Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1940 — Page 26

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Golden

Glow

SPORTS...

By Eddie Ash

PROSPECTS of the 1939 official Ryder Cup pro golfer

team meeting a star pro team on the Finnish Fund athletic

of Gene Sarazen’s selection program revives Sarazen’s

offer to back his challenge with a $5000 wager. : Sarazen championed a team of pros omittied from the ‘American Ryder Cup team either by foreign ibirth or by decision of the Professional Golfers’ Association executive

committee. The Connecticut Squire

proposed to back this team with:

his milk money to the extent of $5000. . . . Bob Harlow, pioneer of American pro golfer management, counsels Gene to keep his bet in rinter’s ink. . . . Observes Harlow: . P “The ten men on the P. G. A. side won in 1939 a itotal of $61,283 in prize money, whereas Gene's selections won $31,635.

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: , “THERE ARE other figures which make the regulars outstanding. The average age of the P. G. A. side is 29.5 years; that of the Sara-

zen side is 33.09.

Professor Harvey Lehman of Ohio University, after examination _of the dates of some 100 pro golfers who won major championships, found that the peak years for top performance were between 25

and 34. The P. G. A. team touching the very peakiof this nine-year period.” : i :

Links Showman Explains Part of It

ON A RECENT visit to Dallas, about his showmanship by an admirer. . .

of his old tricks thus: : “I learned a long time ago how ficult.

Tex., Walter Hagen was asked . So Walter explained one

‘to make an easy shot look dif-

Take one of those little runup shots just off the green, By.

- walking up to the cup and surveying the green, then switching clubs

once or twice before playing you

impart the idea to the gallery

you are faced with a difficult shot while in reality you have an

easy one.

After all the deliberation and a few frowns {thrown in you roll the ball up dead to the pin and the crowd gasps, “Gosh, how that

man can play!” ; . 2 8

DOROTHY KIRBY, former Georgia state igolf- champion and also former Southern golf champion, and a member of the 1940

United States Curtis Cup team if * among the nation’s golfing girls.

one is named, is ranked No. 3

Now she is seeking fresh laurels in the marksmanship field, tak-

fng up pistol practice at the indoor range of the Atlantic Rifie Club. . . Logan Blackley, who coaches her, predicts an imposing future for

her when she is more at home on the range. ,

Golf’s Stylists to Show Wares

BECAUSE OF the difference in styles at{ playing golf among’

top flight players, it is the intention ciation to have them represented on

of the Proflessional Golfers Assothe “facully” of the golf coach-

ing schools that have recently been proposed. For instance, virtually all professionals teach their “pupils the Harry Vardon or overlapping grip on all clubs) except perhaps chip-

pers and putters.

Yet, Gene Sardzen, whose links career is ane of the most color-

ful of all time, and which is dotted

with triumphs in major fourna-

ments, never has used the:Vardon grip, preferring instead the interlocking grip, wherein fingers of the iwo hands are entwined on the

shaft instead of laying, one on top

HENRY PICARD, P. G. A. cham

enthusiast.

of the other. 2

pion, is another interlocking grip

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. . . Picard, in fact, goes beyond his grip in contesting

the accepted theories on golf. . . . He advocates holding the club in the palm of the left hand, which practice among student players inevitably brings expressions of anguish from teaching pros.

: They persistently demand that left hand control the club.

In the school plan, Sarazen will be tips to players of his short and stocky build. .

the three small fingers of the

best: able to give interesting « « The tall and

slender golfers will be more interested in the wisdom of Horton

Smith.

Men with large hands will receive valuable points on grip from Byron Nelson, while Paul Runyan, a small-handed pro, HE Eve his

following, too.

'I'm Ready to Pitch,’ Declares

Tanned Monty

GREENVILLE, Tex., Feb. ,16 (U. P.) —“Why I'm ready to go in there and pitch right now,” said Monty Stratton, 27, Chicago White Sox pitcher, who lost his right leg two years ago. When the Sox open spring training at their Pasadena, Cal., camp on March 4, Monty will have his chance, In exhibition games, he will try to show that a pitcher with plenty of “stuff” and ‘lots of nerve can pitch winning ball in the ma-

Giants on Road

To Earlham

= . By UNITED PRESS Hoosier college basketball teams

play three conference games and two non-conference battles tonight

with the major clash at Earlham where Wabash's improving five meets the Quakers, Other contests are Taylor at Hanover and Anderson at Manchester in the conference and Rose Poly at Aurora and Giffin at Indiana Tech. » Valparaiso and Oakland City won conference scraps last night with the Oaks gaining a 45 to 34 triumph over N. C. A. G. U. while Valpo trounced Central Normal, 48 to 41. : . - Central Normal took a 6 to 5 lead over Valparaiso early in the first

Stratton

Jors while using an artificial leg. Since Noveber, 1938, when his leg was amputated after a hunting accident, Monty’s been fighting for a comeback. He now thinks he’s ready. ‘I'm in good shape. I've been kicking this stiff leg around in.mud and snow on rabbit hunts all winter and I can really rely on it now. “What about batting?” “If I can pitch, the Sox won't worry. about my batting.”

Where fo Go—

> . TODAY Amateur Boxins “~ Golden Gloves tourney finals, Armory, 7:15. Basketball—Shortridge vs. Kokomo, Shortridge Gym, 4 p. m. Broad Ripple vs. Manual, Ripple Gym, 8:00. Crispus Attucks vs. Dayton Dunbar, Attucks Gym, 8:00, TOMORROW Basketball—Butler vs. Fieldhouse, 8:15. Toth vs. Anderson, Tech Gym, :00, 5 Sacred Heart vs. Silent Hoosiers, Sacred Heart Gym, 8:00. Park vs. Raleigh, Park Gym, 8:00.

Basketball Scores

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STATE COLLEGES

and led, 24 to 20, at the half. Koepke, = a forward, dropped through 18 points for the winners while Janeway was high for Central Normal with eight.

Butler Will Send | 1lto lll. Relays |

A picked squad of 11 men will jeave Butler University tomorrow morning with Ray Sears, coach, for the annual Illinois Relays tomorrow at Champaign, IIL : The Butler harriers are due to defend their college two-mile relay championship, won last year while _ Co-Capt. Charles Marshall will be entered in the all-round champion‘ship, an event in which he finished fourth last year. - The traveling team will be com“posed of Marshall, Co-Capt. Wiljiam Southworth, Harold Feichter, John Reno, James Stewart, Wayne , Max Armer, Elias Poulos,

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Greenberger Wins & Over Morris

with a high run of five, ! Al Greenberger downed Morris Marris, 50 to 41, in a 99-inning match of 3 state three-cushion bilfiard

Valparaiso, 58; Central Normal. 41. Oakland City, 45; N. C. A. G. U,, OTHER COLLEGES Oklahoma Aggies, 24; Kansas, 22. Gea 47; Hiteshor B35 enberg, ; Heidel Ashland, YR Akron, 41. 5, 34 Denison, 36; Kenyon, 34. Georgetown, 42; American, 82. Western Maryland, 33; Catholic U., 81. Long Island, 47; Westminister, 42. Transvivania. 47: Kentucky Wesleyan, 81. Macalester, 42; Augsburg, ¢1. Northern Michigan 7Trachers, 51; Grand

ids, 35. Michigan Normal, 31: Kalamazoo, 26. Louisiana State, 34; Tula:

ne ,31, Calvin, 55; St. Mary's (Mich. . .Davis-Elkins, 2; Falmont’ i Dakota Wesleyan, 49; Sioux Falls, 8 Dials Normal, 58; Dickinson Montana Mi 32; Bi . MoPherson, or Billings Poly, = A SG CIE ‘eachers, 59; Os! . Deka Sate, 3 Murra Teachers. 8 aniel Baker, 35; Hardin Simmons, 22, Austin, 47; McMurry, 28. ? NATIONAL LEAGUE

Sheboygan, 42; Oshkosh, 36.

Table Tennis

Circle League results last night at Jimmy MecClure’s: “

Balke-Krauss Lumber, 14; Herff-Jones

9. Teach-

y 4. Paper Package, 16; Oak Hill, 2. : Herff-Jones Ko. 1, 12; P. E Mallory, Washington Auto Sales, 13; Unempl ment Compensation, 8.

Suhr Lone Balker

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 16 (U. P.). —President Gerald Nugent of the Phillies announced, today that veteran first baseman Gus Suhr was the only member of the club who

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43 Amateurs To Grab for 16 Crowns

Action Starts at 7:15 In Armory Ring

The amateur leathér throwers drop the curtain on The Times-Le-gion Golden Gloves tournament at the Armory tonight and according to the reports turned in by the trainers, all the lads are the peak of form to battle from bell to bell for the 16 championships. : " Forty-three boxers remain in competition and this list will be trimmed to 16 tonight as kings are crowned in the eight weight divisions of the Open class and eight in the Novice. : The Open knuckledusters are down to the finals at all weights and there will be a title at. stake in every bout between the experienced contestants. : Twenty-seven boxers remain. in Novice . cempetition and this class will have 19 bouts before all champs are selected. The night's program

Jcalls for 27 bouts if all eligibles

passed the weigh-in and physical examinations late this afternoon.

Boys Report Early All boys were instructed to report at the Armory between 4 and 6 o'clock for the weigh-in and physical checkoff. No boy will be permitted to enter the ring unless he meets this requirement. : Starting time of ring action has been advanced to 7:15 and all boxers are requested to be in the dressing room shortly after 6 o'clock and ready for the official call. Al Open boys know who they are going: to meet but this situation does not prevail in the Novice class excepting in two divisions, the 112pound and heavyweight. Some of the Novices will have to

‘Over Three Rounds

All bouts will be to a decision over the three-round route, two minutes to the round. Decisions will be given by the referee and two judges. © All referees, judges and timers are requestéd to report at 7 p. m. for the early start. Prizes will be distributed in the ring after the night’s fistic card has

‘| been completed. The Open champs

will form The Times-Legion team for competition in the Tournament of Champions at Chicago Feb. 26, 7, 28

Boys who will receive prizes tonight will be Open chimpions, Open runnersup, Novice champs and Novice runnersup. % : The stage is set and the slamboree boys are anxious to get in there and slug it out: toe-to-toe. They have trained hard for several weeks and do not have to hold back because of a shortage of work.

Close Matches Indicated This final show promises to surpass anything in previous years in close matches. There is little to choose between the majority of adversaries and for that reason many close battles are on tap for the ringsiders. The reserved seat ticket price is $1 for ringside chairs and the first row in the balcony. General admission is 50 cents. The Armory box office will open at’'6 p. m. Reserved pasteboards were on sale downtown today at Haag’s Claypool Hotel drugstore. The Ambassador Theater management offers a treat for the boys. He will give all Golden Glovers (43) remaining in -the tourney complimentaries to the Joe Louis-Arturo Godoy heavyweight fight pictures now.on view. Tickets will be distributed at the Armory tonight.

Stewart-Warner Grabs Crown

Times Special : ANDERSON, Ind. -Feb. 16.—The Interstate Basketball Association’s state crown rests today on the Stewart-Warner five of Indianapolis. Nok The Capitol City team beat the Anderson Eagles, 27 to 11, in the finals of the Indiana independent tournament here last night. Stewart-Warner led at the half, 13 to 5, and after grabbing a 19 to 11 lead at the three-quarter rnark held the Eagles scoreless in the last period. Both teams now are qualified for the National Tournament of Champions opening Monday at the Butler Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Sixteen teams of 14 states are reported ready to seek the national title,

All Sold Out for

Purdue-Illinois

LAFAYETTE, Ind. Feb. 16 (U. P.).—All of the 8500 tickets for the Purdue-Illinois basketball game here tomorrow night have been sold and there is nothing but “disappointment available” for. those who do not already hold ducats, C. S. Doan, Purdue ticket manager, said today.

|Fencing Corps Dines,

Looks to Meets

Indianapolis Fencing Corps members banqueted last night and laid plans for the organization's meets with St. Louis, the University Illinois, the N. C. A. G. U, and Culver ‘Military Academy. ‘ On the tentative schedule is a women’s match with Stephens College. Corps officers are: Walter Arte mann, president; John Root, vicepresident and secretary; Dow, treasurer, and Hartman Egger, sergeant-at-arms. :

Manual Wins

Manual’s yearlings, led by Bernard McIntoch who collected 12 points, swamped the Broad Ripple frosh, 25 to 15, ‘yesterday in the South Side gym, bringing their seasonal count to six won out of

box twice to clear up the champion- | .|ships in their divisions.

Barney |

12 games played. Richard Izenhad not submitted his signed 1940 | itn led the Rocket first year boys d ; i s EER es i

OPEN CLASS =112 Pounds— Dick ‘Miller, English Avenue Boys’ Club

Willlam Cummings, Leeper Boxing School.

118 Pounds—

Walter Williams, Boyce A. C. A. C. Lee, Hill Community Center.

.. ==126 Pounds— i Paul, Rhodius Community Center. Lee Prettyman, Bess A. C. 135 Pounds—

Joe Sgro, English Avenue Boys’ Club.

Club.

Taking the cue from the Short-ridge-Kokomo game here at 4 o'clock this afternoon, the basketball forces of Indianapolis shove off on an ll-game week-end tonight. Tops on the eyening’s program is the Manual invasion of Broad Ripple, a game in which the Rockets will have a chance to turn the tides that lately have been washing them under rather badly. Favorites in the tilt, however, are the Redskins, who not only hold the city title but also have suffered only one defeat this month. : The big game tomorrow night is the Anderson engagement at Tech.

Two Titles at Stake In Tilts Tonight

By UNITED PRESS , Titles in two of Indiana’s major high school conferences will be virtually settled in battles tonight while in a third league a crucial battle is scheduled tomorrow. Huntington and Elwood, co-lead-ers of the Central conference, play their final league battles tonight, with the Panthers facing Tipton and Huntington tangling with "Alexandria. Mishawake, leading the Eastern division, N. I. H.-S. CC. meets South Bend Washington in its final conference game and if the Maroons win they are sure of at least a tie for the title. Meanwhile, La Porte, a half-game behind Mishawaka, plays at South Bend Central and must win to retain a chance to tie the Maroons. East Chicago Washington, present pacemakers in the western division, N. I H. 8. C,, says Gary Lew Wallace, in second place tomorrow night, one of three conference

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Sam Haslet, English Avenue Boys’|

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: =147 Pounds— Floyd Ford, Boyce A. C. Buddy Noel, Leeper Boxing School. —160 Pounds ’ Darrell Jones, Northeast Community Center. Keith Shelp, English Avenue Club, : ‘=175 Pounds— Paul Pearsey, Leeper Boxing

Boys’

; School.

James Hiner, Washington A. C. NOVICE CLASS -112 Pounds— Elmo Latta, Leeper Boxing Schoal. Raymond Reed, Boyce A. C. : ~118 Pounds— . Robert Woodson, Leeper Boxing School. : . Ralph Francis, Leeper Boxing School.

They're Off in the Race on City H. 5. Hardwoods

TODAY Kokomo at Shortridge (4 p. m.). Cathedral at Warren Central. Manual at. Broad Ripple. Howe at Speedway. Sacred Heart at Fishers. Washington at Ben Davis. Dayton Dunbar at Crispus Attucks. Delphi at Southport. Carmel at New Augusta. Decatur Central at Mooresville, Franklin Township at Clark Township. Oaklandon at McCordsville, :

> TOMORROW Anderson at Tech. Howe at Ben Davis. : Silent Hoosiers at Sacred Heart. Beech Grove at Waldron. Raleigh at Park. Crispus Attucks at Forrest. Oaklandon at Whitestown. * Warren Central at Greenfield.

tors’ schedule. However, a victory for Washington wil give it the title,

while a victory for Lew Wallace.

would mean that Washington would

have to break even in other games ||

to gain the undisputed crown. - Rushville, South Central Confer3; Jays Franklin tonight

ence leade and if it w ean lose its remain-

‘ing game against Greensburg and

still be sure of the crown. In the Northeastern Conference, Auburn, the leader, faces Columbia City tonight and Hartford City next week. If it wins both games the title goes along, but a single loss would force it ‘back into a tie with Ft. Wayne South who has completed its conference schedule,

Baus’ 99 Is High

Ollie Baus turned in a score of 99 for high honors last night in the

Indianapolis Casting Club’s weekly

tournament. Mrs. Fred Hibernick and Mrs. Al Martin shared laurels

games games left on the Sena-

AT RISA LIA LEED] WHISKEY A. THE SHERBROO!

among the ladies with scores of 90. - a

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One of the Golden Gloves Open championships the fans are waiting for at the Armory tonight is the battle between Charles Duncan (left), West Side A. C., and Willard Reed, Northeast Community Center. The winner will represent The Times-Legion feam in the 175-pound class at Chicago. Duncan is the local defending light heavyweight champ and Reed advanced from 160-pound champ in 1939 to challenge him for the 175-pound crown. Both lads are hard hitters, cagey boxers and fast on their feet. Their match stacks up as whirlwind affair. 2 8 =

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Here's Listing the Boys Who Won't Stay Down

Gene Miller, English Avenue Boys’ Club. ; : Sammy Allen, English Avenue Boys’ Club.

—-126 Pounds— Russell Masters, Leeper Boxing School. Harold Ferguson, Washington A.

Charles Teckenbrock, English Avenue Boys’ Club. Roy Troutman,

School, } ==135 Pounds—

. Kenny Bland, Leeper Boxing School. Pete Shelby, Beech Grove A. C. Buddy Jones, Leeper Boxing

School. -=147 Pounds—

Leeper Boxing

ers. : Carl Wells, Carthage, Ind. “Robert Haines, Kingan A. A. Stanley McDonald, Kingan A. A.

=160 Pounds—

William Jennings, Hill Community Center. : Otis Rogers, Leeper Boxing School. Albert Booth, Senate Avenue Y, M. C. A. Jimmy Parker, Beech Grove A. C. -=175 Pounds— Tom Harding, West Side A. C. Edwin Hicks, Leeper Boxing School. = Byron Spillman, Leeper Boxing School. Austin Wathan, Senate Avenue Y. M. C. A. @ —Heavyweight— Bill. Belcher, Beech Grove A. C. Jethro Jeffers, Savoy A. C.

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For Ole Diz?

One Dead Arm Is Worth At Least $25,000

By HENRY M'LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16.—Jerome

[Herman Dean, whose parents were

guilty of understatement when they nicknamed him Dizzy, is being criticized these days for refusing a $10,-

owner of the Chicago Cubs. To me this criticism seems unjust. In the first place, Dizzy has ‘become accustomed to being paid mote than that for doing nothing. In the past two years his arm has been so dead that they have named a sea after it. He has heen about as much help to the Cubs as a pair of brass knuckles would have been to little Lord Fauntleroy. But he was paid $20,000 last year and ever more the year before. He, probably figures, and I think correctly, that is nine-tenths of a dead arm is worth $20,000 a full dead arm should be worth at least $25,000. And he has shown nothing during the winter to discredit the general belief that his pitching arm is ready for a blue suit, a black bow tie, and a simple ceremony.

Alibis Aren’t Free

That’s that. Now, in the second place (if you can count that high) Dean needs more than $10,000 for his alibi consultant alone. .And he must have ‘one. No one man could think up all the alibis he does by himself in one year. Now everyone has had a table lamp chase him around the room at one time or another, but Dizzy had one catch up with him and bite him in his bad, or pitching arm. That set him back for a full month. i A few months ago Dizzy, or h Minister Charge d’Alibi, thought of wisdom teeth as an excuse, which were the last type of teeth. that anyone suspected Dizzy of having. Even Dizzy. He had them taken out and afterward he said he never felt better in his’ life. The Charge d’Alibi said that a whole new world opened for Dizzy when he had his wisdom teeth pulled. 5 At the present time Dizzy is in Hot Springs, Ark. where he is instructor and lecturer in a baseball school. Those who have sat in on his lectures say that he is a combination of William Lyon Phelps, Nicholas Murray Butler, and Eliot's five foot shelf.

Research Lasts, Too

Dizzy, I understand, is doing research work, which is another reason why he needs more than Wrigley has offered him for the coming season. He spends hours each day, the report is, working toward the perfection of a complete dnd "100 per cent “nothing” ball. In the third place (but perhaps I had better say in the fourth place, being asrthat is where the Cubs finished last year) Wrigley could establish a dangerous precedent by offering a worker only what he is worth. Take by own -case for example. Even with my wife as fine a little manager as she is, I don’t think we could get by on 40. cents a week. On second thought, we are. :

000 salary offer from P. K. Wrigley, |

| Good Luck Patl | 4

Patty Aspinall . . + she’s on a’ record hunt. i

While Purdue and I. U, Swims | mers fire up an old rivalry toe ‘morrow afternoon at West Lafaye ette, little Miss Patty Aspinall, 13-year-old pride of the I. A. C, is going to put the heat on a record. : i This time Patty is going after the 440-yard breast stroke mark that Katherine Rawls Thompson. established back in 1932. Kathe ! erine swam the distance in 6! minutes 52.4 seconds and the! time -was written into the nae tional senior A. A. U. books. And so by the Sabbath we may have another national champion

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Nelson, Gibson' Are Favored |

BULLETIN 1 HOUSTON, Tex., Feb. 16 (U, 'P.) —Rain today forced posiponement of the first round of the Western Open golf tournament, The tournament was set back a full day, with 18-hole rounds scheduled for tomorrow and Bene - day.

HOUSTON, Tex., Feb. 16 (U. P.), —Byron Nelson of Reading, Pa., Nae tional Open champion, and Leland Gibson of Kansas City, Mo., playe ing his second year of professional golf, were betting favorites today as pro golfers teed off in the $5000 Western Open championship. ‘Nelson, defending: Western Open titlist, yesterday teamed with Joe - Russell of Houston to win the proe amateur best-ball meet with a 63. Gifon captured the bettors’ fancy when he carded 34-32 to come within a stroke of the River Oaks. Country Club's competitive course record. .

Challedon Is Chilly §

BOYNTON, Fla., Feb. 16 (U. P.), —Severe cqld training weather for the past two weeks at Columbia, S. C., has left “little chance” of mighty Challedon starting in the $50,000 added Widener Challenge Cup af Hialeah, March 2, owner William L. Brann said today. . 9

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