Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1940 — Page 6
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. — ® — . Fu : ab NEW YORK, April 1.—Putting one little word after . Banquet T le another and whatever became of the Vanderbilt Cup : iB
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race? ,..Right off we don’t want any more of one Harold Steinman around = “de
Redskins Finish March by Falling Before Bisons, 4-0; Buffalo Slams Out Eight Hits | 3 By EDDIE.ASH. Times Sports r |
i tor | "BARTOW, Fla., April 1.—Haying completed the
He's the fellow who foisted Payihen n the Madison Square Garden clientele and if + anybody knew Paychek was a phoney Steinman is the bird. | :
Park Schiool Joins Midwest Loop
west Prep School Athletic Confer-
| ference, it was announced today.
and
Before the thing started
one of the fight mob has
been around button holed us and whispered “you’re going to see as bon i heavyweight fight in history. This Pay- |
chek has
een in more tanks than Weismueller.” ... Well, |
you can’t put the blame on Joe Louis. . . . He didn’t put
the bum in there, and more anything + Walter initiate a move to rescind the rule League clubs from dealing with the
is working to {| the Yankees’ excess material,
Old Willi Hoppe Comes Back
Add celebrated come backs; Willie Hoppe in Billiards. . .
to make it look good. : Briggs, owner of the Detroit Tigers, has been asked to
to his credit, he didn’t do
which prohibits other American Yankees. . . . It'seems the rule
the detriment of the other clubs ‘who could use some of
. The
was hotter than a smoking 45 in the Chicago champion-
ships. . of those Confucius say ga
next season. "The day
-. .|All we hope is that Sumner Welles didn’t bring back any to the White House. . Tropical Park track may be abandoned or jurngd over to 1 i 1 5
. Florida’s dog racing
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Finland was forced to sign at Russia's terms, thus end-
ing the conflict, Nurmi was asked to speak on ithe radio in Chicago.
. This was in connection with an impending trac
meet. He was warned
not to say anything about the war. An interpreter stood by his side.
4 Nurmi spoke for 10
great pleasure to be in rica.
“The interpreter blinked, reddened, bit his lip.
the interpreter took the mike, . . . He loves
utes, heatedly, emdtionally, passionately.
When Nurmi finished wishes to say'it is a erica and Americans
“Nurmi
and he and his fellow Finns are deeply grateful for the generosity and sympathy of the American public.” |
Five minutes later the radio
office was flooded with phone calls
from indignant Finnish listeners. He hasn't said anything about the
nobility of America and its citizens. aris beasts and insisting tha
back later and knock their brains out. Cunningham Among the Missing
wcalling the Russi
Which reminds us that Paychek
He pad spent the 10 minutes Finland would come
looks something like Nurmi and
runs twice as fast. . . . What we'd like to see sometime is| a list of
the -10 worst dressed men in America. |. .
. | It took us some time
to realize why last night's track meet seemed 50 strahge and then it occurred to us that Glenn Cunningham wasn't out there running
.second to Chuck Fenske.
| | : You can bet all the tea in China the Yankees will be sold at the first solid opportunity and we suspect that’s one of the reasons
why the management hasn't gone to the expense of inst for night baseball. They're going to leave that little ta ow the chil
new purchasers. . . . Wonder feel about Jessel’'s new romance?
Bootleg making is a problem which
g lights for the brides of the mountains
ronts- all mutuel tracks.
It can miss making a lot of trouble for the New York tracks with
the new machine set up. There's
prefer to deal with the bookies with the
than play against the machines, with what makes it a serious problem.
Herbert Bayard Swope, head of the New York Racing Commission, threatens to be severe in his de
no denying that some players established odds rather their fluctuating prices. That’s
gs with the bootleggers,
even more. so with the tracks which fail to exercise vigilance in
curbing their activities.
In the final analysis, the tracks
ust be
held responsible. You can wink at the bogtleggers and illegal betting
will flourish; they can do an active,
the practice will be reduced to a minim
thorough job against them and um. fk :
‘Bootleg Betting Rife at Hialeah ~~ = ~~ | We were surprised to see so much bootleg betting at Hialeah the past season. . Hialeah is supposed to be a first-class track peratetl
along first class lines;
any time you wanted to. As a matter of fact there was a
but you could make a bet with a bookmaker
bookmaker
doing business right close to Joe Widener’s box. He's the president
of the track, or was. about if, and with equal haste, know. | ; : >
We hasten to add he didn’t know anything we say further it was his business to
We see by the papers that a Dr. Henry Mustard has been ap-
pointed to the
Staff of Columbia University. It requires an extraordi-
nary amount of restraint not, to say something about his being hot
stuff. . .
. So "the New Orleans Pelicans beat .the Yankees? .
Well, obviously, nothing -remains to be done but to break up the
Pelicans. . .
Giants games this season. . .. . Nice
. Jack ‘Slocum ‘will help broadcast the Yankee and
youngster with a swell dad.
| Because of the movie we shudder to think that the time may come. when many people will believe that Mickey Rooney, not Edi-
son, invented the ‘electric light. . .
.. Ed Barrow says that Ducky
Wucky Medwick is the type of ball player who could never play with the Yankees... . . We are checking on a report that Dick Templeton,
celebrated track and field coach, is hispital, pad
bedded down in a New Jersey
i
New Leaders Invade Alleys
; DETROIT, April 1 (U. P.).—New lenders came to the front-in three jor ‘events of the American lowling Congress over the weekend. | Fighting an attack of ptomaine poisoning, John Taylor of Upper Darby, Pa. last night registered a singles merk of 730. This figure has been good enough to win 32 the last 38 A. B. C. Crowns, ids well to stand .unequaled hout the current classic. A pair of youthful machinists from Peoria, Ill., Celebrated a three‘day vacation by rolling up 1303 to take over leadegship in the doubles ‘bracket. Vincent Lamb, 21, set the pace with 675 and his ‘teammate, Ed Gramlich, 22, followed suit with 628. - | Tom Willis -and Clyde Martinson of Philadelphia took third in the doublés with 1290, and John Holden and Gene Adams, East St. Louis, 111, climbed to fifth in the same event, accounting for two more of the week-end’s upsets. | In the hotly contested five-man event the Schamberger Schlitz quintet from Chicago rolled to the top with & Score of 2967. Pacing Frankie Cartheiser, who
Competition of championship caliber is expected during the| re‘mainder of the ‘tournament, with two squads of regulars taking over the alleys, in five-man events each ‘night and long minor-events cards each day.
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Park School, winner of the Mid-
ence’s basketball tournament for the last two years, has joined the con-
" Other members of the league are Morgan Park, Ill; Onarga, II; Lake Forest, Ill; Todd School of Woodstock, Ill; St. John’s of Delafield, Wis.; Pullman Tech Pullman, Ill, and Culver Mili Acad-
| . football, basketball, baseball, track, tennis golf. Park is expecting
to} foes inf:
Where to Go—
TOMORROW
Wrestling—Jim McMillen vs. John Granovich, Armory, 8:30. f
FRIDAY
Table Tennis—National meet, Tomlinson Hall, all day.
|Amateurs
BASKETBALL The C. Y. O. will hold its basketball banquet at 6:30 p. m. Thursday at St. Roch’s Parish Hall, with Wally Middlesworth, City Recreation Director, as the chief speaker. John Mann, chairman of the C. Y. O. Youth Council athletic committee, announced today that honors will be paid to senior division champions, St. Patrick's and Cathedral, and to the tourney winner and runner-up, Sacred Heart and St. Philip’s. - Trophies will. be presented to the junior champions,
Holy Trinity, and to the junior tourney titlehdlders, St. Philip's.
. SOFTBALL
Girls’ teams and individual players’ interested in league play may Coast Everett Babh at Em-Roes,
There is one opening in the Zionsville Thursday Night League. Call LI-3446 or see Mr. Babb at EmRoe’s, 209 W. Washington’ St.
- Managers of church, factory and independent teams will meet at 7:30 tonight at Smith-Hassler’s, 221 Massachusetts Ave. :
The old Shaw's Market team will
|be sponsored by Gold Medal Beer
this year and will feature Hal (Windmill) Mahanéy on the mound. Players wanting to try out for a team sponsored by Howard Holcomb are to report to Manager Singleton, 443 N. Buclid Ave, at 7:30 p. m. toOrFow. Strong state teams wantg games may write to Singl call IR-1441, el % Sten " |The Allison! Social. and Athletic Association's’ teams” will practice Wednesday at Grande and Michigan Sts, All players and tryouts are report at 4:15p. m. . :
schedule one or: two
still very much alive and kicking in Indiana today—Hammond providing the life ‘and the rest of the state supplying -the kicks. It’s a typical Monday-after-the-final-tournament. The tall
‘lads from Hammond Tech
who took the title "farther north than it’s ever been before, are just beginning a heavy schedule in the banquet league. They can expect to be toasted, dined and congratulated until late spring.
The Times’ All-State FORWARDS Roy Ramey (Mitchell). Elmer Anderson (Lapel). CENTER | Stanley Shimala (Hammond Tech). ~ GUARDS
John Thomas (Hammond Tech). Ralph Hamilton (South Side).
Everywhere else the talk is of the what-we-mjght-have-done variety.
It’s the season when fans can look back on those one-point tournament defeats and really mourn. Other than that, the big topic is what the Bears, the Whiteshirts or the Zebras have as material for the 1941 campaign. And then, of course, there are those cries for the return of the. big 16-team tournament. This year the cries are louder, perhaps, because South Side was the only genuine favorite to get membership”in the Fieldhouse Four. And the Archers’ quick ouster only served to strengthen the dissenters’ argument.
What Say, I. H. S. A. A?
These basketball enthusiasts don’t want to take away from Hammond
| Tech’s glory. They do maintain,
however, that the 16 regional winners—a pretty tough outfit—could have staged a more exciting and in-
. {teresting affair if they had been
thrown together on one floor. Whether they will receive consideration from the I. H. S. A. A. remains to be seen. The tournament results| are likely to put much more attention on the 1941 pairings. The story was the same Saturday as it had been in the four super regionals. The first aft-
ernoon winner came through again
in the evening. If you glance
.| through your tourfiey results, you'll find the four
Fieldhouse | finalists had the same experience two weeks ago. That extra hour of rest may be worth more than one would think. - : Obviously the Mitchell team was weary and short on some of its original punch when it took the floor at 8 p. m. Saturday. The Bluejackets had handled a large assignment by clipping South Side of Ft. Wayne, 23-20, in the afternoon. And maybe that’s ‘why Coach Henry V. Polson and his 10 blueshirts could smile while the Calumet Kids went bouncing from microphone to microphone telling how champions feel.
Happy, and Why Not? -
Coach Lou Birkett, a Wisconsin product, and his 10 Hammond Tech pupils had plenty of reason to be
ernoon and evening tasks efficiently. Big: Stanley Shimala was valuable under both backboards, while John . Thomas sparked the Tiger machine on its attacks. Thomas deserves plenty of credit: for wearing the smile, even when the desperate Bluejackets began using a few football tactics to stop his advances. Bob Kramer and Mike Bicanic, the two other six-footers in the starting Tech lineup, used their height and weight effectively, while John Gaul and Dick Haack, other members of the Tech “six” more than held up their ends. It was blond Roy Ramey who gave the Bluejackets most of their afterdark ‘zip. Roy Is mighty hard -to handle when he wants to shoot under the basket. He dropped in three from as many angles in the first quarter of the final game to supply six of Mitchell's seven points. The deliberate Mitchell offense couldn’t get anywhere against the tall northern defenders in the second period. The third quarter was a series of free throw trials as the Bluejackets tried to flag down Tech. When the Tigers opened up in the fourth quarter, Mitchell had little energy left to stop the rushes.
Conkey Wins Gimbel Award
Big Bill Jones, who had been a big backboard help to Mitchell all the way dqwn the tournament road, found three and four Hammond Tech six-footers just too much. (Continued on Page Seven)
Godoy Angling for Bout With Louis
NEW YORK, April 1 (U. P)— Arturo Godoy, Chilean heavyweight contender, arrives today from the Pacific Coast to join his manager, Al Weill, in negotiations with Pro-
moster Mike, Jabos for a return title fight with Joe Louis in June. Godoy, who held Louis td a 15round split decision on Feb. 8, has heen giving exhibitions in the Far West. | . 2 Weill claims that he has a verbal agreement with Jacobs for Godoy to fight Louis in June. He says he obtained this agreement in return for permitting Lou Ambers to defend his lightweight crown against Lew Jenkins at Madison
happy. All had handled their aft-|.
| Hoosiers at -39newed its sparkling passing, drib-|.-
By HARRY MORRISON Times Staff Writer E
HAMMOND, Ind, April 1. — | Early this morning this town of 69,000 persons was still a hurlyburly maelstrom of wild and wooly pop-eyed citizens refusing to quit the celebration of Hammond's first state basketball championship, The frenzy was scheduled| to continue through- today, with Hammond Tech’s (the Winnah!) first all-school assembly pacing the program at the downtown
Paramount Theater. (Tech’s own assembly hall is also used -as the
modate only half the school’s 1300 pupils). . School was out for the. entire city with little promise of much studying for the next couple of days. The kids were getting out their jaloppys—which ‘hadn't had much chance to get cool — and were renewing the jitterbug signs for more parades. | Officially everything will stop after a banquet tonight at a local
school cafeteria and will accom=- |
Hammond Tech arrives home . . . 20,000 citizens provide welcome,
fish house, where the low and mighty in Hammond will meet to toast the team. . Local . businessmen said they didn’t expect to do any work togay. They said they didn’t want 0. : Everyone had had a good start. The team arrived from Indianapolis about a quarter to 12 yesterday morning and was met by a
crowd of at least 20 thousand mul-
tidining rooters. They jammed the antiquated depot and overflowed on to the railroad tracks and into four or five adjoining streets. The 12 Tech Tiger heroes were hoisted on to shoulders and into waiting fire apparatus trucks, which, paced by City motorcycle policemen, started a parade that lasted two hours. On: Calumet Ave., a leading motorcycle policeman took a spill. His machine caught fire and the fire truck carrying the Tech team speeded up to the head of the parade and put out the fire. After the parade the boys were escorted in police squad cars to their individual homes.
part of their spring training like a lamb by getting
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3 |egged, 4 to 0, by the Buffalo Bisons at Plant City yes er- |
‘Times-NEA Photo
_ The parade went on through the dinner h and into the night. Two cars carrying rooters slowed in front of traffic on Hphman St., Hammond’s main street; and, calling across to one another, halted following cars to form an involuntary parade. i
biles crossed and recrossed each other's paths as policemen gave up and relaxed on main street corners to watch helplessly. " When activities began to slow, more ingenious rooters lighted flares and late last night shots were heard amid the shouting. For once, the more conservative element of the town smiled and “said “it was about time the Tech boys came into their own.” Talk of a new Hammond Tech building: has arisen since the Saturday victory and suitable sites "are already becoming assured Tech premises. Said Tech Principal Frederick E. Benson: “As far as a new building is concerned, I'm keeping my fingers crossed just as I did during those games.”
Indiana quintet had trailed from the first period to the final 90 seconds of play, when it was behind 33-31. Ed: Klotz, Hoosier guard, sank a long one to tie the score and center Ed Stanczak picked up a loose ball near his own basket and dropped it in for the winning margin.
‘No Subs for St. Michael ,
St. Michael, which withdrew from the State Athletic Association to compete in the tournament, played without a substitution. The Westerners held Stanczak, who scored 88 points in the tournament, to six field goals and three free throws. John (Buster) Hiller, St. Michael forward, made eight. field goals and five free throws. | Stanczak and Hiller each led their team in scoring, and both were named for the all-star team. Stanczak was voted the outstanding player of the tournament.
The All-Star Team
Loras Academy, Dubuque, Iowa, defeated Dowling High School, Des Moines, Iowa, 33-31, to win the consolation championship. The allstar team, selected by officials, included: : Forwards—Hiller, Benjamin Tibpitts, St. Francis; Sol Rizzo, St. Philip, Chicago; Centers—Stanczak, Stan - Patrick, Leo; Guards—Jim Rierden, Campion Academy, Prairie Du Chien, Wis, Dick Collentine, Messmer High School, Milwaukee, Wis.: and Gordon Hill, St. Simon Stock, New York.
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Times Special ' KANSAS CITY, Mo. April 1— The more imaginative basketball fans today thought they could still feel the wind whipped up by’the non-stop Indiana University team here Saturday night. The Hoosiers went toward ‘the goal swiftly and often in the finals of the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament to gave the Kansas Jayhawkers a 60-42 spanking. : Only in the first few minutes did these Jayhawks, conquerors of such te as Southern California and Rice, have a look-in. And that because the Hoosiers hadn’t got the range yet. - | after seven minutes of play. But then the Crimson started their accurate sniping, Jay McCreary, Marvin Huffman, Bob Dro and associates doing the damage. They
and couldnt shake off Kansas until they passed 14. After that it was
en’s boys, who held a 32-19 edge at
the half, | Kansas. hopes rose slightly six
| minutes after the start of the
second half when the Jayhawks came to wi 13 points of the But I. U. re-
bling and shooting assault to be on its way again. ef Even without practice = the unfamiliar Municipal Auditorium floor, the Hoosiers proved fo be on the best of terms with the basket.
Square Garden on May 10. Jacobs \ that : he never gave Weill
All together they rattled : attled
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Kansas stepped into a 10-4 lead |
quickly knotted the ‘score at 11-11}
casy for Coach Branch McCrack-|
University squad in ‘the final - ment at Kansas City, Mo, 60
Central Catholic of Ft. Wayne Grabs 2d National Crown
CHICAGO, April 1 (U. P.).—Central Catholic, Ft.. Wayne, Ind., today held its second successive National Catholic High School : basketball championship after a gruelling five-day tournament during which the Hoosiers met some of the outstanding young teams of the country. Central came from behind to nose out St. Michael, Santa Fe, N. M., 35-33, in the finals last night at Loyola University gymnasium. The 8: =
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Fans Welcome Team Home
FT. WAYNE, Ind, April 1 (U. P)). —Ft. Wayne basketball fans swung into a round of celebrations today
to welcome back its National Cath-|
olic champion, Central / Catholic High School. The celebration got under way late last night when first news of the team’s victory, its second national crown in two years, reached here. A victory bonfire had been planned by police and school officialf*to prevent unguided rowdyism which marked last year’s celebration. It drew several thousand specs tators. All classes at Central Catholic were dismissed today and school officials planned a victory parade for this afternoon. Tonight, a dance will be held to welcome back the
team.
Gets Seholarship
PRINCETON, N. J. April 1 (NEA).—Bob Wilson, son of Jimmy Wilson, Cincinnati Reds catcher, has won a scholarship to Princeton. Young Wilson traveled with the Reds as a practice catcher last season. 3 3
I. U. Speeds Through Kan
The fast Indiana University
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game of the national “A hot fight for ih
Hogan Stands 1st At Cash Box
ASHEVILLE, N. C, April 1 (U. P.).—Richer by $1200 and owning a three-tournament win-
ning streak, Ben Hogan of White Plains, N. Y., led the golfing pros in money winnings today as he prepared to leave for the Masters $5000 Tourney at Augusta. Ga. Hogan, who trailed Jimmy Demaret of Houston, Tex., by almost $3000 in money winnings less than a month ago, turnéd in his third consecutive victory yesterday as he came from behind to win the $5000 Land-of-the-Sky tournament. ‘Hogan turned in a 72-hole total of 273 which put him 11 under par and three strokes ahead of Ralph Guldahl, whom he passed in the home stretch. Guldahl, leader for three rounds, went into the final three holes needing birdies to win but failed.
Inland Steel Wins A. A. U. Mat Title
Inland Steel of Gary held the state A. A. U. wrestling championship today, but a flock of Indiana University matmen, disguised as unattached participants, were in: pos=session of all the individual titles. The ‘Gary club gathered 11 points in team competition during the meet here Saturday, while the local ¥., M. C. A. squad, defending title-' holders, finished in third place with four points behind Terre Haute, which had nine. Indiana University solo winners were H. Crosy, 118 pounds; Joe Sparks, 123; Nick Obrodovich, 134; Tom Tone, 145; Angelo -Lazarra, 148; H. Traster, 174; Dan Gill, 191, and Homer Faucett, a 160-pounder who wrestled as a heavyweight.’
Spontaneous streams of automo~ |
something to growl about on April Fool's Day by starting Gene Hinrichs, young southpaw, on the mound. Hinrichs was freed from the Detroit “chain” when Judge K. M. Landis purged that club the past winter and Griffin held to the theory that the Tigers would be, upset when compelled to face a former mem-
ber of their family tree. At any rate, the ex-Iowa University chucker was slated tc open against the Tigers and Mitchell Balas, right hander, was tagged to complete the toil on the Tribe rubber. ; : Four Lost, Two Won
The Redskins made their best showing this spring against the Cleveland Americans in their opening | exhibition th perhaps they would bounce back against another The Hoosier Indians have lost four games in six starts in the Grapefruit League and Chief Griffin wore that hungry 1 last night after) the debacle at (Plant City where three Buffalo rookie pitchers held the Tribe to four hits and registered seven strikeouts, The Indians’ vaunted power evidently was lost the bright sunshine and balmy weather. Nolen Richardson led off witha double in the third and still was on second when the side was retired. ; In the seventh the Tribesters filled the\bases with one away and the
day, the Indianapolis Redskins hoped to reverse the uation today by fooling the Detroit Tigers at Lakeland. | Manager Wes Griffin planned to
Wes Griffin .| . .
ite |
Yo us Ti :
a trick
up sleeve? :
samé three runners still scratched in the sand when the third out w
made. foes Buffalo Gets Eight Hits
‘Buffalo collected eight - hits and ix were garnered off Lloyd Johnon in five innings. ' He was bum or three runs and four hits in
ighthander, worked the last thr
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"Hoppe Seeking i 15th Straight‘
righ Big Art (Kewpie)
The Chicago boy, up from ford, is showing promise, - Arthur Luce, outfielder, up fro the southern league by way of C cinnati, ‘just about removed
a loud foul.
be traced to overconfidence.
“on paper.”
hitters. shuffled off to meet Buffalo.
Robbed of Double
rames and kept out of hot water.
self from the Indianapolis picture by striking out three consecutive times. He didn’t even connect for
The team’s poor showing at the payoff dish yesterday probably can : Rain kept the boys idle Saturday afternoon and they sat around the hotel lobby boasting about their power They figured that at least six regulars were. sure-fire .300 But that was before they
Allen Hunt's name rightfully be-
CHICAGO, April 1 (U. P)— willie Hoppe, New York, seeks his 15th consecutive victory tonight in the world’s npionship threecushion billiards tournament. He
one of the two matches on the catd.. Welker Cochran, San Francisco, defending champion, who lasiiight defeated Joe Chamaco, Mexiotity, 50-27, in 47 innings, will meet Jay Bozeman of Vallejo, Calif, in the second mateh. | Allen Hall, ‘Chicago, beat: Arthur Rubin,. New York, yesterday.: The match went 52 innings to 50-45. The tournament originally was scheduled ‘to end April 4, but officials extended the matches to
meets Otto Reiselt, Philadelphia, in =
longed in the hit column but an accident and unusual play robbed him of a double. In the eighth he stung one on the nose and the drive took one whistling hop and struck First Baseman Les Fleming over the eye, the Bison player was knocked down, the ball was deflected at top speed to Second Baseman Lemone who got it to first,
April 6 which gave Hoppe, the only undefeated contestant, two days rest. : ;
4 Mat Matches
to retire Hunt on a close play.
ages. Yesterday,
(Continued on Page Seven)
sas-Back fo Bloomington
Times-NEA Telephoto peat the hansas egiate_tournarebound under
Yoast of the town today.
Saturday night.
C. A. A. tournament. The season completed
to. Purdue %lthough defeating Boilermakers twice, After lected. to.
with the pitcher covering, in time
The dazed Fleming was led off the field to get a three-inch cut stitched. Tribe pitchers remained at Bartow today to get a long workout at fielding their positions and bunting practice. Chief Griffin decided the majority of his flippers needed some education in fundamentals in spite of some of their Lloyd Johnson fielded a bunt and threw to ‘the
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, April 1 (U. P.).~—Indiana University’s basketball team, newly crowned national collegiate champion, was the
The Hoosiers were welcomed home yesterday by thousands of students: and townspeople celebrating their 60-to-42 victory over the University of Kansas in the finals of the N. C. A. A. tournament at Kansas City
The players and Coach Branch McCracken were picked up at the edge of Bloomington and paraded through the downtown streets on a | fire truck and in automobiles. ' “What really helped the boys win |the championship,” McCracken told the crowd, “was'a telegram, read |over a loud-speaker system on the {floor just before the game started, | from the businessmen of Lawrence, |Kas., stating that’ Indiana would |be ‘just another ball game’ ' for “The boys looked serious for a |few minutes and then looked over ‘lat me and smiled. Then they went | |to it.” | | Capt. Marvin Huffman was award{ed a medal for beigg the most val- ' |uable player to his team in the N. Saturday night was one of the most success-
| |ful in Indiana histqry e Hoosiers - |10st the Big Ten conference title
Due Tomorrow
An all-star mat offering is prondised by Matchmaker Lloyd Carter for the Armory tomorrow night and it will consist of four instead of the customary three matches. Carter has completed his program
Mexico, against Don McIntyre, 218, Kansas. They open the bill. An" added feature is the appearance here for the first time of More ris Shapiro, 185, skilled New Yorker. He gets a real test in meeting the Great Mephisto, 182, ‘Newark. In the semi-windup, Alabama Bill Lee, 239, football star, opposes Dorve Roche, 222, Decatur, Il. John (Powerhouse) Granovich, 245, aggressive New Yorker, goes against Jim McMillen, 235, Chicago, ° in the main go. Jim is among the first five best heavies in the game and is making his first Armory appearance of the season.
Wait Matching of Scalzo, Perrin ' NEW ORLEANS, April 1 (U. P). —Peté Reilly, manager of Petey Scalzo of New York, was expected | to agree today to a 15-round featherweight title match between Scalzo and Jimmy Perrin of New Orleans. ; Perrin signed last night to fight Scalzo for 25 per cent of the net gate and the title taken away from Champion Joey Archibald of Providence, ‘R. I, by the National Boxing Association last week. Scalzo will receive the same amount if Reilly accepts. The N. B. A. named Scalzo and Perrin, who recently decisioned Archibald in a non-title fight, to meet for the vacated title on the condition that the winner would agree to’ meet any opponent selected by the association within three months. The bout will be held May 6.
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