to give Butler a lead which the rampaging Bulldogs never lost after that. He slipped under again shortly afterward and then came out of a scramble in the foul circle at a late hour for his ninth and last goak : : A Colonel, Perhaps

It was a sparkling performance, and we expected some colonel who knows a good thing. to ask the pink-shouldered Ben to carry his silks in the Derby. Paradoxically enough, C. C. N. Y. showed a fancy passing attack designed to work the ball ip close, but had to depend on long shots to stay in the running. Albert Goldstein,. Jack Carpien, Harvey Lozman .and Angelo Monitto handled this heavy artillery work for the Beavers. : Goldstein hit no less than three from far out in the first half, while Carpien and Lozman had one each. Two by Monitto late in the game put the Beavers right on the Bulldogs heels at 32-30 and 34-32, while. Lozman and David Laub each scored from well out in City College’s last attempt, to overtake Butler: : City College heeded Holman’s continual pleas to “work around,” but Butler interferred effectively with the Beavers’ circulating much as the ice is doing to the flow of the Ohio River down at the foot of Second St.

Steiner Plays

In the hockey vernacular, Gunn scored Butler's goals with assists going to Bob Dietz, Jack Clayton, Loren Joseph,. Jérry Steiner, John McCray and associates. It was Steiner's first start since his illness, and Coach Tony Hinkle used him less than a half. : A few wandering Butler fans were in the stands, but the crowd of more than 2000 was for the most part hometown folk. We were a bit disappointed that much of the famous Kentucky color was lacking. We didnt’ see a single fan toss down a mint julep at the half, and nobody attempted to bring a fast 2-year-old oat-burner through the front door. The beautiful women,

Summary: C. C. N. Y. (36). : FG : Dietz,f..... 2 an Joseph,c Clayton,¢. . Neat.g Steiner,g... McCray.g.. 0 f ‘Totals ..16 6 7 Totals .. 1 Score at the Half—C, C. N. Y., 26; Butler, 22

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By STEVE SNIDER United Press Staft Correspondent

CHICAGO, Feb. 13.—All but one challenger was winded and reeling today ‘from the terrific pace set by Indiana and Purdue through the first half of the Big Ten basket ball campaign. :

SATURDAY’S GAMES ‘Indiana at Northwestern. Illinois at Purdue. Towa at Minnesota. “Yisconsin at Ohio State. Chicago at Michigan.

Strewn behind the flying leaders were the championship hopes of seven teams, leaving only Illinois to consider and the Illini apparently will require plenty of considering. The only team within striking distance of the lead, Illinois travels to Purdue this week-end for its traditionally bitter contest with the Boilermakers. Outcome of that may be the key to the title. Victories by Indiana and Purdue last night almost were routine. The Boilermakers trounced Chicago, 52 to 30 and Indiana, employing 1 men, routed Michigan, 57 to 30.

Hapac Again!

Illinois took Northwestern the hard way, finally emerging with its fourth victory in six es on a field goal by Bill Hapac in the last 50 seconds. Score: Illinois 35, Northwestern 33. . Behind Illinois is a four-way tie for fourth. place as the race heads into the second half. Defeat of Northwestern and Michigan set them back with three victories and three defeats. Iowa upset Ohio State, 43 to 33, leaving each with three and three, Wisconsin’s 36 to 34 victory over Minnesota dropped them into a tie for eighth place with a record of two and four. Chicago, as usual, was a unanimous last with six straight defeats.

I. U. Is Finest

Although Purdue actually is tied with Indiana, the Hoosiers apparently have the finest all-round team in the Conference at this stage of the race. They have speed to burn, height and tremendous scoring punch spread almost equally over the entire squad. : Michigan lacked its early season finesse on this trip into the West, but still should have been a difficult team to beat. The Hoosiers poured it on them at will. Results last night: Indiana 57, Michigan 30; Purdue 52, Chicago 30; Illinois 35, Northwestern 33; Wisconsin 36, Minnesota 34; Iowa 43, Ohio State 33.

Hapac Increases His Scoring Lead

CHICAGO, Feb. 13 (U. P.)—Bill Hapac of Illinois and Northwestern’s Dick Klein, two top scorers in the Big Ten, were guarding each other last night and they guard better than they score. Hapac scored nine points to seven for Klein, increasing his season’s lead by two points. Ie leads with a total of 85 in five games to Klein's “7 in six games. Gene Englund, Wisconsin's galloping center, moved into third place with 15 points against Minnesota and Vic Siegel, Iowa's sophomore star, took over fourth by sc ing 19 against Ohio State. . The leaders:

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* We are able to announce today that, for the sports pages at least, softball has replaced the robin as the first indication of spring. One team has announced its 1940 lineup, named its pitchers,- appointed managers and now awaits “Batter Up!” Te The team—Pepsi Cola Boosters. The pitchers—Logan Kinnett and Cannonball Dosch. The mana‘gers—Roy Galbreath, of R. Do‘mont® & Sons, sponsors, president, and Johnny Devney, business and team manager. °

He’s safe. . . . Robin is out.

Kinnett is the boy who hurled the WIRE team to the County championship last year. Amd in case youre wondering Mr. Dosch gets his Cannonball name from that he weighs 220 pounds and uses the fireball almost excluse ively. - : Gene Briner, who used to be a Shamrock, 'will do the catching. Joe Harbor will-be on first, with E. Gunn, H. Radcliffe, G. Coffman and Bud Carver rounding out the infield. In the outfield will be Paul Williams, Buss Oyler, Woody Sherman, Goode and Springer. ; The robin will now kindly take

the bird. Six Games on

College Card

By UNITED PRESS Indiana’s college cagers chalked up a clean slate against out-of-state opponents last night with Indiana and Purdue leading the parade with impressive triumphs over Big Ten competitors.

Notre Dame won a 38 to 30 battle from Toledo, and Earlham sank DePauw, 49 to- 41, as Manchester trounced Huntington, 63 to 27, in state conference scraps. ! Tonight Ball State plays at Mane chester, Oakland City at Rose Poly, Wabash at Franklin, Indiana Cene tral at Indiana State; Western Kenetucky State at Evansville, and TriState at Lawrence Tech. ~ Notre Dame’s victory aver Toledo was its 11th in 16 contests. Toledo held the Irish even during the first 10 minutes, but the Irish managed to squeeze out a 17 to 10 lead at the half. Sobek sank 12 points for

while Hintz was high for Toledo ‘with 14. LE: : ~ Dave Keyser, the Earlham capetain, was the star of the Greencastle game. nine field goals and one free toss for 19 points while Moore, DePauw

and five free throws for 13 counters, DePauw took an early lead, but the Quakers rallied and went out in

Hans Requests 1-Fall Bout

Ray Steele, 218, skilled California husky, and Hans Kampfer, 230, powerful German grappler, clash in

wrestling card at the Armory, Matchmaker Lloyd Carter, as is customary, billed the tussle for two falls out of three. with a 90 minute time limit but reports that Kamp fer now is asking that it be changed to one. fall and no time limit. It

reject Hans’ request. ; Ray is known in some wrestling

with Dick Raines, 240, the “Texas Tornado,” in the semi-windup, with Mike Mazurki, 240, New York, meete«ing Bob Haak, 230, Hammond, Ind.,’ in the 8:30 opener. Supporting bouts will be one fall affairs. :

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to the bush if he wishes to avoid

Notre Dame, Riska: 11 and Ellis 10

fle popped through

center, retaliated with four buckets.

the headline action on tonights:

will be up to Steele to accept, or

circles as the “uncrowned champ.” : Hans Schnable, 228, Holland, grips.

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