Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1940 — Page 6
SPORTS . By Eddie Ash
LOU SMITH, Cincinnati
= Enquirer baseball . expert,
sizes up Mike McCormick, outfield rookie from Indian-
apolis, in this fashion:
“This fellow Mike McCormick
may prove to be one of those training camp ‘morning glories,” but right now he looks like manna from the heavens as far as the Redleg outfield is. concerned. “He hasn't looked bad once during the past week, and the way he has been clouting the ball hard to all fields, even has the conservative Deacon Bill McKechnie singing his. praises without too many reservations. But we shall see what we
shall see, concerning said Mr. McCormick during the next two weeks.” Also looking good in the Reds’ spring camp is Catcher Bill Baker, up from Indianapolis. He got three. straight hits in a recent: exhibi-
tion game. the third string receiving job if champions.
. It is said Dick West will have to beat out Baker for he is to stay with the National League
McKechnie is convinced West will never make a big league out-
fielder.. minors last year.
_ Dick switched from catching to the picket patrol in the
Indians Trained at Home in Old Days SPRING IS just around the corner except in Florida, no less,
where winter is hanging on and the
weather still is too cool for good
baseball, according to the chatter sent out of the training camps. Which recalls that the Indianapolis Indians used to train at home, . They worked out indoors at the State Fairgrounds or in down-
town gyms until the ball park turf
was defrosted.
One spring they camped at French Lick,, on another occagion
at Evansville. .. . And were as hard
as nails when the season opened.
. The big handicap against training in the North nowadays, however, is the fact that a team cannot arrange exhibition games. Big league clubs used to stop in Indianapolis in the old days but now they travel together in pairs and play long series in the South
and on barnstorming trips. ” # ”
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TWO A. A. cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul, are bidders for the National Association of Minor Leaguers’ convention next December. . Neither will withdraw in favor of the other... . Also a bidder
is Atlanta.
George M. Trautman, president of the American Association, will have to cast the deciding’ vote in the selection of a convention city,. and rather than put himself on the hot spot with two cities which - are members of his circuit, may vote for Atlanta to ‘escape any heat.
Columbus at Mercy of Cardinals THE BASEBALL situation at Columbus, as Lew Byrer, Columbus
Citizen, sees it: “No one connected
with the Columbus organization
thinks that it is even remotely possible for the Red Birds to win
with what they have at present.
They all know that plenty of help
must arrive before or shortly after the season opens if the Birds are to do anything but battle for last place. “Last year, at this time, most of us thought we had a ball club.
We didn’t have. So—by May 1—we may have one.
This year no one thinks we have a ball club now.
“The Cardinals have plenty of likely-looking rookies scattered
here and there through their organization.
many of them in St. Louis as the
They don’t need so Cards stack up at this writing.
Which means that an unusual number of them will be avajlable for play throughout the Cardinal farm system during the season. Which . of them will come to Columbus remains to be seen.”
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EDWARD B. BRADLEY'S unbeaten Bimelech was established as the 4-to-1 favorite in the Kentucky Derby future books of most of the country’s betting commissioners immediately after the nominations were announced from Churchill Downs Saturday.
The Millsdale’s stable’s Andy K.
became second choice at 10 to 1.
. Arnold Hanger’s Roman Flag, Calumet farm’s Little Risk, and C. V. Whitney’s Carrier Pigeon and Flight Command were held at
200:1...
. Other leaders in the betting:
Fenelon, Mioland, Robert E. Les and Prompt Pay, 30 to 1; Dit, Rough Pass and Royal Man, 40-1; Barnet, Call to Colors, Marogay, Philosopher, Roman, Strawberry, Tough Hombre and Victory Morn, 50-1; Briar Sharp, Displayer, Dusky Fox, Gallahadion, Neb Dorsett,
Red Rock and Sirocco, 60-1.
Tribe Buys 2 Right-Handers From Ohio State League
Two young right-handed pitchers from Ohio were added to thet roster today as the Indianapolis Indians started packing their grips for the spring training jaunt to Florida. Earl Roth, 23-year-old hurler who had a record of 20 won and 7 lost last season was purchased from the Findlay Club of the Class D
Ohio State League. The other acquisition is Glen! Fletcher of Danville, Ill, who also was bought from the Findlay Club. .Glen is 22 and hung up a 22 won and 9 lost record last year.
Swimming Entries Close Tomorrow
Entries close tomorrow for the national junior, middle states. and Indiana A. A. U. swimming champiohships to be held in the Indianapolis Athletic Club pool Friday. The 1940 women’s national junior - 150-yard individual medley event tops the 13-eYent program, and is
the only national junior indoor championship awarded to the Indiana A. A. U. district by the ‘Amateur Athletic Union. Other events being sponsored by the I. A. C. include the middle states A. A. U. 100-yard backstroke swim for women. Women’s Indiana A. A. U. championship events include the 220-yard breast stroke, 50-yard and 440-yard freestyle. - Men's Indiana A. A. U. events include the 100-yard breast stroke, 150-yard individual medley, 110yard freestyle and 150-yard back- - stroke. Open events for boys 15 years of age and under are 220-yard freestyle and 50-yard backstroke. Open events for girls 13 years of age and under are the 100-yard breast stroke and 100-yard backstroke.
Pair Big Ben And Mazurki
Morgan, has been given a support-
ing bout on the Armory wrestling program tomorrow night. Meeting Big Ben will ‘be Mike Mazurki, 240,. New York. Both are better than six feet tall. In the other early maiéch, Don McIntyre, 220, Kansas, will oppose Gordon MacKenzie, 225, Edinburgh, Scotd
Everett Marshall, 222, the rugged Colorado mat ace, and Louis Thesz, 231, St. Louis, will wrestle it out in the feature attraction which calls for two falls out of three and no time limit. Armory fans saw these two topflight and rival huskies stage a fast and action-packed encounter last week, the tussle ending. in a draw. With" the time Timit ‘rule lifted tomorrow, ‘there must be a winner and a loser and both performers are expected to “shoot the works.”
Badminton Meet
A city badminton tournament will
“Early hails from Clayton, Mo.
~ be held Friday and 20a Sasiay a the Aegis Turse,
-
tha. he. old- mark.
Basketball
Tomorrow’s schedule in the EmRoe Marion County Church tourney at the Hoosier A. C.:
6:45—Second Friends vs. Clermont Chris-| °
tians, 7:45—First Presbyterian - Methodists. 8:45—101 Class vs. Red Shields. 9:45—Green Shields vs. Englewood.
vs. Riverside
Edging Moffett’s Recreation of Beech Grove in a double overtime game, 47 to 43, Greenfield won the
second Sunday section tourney yesterday at the English Avenue Boys’ Club. Greenfield downed Supreme Circle 42 to 34, in the semi-finals as Beech Grove was winning over the Brookside Indians, 51 to 38. / Quarter-final results: Moffett’s, 36; Dormiteers, 35. Brookside, 36; Lawrence Flashes, 28. Greenfield, 51; St. Patrick's, 34. Supreme Circle, 29; Shawnee A. C., 21. The third meet will be held
vice: president and secretary, and
All Officers Re-elected by Racing Gentry
BanonA.T. A, Starting Gate Considered
~ All*officers were re-glected] today as 27 directors of the United States Trotting 'Asso-| ciation opened their annual session at the Hotel Severin.
"As the session eame to order, Frank L. Wiswall, executive vice president of Albany, N. Y,, painted a bright future for the harness racing sport
clared. i sport will take on a great increase in public favor in the next few years.” He predicted that New York State’s pari-mutuel law “would start the ball rolling.” ;
Items Hold Attention
The re-elected officers are Judge G. W. Rittenour of Ohio, president; L. B. Sheppart -of Hanover, Pa.; Andy Adams of Lichfield, Mich., and E. E. Erwin, Springfield, Ill, vice presidents; Mr: Wiswall, executive
Dunbar W. Bostwick of Aiken, S. C., treasurer. Two main items of business .held the attention of the meeting. One was the expected approval of a recommendation adopted by the executive committee which virtually would ban horses of the American Trotting Association from U. S. T. A. tracks. The other was the appointment of a committee to draw up rules governing use of the McNamara starting gate, a mechanical device invented by Leo McNamara, Indianapolis horseman.
“Free” Class Sought
The proposal designed fo bar A. T. A. horses would class as free-for-all entries all horses, either trotters or pacers, which raced on A. T. A.-approved tracks. Free-for-all horses, according to U. S. T. A. rules; are those horses which have won at least $25,000 int purses. In seeking to outlaw. the American Trotting Association, U. S. T. A. officials point out that the rival group is a parasitic organization which uses ‘U. S. T. A. records but makes none of its own. The proposal to be acted upon is said to have the backing of nine of the 11 U.S. T. A. districts. The A. T. A. is said to have had its strongest backing in Wisconsin and Minnesota; but U. S. T. A. delegates from these states are expectd to vote for the ban.
Walton Appeal Studied
The new starting gate, which is to be used this year in the Cirand Circuit, is claimed by its inventor to guarantee a more* equibable method of starting. Also on the program is the appeal | of Homer Walton, local driver, who was fined $500 in connection with a “ringer” case last year in Lexington, Ky. . The 27 directors also were to approve 14 new world’ records established by trotters ahd pacers during 1939. Leading money winners in the trotting world during 1939 was Pascha Valo, 2:10%, who scored 13 victories in 18 starts. The trotter is owned by M. N. Haines of York, Pa., and was driven by Delvin Miller. Highest among the pacers was Hi Pat, 2:00, owned by Willis Rowe of Bloomington, Ill. which ran first in 12 of its 18 starts,
Abbedale Is Standout
' Standout performance, from a breeding standpoint, was that of Abbedale, whose two sons, Top Hat, 2:07%, and Swing Time, 2:09, both owned by George Reed of Fi, Fairfield, Me., started and won nine races each. The United States Trotting Association was formed last year by the combination of the National and United Racing Associations. The new body has 33 directors, but six were unable to attend the nieeting.
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Easy for Dodgers
CLEARWATER, Fla, March 11 (NEA).—The Brooklyn Dodgers, who have beaten him 26 times and lost 22, are the only club to hold
“It's on a new threshold,” he de-|f = “I sincerely bzlieve that the | ™
There Are Two
standings.
to take on Syracuse Thursday and Hershey next Sunday. The victory gave the Caps a total of 60 points in. the standings, as compared with Pittsburgh’s 55. Although they haven't cinched the western championship yet, the Caps are pretty confident they ean beat out the Hornets, who still have four games left.
Whitelaw, Moore Sparkle
If you must have your heroes, take Bob Whitelaw and Alfie Moore. Both sparkled in last night's triumph over Eddie Shore’s Indians, Bob on the offense and. Alfis on the defense. It was Gus Giesebrecht, however, who rapped the first Indianapolis goal into the nets when the game was less than six minutes old. ‘Jack Keating came in. from the side on this play, taking a pass from Giesebrecht. Goalie Benny Grant stopped Jack’s shot, but couldn’t get to the other side of the cage soon enough to save the rebound that Gus poked at him. Whitelaw Opens Up : Whitelaw began his goal-gather-ing after 13 minutes of the third period. He brought the puck from the Caps’ defensive zone into the attacking territory and transferred it to Bill Thomson at the side. Then Bob moved to an ideal scoring position in front of the goal where he received the puck again from Thomson and proceeded to bang .it ‘past Mr. Grant. In less than two minutes, Whitelaw was on Mr. Grant's doorstep again after receiving the rubber from Gus Giesebrecht. No Springfield defenders - were
into the Indian meshes. Alfie’s stellar defensive work. Mayhe score three goals, but they were des termined to get at least one. Alfie Loses Stick
With Joe Lamb, Jack Thompson, |gg Max Kaminsky and Norm Schulte
- |leading the attack, the Tribesmen
besieged the Capitals’ goal. Alfie bounced back and forth in front of the ‘cage, kicking pucks right and left. In the melee he lost his stick, but that didn’t stop him. He made good use of his feet, arms and even his ‘face.to nullify the Springfield attacks. Then -it was all over, Alfle had a deep chin
still on the scoreboard. It required a couple of stitches to fix Alfie up after the game. After Giesebrecht’s early goal in the first period, the Caps went hard for another with Keating and Hec Kilrea leading the attack, but Grant and his companions managed to stop this one. Larry Thibault, who had considerable contact with his Indianapolis
an alltime edge over Carl Hubbell
Sunday.
of the Giants.
foes in the first session, soloed into the Caps’ zone in this period, but
Champs Fall as National Swim Meet Ends; Patty Aspinall Sets Breaststroke Mark
MIAMI . BEACH, Fla.,, March 11 (U. P.).—Team honors in the Women’s National A. A. U. swimming
meet were won by the Women's .
1Swimming Association of New York
and individual honors by Dorothy Leonard of Worcester, Mass. Only one champion—19-year-old Helen Crlenkovich of San Francisco —made a successful title defense as the ‘meet closed with a record-shat-tering climax yesterday. Miss Crlenkovich won the 10-foot diving crown
and ran up a record point score of :
146.77, to create one of three new national marks. She held the old record of 144.
Little Patty Aspinall, 13-year-old |
school girl from Indianapolis, Ind. featured Saturday's meeting as she shot to a national record in the 220-
yard breaststroke—3:10.1, taking al-
most three seconds off the previous
Américan record set by Fujiko Katsutani of Honolulu, who swam the distance in 3:13 in July, 1939. The record-breaking performance
won" for Patty the championship in .
this class.
Brenda Helser, 15-year-old ‘Port-
land, Ore., high school girl, yester-.
day lopped: 2 1-10 seconds off the
220-yard freestyle record of 2:32.4
set by Halina Tomska Tullis, Chicago, in 1938 at Los Angeles. “* The third record was set in the
- |300-yard medley “relay by Gloria
Callen, Lorraine Fischer and‘ Eliza-
beth: Ryan, who: represented the W.
S. A. of New York. Their time of
13:286 was 1 4-10 SSeOncs’; better :
around to assist the goalie, and| Whitelaw rammed his second score]
All this provided the setting for oy the Indians realized they couldn’t Hudson
Breept, Keains: ‘| rigan, Thib
cut, but that Springfield zero: was =
Charge Into Home. Stretch
Hoosioes Lead by 5 Points and
Games to Go.
Fifty-four games played, twos to go. with a five-point lead in the
That’s a brief audit of the hockey Capitals’ books as they begin their| final week of season play in the International-American The Hoosiers won their third: straight home game®‘last night by shutting out Springfield, 3 to 0, at the Coliseum and now they're waiting
e.
did little more than gather the Hoosiers around the cage. A faceoff at the red dot in the neighborhood of the Caps’ cage near the end of the period provided Bob Gracie with a scoring opportunity, but this was denied by a gang of determined Indians. The Caps started the second period with .a vigorous goal assault. Twice Hec Kilrea stormed the Indian net, and once Giesebrecht tried it, but all three attacks were fruitless: After stalling off the
| Springfield icers while Buck Jones
was in jail, the Caps launched their second attack midway in the period. It. was Irv Frew who must get the credit for flagging down our poys during this session. After halting a three-man Cap attack near the end of the period, he broke up a two-way thrust by Eddie Bush and Whitelaw shortly afterward, and the session ended with Indianapolis still holding a 1-0 lead.
Grant Cuts Up
Chuck Corrigan and Kaminsky have to get “A” for effort for their two shots early in the third session, but both attempts were just a bit wide. After that Grant performed some acrobatics at saving Indian-
apolis shots. When Jim Rae of Springfield went info the penalty box on an interference charge midway in the period, Manager Herbie Lewis sent five forwards onto the ice for Indianapolis. But this strategy didn't produce results, and the Caps had to back check in a hurry a couple of times to flag down Mr. Thibault. This set, the stage for Whitelaw’s two quick tallies. A crowd of 5941 saw the contest. Summary:
Indianapolis (3) Springfield (0)
bi ‘Left Wing Right Wing
« Snstes~{ndisnapulis) Wi Whitelaw, = Bush, Th Douglas, ‘Giesen(Springfield) Frew, JenkE80 ackson, Thurier, Cor-
Happy Day; Litesman, Don
—=Score by Periods--
wdidis lis Springfield
First period seprecht (Keatf: .No penalties. ‘Second. period—No scoring. roo aalty — Jones (cross - ‘checking into Third period scoring — (Indiana lis) Whitelaw \Thomson), 13:58; White] (Giesebrecht), 15:57, Eon iy ie ER (interference), J dianapolis),
ins, Lamb, Referee, J
SR) ig nUianapolis Gle-
a Sores
(Speineneld). -29; Grant
Hockey
INTERNATIONAL-AMERICAN Western Divisien w . 25 Ly To Sos 13 . 28 20
[hdianapolis i 3 9 143
Fitts burgh lev. n 23 22 : 120 122 ershey 23 139 14 Syracuse 19 25 8 139 *Games to play. .
Eastern Division
WwW. L Jrovidance ..e0 27 16 1 s $57 New Haven . - 5 24 t 160
eld 24 6 155 Phlisdciois © , i 28 8 122 $Games to piay. LAST NIGHT'S RESULTS
Indianapolis, 8: Springteld. 0. Phitadelp Bi Ss New Ha 0 : elphia, ew Haven, 0. Pro vidence. 3: ow, Haven, 2
No ‘game scheduled tonight.
Tourney Opens for
World’s Cue Title
CHICAGO, March 11 (U. P).—
|The world championship three-
cushion billiards tournament opens today in a 110-game twice around
| |round ‘rebin meet for $20,000 prize {money. Welker Cochran, defending cham-| --|pion; and five former. titleholders ~ jwere entered.
Eleven players, including
Cochran,
.
had refused to enter. ;
Goalie Benny Grant of Springfield hits the ice in the second period of last night's frackey game to stop Hec Kilrea’s thrust. Other Springfield defenders shown .are Irv. Frew @), Joe Lamb 5 and Roger Jenkins (4).
Times’ Photo.
: A San ‘Francisco, expected | |to clear his title at the meet. Joe '|Ohamaco, Mexico City, claimed the . |championship last year after win- : Bing 3 national tournament. Cochran A : "Rushville, 36: Batesville, 30.
35 "aaa.
Where to Go—
TODAY Amateur Hockey—Indiana Fur - County Officials, Coliseum, 7:30. TOMORROW Wrestling—Everett Marshall Louis Thesz, Armory, 8: 30. ’ THURSDAY Hockey—Indianapolis vs. Syracuse, Coliseum, 8:30. FRIDAY Boxing—Eddie Mader in headliner,
Armory. SATURDAY
Track—Butler ‘Relays, 7:30.
Big Bill Tilden Finds Going Tough
NEW YORK, March 11 (U. P.).— The Finnish Relief Fund was $11,115.50 richer after a crowd of 4505 jammed the 71st Regiment Armory to_see the greatest collection of ten-
vs
vs.
Fieldhouse,
nis stars ever assembled under one
roof last night. Six of America’s top professionals and Fred Perry of England con-
tributed their. services free of charge. The Armory was donated by the 7ist Infantry and the U, S. Lawn Tennis Association contributed the officials. Don Budge pro stars, bea the seventh time, feature matc Bruce Barnes-of Texas. scored a |®© 6-2 triumph over another Texan, Berkeley Bell, in a one-set match that opened the show before an audience that included former Pres-
peer of the world’s “Big Till” Tilden for
‘ident Herbert Hoover, leader, of the
Finnish drive. Then Perry beat Ellsworth Vines, 6-1, 6-4. Budge and Bell teamed in a doubles match and defeated Tilden and Vinnie Richards, 6-3, 6-2. In the evening's final singles match, arranged by polling the audience, Perey turned back Budge, 4-6, 6-3, -3.
“iM Regionals
Complete results of games played Saturday in the 16 regionals of the state high school Basketball tour-
tnament:
AT INDIANAPOLIS , 8%; Greenfie| Md, a ortiidge. 43; Pittsb: 22. Shortridge, 56 (final). AT AUBURN Mentone, 37; Pleasant Mills. 25. Garrett, 36; Kendall 26. Garrett, 35: Mentone, 2 (final). AT BEDFORD Mitchell, i, Salem 3. New Albany. 29; Seym Mitchell, LH New Jaa ky (final). AT BRAZIL
Gosport, 45: Bloomfield, 27. Bloomington, 24; Garfield (Terre Haute),
Bloomington, 39; Gosport, 20 (final). AT CRAWFORDSVILLE ' Rockville, 41: Attica Crawfordsville, 39; Yainbridge, 23 Crawfordsville, 39; Rockville, a (final). AT EVANSVILLE
Lynnville, 42; Oakland Ci Dale, 26; Central (Evansvil My Lynnville, 33; Dale, 21 i
AT FRANKLIN
North Vernon, 38; Greenwood, -35. Columbus, 40; Madison, North Vernon, 43; Columbus, 41 (final).
AT FT. WAYNE South Side (Ft. Wayne), 84;
n » Huntington, 38: @hester Contr bo South Side. 30; Huntington, 24 (Anal).
AT GARY Froebe) 4 Sarr 18 1a Porte, Fi . . mmo y : OK, Hammond Teoh, 26; Froebel, 25 (Anal).
ar JASPER
Port-
Washington, 30. Vincennes 250} ‘Hon heburk. 2 24. Washington, 29; Vincennes, 26 AT LAFAYETTE Freeland Park, ul Lebanon, 44. a e, 30: Fran Latayette, 80; Freeland Park, 17 (final). AT MARIGN 42: Sherida North Manchester. 17. Morin, 32 (final). AT MUNCIE : Burri} (Mangic) 34: Richmong, 30. astle, 52; P . 37 New Cas Castle, 59: pike 31 (final). -AT PERU
L 40; Amboy, 27. 10 ogan pansport. 4 cinbey,, y Logansport a; a csoan, 4 (finaD). ‘AT PLYMOUTH (South Bénd). 28; Piysouth, 1.
"BNE Hi,
nab.
3 Marion, Kokomo, 42: Kokomo, 34:
pie (So Rhley: "48 ; Re RUSHVILLE -
43; Connersville
a] 54s Lawrene eburg,
Rushville,
"On the Diamond
{ The Bush-Feezle Basketball As-| ff | sociation, which is organizing soft‘ball leagues, will meet at the Bush-
‘Feezle Sporting Goods Co., 136 E.
Washingion St, at 7:45 pm. to- | E
day. All teams interested should
attend or get in’ touch with ‘Carl | ! ‘Callsher,, Riley 4453.
{In Tenpin Meet
* lence schedules until Chicago turns
‘| bowling tourney today,
7-5, 6-2, in the:
P.).—The Washington Senators de-
| Wayne).
‘|ler Fieldhouse on March 3X.
3d Spots Shift
Two new names were written into the running records of the city both of them being for the third place spots in the singles and doubles divisions. With a handicap of 42 pins, Lorenz Weisman pushed his total to 740 last night at the Fox-Hunt alleys with games of 224, 289 and 185. Glen Fowler is leading this class now with 748 and Walt Stalhut is right behind with 746. Frank Sourbier and Charles Rhodey are holding fourth and fifth places, respectively. In the doubles competition Manual Schonecker and Bill - Tarrant took over the show:spot with 1375. Schonecker rolled 670, Tarrant 633 and the handicap was 72. The Dave Prescott-Joe Wilson and J. Steele-E. Gehle combinations still hold down the first two places with 1399 and 1382, respectively. G. Lohman and J. Smythe with 1356 and John Noone and George Bade with 1345 round out the first five, J. Meier is in front in the allevents competition with 2097, which included a handicap, with Johnny Murphy taking the actual scoring honors with 705 for the singles and 1967 in the doubles.
DETROIT, March 11 (U. Py Henry Halfman, 40-year-old Milwaukee, Wis., hosiery worker, held an early lead in the singles division at the American Bowling Congress championships today with a: 682. Halfman hit 264 yesterday, largest single game of the current congress to give the Milwaukeeeans leadership in three divisions, but poor scoring in the five-man arid doubles divisions kept him from allevents consideration. John Merten and Cy Berg. of Milwaukee led the doubles division with a 1196 total, followed by Mat Conrad and Bill Hutchins of Glenview, Ill, with 1175. Parkway recreation of Milwaukee with 2801 led the five-man event.
Leading the Indianapolis delegai tion were Roy Sparrow and Paul Clark: with 1156. Sparrow came through with a 634 and Clark a 522. Rolling a 1146 series, Otto Wilbur got a 611 and Fred Vehling a 535 as Ed Darnel and Carl Brockman hit for 1143.
KOKOMO, Ind, March 11.—Mad-den-Copple of Indianapolis was in the lead today in the state men’s bowling tourney. here as the first week-end of firing subsided. R. Schaub led his mates with a 686 as the Capitol City team posted a 2888.
Wasdell Hits Homer
ORLANDO, Fla.,, March 11 (U.
feated the New York Giafits, 5 to 4, yesterday in the opening exhibition game for both clubs. Gerald Walker, recently acquired by the Nats from the Detroit Tigers, starred defensively and connected for an in-|38
the-park home run to start the|ss.
scoring. Jimmy Wasdell, Nats first baseman, hit another in the third.
Semi-Finals
The 16 survivors of last Saturday’s regional competition in the state high school basketball tourney have been paired as follows for semi-fin-
als play next Saturday in games at|
1:30 and 2:30:
AT ANDERSON Lapel vs. Rushville. North Vernon vs. Crawfordsville.
AT LOGANSPORT
Hammond Tech vs. Riley (Sonth/
Bend). Lafayette vs. Logansport. AT MUNCIE = Garrett vs. South Side (Ft. Kokomo vs. New Castle, . AT VINCENNES Mitchell vs. Lynnville. Bloomington vs. Washington, Winners of the afternoon games at each center will clash the. same night at 8 o'clock for the right" to {compete in the state finals at But-
b
[Prove Big Ten
\Is Dishonest, |Chicago Asked
Pitt Hovering Near With Maroons Under Fire
By STEVE SNIDER United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, March 11.—All athletic negotiations between Big Ten schools were at a standstill today in a drastic move to force the University of Chicago to back up its “unidentified - spokesman” with proof that Western Conference football is dishonest. Shortly after Chicago endadiiy announced its decision to withdraw from intercollegiate football last fall, _|the mysterious spokesman charged the Maroons quit because they could not “play football in the Big Ten and remain honest.” Resenting the inference that their own methods were under fire, athe letic directors of the nine other
schools announced Saturday night they will draw up no more confer-
over to Commissioner John L. Grif fith any material it may have bear ing on integrity of the Conference. . In effect, .it’s a sit-down strike against Chicago. .
Expulsion Possible
If Chicago fails to reply, it was reported, the - Maroons may be dropped from all other Big Ten sports.
With that report, the drums again started beating to adopt Pittsburgh as the 10th Conference school case Chicago withdraws. A Pitt repersentative was in Chie cago when the directors made their announcement. Pittsburgh already is connected.. indirectly with the Conference since it also employs Grifith as a personal commissioner, As usual in cases involving the family affairs of the Big Ten, the directors were pledged to- silence, According to one: “The next move is up to Chicago, but it will have to be quick.”
- Conference schedules for spring sports already have been made, Next year’s basketball schedule, however, still has not been approved and that’s overdue by four months.
Charges Fly
In its: brief statement, the directors said Chicago's original explanation for dropping football was aca [cepted. President Robert Maynaril Hutchins and the university's trustees said at the time that heavy scholastic requirements in recent years had caused a steady decline in football material. . An unidentified spokesman, ye parently qualified to speak for tha university since his statements neither have been affirmed or denied, charged other conference schools were violating - their own rules. (Big Ten schools operate on an honor system. Any university which has information of rules infractions at another school is pledged to ree port them to the commissioner. (Until Chicago does this—or ade mits it has no information to give— no future athletic schedules will be approved.) The directors set no deadline but
-| probably will insist on action on
or before Mdy 24 when they all will be assembled again for the Confer= ence outdoor track championships at Evanson, Ii,
Basketball Scores
. MIDWEST PREP TOURNEY Park School {na} 1; Frick’s (Kankakee Poa (sami. k fate Park School, ai Omargo (Ill), 29 (final),
COLLEGES
Notre Dame, 47; Detroit, 40. Srinceton, 32 Pennsylvania Car . Penn Rt (postponed undll’ i Tonien wy: ary.
ard, 52. We tminst 35s ‘Bet og Washington and hany, 26,
Jefferson, 40; Geneva, West Virginia University, 42; Pittsburgh, Potomac State, 49; She hard, 42, Columbia, orne Calitoeni, 63; Oregon State, 28.
oH Iihern ! da College, 40; estern (c Col or) ss 5 00
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