Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1940 — Page 10

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By J. E. O'BRIEN

TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL is getting its basketball shop ready to handle what is expected to be one of its biggest rushes at the sectional tournament this week-end. Mr. R. V. Copple, the gentleman who will be in charge, hasn’t much spare time right now, and if you want a few words with him you have to hop around like a crippled rabbit. There are letters to be opened and read, a pesky telephone that rings continuously and a steady stream of visitors going in and out of the door marked “Athletic

Director.” . . Mr. Copple thinks the 5200 available seats probably will be filled at most of the five sessions. “Already I've distributed 4500 season - books,” he reported, “which is 500 more than went out last year. Of course, all these haven't been sold, but it's likely that most of . ill be gone by Thursday.” : i Band ne he naming .the gentlemen to sit at the official table, and Mr. Copple has done that. H. E. Chenoweth of Tech and Russell Julius of Shortridge will be the timers, and L. B. Maxwell and C. T. Dagwell, both of Tech, will fill in the official scoreK. 00 Tournament programs are being printed now, and the floor bleachers will be thrown up Thursday morning. After that, the big problem will be trying to keep the fans from tearing the programs up and the bleachers down.

Just Listen to ’Em Yelp

From the replies .we’ve received since making the local sectional selection, it appears we will get no less than 695 complaints after we announce our other 63 likely tournament winners tomorrow. Not only did Backboard overlook the “four best city teams,” we are told, but he didn’t do right by 11 Marion County entries, all of which got at least one reader vote. Here are a few of the letters: Dear Sir—Some day a county team will be picked to win the “sectional, but I don’t expect to live to see the day. R. E. B.

Let’s not give up so soon, Mr. B. = R ”

Deal Pal—You surely can pick them—or maybe you haven’t seen many games this year. You predicted Manual would win its secondround game. What a laugh. Franklin Township is one hot ball club that really is going places in this easy sectional. And please don’t call "it an upset when Franklin Township beats the Redskins—by at least

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“The 500-Mile Rumble Has Started

Times Photo. While the fans (and sporis writers included) have been. giving their seldom divided attention to basketball in the last few months, the 500-mile race rumble has slowly but surely started. Getting in a little winter work here at the Boyle Motor Products plant at 1701 Gent Ave. are Charles Banky, local mechanic, and Cotton Henning, racing expert, counselor and car builder. On a chassis used by Harry Hartz in one of the Roosevelt Speedway races, Banky and Henning are mounting a motor used in a front drive job by Chet Miller and wrecked last year. This time it’s going to be a rear drive mount.

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Sure, Covington Is Tough

Gene Merryman reminds us that we’ve overlooked Covington’s team this season. Didn’t they take the Fountain County championship

and haven't they won 18 out right, Gene.

And Coach Eugene Rovenstine has a ran

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that should cause trouble for somebody. Gene puts in a word for

cheer. leaders Bonnie Richards and western Indiana...

Okay, Gene, we'll watch the Trojans when they play « Attica. That's at 7 p. m. Friday, isn’t it?

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: A Week After Easter, We Hope ; : What an egg you've laid—nothing can match it—

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Nuts fo Fistic Gold or Glory, McLarnin Has Had Enough

By HENRY M'LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 28.—Jimmy MecLarnin’s got enough and had

‘enough. : He isn’t fighting anymore. There isn’t a promoter with a former welterweight champion pack The one-time “baby face killer” wife's and that of his daughter, Ellen Kathleen.

Golf and gardening have got him, too, and around the Lakeside Country Club he is better known as “Squire McLarnin” than “Champ.” He would, rather fuss around his garden at home, take Ellen Kathleen for a walk, or play a dollar Nassau with a couple of pals, than get McLarnin $40,000 for sticking a left hand in somebody's face or knocking them stiff with a right to the jaw.

His Mind Is Made Up

I saw Jimmy today and asked -him about the offer he had received from Promoter Mike Jacobs to fight -the winner of the Henry Arm-strong-Ceferino Garcia bout. He .didn’t answer right away because “he had a big putt coming up against Johnny (Tarzan) Weismuller. He holed it for a 75 and his grin when he took two dollars from Johnny was wider than any I ever saw him put on after winning in a ring. For a moment I expected him to execute the famous cartwheel he always did after winning a fight. “There isn’t any offer I could get that would make me change my mind,” he said. “I told you a { couple of years ago I was finished ; with fighting and I mean it. Lissen + —I had more than my share of that : business.”

: Fought 13 Champions

4 He did at that, too. I didn’t ‘realize it until Jimmy told me sitting in the club, that he started _ fighting when he was 12 years old.

“I weighed just 62 pounds when I had my first fight,” he said. “I wasn’t even a paperweight. I was an amateur then, but I started fighting for a living when I was 14 and had just 18 years of it. Unless you've been a fighter you can't pos- ‘ sibly understand what a long, long + time that is. Starting at 62 pounds -I kept fighting right until I weighed 145. In my time I climbed a hundred times or more into the ring against fellows who didn’t have but “one aim—toknock my head off.”

" MecLarnin’s fights weren't against

big enough bankroll to entice the into the ranks of the fighting men. has fallen for two baby faces--his

no fewer than 13 champions of the world at one time or another. There were Joe Glick, mmy Mandell, Bud Taylor, Barney Ross, Tony Canzoneri, Al Singer, Lou Ambers, Fidel Labarba, Young Jack Thompson, Jackie Fields and Lou Brouilliard, to name a few. And there was a fair country hitter by the name of Billy Petrolle, too. “I'll take my fights now over the radio or in the newspapers or in a seat back around |the fifth row. That's the comfortable way,” he said. “In fact, it’s so comfortable that that is the way I am going to watch Armstrong and Garcia go for the middleweight title.”

A. A. U. Cage Meet In Semi-Finals

Four team survivors in the local A. A. U. basketball tourney will ¢lash at 8:15 tonight in semi-finals at the Y. M. C. A. ; Little Giants A./C. will meet the strong Butler Bullpups, coached by Frank Heddon, Fairview frosh mentor. Y Reps, one of the strongest of the local amateur quintets, will tangle with the Indiana Central Whippets, a team composed of Greyhound frosh and resegves coached by Harry Good, Indiana Central varsity mentor. ” . The winner of the two games tonight will meet tomorrow night at

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meet at Shelbyville later this month,

Phils Off Today for The Sunny South

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 28 (U, P.). —Led by President Gerald P. Nugent, the advance guard of the Philadelphia Phils was on the way to its Miami Beach, Fla., training camp.

Pitchers Sylvester Johnson, Clyde Smoll, Frank Hoerst and Hugh Mulcahy, and Outfielder Danny Litwhiler. Other first string pitchers

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he says, to the difference between indoor and outdoor play. He says the bali comes off the floor like a rocket, the lighting is tricky and he has tu scramble for shots thal would be set-ups outdoors. He is favored, however, to win the title in his first indoor tournament. In the other quarter-firral Marvin Kantrowitz, peppery little Lehigh University left hander, clashes with big Frank Froehling, of Chicago. Kantrowitz eliminated Elwood Cooke, sixth-ranking player in the nation, early in the tournament’s second round. In the women’s division, the field will be narrowed down to the semifinals. Pauline Betz, Los Angeles’s defending champion, will face Norma Taubele, of New York, in what should prove the outstanding match of the day. Miss Taubele, a hard-hitting left-hander, held the national indoor title six years ago. The top-seeded Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, of Brookline, Mass., will face Charlotte McNeill, of New York; Gracyn Wheeler, of Santa Monica, Cal, ranked No. 3, meets Millicent Hirsh, of New York, and Katharine Winthrop, of Brookline, plays Louise Raymond, of Scarsdale, N. Y,, in the other quarter-

25 Men Ready for White Sox Call

PASADENA, Cal, Feb. 28 (U. P.). —Jimmy . Dykes; manager of the Chicago White Sox, planned to call the first training session of the 1940 season today. About 25 players will be ready for the opening warmup. - Twelve members of the squad,

this morning. Others, incliding Thornton Lee, veteran Sox lefthander, had arrived some days ago.

Record Ice Crowd

CHICAGO, Feb, 28 (NEA) .—Fritz Dietle, stilt walker with a European ice show, appeared before the largest crowd in ice show history when he performed before 50,000 is MosCOW.

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Riggs Plays Davenport Today In National Quarter-Finals

NEW YORK, Feb. 23 (U. P.).—Bobby Riggs of Chicago, the nation's No. 1 amateur tennis player, meets S. Ellsworth Davenport of Forest Hills, N. Y., today in the quarter-final round of the National Indoor

Despite two hours of practice for every hour of match play, Riggs has been in difficulties with second rate opponents several times, due,

Goldsberry of Wabash Quits

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. Feb. 28 (U. P.) --L. B. Hopkins, president of Wabash College, late yesterday announced the resignation of Alonzo E. Goldsberry, assistant football coach and head haseball coach, in what was believed to be the first move toward a reorganization of the institution’s athletic policy. It was emphasized that Goldsberry’s work was satisfactory, and it was believed that his resignation was the result of an alumni committee recommendation that football and basketball be emphasized at the expense of baseball.

Rangers Pushed For Ice Lead

By UNITED PRESS

The second-place ‘Boston Bruins climbed to within two points of the idle first-place New York Rangers last night with a 6-0 victory over Chicago’s Black Hawks. The loss was the first in 10 starts for the Hawks. < Roy Conacher and Mel Hill each bagged two goals and counted two assists as Goalie Frank Brimsek earned his fifth shutout of the sea-

son. It was the only game played.

100 Heed Track Call At Shortridge

The first track call attracted approximately 100 boys yesterday afternoon at Shortridge, High School. Coach Don R. Knight explained the eligibility rules and passed out the certificates which are to be returned today with doctors’ signatures.

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Seven More Games Still On Hoosiers’ Card

the . finish wire, American League hockey teams— and our Indianapolis Capitals in particular—are eyeing the $24,000 player pool that will be divided among the playoff clubs. -The playoffs tentatively are scheduled to start March 19, two nights after the close of the regu-

top three clubs in both the west= ern and eastern divisions. Big chunks of gold, naturally, will go to the two division leaders, and the Capitals, still leading the western pack, are hopeful of holding that top spot. Seven more games remain on the Hoosiers’ schedule. After this evening’s contest at Syracuse, they will open a final six-game home stand at the Coliseum tomorrow night, against Philadelphia’s Ramblers. The five other clubs to appear here will be Pittsburgh, New Haven, Springfield, Syracuse and Hershey in that order. >

/’ Five Series Scheduled

The playoffs, according to information from the InternationalAmerican home office, will be divided into five series. - The first, technically known as Series A, will match the two division leaders. It will be a three-out-of-five affair, with the first two games being played at the arena of the team having the higher point total. The second two games will be played at the other city, and the fifth contest, if necessary, will be run off in the original city. Members of the team winning this series will share $5000, while the losers will divide $3000. The two second-place clubs will tangle in Series B, a two-out-of-three affair, with the first game being played at the home of the team with the lesser number of standings points. The two remaining games will be played in the city of its opponents. Series B spoils will be $3000 for the victors and $2000 for the losers. /

$2000 For the Victors

Series C, following the plan of Series B, will bring together the two third-place clubs in each division. The C winners will spit $2000 in prize money, while the losers will get $1200. By this time, three clubs will have been eliminated, and the Series B and Series C winners will compete in the two-of-three-game Series D. Prize money here will be $1800 for the winners and $1200 for the defeated players. Then will come the championship battle—known in official hockey circles as Series E. It will match the Series A winner against the D winner in a three-out-of-five-game fight and will open at the arena of the first-place club. As in Series A, the teams will move to the other city’ for the next two games and back to the original city, if necessary, for the deciding contest. : The winning team will be handed a $2500 check and the Calder Cup, while the losers will get $2000 to spend as they will.

Here's the Reason

So, contrary to belief in some quarters, finishing the season in first place means “sugar” to the victorious players. Even if they lose the opening series, they get a $3000 cut, while if they are victorious in both, their divvy amounts to $7500, more than $500 per player. That's why the Capitals want to hold that peak position. Since the Int-am schedule calls for western clubs to play 56 games, as compared to eastern teams’ 54, some dispute arose over the playoffs. It finally was ruled that a third-place club in the western division would have to play in Series C even though it had a higher point total than the second-place eastern Crew. " A long list of rules governing the playoffs have been released by the league. Each team is to certify by tomorrow 13 players and a goalie as its playoff roster. Participants in Series E, however, will be gllowed 16 icers and a mesh-minder. Among players eligible will be those on loan to Int-Am clubs ‘dur-

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Meet Johnny Polich, former footballer who has made good with the stick and skates. Johnny, broad smile and all, is one of the Philadelphia Ramblers and will be at wing tomorrow night when they take

on our Capitals at the Coliseum.

Johnny did his gridiron labors at

Loyola, of Los Arigeles and was considered All-America timber.

Other Athletes Are Improving,

Boxers Slipping—Stillman

By JACK CUDDY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Feb. 28. —Athletes in virtually every sport, “and even horses,” have improved during the past 10 years, but prizefighters have slipped badly according to that ultra-expert, Lou Stillman. Stillman, proprietor of the world’s busiest boxing gymnasium, insists that fighters in every division today—from Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis on down—are inferior to those of the past.

This landlord of larrup should know what he’s talking about because daily in his Eighth Avenue gym hetween 125 and '200 professional fighters work out. And he’s been in the business for 25 years. He has seen more leather-tossers in action than any human in history.

He'll Take Dempsey

Because of recent newspaper and magazine discussion over the comparative abilities of Louis and Jack Dempsey, Stillman was asked to enter the hurly-burly—and he came out punching. He gave Louis and other current pugilists a thorough trouncing. : “Louis and Dempsey!” scoffed Stillman. “Why mention those guys in the same breath? The Louis of today couldn’t even have given the Dempsey of Toledo a good workout. Jack would have knocked him dead in a couple of heats. “Louis is the perfect example of how fighters in general have faded during the past years. Look what he did in his last bout with Godoy. He gave a pitiful performance. Godoy not only made the fight, but he made Louis fight just the way he wanted him to.” Stillman declared that fight fans would have laughed Louis out of town in the old days because of his post-battle statements in which he said Godoy wouldn't stand up so he could hit him and that he (Louis) had given a poor performance because he was afraid of hurting his hands on Godoy’s head.

“Fine Talk!”

“Those are fine statements for a world champion to make,” continued the tall, slightly bent and slightly bald man. “If Louis was a real ring mechanic—instead of a mechanical ringster-—he would have straightened Godoy up in a hurry. How long do you think Godoy would have clowned around with Dempsey or any of the good heavies that came before him? Huh! And if Louis was afraid of hurting his fists, what did he get into the ring for? The fans paid to see him throw his fists. He didn’t do it.. He rooked them out of their dough.” Stillman had no bouquets for the other current champions. Lou Ambers, the lightweight king, apparently was the best of a bad lot although Lou is not much of a puncher. He said Ambers resembles the old-timers because of his ruggedness, stamina, speed, skill and ring brain. He looks like a “naturalborn” fighter. Stillman says this general sluffing off in pugilistic ability has resulted from a combination of many causes. Prohibition with its wave of gangsters and racketeers brought about an unfortuante admiration for the gun and the knife—instead of the fist—among youngsters in tough neighborhoods. Then the depression and its paltry purses in small fight clubs caused the tough kids to turn to easier and more lucrative enterprises. Other causes are lack of study of boxing technique, laziness in training, easy living, fancy clothes, and bad managers. Stillman concludes that current managers, with but few exceptions,- are as frowzy a lot as their fighters.

eventuality, the Ball State cagers n old rivalry with the Indiana State Sycanm is Coach Pete Phillips. He and Co

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Snubbed, Say Chisox Heirs

CHICAGO, Feb. 28 (U. P)— Heirs of J. Louis Comiskey, former owner of the Chicago White Sox, charged in Probate Court today that the first National Bank of Chicago is “disregarding Comiskey’s wishes” in ‘asking for permission to sell the American League baseball club. Mrs. Grace Reidy Comiskey, widow of the magnate, said in an answer to the bank’s petition that her husband Charles A. Comiskey had spent a lifetime building the organization and it was their wish it remain in the family. ’ : Attorney Thomas J. Sheehan filed the answer before Probate Judge John J. O'Connell. A hearing on the bank’s petition for permission to sell the club, as well as a hearing on Mrs. Comiskey’s petition for an outright grant of her dawer, rights to one-third of the Comiskey estate, is scheduled for Thursday. “The bank is an unofficial trustee and not entitled to determine whether a sale is proper,” the answer said. “The trustee shows disregard for the wishes of J. Louis Comiskey by filing notice it wishes to sell less than six months after his death.” : ;

Bronko Wrestles Like He Talks

All that talk Bronko Nagurski did last week and this about making quick work of Dorve Roche wasn’t, it developed last night at the Armory, just talk. Give and take four minutes, the Bronk kept his word. [Recognized as the national heavyweight wrestling champ, Bronko said he expected the Roche match would be about a 30-minute assignment. And he missed his calculation by only the four above-mentioned minutes. He won the first fall frcm the 222pound ex-coal miner from Decatur, Ill, in 34 minutes and then Roche had to disappoint the 2500 spectators who filed in for phe weekly show. Dorve suffered a kink in the knee and was unable to return. The hold tnat did the damage was a reverse toe-hold. . In a 30-minute semi-windup, Mike Mazurki, 240, of New York, and Len Macaluso, 225, of Buffalo, struggled to a draw. In the opener Juan Humberto, 226, of Mexico City, won over Milo $Steinborn, 233, of St. Louis, when he put some reverse English on a Steinborn bear hug and pinned his squeezing opponent to the floor. . That one took 15 minutes.

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Noel, Reed Victorious: Shelp, Hiner Lose

By EDDIE ASH Times Sports Editor CHICAGO, Feb. 28.—The Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions enters. the stretch at Chicago Stae dium tonight as survivors of two nights of action battle through the quarter-finals. The Indianapolis Times-Legion team still is in there pitching as five

roundup. They are Dick Miller, fly weight; A. G. Lee, bantamweight; Joe Sgro, lightweight; Buddy Noel, welterweight. and Willard Reed,

light heavyweight. Lee Prettyman, featherweight, was eliminated Monday and Keith Shelp, middlewight, and James Hiner, heavyweight, were sidelined last night. hh Draw Four Byes

Only the heavier divisions fought last night and Indianapolis tied a

byes in the first round. Therefore, the Times-Legion leather tossers had to fight but once. Buddy Noel decisioned Vernon Weygandt, St. Louis; Keith Shelp was out-pointed by Neil Finney, Ft, Smith, Ark.; Willard Reed dee cisioned Frank Pistoli, Bloomington, Ill, and James Hiner was oute pointed by Bill Renfro, St. Louis.

record shows seven bouts won, three lost, and six byes. Competition becomes terrific toe night since most of the weaker tale ent has been weeded out. It will rée

hard punching and courageous hearts to survive the stern competition to become eligible for the semi finals and finals tourney on March 6. Approximately 90 bouts will be run off tonight to close the show, which is the 13th annual. Boys in all weight classes will perform to cut Joe Tribune Golden Gloves field 0 > Noel Gets First Round

In the Noel-Weygandt welter= . weight joust last night the Indiane, apolis lad felt out his foe with a left jab and it worked. He shot a right

turn. Noel then scored with two lefts and was on the receiving end of a right. Weygandt forced the milling, but Noel gained a first round edge by landing two lefts be fore the bell. . Noel made a right good but it was light and Weygandt backed him to the ropes. They exchanged rights and Noel landed a left uppercut. The St. Louis boxer pushed Noel into a corner and he appeared. weary. He had enough left, how=ever to finish with a rally.

Left Hand Wins

In the Kinney-Shelp middleweight bout the Ft. Smith, Ark., collegian won because he had the better left hand. It was just about even for two rounds. No damaging blows were registered until the last stanza when Kinney put-over a couple of stinging righthanders. However, Kinney’s left was the best weapon and Shelp was forced to depend upon short right uppercuts to break into the point column, Superior footwork was a prime factor in Willard Reed’s victory over Frank Pistole. In the first round Reed. scored a left and followed it with a right. The Illindis light heavy tried a left and Reed made a right uppercut good. Reed was. successful

scoring. Reed used both hands to advantage in the last canto and clever shifting had Pistole guessing. The Indianapolis light heavy showed smart. timing of punches and won with points to spare. Renfro’s body punching eliminated Hiner from the tournament Hiner got a right to Renfro’s chin in the second but there was not enough behind it and he again had to bear up under blows to the body. His uppercuts landed but were short of steam and the best he got out of this stanza was an- even break. In the third canto. Hiner gave away too much ground to stay in the running as his blows lacked the dynamite to keep Renfro at a dise tance.

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