Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1940 — Page 9
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R es-Makers | {Come to Aid Of the Hurlers
Pitchers Given Right to Step Backward
— GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent
Fight Finals. F riday Night
Represent Nine Clubs in
~ Title Quest . -
| competiiig: for the ‘efght Open . 1 ahamplonships in The Tim
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gion Clolden Gloves finals at the| {Armory Friday night will be 16 - |leathet throwers of merit bent on
|giving their all to win berths on 2 team that will form the In-|
'BELLEAIR, Fla., Feb. 18. ~The theme song of baseball pitchers next season will be “swing and sway” if Clark
Griffith of Washington, . an old-time flinger himself, and the rulei-makers have the right idea in their latest legislation, In an attempt to give the pitchers .some relief from the lively ball, cheap home run and other rules aiding the batter, the major league rules committee yesterday passed a new amendment permitting a moundsman the free use of his left leg to take a backward step (or his right leg if he is a southpaw) in the act of delivering the ball. Under the rule in force last season a pitcher was allowed to have
one foot off ‘the rubber but had to|| keep it stationary. Under the 1940
legislation, he can take a backward sie enabling him to pitch with a g or swinging motion,
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The rule was sponsored by Gritfith, the old fox who pitched in Jack Chesbro’s time. He is certain
it will help the smart pitehers|| who'll concentrate on taking advan-i}
tage of its ‘possibilities. The niles committee, composéd of seven members and presided over by Commissioner K. M. Landis, did not pass the rule unanimously. The lone - dissenter was Eddie Collins, general ménager of the
« Boston Red Sox, who opposed it
vigorously on the contention -it would bring. about more cheating
dianapolis unit at Chicago: Feb, 26,-
121, 28,
The 18 finalists now preparing for
this week's title battles come fromi|.
3 nine clubs and one is unattached.
English Avenue Boys’ Olub. has
“three lads in the running.
Leeper Boxing School three, Northeast Community Center two, Boyce A. C., two, Bess A. C., one, Washing= ton A. C., one, Rhodius Community
and Hill Community Center, one. The unattached contender is Keith Shelp, who will punch it out with Darrell Jones, Northeast, for the middleweight crown...
Leep Has 10 Novices
In the Novice class Tommy Kid Leeper’s club is leading the parade of contenders with 10 eligibles. In-
consecutive bouts last Friday. Nine of his boys fought, one fighting
|twice, which is some sort of a
Amateurs on Ice Sunday
Sixty amateur hockey players, survivors of an original list of 143 candidates, will open the Indian-
{apolis Coliseum Amateur Hockey
Association schedule in a doubleheader at the Fair Grounds Sunday
Golden Gloves record. English Avenue Boys’ Club has
competition, Beech Grove A. OC, three, Kingan A. A, two, Senate Avenue Y. M. C. A, "two, and the following clubs one apiece: Boyce A. C.,, Washington A, C., South Side Turners, West: Side A. C.,. Hill Community Center, &nd Savoy A Ci The lone out-of-town survivor is Carl Wells, Novice welterweight of Carthage, Ind,
Start at 7:18 ' Starting time for Friday has been
Genter one, West Side A. C., one,|
cidentally, Leeper’s boxers won 10{
three contenders in: the Novice|
ent of Champions at Chicago.
tourney’s windup show.
Ramsey Beaten
Touriam (left), defending flyweight tpi op of the Teper Jiliam Dick Miller, English Avenue Boys’ Club. Miller is a senior at Tech High, The clash between the Iiitle fellows promises to be a Bigg} of the
Times Photos.
A couple of shifty and aggressive iads are to battle it out Friday nly ht at the Armory for the 112-pound Open Gloden Gloves ghampion-. ship and the right to represent Indiana
in that divi division in.the -
Continentals Rest Washington won : two victories
adyanced to 7:15 p. m. and boxing will be continuous until. approximately 27 bouts have -béen run off. Barring injuries, sickness, failure to make weight or defaults, there will be eight Open wmatches—all title affairs—and 18 in the Novice
than ever among the pitchers. “The next thing we’ll have is the pitchers cheating with their pivot foot,” said Collins. “I don’t think the rule will serve the purpose for * which it’s intended. If we are go-
night, Secretary ©. W. Flynn announced today. Bill Kuhn's Chevrolet will face The Sportsman’s Store in the first game at 7 o'clock and Indiana Fur Co. will clash with the County Officials’ team in the second attrac-
over the week-end. and 80 yesterday was a day a rest for the Contie
nentals. They play at Ben ‘Davis Friday Right :
In Cue Meet
Again it was a case of “reverse English” for the experts in the state
6 9 / TROPHY NN 411% us Iron Man Ready
GREAT RACE Wit CHUL! FENSKE Ema?
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ing to give the pitcher any help, let’s bring back the spitball.” . Mere mention . of the. spitball brought. opposition from séveral fronts, especially from Griffith who said: “Nobody would ever get a hit off & good spithall pitcher.”
Cheaters Discussed
| - During thé long, tedious meeting which lasted until midnight much talk was made of pitchers who cheated on the rules. Dizzy Dean of the Cubs and Johnny Allen of the Indians were citéd by Griffith as two pitchers who were flagrant violators of pitching rules, : Bob Quinn, ‘president of the Boston Bees, charged that there was one pitcher in' the National League who continually violated pitching rules. He refused to divulge his name. en “This fellow throws spitballs and licorice balls and is so clever that they can’t catch him,” said Quinn. “He never uses ‘those pitches until he gets in a tight spot, and then he pulls ®®m 80 slick it takes a close observer in the grandstand to catch him. Sometimes he spits in his glove after he makes a pitch so he has the saliva all ready. to use. on the next delivery.” Both leagué presidents, Will Harridge of thé American and Ford Frick of the National, believe Griffith’s rule will prove of considerable aid to the pitchers.
Quinn Plea Sqguelched
Ed Barrow's suggestion to allow a batter to.be given his base automatically when a pitcher wants to walk him: ‘purposely was voted down unanimously. Bob Quinn's effort to give a batter two bases when he passed deliberately’ with men on bases was tossed out by the committee before they could put it to a vote. A curfew was placed on night baseball games, forbidding any
& inning of a night game to start after
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11:50 p. m. Another rule was passed forbidding three games to be played in the same day to prevent some club ifi the pennant fight from play-
ing off three postponed games at|®
the tail end of the season as Pittsburgh did Some years ago.
CEINIE IMPORTED
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LU. Ace Hangs Up ‘Fastest’ 440
Times Bpecial BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Feb. 13.— Roy Cochran, Indiana University junior and national 400-meter hurdle champion, ran what is believed to be the fastest 440-yard indoor dash ever recorded when he anchored the Hoosiers’ one-mile relay team in 47.8 seconds against Ohio State last week-end, The blond Mississippian scored 13 points. in the Hoosiers’ 531-411; dual victory over the.Buckeyes, besides bringing the baton home ahead of Jack Sulzman, Ohio Tlash, in the relay. Cochran will attempt to crack the world’s indoor record in the 440-yard dash when the Crimson tangle with Notre Dame in the Bloomington Fieldhouse Feb. 26.
; . i Bowling It's Dan Loghn again, For the fifth time He season Dan crashed over the 700 mark and toay Se led the city’s ‘pinmen with & . Dan rolled in the South Side Businessmen’s League at the Founs tain Square alleys and got his lofty score from games of 257, 225 and 253. In second place is Prank Krause, who hit 233, 232 and 223 for 688 in the Indianapolis Church Eeague. Third is Larry Vollrath of Indiana Bell who got a 673.
The leaders:
Dan Logan, South Side ........ Frank Krause, Church »... senses Larry Vollrath, Indiana Bell Charley Cray, Reformed Church ...... 653 Smith, Klein Kuhn Harry. Hofer, Reformed ‘Church’. Bob Shaw, North Sid Porter, Church . Schoch, Reformed Chute eon 635 E. Brehob, sete + 8 W. Grauch, Reformed Onin” shsvnase Of Gray, Optimist seus ninessense O will amson, South Side’ “eve $oesnes “ I. Pavey, North Sid
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Ys ate séevsce Heinie Richard, Court house see's Nauta, South Sige .. . Jack Withefs., Rteri na fi Evangelieal urphy, Optimist odwin, Fraternal . . grtman, Center Cle: .. Kréftel, North Side , Rat iff, Seuth Side’ Frank Kot, Court House Styder, Fraternal o Shar BIkson, North Side ...... . Taylor Sr., Evangelical Wail,
g y Stetz, Indias’ ‘Bell. Bordin, North Sid sees Raines, Reformed ® Cirurels” . me —— rise rn
Manual Frosh Busy
Manual’s freshman basketball team will be kept busy this week with two home games. This afternoon the Redskin yearlings take on Téch in a return engagement. Tech's first year boys downed Manual’s rhinies decisively in their first meeting this season at the Big
~_|Green goalty, Thursday the Broad
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Ripple freshmen will visit the South Bide gym.
£ not delighted. recur
) | dems posted 8's.
el Néil Colville, New | moved into third plce in the ingividual scoring race in the Nation-
: ity, Milt Schmidt,
Monday's Rest? Not at Manual
FOLLOWING THE 32-29 loss to. Shortridge Fridiy, Coach Oral ‘Bridgford drilled the Manual varsity on: Monday for the first time yesterday. It has been -customary at Manual throughout the current. season for the first team to get a Monday layoff after a game week-end... Mr. Bridgford may ‘be pointing toward the sectionals. or may expect a tough
time out at Broad Ripple Friday Sysing :
14 Start in Miami Sailing Race
The starter’s canroi: sends 14 fast yachts across the ling today toward the Gulf Stream 21d Bahama in the séventh annush Miami-Nassau sailing race, The field was co: sidered by race officials the best ever assembled for the face of 184 aautical miles. Interest centered on two craft— the 54-foot yawl fiormy Weather which. Robert W. : ohnson ¢f New York sold to ‘Wiliam Labrot of Annapolis, Md., anc. Johnson's new; entry, the 85-foot 3 yaw. Good News, Stormy Weather Yun the Nassau
event the last thre: years, = :
Gage Rejoirs Mates
2: At Shortridge
Getting ready t¢ entertain Kokomo ‘here Friday = night, Short-
1 ridge went througl 2 heavy prac-
tice yesterday as Dick Cage re-
layoft. Gage, guard and sole letterman on the squad, still i: suffering from a knee injuty and it is doubtful thas he will play Friday. Bobby Paddock,
G08 forward, is still out with a chipped
shoulder bone.
dos Play Continues in
Palm Beach Meat
PALM BEACH, Fi... Feb. 13 (U. P.).—Headed by =ccialite Grace jmery of Palm Be: ‘h ahd former British amateur golf :hampion Robert Sweeny, who ¢abtured medal]. honors yesterday, pl! iv in the annual two-ball mixéd 'oursome tour=nament continued to ay. With a combined 71, men’s par for the course, the : finished five strokes alead of C ara Callender of Long Beach, Cal, nd H. L. Willoughby of Port Sef all, Fla., who took second honors : ith 76. Patty Berg of M: ineapelis and Norman Bright of I [iami tied for third with Nation il Champion Betty Jameson of Ban 'Antohio, Tex, and Raymond C uest, Meadow‘brook, N. Y., polo play en Both tan.
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Colville Mov »s Up
NEW YORK, Feb. 18 (U. PDs *lofk Rangers,
al Hockey League, st tistics showed ivot man of the Boston Bruins, ard Bfyan Hextall, Rangers, held down first and second places with i! and 36 points,
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MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 13 (U. P).—
To Ditch Spikes
By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—You might call Glen Cunningham the first
No. 2. That wouldn’t be exactly right, of course. Cunningham’s plight is ridiculously trivial coms pared to some of the young Ameri can adventurers who went to Spain ‘months ago. But this grisly business that is going on oper there now, specifically on the inish-Russian front, has had a kickback that threatens to affect the future of the greatest mile runner America ever saw. Cunningham has announced that this will be his last year in coms petition. He sat around with us the other day in a midtown hotel suite and said he ‘had about decided to hang up his spikes. And in the next breath he told u$ in &' casual matter of-fact manner that he believed he was a better runner today-than ever:
He’s Going to Teach
“When the Russians invaded Finland they stopped the 1940 Olympic games,” said Cunningham. wanted to compete in one more
_|Olympiad. Evidently that is out,
80 I think I will quit running and
|80 in for teaching.” . We asked Cunningham why -he
thought he was better today than ever, We reminded him he had been running competitive races for 12 years, and he hadn’t beénh running little short, sissy sprints; he had been going all the way from
to know if that sort of thing didn’t tend to wear a man out. 4 Then too, his three recent @de= feats from the great Chuck Fenske
turned to practice b ther a two-week |
indicate that maybe Glenn is on the last stretch, “If I had been a sprinter, one of those sissy sprint.guys as you call ‘'em,” he answered, “I would havel been through long ago. sprints that wear you out; the distance runs build you up.
Same Words From Ferris
Some days ago Dan Ferris, Na tional Secretary of the A. A. U, and the best Informed man on track and field in America if not the world, had told us the same thing, but| Bm somehow it .was more convincing coming from Cunningham, who had [been through the wars. Cunningham lights candles at the altar of condition. Bleep, mental composure and proper diet are the three high priests in his athletic life. ‘He had just finished ‘winning a tough race when we talked with him, yet he was disappointed, “The way I'm going I'm not getting enotigh rest,” he apologized. “I should be doing much better.” It is a gag among the track and fleld experts that Cunningham is always complaining. But, listening to him, you can see his point. . He spends most of his time on the road. He represents the University of Kansas on the lecture platform, This is like being a traveling sales‘man. In any event it is not liké arranging your own {itinerary with a view to perfect comfort.
Hoeckert, Finn Star, Killed in Battle
+ HELSINKI. Feb. 13 (U. P.).<8ubLieutenant Gunnar Hoeckert, nolder of the world’s 3000-méter running record and winner of the 5000 meter-run at the Olympic Games in|2 Berlin in 1936, was killed in battle
‘| was learned today. - He was of 4 class of fighters that has distinguished itself in patrol activity against superior numbers ‘of Russians.
land had counted ‘strongly &n Hoeckert to be a stand-out in the 1040 Olympics which would have been held here. He ran the 5000 meters in 12 minutes, 22.2 seconds in Berlin, and set the S800 ) neler record at eight minutes onds, at 8 olm, Bept. 16, 1001.
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tion, Fifteen on a Squad
‘Fifteen players will be in uniform for each squad and a game will consist of three 15-minute periods separated by 6-minute rest periods. The price of admission will be the same as that for the usual public skating sessions and all spectators will be permitted to skate after the contests. No seats will be reserved. All four team captains and several other members of the association have bad considerable hockey experience. Ed Leibinger of Buffalo, N. Y., and Nick Collis of Syracuse, N. Y., are N. C. A. G. U. students: John Kirby played formerly at Cleveland, O., and Doug Bowden at Buffalo. Leibinger heads the County Officials’ squad, Collis is captain of the Indiana Fur Co. team,
= Canadian Cities Represented
Kirby is in charge of the ChevroIét combination and Bowden is the
tet. New York, Boston, Detroit and several Canadian cities also are represented by other members of the association who will see action. League officers are Bill Kuhn, president; Herb Davidson, vice president; Mr. Flynn, secretary, and | ¢ Charles Ettinger, treasurer. Servs ing on the executive committee with the officers and team captains are Clair Hilliker, Bob Olements and two representatives of the Colisetim Corp., Herbie Lewis and Dick Miller.
Amateurs
Results last night in the opening | © session of the city amateur tourney at the Pennsy Gym: Me Beran sR bit
Real 34; Green Shields wood Local, 35; Lauter Boys’ ory
* Tonight’ s schedule:
'|7:00—Stokely VanCamp ys. Crown Products.
Af infield Farmers ys. 15uatantce Oil, n Knights vs. kb daghaon. drs: 5: 30 Sevetiage Paper vs, auts
The Woodruff ff Place and Central|: Christian girls will play for the BEm-Roe Tuesday Sparen League championship tonight at 8 Central Christian Gym. Each team won. seven games in regularly sched. uled play. There will be a preliminary bes tween two boys’ tean teams af. 7. :
The Em-Roe Do Downtown Merchants tourney, with 18 teams entered, will get under way Feb. 28. Managers are to file their player lists this week so that drawings can | be made.
The following church teams have! Bunday School tourhament, to held, starting Feb. 20, at the Hoosier Athletic Club: Tien Rag liga J hf EA, Seth, ta] i tion; lvatio F aol Y ol bi : a nif hai esi st kyla Teh ditt % ureh, | kmpis 5 Baptist, D Fin id Street adie. ‘Zions Evangelical art Kriends, sdists Soniheasier ot Bodine EL io Fh: Two more teams are headed to complete the 32 tearhs which will compete. Teams Wanting to enter are to call Everett: Babb. this week at LI-3446.
leader of the Sportsman’s Store sex- | ’,
in the):
entered the Em-Roe Mation Cotinty |
be ng Mrustocots. Son. ‘t at glorious relief from those to Silas 2 aches and pafhi=dus to
Jott and
class.
to do a double shift. Reserved Seats Sale
sale at Haag’s Claypool Hotel drug-
balcony. cents. Friday at 6 p. m. Gloves show Friday: : : OPEN ais serra, Leeper: =Boxing
18 ‘Pounds— Walter wie Boyce . C. . Lee, Hill Commun ty Center.
Lee Faeiliniar, Sess
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? Founds... 5 4 Ford, Boycé A. C. uddy, Noel, Leeper ‘Boxing School. Dafrell Jones? Ron feast oopter: Sheip, Sagtiached,
~—1%5 Pou Willard Reed, Noriasst . tles Duncan, West Side A. ©.
fies Hiner, 7 RL hon.
Novi cp cl 458. StF ce A. School.
Elmo Latta, Raymond Reed. yes t Woodson, 1 pouna: cng fon.
: Roden W ancis, Leeper Boxin Geng Mi English Avenue
ciohmmy Allen, English Avenue ys’
126 Pounds— Byssth Masters, Leeper Boxing Se 001. arold Ferguson. Washing vs Cit Teckenbrock, Enalion Avenue
Boys Roy Troutman, Leeper Dosing School.
e135 Kenney 7 and FAs Boxing School, Pete Bhe Beech Grove A Butidy Jones, 001.
Leones oxifik 147 P Arnold Deer, Sou th Side e Turners, on Wells, Sarthage, ind.
bert ines, anley cBioraid gan A. A A. A
60 Pounds— FV illiam Jennings, Hil Community Cen
tis Ro ers Tener Boxing Behl. Gta x ate Avenue Y. M. C. A. Jimmy Reker, > eect Grove A, C.
Tom Harding es
vost Side Edwin Jeks. aeper Boning School.
llman, Leeper Bo: School. an athan, Senate Avani Y.M.C CA. ~-Heavyweight— Bin Belcher, Beech Grov C wa Jeffers, - Savoy A or .
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see wr ly M gives EHO rele pes an ‘just 4 of Dera Toes a & fan “cOuntereirriy hich } penetrates the outer layers to help ease local congestion ed by ion for over 80 : Regular, Children’s
{ail) and Beta Stone,
In five weight divisions of the Novice class, winners will ‘have to fight twice, and in one division— the lightweight—there will be a ‘bye and one contender will have
Reserved seat tickets for the tourney’s concluding session are on
store and the price is $1 for ringside. chairs and the first row in the
General admission remains at 50 These pasteboards will go on sale at the Armory box office
The coniplete lisi of boxers eligible for action in the final Golden
undg— Dick Miller, Eh Ryefive Boys’ Club. Cum mings,
: What Saved Joe?
. =~126 Pounds— Earl Paul, Rhodius gy Center.
Community
Community
night at Harry Cooler’s. Giiy Moore upset Walt Ramsey, 50 to 4,10 05] .innings, Moore had a high run of three
| and Ramsey six. It was the fourth victory for Moore in five games and Ramsey’s first loss in four engagements, Cooler was to play Al Maloof at 2:30 p. m. Joday. :
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Louis-Godoy Movie Here Thursday
A complete movie account of the 15-round battle between Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis and Arturo Godoy will open a scven-day run Thursday at the Ambassador
Dounce: dtoday: Fo
SEATTLE, Feb. 13 (U. P)4#A $40,000. guarantee for Joe Sous, world’s heavyweight boxing pion, to meet either Wild B i Bord former all-Navy champion, Chuck Crowell of California, has been tendered by Promoter Nate Druxman. Druxman would pit Louis against Boyd or Crowell, who Meet , Jere tonight in a 10-round out.
Tech Waits India: ns Following their \ victories Friday
and Saturday, Tech’s cagemen took an easy workout yesterday in prep-|
aration for the invasion of Ander80n, conquerors of New Castile, Priday night. It will be the last North Central game for the Big Gieen.
three-cushion billiard tourney last| J
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