Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1940 — Page 8

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_ the job 32 years. . . .

‘SPORTS.

By Eddie As h

SINCE ICE HOCKEY originated in Canada the Dominion’s sports writers are rated as the No. 1 experts. « « « They were brought up in the sport the same as the average United States scrivener’s background is baseball. Therefore, we are going to let you read what Al"

- Parsley, Montreal Sports Fan expert, has to say about

hockey playoffs. , .., In part, he writes: “Playoff hockey is hockey ,at its best. The coaches have found the best players, the best combinations. They

‘know the strategy they can adopt against different oppo-

nents. And the hockey fans in Canada’s big cities, who are, after all, the severest hockey critics in the world, know this, although many

of them are unaware of it.

“Practice is one thing for seasoning a hockey team. A game is the real medicine. When a hockey team has played 40 or 50 games, it

gets to be really good.

“So it’s no wonder the fans still love their playoffs.

‘the inks are packed, the turnstiles

Every year click merrily. The fans support

those extra series at the end of the season when the marbles are

down and the teams are playing for

keeps.”

| One Guess Names Opening-Day Pitcher

LOOKS LIKE the Indianapolis Indians’ opening-day pitcher will

be the reliable Lefty Bob Logan. . Tribe’s mound staff at the moment.

. » He just about comprises the

President Leo T. Miller and ‘Manager Wes Griffin are motoring to Florida to camp on Bill McKechnie’s doorstep and beg ior any-

thing the Cincy Reds’ chief has to ” 2° =

offer in the curving department. 8 » #

THE American Association’s spring meeting is to be held at Bartow,

where the Indians will pitch camp,

and the Tribe chiefs will throw

a dinner party for the visiting magnates. This is the third year for the Hoosiers at Bartow and from all

accounts the players get along all right in the inland city. :

you guessed it, the groceries meet

. Yeah,

their approval. . . . “Let's eat”

rolls off their tongues in a chorus similar to electrical transmission,

. Scouts Eye Notre Dame Senior

BILL HAPAC, Illini hardwood sharpshooter, is reported dickering with the professiona. basketball league for a job next season. . . , Baseball scouts will converge on Notre Dame in June to bid for the services of Rex Ellis, Irish southpaw. , . . His collegiate career ends

this year.

George Keogan, ‘Notre Dame basketball coach, is serious about

forming a group to battle for the return of the center jump.

. He's

going before the next coaches’ convention and give it a try.

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TOM ROBINSON, Northwestern senior coach, has been on

He also is no mentals. , .

mean hand at basketball funda-

. Remember Ken Penner, the old Indianapolis pitcher?

. He's now manager of the Pocatello, Idaho, club in the Pioneer

Leugue. Romance came into Penner’s life

when he twirled for the Hoosiers.

Young Moran Tries Picket Patrol

THERE'S a red-faced young fellow running around Plant Field Tampa, where the Cincinnati Reds are in training, who may be what the doctor ordered for Bill McKechnie, manager of the Na-

tional League champions.

That fiery Irishman, Cyril Moran, played first base for the Muskogee Reds of the Western Association last year, which shouldn’t cause any eyebrow lifting for the reason that Muskogee is in a Class C league and the Reds do not need a first baseman,

‘8 = f J MORAN had a whole winter to Reds, and he realized what chance

” ” think about his futur with the a Class C rookie would have to

beat out Frank McCormick for the first base job. He looked over the

Redleg roster, read the newspaper

accounts of their strength and

weakness, and, all of a sudden popped up in the California Winter

League as an outfielder. Today Cyril Moran is no longer

a first baseman, but an aspirant

for a Redleg outfield post. ... At Muskogee he batted 341 and collected

26 homers.

Win Today—T hen Think About Tomorrow—A Blades Theory

By HARRY FERGUSON

United Press

sports Editor

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March 6.—There's a spot of sere, Yellow

grass in the outfield at Waterfront the St. Louis Cardinals stood on it.

Park and Manager Ray Blades of

That's where he is this season—on the spot.

People already are picking his

team to win the National League

pennant and are saying that this former minor league manager may be

the one who puts together the combination that will end the reign of | the New York Yankees in the World Series. It wasn’t that way last year when Blades took over the Cardinals. Nobody expected him to do much and everybody was surprised when he brought the Cardinals into the stretch in a knock-down fight with the Cincinnati Reds for the pefinant. The' Cards finished four and a half games behind the Reds, but Blades’ reputation was made—made in spite of the fact that many persons considered him the most unorthodox manager in baseball. Looking for Rain “This is his baseball philosophy, spoken as he squinted through- the sun at fielding practice: “Tomorrow it may rain.” He meant that he proceeded on the theory that the thing to do was to win today’s ball game and let tomorrow take care of itself. ‘I'he result was that he was criticized for hauling pitchers out of the

Bill Hapac Grabs Scoring Title

i CHICAZO, March 6 (U. P.).— Capt. Bill Hapac of Illinois played one and one-half games less than his teammates this season but won the individual scoring championship of the Big Ten basketball conference

‘with 164 points. Dick Klein, North-

western, was second in total points with 141. « topping the league, Hapac m 60 field goals and: 44 free throws for an average of 14.8 points a game, but it wasn’t enough to top the all-time Conference record of 184 points set by Jewell Young, Purdue, in 1938. Young averaged 15.3 points a game. However, Hapac did set a singlegame record by scoring 34 points to help the Illini beat Minnesota, 60 to 31, on Feb. 10. The leaders: .

apace, INlinols E 2 Northwestern .. glund, IW! Wisconsin . i n, Minnesota .. 1 IE, Indiana “a

i 1, Tow tanken, ‘Purdue 12 : ga Northwestern 12

Lounsbury. Chieago .. 12

- Bruins Within Point

Of Idle Rangers

: ‘By UNITED PRESS The second-place Boston Bruins

game too fast, for overworking veterans such as Curt Davis who won 22 games and lost 16, tor bencaing Ducky Medwick in the late innings of several games and sending Lynn King to left field on the theory that it strengthened the team defer:sively.

In short, Blades would use every

man on his squad, if necessary, to win today’s ball game and tomorrow —well, tomorrow it may rain. “That’s the way it’s: going to be this year, t00,” he said today. “I'm not trying to tell other managers that I have the best system and I'm not trying to tell. them what to do. But I've found out both here in the National League and in the minor leagues that if you throw everything into today’s ball game, the system will work 75 per cent of the. time. If it does, you're pretty likely to be up there fighting for the pennant.”

He Gets Around

The skepticism over Blades’ ability last year extended even to some of his own players, notably Medwick, but there's no: doubt this season who is running the St. Louis Cardinals, - Blades 1s all over the: field, instructing a rookie how to bunt, criticizing pitching motions, sending Big Johnny Mize through long, hot fielding sessions at first base and seeing and hearing everything that goes on. He knows he is on the spot and wishes that fewer persons would hand the pennant to the Cardinals before they even call “Play ball” in the National League. For he has a quaint notion that pennants are not won on paper but in the dust and heat ‘of the drive down through September when he seldom gets a rainy day tomorrow.

Caps Work o on | Trunks and Hornets (1-0)

“Not lato Defeat

The hockey Capitals’ west-

dyed trunks. the trunks, first, and then the

victory at the Coliseum last

their leadership. performance of our boys much more

realized. ; oft to the Cleaners

It “all started a couple of days ago when Manager Herbie Lewis, who always likes for his boys. to

in public, de=~ cided their suits

dirty for * night's perforinance. So he bundled upallthe trunks, then a dirty gray, and shipped them to the cleaners. But even after they came out of fhe suds, they didn’t please Herbie, so he ordered them dyed blue. When the boys put on their working togs last night, however, they found the revamping process had shrunk the trunks. And you can take Herbie’s word for. it that nothing will slow an icer like fight equipment. ; : Well, the players tried the cleaned, dyed and tight pants for one period, then went to work on them during the first intermission. They pulled and stretched the trunks, and a couple even resewed the buttons. Goalie Alfie Moore was the only Capital not suffering; merely because he still wore that old football rigging he prefers.

Next Was a Goal

The next problem was scoring a goal, and the Capitals took care of that just five seconds before the final gun exploded. The score ifself

was a honey. Faithful Hec Kilrea toted the puck into the attacking zone and passed it to Gus Giesebrecht, who had set himself up to the right of the Pittsburgh cage. Giesebrecht fired once, and the disc caromed to the left. ..But there was Sandy Ross, who batted it right back at the cage before Mr. Teno could wheel into position. The single goal climaxed a vicious siege by the Caps on Teno and his fellow defenders throughout the third session. “It was just as we planned it,” Manager Lewis explained. “I tol Id the boys to play. it safe for two periods, then turn it on.” It looked for a while, however, that the strategy wasn’t going to work, just because the disc refused to enter the cage. Nearly all the Capitals had at least one crack at the meshes during this series of attacks, but when the shots weren't wide, they were stoped by some husky Hornet.

First Sorty Fails

Buck Jones, Gus Giesebrecht and Jack Keating’ made the first sorty early in the period, but failed. That was the same luck Bob Whitelaw and Eddie Bush had a. few minutes later. A neat save by Teno snuffed a Bob Grace-to-Archie- Wilder play, and Teno used a scissors hold on the

disc to stop Wilder's shot shortly afterward.

" Sandy Ross

Liscombe and Ronnie Hudson came down on an undermanned Hérnet goal, and they couldn’t poke the puck into the cage. Virtually all the Caps except Alfie Moore had a part in the following attack, and big Pet~ Bessone stretched out in front of the cage to stop this one. Pittsburgh ‘did little more during this 20 minutes than attempt to keep the Capitals away. The Hornets had tried some:'goal-gathering earlier, but their lighter opponents, working with more finesse on defense, were able to keep Goalie Moore’s doorstep clean.

It Was, Tough :

During the first two periocls,; our Indianapolis boys found getting past the Hornets’ blue line was like trying to make a yard inside Southern California’s tackles. Maybe the Hornet big boys would let a puck get past them now and then, or even a player, but seldom both on the same play, * The Capitals still have four games left on their schedule—all st home. New Havel. pays the next call here tomorrow shight, and the Capitals are in no frame of mind to lose that one. They won’t get their suits: cleaned or dyed for that one, either, Manager Lewis assures you. Summary:’ Indianapolis (1) -

Pittsburgh (0).

a Brau, angels) Ross. ooo: Lis-

Manus, Metz

force, Babe Dye: Linesman, Don Egan.

—8core by Periods— Indianapolis .e 0

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st be 2 id: : Ph ay id No Fehon, ck Second ing. Penalty Bush (trip, be indi i ana 5) fo (Kilrea. Giesebrecht), 19:55. ” lo penaltie.

ves— Moore Indi ’, : Err 10. anapolls 4%;

Teno

Sign Tennis Pro 2 ‘APPLETON, Wis., March 6 (NEA), fessional tour wi: Don Budge last

Local Panis Shrink, but|

ern-division lead was two| points «fatter today despite]. Pittsburgh’s chunky defense men and 13 pairs of newly, The Capitals took care off Hornet’s beef to score a 1-0}

night and shake off for al while, at least, the assault on|,

And those trunks affected the|

than most-of the 3522 fans present

field events.

With five minutes ‘to’ play, Carl|

Brecht Raatin: ( an burgh) As Qiane: ) Sou ras, e, Currie. Mc ire) Ay i . Duguid,

—Walter Senior, who mace. a’ pro-|

Ted is Flying

look their best| &

were a bit too % last| &

Toward # the Butler

{was under way today as sportsgoers sought to purchase the last _|of the general admission tickets. -

This flying young man’ is Ted Leonas, a high jumping athlete from Notre Dame who falls into the

6-foot-6 class of leapers,

: Conditioning of Track begins Basketball Floor Stored

Transformation of the Butler Fieldhouse from the state’s tatgest basketball gymnasium to a “stadium” for the Relays March 16, was

under way in earnest today.

A crew of 60 husky Butler students under the direction of Athletic Director Tony Hinkle and Relays Director Ray Sears last night pleted the task of storing the basketball floor, preparatory to condition-

ing the dirt floor for the track and More than 200 sections of the maple floor, weighing 500° pounds to a section, were stacked against the walls, together with hundreds of supporting timbers and concrete blocks, each piece numbered and indexed. Conditioning the track for the 15 events of the. Relays started today —a daily routine that will continue until the 400 athletes representing 30 schools jog out for the big night. It’s a Long Job Track conditioning at the Fieldhouse consists of patient, seemingly endless dragging and rolling, a light drag being drawn behind a car. “A heavy roller would first pack and - then crack our dirt floor,” Coach Hinkle explained. “By using a car regularly every day the tires roll the track evenly, and the drag behind smooths out small depressions and leaves an even, graded surface that will stand punishment of the runners’ spiked shoes.” Preparations for the field events will start as soon as the center of the floor has been smoothed. Runways for the pole vault must be constructed and lined, approaches for the high jump and shot put. conditioned and marked off, and sawdust pits for pole vaulters and high jumpers constructed. Bales of sawdust must then be dyed, this year a deep red, to mark’ off | lanes for the events and add color to the rhuge amphitheater. Then Comes Decoration

The moment conditioning of the oor is” completed decoration of the Fieldhouse with hundreds of yards of bunting and “erepe paper, together with scores of schools flags and the colors of competing schools

will begin. This work will be done |, Th

by ‘Spurs, sophomore women’s hon-

orary organization, and student as- S sistants under Robert McKenzie, F

student’ relays manager. The transformation will be completed by Friday. March 15, the night before the Relays, and when the Carnival opens at 7:30 one of Butler's beautiful . coeds, elected Queen of the Relays by vote of the male students, and accompanied by a court of honor, the university band and, all-coed color guard, will Jean the colorful Procession of athetes.

Dorsett Vinpresice’ Cleveland Camp

FT. MYERS, Fla, March 8 (U. P).—Calvin Dorsett, a young pitcher who signed with the Cleveland Indians as a free agent, today had an impressive performance to his credit. Dorset{* showed lightning speed on the mound. in batting practice. Manager Oscar Vitt decided Lou Boudreau should weigh more and put him on a special diet. Tortoise races and a community barbecue were listed on the Indians’ increasingly heavier social program.

Hockey

ren, ARtcAN ~ _ Western Division

SIAR #

: _ LAST NIGHTS RESULTS i Indianapolis. 1: Pi il Tn

Li EET 1

has been named dennis coach

coni-

Sportsmen Wait Kuhn Attack

Amateur hockey fans today were looking forward to one of the outstanding contests of the league program at 7:30 Friday night at the Coliseum when Manager Doug Bowden’s = high-scoring . Sportsman’s Store - squad opens the .second round-robin series - against Bill Kuhn's undefeated Chevroleis. The Sportsmen have scored 20 goals in their three contests—two more than the Chevrolets in the same number of tilts—and they are determined to avenge the 9-to-8 loss suffered in the first game of the season when more than 1000 fans were treated to a night of thrills. The battle for individual honors between George Baizley and Bowden, who tops the individual scorers with 13 points, will provide an added attraction to the team competition. The team and individual standings

for the complete first round of play|

follows: TEAM STANDING

Kuhn's Ghevrolets » County Official | Sportsman’s Store ndiana Fur Co. INDIVIDUAL STANDING G Bowden, Sportsmans Store 9 Jaizley, Chey role ts 8 Sarter, Chevr Liebinger, County Officials ... Eagen, Sportsman’ s Store Dudley, Dartsman's Store ... Moye, Sportsman’s Store

Christman, Cotinty Officials 3 vrolets

Freel, C Bal

y Sportsman’s Store..." Indiana Indiana Fur razer, heen lets

Eleven other players : also. have scored one or more points during their first three games, :

Tech Is Calling All Cinder A

The first general call for track men, both varsity and reserve, was issued today at Tech High School, Some of the veterans from last ‘years’ squad have been through workouts during the past week. The veterans and their speciality are Neal Benson, Paul Rice, Bob Knowles, Bill Montgomery and Joe Crawford, dash. men; James Adams, Bill McGill and Wayne Barnett, quarter-mile; Robert Avery,

WN = DW RL WWNWWN~D

Ed Williams, Dick Lowish ‘and Rex] 4

Jones, half-mile; John Bolt, Lloyd Meyers and William Vickery, mile: Dick Barnhart and George Trittipo, low hurdles: Bill Buhr, high hurdles; Bob Fisher, high jump: Victor Shows: pole vault, and Waliace Potter, pole vault and shotput. The schedule follows: April §, at Bloomington; April 12, Kokomo; Apel 18, at Wiley; meet; May 3. Conference meet: May 10, Sectional mee State meet. b snd May 1,

WAR

Softballers!

The Fountain Square’ softball games in April with city or state Write 5. G. Jontaen 3 -old class.

- : The Fightin

F For 040 Titles

‘leclass with Tony Ancona, Detroit;

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April 26, City|

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Where to co

TOMORROW Hockey<=Indianapolis vs. New Haven, Coliseum, 8:30.

FRIDAY

Amateur Hockey—Sportman’s Store vs. Kuhn's, Coliseum, 7:30.

SATURDAY , Basketball—Regional tourney, Tech Gym, 1:30, 2:30 and 8.

SUNDAY

Hockey—Indianapolis vs. field, Coliseum, 8:30. "MARCH 16 Track—Butler Relays. : Fieldhouse, 7:30. .

Devils Practice, but Strack Is Absent

The regional-bound . Blue Devils of . Shortridge held a shooting drill and scrimmage yesterday afternoon as part of the week’s preparations for Saturday afternoon’s game with the Pittsboro cagers at the Tech gym. Dave Strack missed his second practice session this week because of a troublesome knee, which has been . receiving treatment since Tuesday of last week 6 when he bruised it in practice.

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21 000 will See Windup in Chicago Ring -

Times Special

| CHICAGO, March 6.—The Fight-| ling Thirty-Two of the Western -| Golden: Gloves army are to battle

it out tonight at” Chicago Stadium to determine the 1940 champions in the eight weight divisions.

Twenty-four bouts are to be THR :

oft in the Chicago Tribune Char-

ities, Inc, semi-finals and finals

show and before a packed house of 21,000. All reserved’ seats were sold out yesterday and a wild scramble

‘Twenty-one cities are represented in thre field of 32 and Indianapolis’ lone Golden Glover eligible to out at the coveted honors is Joe Sgro, English Avenue Boys’ Club. lightweight. .7- Ancona Is Former Champ - Joe is bracketed in the 135-pound

Robert Simmons, Gary, and Mack Ary, Evansville. Sgro is the youngest of the group and is in his first year of competition in the Golden Gloves Open class. Ancona is last year’s Western Golden Gloves featherweight king, and Simmons and Ary, like Sgro, made impressive showings in last week’s Tournament of Champions. Tonight’s show is to start at 8 o'clock with the flyweights leading off in the semi-finals. The broadcast will be over WGN, the Tribune station, beginning at 10:15. Results of the early bouts will be announced between. the rounds of the bouts in the ring at the time the radio station picks up the fistic action. The intercity squad which will meet New York Golden Glovers in Madison Square Garden”March 18 will be chosen immediately after tonight's show,

Thirty-two boys will be named on|

the Chicago squad. In addition to the eight champions, eight other boys, probably the runners-up or semi-finalists, will be named. Alternates will complete the list. These boys may be named from any round of last week's Tournament of Champions. The complete list of boxers on tonight's card and the newspapers they represent: -

112 DS—Sam Huson, Peoria, Il. wrnateanseript: Die, Hidalgo, Burlington, Ia., Gazette; Ene. Evans, OklaChien City Daily Oklahoman; Harold Dade, cago. 118 POUNDS~Richard Menchaca, Ft. Worth, Tex., Star-Telegram; Jimmy Joyce, Gary, Ind., Post-Tribune; Jimm: Blake, Ft. Wayne, v Journal-Gazet : Haley, Kansas City, Mo, Star. 126 POUNDS-—Jim Palmer, Detroit Free Press; Bill Looker, Oklahoma Sy Daily Oklahoman; Roy Lewis, Muncie, Ind., Star; Leon Haire, St. Louis Globe- Democrat. 135 POUNDS Tony Ancona Detroit Free Press; M ‘Ary, Evansville, Ind., Courier; Joe Sgro Indianapolis Times; Robert Simmons, Gary, 1 d., Post-Tribune. 14% id Hayes, aoireit Free-Press;

Fi orth, Tex., Star-Telegram; ‘Savior ana-

deo; Chicago. 80 ot . Spri 160 POUND! tto owe os oa nptisld, Worth, Tex. oy

Hl; State Register; Harr Rapids Press; Tom Attra, Star-Tel Dealer. 175 POUNDS—Ragon Kinney, Fi, Smith, Ark., Southwest = Times-Record; James Richie, St. Luis eke. ocrat; Jesse Owens, Des Moin

George Hayes es Mol y

=Orlal ott, Siow City, HEAVYWEIGH ) ¥ Clty. y,

| P.)~Taisto M

legram; Joe Maxin, Cleveland Plain |

0 tion; Oshibe Smallwood, Sentoniia, 1Il., Sentinel.’

Bob Igney . .. the choice of his teammates.

LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 6 (U. P.).—Bob Igney -of Frankfort, Junior forward on the Purdue University basketball team, Big Ten champions, last night was elected

captain of the 1940-41 quintet at

a victory banquet honoring the Ee five. | Fourteen ja jor and : seven minor letters were awarded to the squad. A trophy was presented to Dan . Fisher, starting center, for the best free throw shooting aver= age, and a second award, a championship silver cup, was a¥arded to Coach Pieey Lambert.

Maki Shows His Heels

SAN a March 6 Ww. , Finnish distance running cham ion, ran away from a field Sona Srican =r t ni in ree-mile e: - tion race which opehed his tour for the Finnish Relief Fund. He defeated Ted Vollmer of ‘the University of fornia by one lap and four ie total distahce of the race 36 1aps; 12 1aps per mile. © His - g time was 14 minutes 15 a seconds; 19 seconds away from the world mark set in 1925 by Willie Ritola. ~ He will race. x Glicage Maren 15,

Sofiak of Gary Gets Michigan Letter

ANN ARBOR, Mich., March # (U.P) ~Tem Slayers of the Dnle

ines, | versity... of t.| squad were no

been . awarded iy 0y- € Bennie Oosterbaan.

They were: Herb Brogan, Lan-

Charles Pink, Detroit: ‘Capt.

1 ee SY Pr Coven, Roe Sars, 1m,

am Morning Star; Cornelius Young, Chicago.

Rae, Toledo; | ‘George Ruehle, Detroit; Mike Sofiak, Gary, Ind. and. Dave Wood, Detroit. Pe

ions have tiked for. more: iki

p Yon happy after-sense of |