Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1940 — Page 28

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) SPORTS... By Eddie Ash

MHLY BUDGETS in the Indianapolis area are going

to be hard pressed over the week-end if sports-goers de- ~ ¢gide to make a grand slam of it by taking in all major

: attractions. . . . Junior's bank probably will be taken apart in the sports gold rush that starts with the Butler Relays at the Fieldhouse tomorrow. 2 . Track stars from all over the country’ will be here

® a the crowd will see the collegiate world at its best, plus the gorgeous

arranged by the Relays directors. © On Sunday afternoon the woods and waters fans will get their fill at the opening of the annual Sportsmen’s Show at the Manufacturers’ Building, State Fair Grounds. . . . This spectacle will give Jou an idea why thousands of Hoosiers istream out of town on week-

~#nds and holidays to fish or hunt in season. : s = 8

SUNDAY night the Indianapolis hockey team closes its regular before the playoffs by entertaining the Hershey Kandy Kids the Coliseum rink. . . . It will be the Capitals’ 28th home game d they are entitled to a big hand for coming into new territory d: making good both on the ice and at the box office. : polis passed out of the state high school basketball runng last week but the city’s population lists many followers of teams that still are in there battling for the title and it's a safe guess that Indianapolis will be well represented in the crowds at the semifinals tourneys tomorrow afternoon and night. ;

Indians Star: Ball Rolling in South Z DALE. MILLER, Indianepolis Indians’ secretary, rolled out of wn early today headed for the Tribe's spring training camp at Bartow, Fla. . . . Pitchers and catchers were to check in at the New Oaks Hotel there today and Manager Wes Griffin planned a

~~ light workout this a n. = Coach Buck, rE oa Trainer Al Ritter reached Bartow yes-.

= . Bommerce will stage a baseball

ferday to join Griffin and President Leo T. Miller. . . . The Tribesters will get down to heavy drill tomorrow and will be joined on Monday Dy the infielders and outfielders. ¢ American Association owners will hold their spring meeting: in Bartow Monday afternoon and that night the Bartow Chamber. of banquet for the diamond celeprities Jn that area. : oo 8 2 2 PURDUE'S Southern baseball trip éalls for six games. . . . The Boilermakers play the U. 8. Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Fla. aren 25 28 and 27 and Alabama Poly (Auburn) at Poly March > Coach Dutch ‘Fehring has his squad cut to 33 at this writing and is concentrating on work in the indoor batfing cages in an effort to whet the slugging eyes of the squad. . . . Nineteen of the 33 candidates .are Hoosiers but only Indianapolis lad is listed, Paul Mitchell, sophomore outfielder. The co-captains are Felix Mackiewicz, third sacker, Chicago, and ayne Hearne, second sacker, Cincinnati. , . . Mackiewicz batted .368 year to lead the Boilermaker attack.

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Mr. Charlie Crossed Up Horace Greeley -: INDIANAPOLIS CHARLIE LOGAN, who crossed up Horace

Greeley by going South instead of West to make good, is to return $o the home town this week-end in the role of principal speaker. . . .

e occasion is the-St. Patrick's Day communion breakfast, Riley

Room, Claypool Hotel, Sunday morning, sponsored by the Ancient

Order of Hibernians. 5: Indianapolis Charlie, who used to turn in more sports scoops for The Times than a hardware store has in stock, still has a yen for football, which he starred in at Wabash College before honoring New Orleans with his presence gs a go-getter citizen.

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2 LOGAN IS now a typical Southern football Monday morning rterback, downtown quarterback and an expert in all the gridiron systems. . . . Like other Southern football fans, ‘Charlies goes “big game crazy” every fall and is so Sugar-Bowl minded that come New ¥ear’s Day has to be tapped to let the sugar flow to pull in his girth. - Logan's football binoculars are the envy of the South as he always manages to show up at a game toting a pair that would be he delight of the spotters in the French artillery defending the West Wall. = Be that as it may, welcome home, Mr. Charlie, suh, up from the

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the Bars took the title last season.

ing the western championship. Now ‘| Herbie would like for the fans to see the prize. rte : After that, the next important . business will be : the league playoffs, and everybody at the " Coliseum is getting things ready for those, too. If appears now that the Capitals will open their Series A playoffs next Tuesday in : Providence Herbie Lewis 2gainst the Rhode Island Reds. The Caps will fly ‘to the eastern city in a big 20-passenger plane for the two games there, returning here a week from Sunday for two games, and hopping back to Providence, if necessary, for the fifth game. Just Eight Minutes

It took the. Capitals less than eight minutes last night to do their damage against Syracuse, and apparently the four elephants that were introduced at the end of the first period must have given our boys the encouragement they needed. 3

around the Coliseum waiting for an indoor circus to begin in April waddled into the Coliseum and were asked to give a cheer for the home town skaters. They let out something that sounded like a hot Louie Armstrong break, then loped back int® their quarters in the cow barn. A couple of minutes later were back on the ice, and a minute and 20 seconds after that a puck was lying in the Syracuse cage and the red light was burning. The attack itself was a five-man affair, and looked like it was going to be unsuccessful when a Star defender sent the rubber skidding toward the blue line. . But Eddie Bush cracked it hard toward the net, angling it off Les Douglas’ stick for the first point. Seventeen seconds later the second Indianapolis goal was in the nets, this one being the work of Douglas, Bush and Bill Thomson, the latter also hawing a hand in the first one.

All Right, Hershey, Hand Over] |That Big Oke Trophy; Our Caps WinItby3to2

Beat Syracuse for First Place in Western Division; Next Up Are the Bears Here Sunday Night ‘Manager Herbie Lewis’ first order of business today was

to remind the Hershey B’ars to be sure and bring along the Teddy Oke Trophy when they make their visit here Sun-

The big Oke Trophy—and Herbie says it’s a whopper

—is symbolic of the championship of the western division of the International American Hockey League and has been in Hershey hands since

. But our Capitals, freshmen of the league, earned big mug last night by defeating Syracuse, 3-2, at the Coliseum and clinch-

their right to the

Officials Meet

Kuhn's Icers

Although no important changes in their lineups were announced by managers. of the two amateur hockey teams slated to clash at the coliseum tonight, Doug Bowden of the Sportsman's Store squad revealed plans today to start a rebuilt comhination against the Indiana Fur Co. team in tomorrow night's tilt. iy : Don Eagen will replace Bill Clark as goalie against the Furriers and|

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“These elepahnts who are hanging Baisley

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the dimunitive leader of the Sportsmen, who holds first place in the individual scoring race, will relinquish his customary post at center to John Moye in order to deattention to defensive work. Boyd Dudley, reserve center, will fill the vacancy at right wing caused by Moye’s shift to center. Lineups for both week-end games follow: FRIDAY

Kuhn's Chevrolets County Officials

re T leton 'emple! Right Defense........ Fowler Liebinger Christman ] Thomas Spares— (Chevrolets) Pauli, Thoren, Rut. eK ay and Hawkes; (Counwis, Benner, Steele, Irwin

SATURDAY

owe, Sportsmen Furriers Goalie Richardson fense

I Hall, .c0....0 oo Left Win the Caps|pudiey Right Wing

Spares (Sporigmen) Schuping, Xragiol 0ss, Bob Clark, Haynes and Potthoff; (Furriers) Johnson, . Kayworth, Wilbert,

Eagen has gained a little experience as goalie by working with Caps in recent practice sessions and Bowden will endeavor to smooth the team work of his new combination during a two-hour drill tomor-

Kuntz, Ciesielski and McFarlane.

THE BUTLER FIELDHOUSE today is the scene of considerable work, planning and plain confusion, About 100 people are chasing here and there, answering tele.phones, unraveling ribbons, telling somebody to do something about something, trying to get an O. K. on this or that—and in general going slightly nuts. It's the eighth annual Butler Indoor Relays tomorrow and the work entailed is as tough as trye ing to abolish night parking in Indianapolis. But by tomorrow you wouldn’t know the place. All will be order, serenity, color. That’s the way it is for the Relays. Anyway, that’s the way it was yesterday. 8 2 8

RED, WHITE AND BLUE crepe paper was around the railing of the gallery ... pits for the pole vault and high jump were all fixed up ... this year they're situated so the competitors won't have to go across the track and thus cause the runners any trouble . .. big

Links Veteran

Willie McGuire, new treasurer of

row morning, 28 the Furriers

ke also will practi heaps of sawdust (green li

grass) were laying nearby to be worked into the infield and thus give an appearance of the outdoors . . . athletes were working off their tuition by grading the track and one of them was drive

HOUSTON, . March 15 NEA).—

the P. G. A, is serving his 31st year

ing Coach Ray Sears’ station

Presenting an All-Rdund Michigan Stater

A man of all-round frack ability is Walter Arrington, who defini honors at the eighth annual Butler Indoor Relays tomorrow night at the Fieldhouse. Arrington, a Michigan State College student, won the all-round championship last month at the Illinois Relays, taking three of seven events. In the high jump he ranks with Michigan University’s Don Canham and Notre Dame's Ted Leonas, all of whom are capable of 6 feet 5 inches.

It’s Almost a Mad House at the Fieldhouse |

Earl Mitchell, who will be used as a “bait” in the mile and onehalf specialty to keep the boys from lagging in the first mile, was: just riding around in the station wagon like it was a Sunday afternoon in Brown County... just sort of surveying the scenery.

8 8 @» / FROM THE HIGH girders hung a huge blue and white flag, a blue background and a white track

shoe superimposed ... in diagonal corners were two big score boards on which the spectators will be able to see how things stand all the time... today they'll probably put up the stand for Queen Janet Ingham and her court in the northwest cornér of the infield . .. right behind that will be a stand for the band ... after each event, you know, four buglers arise, blow three or four fancy blasts and the winners of the last event come up and get their medals, direct from the ‘queen. J J ” 8 COACH TONY HINKLE'S office is a perfect picture of the newspaper city room as conceived by Hollywood . . . in the waiting room are big, burly football players lending their hand to art . . . they're painting signs with the

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: M . G ; Linn luncie Gym Maybe a New State Champion Is There By J. E. OBRIEN ® | The more experienced janie {tors of four Indiana baskets ball rooms began banking their fires today, ' realizing" {that 160 players, their 16 | coaches and 22,000 backers will handle the week-end heating problem. : : In fact, it looks like several aire {conditioning plants could be used to keep the temperature at a health level as the 16 high school basket- . ball teams scrap for the four covetéd places in the Fieldhouse finals on March 30, Practice was to be completed in all the 16 training camps today, with the fans supplying most of the ac- | tion as they attempted to lay their hands on the few tickets somebody may be unable to use or willing to

scalp. All Eyes on Muncie

tely is a contender for high jump :

The focal point for state sports eyes is Muncie’s big gym. If the | ultimate state champion doesn’t emerge from this three-game scuffle ? they're saying up there, the Muncie menace will cause the team that

Eastern regional of the N. ©. A, A.

hands, Mr. Hinkle is on the point of bending under the pressure . +» after one long interruption of telephone calls, reporters and people who wanted something O.K.'d, _Hinkle wheeled around and stared long at a blank sheet of paper laying there ...

“What was I going to write on

of the publicity offices was standing behind him, and suggested that maybe it was about the of- “ ficials Zor the N. C. A. A. tourney

| ‘John was right. It was. Tony proceeded with a furrowed brow. » » ® ~ ALTHOUGH SHE SAID some of the girls probably hadn't decided about theirs yet, Carol Fields, a sophomore Tri Delt of the queen’s court, said she was going to wear navy blue and white . . . a new dress, too... “Of course, we girls may have to talk it all over first,” Carol

baskethall tournament on his |

that?” he pleaded. John Barnett .

said. And she smiled then—and

does win plenty of trouble.

Thrown together in this tournae ment are Kokomo’s Kats, the Troe - | jans of New Castle, South Side’s '

Archers and the Garrett Railroads ers. ; Perhaps Burl Friddle’s Archers received the breaks of the draw by being paired against Garrett, but the Railroaders aren’t expected to

tournament finals.

Any fears that the Ft. Wayne five

wouldn't be up to par for the tour

ney were dispelled this week by | Friddle, who pronounced his boys.

8y to go. Carl Kraden, Kieth and Bob Hines, three Archer

rea Spiker,

regulars who suffered injuries in the - stiff mid-- | week drill and indicated they would. answer the whistle tomorrow afters i

regional, took part in a

noon. Wanted: Tickets

' The Archers already are cértain of having 1065 rooters on hand for

the tourney, and maybe more it

those students Who placed orders at | other schools can obtain” pastes |

boards.

Already 813 Garrett fans have . |their tickets to watch their darke horse five which hasn't tasted des. feat since mid-January when i

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hand the South Siders a pass into the

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pped an overtime decision. t0 you should see her smile . . . ‘| Central Catholic of Ft. Wayne. * 0. It's smiles like that that make a | The second afternoon game, abi ea go out and rn i ung to | Munce LES CERE NERC shreds for dear old alma mater. Fs oe wan't sur anyone, © 8.5 = More confident since they.

BY TOMORROW NOON the

aside Marion, the Kats are in 9%

dand of the sweet magnolia, down Louisiana way, suh. = > thie 8 8 : # "OTTO DENNING of the Minneapolis Millers is fully prepared

mood for title-hunting, They were. to hold a light session on their own 7 (Continued on Page 29) !

schools’ names on them ... they

scene will be laid and the track look very good, too . . .

worked to: an ivory smoothness. Look out, records!

wagon around and ‘round with a drag hitched on behind. ...

as professional at the Houston

“Keating Shoots Through Country Club.

The third Hoosier goal was a

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' for any job Manager Sheehan assigns him. . . . The youngster brought Three gloves to training camp with him—a catcher’s mitt, a first ® man’s mitt and an outfielder’s glove. = Although a catcher by trade, Denning was used at all three Positions last season by Sheehan. .. . The Dutchman is’ one of the most dangerous batters in the American Association and will be given 8 chance to crowd Russ Rolandson for the job of first-string catcher.

beautiful combination of skating and timing. Gus Giesebrecht, the blond bombshell, transported the rubber into the attacking zone and flipped it across to Hec Kilrea. Hec held the disc momentarily, then shot it to Jack Keating, who had found an avenue down the center

Consider Me a Rookie, Says Ambitious Vander Meer

= By HARRY FERGUSON = United Press Sports Editor @

may be the year he climbs back to the heights.

= Johnny Vander Meer, who bitched two consecutive no-hit games in June, 1938, arrived at the Cincinnati Reds’ training camp this year and

id to Manager Bill McKechnie:

& TAMPA, Fla, March 15.—The sensation of the 1938 baseball season Ras a foothold today on the lower rungs of the ladder to fame, and

free of Syracuse traffic. During this same period Bob Whitelaw was smacked with a stick, and had to leave the ice while the team physician took seven stitches in a deep wound above the eye. Bob, however, was on the ice again in the final session. Apparently figuring three goals aplenty, the Caps began emphasizing defensive play in the third period. Syracuse, though, was all the more reckless and often left the goalie alone during-raids on the blue shirts’ goal. One of these raids was successful

E “From now on Just consider me

after seven minutes of play, al-

His Honor Will Make N.C.A. A. Cage Drawings Saturday

Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan is going to havé it easy, compared to Commissioner Arthur L. Trester and the Indiana High School Athletic Association board of control. Whereas Mr. Trester and associates have to match some 750 basketball teams, His Honor will draw a mere four from the hat. : I All this is to come off Saturday in the No. 1 office of City Hall as the Mayor chooses who is to play whom in the National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament next Friday and Saturday at the Fieldhouse. : On four slips wilk-be the names Indiana, Duquesne, Western Kentucky and Springfield, the teams selected as the best in the four eastern districts. The first two Mayor

40 Swimmers in

A. A. U. Meet

Forty swimmers plunge into the

a rookie. I want to make this team ‘on my merits.” =

He Tumbled Badly

- No baseball player. ever took a izzier, faster descent from fame Vander Meer did last season. e reported for spring training fig.@ring to be one of the pillars of the Reds’ pitching staff. But he was cut i by illness early in the training season and he wound up with the

the hull pen and on the mound— and that is the program Vander Meer has mapped out for himself. No ball player in the big leagues has more well wishers, for fans remember that neither success nor failure changed Johnny. Through it all hé remained a nice kid from Paterson, N. J., who was doing his best to get along in the world.

though it must be said that the puck glanced off Whitelaw before bounding into the meshes. The shot was from the stick of Bill Cunningham, and he had the assistance of Klein on the play. The Stars’ ‘poking and banging away inside the Caps’ blue line produced a second goal with less than a half minute play, «Maxie Bennett shot it, assisted by Eddie Convey and Norm Locking. :

Indianapolis Athletic Club’s pool at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the national junior, middle states and -Indiana A. A. U. championships. Entries in the national junior women’s 150-yard individual medley swim include Lois Thompson, Lakeside Club, Louisville, Ky.; Virginia Fischer and Gloria Noble, Yacht Club, Detroit, Mich.; June Fogle, In-

Sullivan draws will meet in the 8 o'clock game next Friday night, and the other two will play at 9:30. Coach Tony Hinkle of Butler, director of the tournament, also announced today that the public sale of tickets will begin Monday. The pasteboards will go on sale at 9 a. m. sharp at the L. Strauss Co. The prices for tickets are $1.10 and 65 cents for a single session. Hinkle also is accepting mail or-

What with one Relays and one

OPEN EVERY SAT. NITE TILL 9 P. M. |

dianapolis Club, and Patty Aspinall, unattached, The Hoosier Athletic Club has 16 swimmers entered in the 13-event program. Additional entries have been’ received from Bloomington, Terre Haute, Huntington and West Lafayette.

ders for tickets ang explained that all single-session tickets are being sold to high school pupils and Indiana University students at 65 cents. 4

Bell Was Busy

Goalie Bill Beveridge and his fellow defenders had their hands full at the outset of the game as the Caps showered them with pucks. First it was the Douglas-Wilder-Thomson combination, with Thomson feeding the disc to his forward: companions. The first change brought out the Kilrea - Giesebrecht - Keating trio, {which didn’t easy up any on the assault. Then ‘came Gracie-Lis~ combe-Hudson unit, which also threatened to do damage. Cunningham broke up one of these’ Hoosier attacks late in the period and started for lonesome Alfie Moore. But Bush caught ‘the Syracuse wingman from behind, which earned for Mr. Bush a twominute penalty stay and gave Mr, Cunningham a free shot. : Jones also was given a twominute penalty vacation in the second period for the ungentlemanly manner in which he upset Mr. Locking, bent on goal gathering. Indianapolis (3). Syracuse (2). MOOTe + ........ Goalie Bev, rdge Bush .......... Left Defense.... Mclneniy Whitelaw Right Defense.... Simmons Douglas nter.....» sss _Toupin Wilder Left Wing A h Right Wing coDgares.- (Indianapolis) Ross, Jones

Andifferent record of five won and at S lost and an earnkd run average fig 4. 7. | = The news about him this year is PEL t he has all his stuff and speed, ~~ put there is a big black question mark about his control. The ball

t you never know whether it is Hockey toing to hit dirt or go over the gatcher’s h Most of his wild es are high and outside to a ht-handed batter. The mere telling of what haped when Vander Meer went e innings against the New York Sankees in an exhibition game will{ © Hlustrate the difficulty Johnny is As in putting the ball where he

Duquesne Five in | mre

Underdog Role

NEW YORK, March 15 (U. P.) — The possible loss of Morris Becker, star forward, installs Duquesne University of Pittsburgh in the underdog role when they meet Colorado University tonight in the final of the National Invitation Basketball Tournament at Madison Square Garden. 3 Becker, secohd highest scorer on the club this season, suffered a recurrence of an old right ankle sprain | Wednesday night as the Dukes won over Je Oklahoma Aggies in the

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Eastern Division

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Springfield ... iladelphia .. 14 PRREIRO ius Hs, 3; Syracuse, 2. Hershey, 2: ltisburth, 1: __ No games scheduled tonight.

Knickerbocker, enrich, walked Keller and fanned ordon (he threw nine straight iis to Henrich, Keller and Gordon ore he settled down and struck t the latter). So there he was th three men on base, two outs sd no hits against him. Then sudnly, and brilliantly, he recovered s control. SI Matheson: a Bara. ing rookie from Kansas ; ss at bat. He never saw anything n the American Association like the fittle white aspirin tablet that went : gzing past him. It dipped .and werved, caught the corners of the te nicely, and Matheson stood

ere and gaped Ww the umpire Hed him out on sirikes. ~The Cure-Is Work

But in the pox | By —-gnd here Eromptly lost all control again | issued two more walks. Manrer McKeehnie kept him in there, er, and in the third inning

‘walked Keller, Matheson and higren, and that was the finish.

‘No fracture was revealed on “examination, but a painful swelling Lis- pas vesulted, which will have to

; n, Kilrea, Giésebrecht. Keat-|F uced before Becker can'take ing (Syraucuse) Foster, Berists +1 the floor. :

Conve, Markle, Cunningham, Brown, Gout - n. . DePaul and Oklahoma A. & M. Dae. Charles McVeigh! linesman, will meet in a preliminary game to —8core by Periods— decide third place.

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