Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 February 1940 — Page 18
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BACKBOARD
By J. E. O'BRIEN
° The records have been consulted, the informers have been heard and the coins have been flipped. There’s nothing to do now but list our selections in 64 sectional centers
1d wait for the results. Here we go:
At Anderson—Anderson. Nothing like starting oft with a ‘oughie, At Attica—Covington. The fancy dans of Fountain County. At Batesville—Batesville. The happy hosts. At Bloomfield—Linton. Figuring Lyons, Switz City and Bloom1d will use themselves up fighting one another.
At Bloomington—Martinsville, .2 watch. At Bluffton—Liberty Center. At Boonville—Boonville.
‘ined and seven times they’ve lost.
A team our Hatchets will have
They're getting lots of votes. Seven times the Pioneers have enter-
This should be their year:
At Butler—Auburn. Picking it in a burry. At Clinton—Clinton. Others like Cayuga and Tangier.
At Connersville—Connersville.
At Crawfordsville—Crawiofdsville,
their new playhouse.
Remember Berne? Well—
Without much trouble.
The Athenians to go big in
At Danville—Lizton. Who said Plainfield? At Decatur—Berne. This club was at the big show once.
At Delphi—Delphi.
Cutler may surprise the Oracles.
At Evansville—Central. But they've been piling on the Reitz
handwagon lately. At Ft. Wayne—South Side.
By a whisker over North.
At Frankfort—Frankfort. Never much trouble for the Hot Dogs. At Franklin—Franklin. Greenwood should have kept it all a
secret.
At Greencastle—Greencastle. We can’t see much trouble here for
the Tiger Cubs. At Greenfield—Greenfield. The margin.
home floor should - provide the
At Greensburg—North Vernon.’ The Panthers will have to watch
out for the host Pirates.
At Hammond —Whiting. It’s hard to pass up Washington of East
Chicago.
At Hartford City—Hartford City. But close. At Huntington—Huntington. A big boy among the midgets.
Come On, You Blue Devils!
At Indianapolis—Shortridge. As we said before.
At Jeffersonville—Jeffersonville.
It’s too bad New Albany, Silver
Creek and Corydon all can’t survive.
At Kendallville—EKendallville, prise or two.
The time and place for a sur-
Af Kokomo—Kokomo. Next week will be a tough one for the
Kats. At Lafayette—Lafayette.
Building up a bitter regional.
At Lawrenceburg—Lawrenceburg. Aurora as the second choice. At Lebanon—Lebanon. No trouble. At Logansport—Logansport. Life is just a bowl of Berries. At Marion—Marion. But Gas City could make a lot of guys sick. At Michigan City—La Porte. Another one that looks easy. At Mishawaka—South Bend Central. Mishawaka to place and
Riley to show.
At Mitchell—Mitchell. But Bedford deserves—and may Bled
regional berth. At Monticello—Monticello. At Muncie—Central, honey.
Picking with ‘a hat pin. The Central-Burris game should be a
At Nappanee—Goshen. According to the dope.
The Upsets Come Cheap
At New Castle—New Castle. The Trojans are well informed on
Mooreland.
At Owensville—Princeton. Upsets are cheap in Gibson County. At Oxford—Fowler. You're welcome to handicap this one . At Paoli—Salem. This one looks easy. At Peru—Peru. Unless the dope bucket is upset.
At Petersburg—Huntingburg. burg won’t shock us. At Pierceton—Syracuse.
A victory by Jasper or PetersA little birdie told us.
At Plymouth—Bourbon. We like the name. At Rensselaer—Rensselaer. When in doubt, pick the home team. At Richmond—Richmond. Tough competition has tuned the Red
Devils.
At Rushville—Rushville. It's best to ride with the favorite in a
case like this.
At Scottsburg—Madison. Do ycu see anyone else? At Seymour—Seymour. “Watch us go now,” Seymour fans tell us. At Shelbyville—~Columbus. Shelbyville is good, too. At Spencer—Brazil. But you never know. -
At Sullivan—Sullivan. It Won’t Be Long Now
Ask us another.
At Tell City—Dale. Dale already has won two tournaments this
season.
At Terre Haute—QGarfield. But Pimento could be a giant-killer.
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£3 nals. Froebel has a good chance.
At Tipton—Tipton.: Easy, isn't it? At Valparaiso—Gary Emerson. One of the state’s toughest sec-
At Vincennes—Vincennes. But 11 other teams don’t feel that way.
At Wabash—Wabash. It’s a gift.
At Washington—Washington. Yippee! ! At Winamac—Rochester. A team that has been coming. At Winchester—Saratoga. Only sickness kspt them from an une
defeated season.
McNeill, Bowden
Meet on Courts
NEW YORK, Feb. 20 (U. P.).— Don McNeill of Oklahoma City and Frank Bowden, New York, meet in a semi-final match of the National Indoor Men’s Tennis Singles Championship today. The winner probably will play the title match with Bobby Riggs of Chicago, No. 1 amateur, who is expected to win a semi-final victory tomorrow over Frank Froehling, also'of Chicago. McNeill and Bowden met two
years ago on the Tth Regiment|
Armory boards, where today’s match will be played. McNeill won the indoor championship in that contest. Both pack power in their Strokes but the winner today will need it if he meets’ Riggs for the title. . There also was one semi-final round engagement scheduled in the women’s singles, with Pauline Betz, of Los Angeles, the defending cham-
pion, slated to meet Gracyn Wheeler, Santa Monica, Cal. The other semi-final involving two Brookline, Mass.,, players, Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan and Katharine Winthrop, will be played tomorrow, with the final scheduled for Saturday.
Same Old Story In Illinois, Too
T'imes Speciai CHAMPAIGN, Ill, Feb. 29.—It is now useless to send orders for
the l1llinois state high school basketball tournament because all tckets which are available to the general public are sold, C. E. Bowen, business manager of Illi» nois University athletics, announced today. The number of orders received by Feb. 23, the deadline, exceeded the 3300 tickets assigned to the public by approximately 1000.
Action-at 8 Against Hawks
Six Teams Will Start in Sectional Opener
Tonight’s Schedule
7 P. M.—New Augusta vs. Southport. : 8 P. M.—Tech vs. Decatur Central.
9 P. M.—Speedway vs. Washington.
Six of the 16 entries in the local high school sectional basketball tournament will go to the post this
evening in the opening session at the Tech gym. The top game of the evening— ohne that’s had the fans arguing since pairings were - releaged last week—is the Tech-Decatur ,Central clash at 8 o’clock. The Decatur Hawks rank as the big Marion County threat, while Coach Bayne Freeman's Big Green five must be rated with the best inside the city limits.
Tech Works Out
Tech was sent through its final workout yesterday, a practice devoted to penetrating a zone defense. That was the East Sider’s weakness last Saturday when they lost to Washington, and Coach Freeman doesn’t intend to be the victim of the same tactics again. Likely starters for Tech will be Frank Buddenbaum and Jack Bradford, forwards; Bob Gray, center, and Houston Meyer and Dick Evans, guards. Burke Anderson, whose Hawks haven’t been beaten since the start of the year, plans to open with this lineup: William Butler and Kenneth Moore, forwards; Vernon Miller, center, and Max Shanklin and Sam Staats, guards. A pair of county teams—New Augusta and Southport—will start proceedings at 7 o'clock in what may turn into a vicious fight. The Southport Cardinals, who won last year's sectional, don’t shape up as a strong a team this season, but they've been up against some tough competition this season. The New Augusta five, now being coached by Joe Jordan since Bill Bugg's resignation, has fared well this season and promise to give southerners a battle.
Dimancheft Probably Out
Boris Dimancheff, one of Washington’s ace athletes, probably will be out of the Continentals’ lineup when they go against Speedway in the evening finale. Dimanchefi suffered a hand injury in a collision with forward Courtney Gerrish during a practice session yesterday and is expected to be sidelined. The Continentals rate as favorites over the Spark Plugs but this is sectional time when plenty of upsets blossom. The other 10 teams begin play tomorrow, with the opening game between Warren Central and Oaklandon scheduled at the early hour of 9-a. m. One hour later Broad Ripple and Shortridge will settle an intra-city argument, with the Blue Devils favored to win out.
Strack Injured
Dave Strack, Shortridge guard, who has been receiving treatment for a knee injury suffered in Tuesday’s practice, may not start in this contest, however. In that case the Shortridge lineup will include Walt Freihofer and Bryan West, forwards; Larry Yeager, center, and Chuck Benjamin and Dick Gage, guards. The third morning: mix-up, scheduled for 11 c’clock, will bring together Lawrence and Castleton. The first round will be completed in afternoon games pairing Beech Grove and Manual and Ben Davis and Franklin Township, with the first of the second-round encounters on the books for 4 p. m.
Scribes, Butler
DESPITE 64 BASKETBALL tournaments on one day, delayed telegrams and printers plagued with transposition, the life of a sports writer sometimes is very nice. Not bad at all. That’s the way it was last night when Butler University called in the city’s sports scriveners to the banquet. table, let them gab among themselves and offer suggestions on how to improve the Relays, scheduled for March 16. About all the boys were there— from the three papers, the radios and the press associations. Though there was little formality or speech-making, the suave Mr. Tony Hinkle, Butler athletic
chief, did the toastmastering and told how the Relays were started
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Backboard Likes '‘Em—Do You?
Here are Coach Marion Crawley’s Washington Hatchets from southern Indiana, selected by “Off the Backboard” as the next high school basketball champions of Indiana. (front row, left to right) Charles Webb, William Harmon, Jesse (Junie) Bruner, Leroy (Hook) Mangin In the rear row (left to right) are Coach Crawley, Leo Klier, Rufe" Arnold, *James Riffey, Ivan (Pete) Wininger, John (Deac) DeJernett and Carl Boger Jr, manager.
On Coach Crawley’s crew are
As.a rewarding study in just what makes up the modern high school athlete, we suggest you take a good look at Robert Timmons, 17, a senior at Manual and a whiz on the hardwood. Timmo will be ‘heading into the twilight of his prep school career at 2 p. m. tomorrow. That's when he and his fellow Redskins meet Beech Grove in the local sectional. And whether they win or nots Timmo
DePauw Five Gets Revenge
By UNITED PRESS Indiana State, Valparaiso and DePauw won Indiana college conference basketball games last night, leaving the myriad state colleges with only -11 games to be played before uniforms are placed in the mothballs for another year. DePauw’s five gained revenge on the Wabash quint last night by taking a final-minute decision, 40 te 37. Earlier this season the Little Giants trimmed DePauw, 41 to 21, at Crawfordsville. The score was tied, 14 to 14, at the half last night, but DePauw's offensive began clicking with a vengeance in the closing quarter and blasted through for several field goals while limiting the Wabash scoring mainly to gift throws. Shalley scored 10 points for DePauw while Fisher and Rhode whipped Jlrs ough an equal number for Waash Valparaiso took an overtime, 59 to 58, game from Central Normal on a free throw by Krenskie as the extra period drew to a close. Central Normal led, 31 to 26, at the half, but Valpo pulled up rapidly and in the final quarter the score changed on virtually every shot. Koepke led a late rally that pulled Valparaiso out in front, 54. to 53, but Farr hit a free throw to bring about the overtime. Koepke scored 16 points while Janeway led Central Normal with 2 a State downed Ball State, 36 to 31, gaining a measure of revenge for a 41 to 40 victory earned by the Cardinals on the Muncie
' individual champs .
floor earlier this year.
Study Relays
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by Hermon Phillips, because he thought Americans weren’t doing well enough in the Olympics. . . . Ray Sears, Butler coach, had his say too. . .. The assemblage was assured that Michigan would be back to defend its crown and that a couple of other Big Ten teams undoubtedly. would be on hand— Indiana and Ohio State. 2 2 2
IF YALE CAN get all the necessary arrangements put into one arrangement, the Easterners will be here, too . . . More than 30 schools in all are expected . . . The biggest reason for taking out that broad jump is lack of room and lack of Jess Owens. . « . The Kansas State Teachers from Emporia, Kas., probably won't be here . .. There's been too much snow for their boys to get in condition . . . Sears has a trick up his sleeve in that mile and one-half specialty . . . He's going to put in a freshman to set a fast pace for a mile, just to make sure the big shots don't idle along until the last few laps .. . Madison Square Garden could stand to try the. same thing . . . The Relays is about the only event of its kind in which team champions are declared . . . Most others just have « The annual Relays banquet ‘will be held
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Twilight of Career Is Near
For Timmons of Manual
will have a record that stands considerable perusing. For one thing, he’s helped the South Siders to two city championships. Too, - he received allcity honorable mention on the gridiron last fall and has run the 440 on the track squad for three{years. Those three records make up an enviable records. But Bob didn’t stop there. Timmo is a good-natured, modest feliow and these attributes have helped him to the presidency of the senior class, membership in the Roines Club, senior honorary organization for boys; the vice presidency of the Hi-Y club, and a place in the Letterman's C Club, a new society at the South Side institution. At home (803 Sanders St.) he gets up at 5:30 a. m. each day and eats what his mother, Mrs. Leonard E. Timmons, puts on the table. None of this special and bothersome dieting to keep in condition, or something. In case youre out at fhe Tech Gym tomorrow afternoon watching the sectional battles, Timmo’s number is 4 and he has hair that leans to the wavy side.
Whippets Meet Butler Pups
The local A. A. U. basketball crown and the opportunity to represent Indianapolis in the State tourney at Shelbyville next week will be at stake tonight when the Butler Bullpups and Indiana Central Whippets answer the official’s whistle at 8:15 at the Central Y,. Both teams displayed scoring power plus rugged defense last night in downing their opponents. The Bullpups had much the easier task in eliminating a willing but less capable Shamrock Club quintet, 31 to 18, while the Whippet five raced to a 40-36 victory over the host “Y” Reps. The final game tonight will match two quintets that are equal in size, speed, defensive ability and endurance. Both fives use the same style of attack—a fast-breaking, fire department style. The final game will be preceded by a preliminary clash at 7 between two quintets to be chosen from the teams already out of the tourna-_ ment. Individual awards will be. given the players of the winning and runner-up teams.
Falls City Team To Meet Sunday
The Falls City Hi-Bru baseball team will meet at 3 p. m. Sunday in the Smith, Hassler store. Last year’s players are to bring uniforms. Attention: Swank, Birge, Thompson, Staller, Rusie, Robold, McCracken, Alltop, Sansone, Garrick, Russell, O’Haver, Wilson, EIWalters, Nuttall, Smith, P. Stevenson, Howard and Baird.
Nurmi and Maki Start Tour of U. S.
NEW YORK, Feb. 29 (U. P.).—
Paavo Nurmi and Taisto Maki, past
and present Finnish distance. running stars, start- their tour of the United States today for the benefit of the Finnish Relief Fund. Maki’s initial American competitive performance is scheduled for Tuesday night, March 5, at the San Francisco Auditorium.
W here fo Go—
TONIGHT Basketball—High school sectional tournament, Tech gym, T p. m. Hockey—Capitals vs. Philadelphia, Coliseum, 8:30 p. m. TOMORROW Basketball—High school sectional tournament, Tech- gym, sessions begin at 9 a. m.,, 2 p. m. and 7 p. m.
SATURDAY
Basketball—High school sectional tournament, Tech gym, 1:30 p. m. and 8 p. m. SUNDAY
Amateur Hockey—Coliseum, 7:15. Indiana Fur vs. Kuhn's,
It’s Rain Again; Poor Biscuit!
ARCADIA, Cal, Feb. 29 (U. P.).— Showers pelted the crisp track at Santa Anita Park today and rail-
birds and experts alike shook their heads. A heavy rain would mean the $100,000 handicap had jinxed Seabiscuit again. - Twice nosed out of the world’s richest horse racing prize and broken down while training for the stake last year, Seabiscuit almost certainly will be scratched from his fourth if the present pasteboard footing is churned by rain. Trainer Tom Smith, who has nursed his pet through the years to wtihin striking distance of Sun Beau's all-time money-winning record, says the Biscuit is sharper now than ever in his career. And to prove it, he points to the smashing win Saturday over the San Antonio handicap’s mile and a furlong in track record time. But Owner Charles S. Howard for the past three years has been adamant in refusing to let his champion go over anything but a fast track. Whether the lure of the rich stake and the fact that a victory will make Seabiscuit the first horse to top the $400,000 mark will influence Howard is one of the big question marks of the race.
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Sgro Punches His Way to
Semi-Finals
Other 4 Survivors Out Of Golden Gloves
By EDDIE ASH Times Sports Editor
CHICAGO, Feb. 29.—Joseph Paul Sgro, 17-year-old auto mechanic
is the Indianapolis Times-Legion Golden Gloves team’s gift to the Chicago Tribune's semi-finals and finals tourney on March 6. Sgro, an Italian-American, the lone Indianapolis survivor ‘after
closed at Chicagq, Stadium last night. He is a lightweight.
» Won Two Monday
Joe won two bouts Monday, rested up on Tuesday and came hack last night to win a quarter-finals heat from Othel Green, Des Moines, who received expert coaching by Benny Leonard, former world lightweight champion. Sgro got a lucky break in the night's first go-around when he won by default from Edward O’Connell, Chicago’s 135-pounder. In the
round Sgro and O'Connell were paired after the physical examinations, They physicians questioned O’Donnell’s condition and passed him temporarily at the lad’s insistence. However, the boy was placed in the Stadium Hospital for observation and two hours after the
and the diagnosis was appendicitis. "Reed Wins, Loses -
In other bouts last night involving Indianapolis lads Dick Miller, flyweight, lost by technical knockcut to Harold Dade, Chicago, in the second round. A. C. Lee, bantamweight, lost a close decision to Martin Frederickson of Cedar Rapids; Buddy Noel, welterweight, dropped a close verdict to George Hayes, Des Moines; Willard Reed, light heavy, outpointed the veteran Vic Hutton, Terre Haute, and then Reed lost the decision in his second bout of the night to James Richie, St. Louis.
25 Get Blue Devil Track Uniforms
Twenty-five boys have been instructed by Coach Don R. Knight to report to the Shortridge field today for track equipment. They are William Snyder, Fred Maynard, Willam Compton, Kenny Smock, Frank Linville, Harry Rybolt, Carl Getz, Bud Schraeder, Jim Mitchell, Al Traugott, Don King, Gene Williams, Bob Nigh, Bob Wetherall, Duncan, William Allerdice, Art Pens, George Kraeger, Charles Van Tassel,- Walter Thienes, John Kirkhoff. Wilbur Hiller, Dale Sumner, Russell Imblen and William Strawmeyer. Until warmer weather prevails, practice, which will begin Monday, will be held in the Butler Fieldhouse.
Badminton Tourney Starts Tonight
Fifty-six players will take to the courts tonight in the city badminton doubles tourney, starting at 7:30 p. m. at the Central Y Gym. There are nine teams in the women’s division, 14 in the men’s and
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Sears Chooses
Track Units
Varsity and freshman indoor track teams have been selected by Coach Ray Sears at Butler Unie versity for their respective engages ments this week-end. The 10-man varsity squad will dee fend its team championship Sate urday afternoon and night at the fourth annual Midwest carnival in Naperville, Ill. Seven freshman will participate in the Indiana A. A. U, , meet at Notre Dame Saturday night. Sears will leave here tomorrow noon with his varsity runners that
will include co-Capt. William Southe worth, Armsted Elkin, Elias Poulos, Bernard Fox, Max Armer, James Stewart, John Reno, Ora Kincaid, co-Capt. Charles Marshall and Harold Feichter. : Freshman squad members will be Charles Bohnstadt, Earl Mitchell, Robert Dreesen, Junior Gary, Wale “-. ter Storm, Clarice Marshall and Ale bert Gross.
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