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Ohio State’s Mr. Schmid

By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 10—This sports life is a gay one and a wild one. One afternoon you are sitting in the press box looking down on the final game of the World Series. The next you are out here sitting in the office of Francis Schmidt, head coach of the Ohio State football team, Big Ten champions. The change from baseball to football is abrupt enough. But somehow the business of talking to Bill McKechnie about Derringer's fast ball to Don Scott's all-

around ability on the gridiron seems to be even more abrupt. It isn’t altogether easy to make the change. There should be a time out, as in football, for a sports reporter to get himself readjusted. We found Mr. Schmidt sitting at his desk going over Scouts’ reports on Northwestern, diagrams of offensive and defensive formations. Those crazy looking hen scratchings which remind you of the aimless markings of a drunk in a phone booth, but which are so important in the life of a coach. Mr. Schmidt was helpful. He

seemed to know we had just come from the World Series. “It must have been great,” he said, giving us one eye and keeping the other on the diagrams. “I heard it on the radio yesterday. That Derringer must be quite a pitcher.” For the most part the toughest

people in sports to interview are football coaches. They just don’t say anything. It would though, be unfair for us to say that Mr. Schmidt is a charter member of the lodge. We didn’t spend enough time with him. He was too intent on his diagrams. We sensed he had a lot of things to do, so

we paid our respects and moved out quietly. We wish to add, however, that at all times we found him gracious enough. This was the first time we had met him. He is supposed to be the most colorful coach in the country. He has been a tonic to the local box office. Professional football is a flop here because Mr. Schmidt plays the same kind of football. He goes out after touchdowns. He is a graduate of the Southern Conference, Texas Christian, Southern Methodist, Oklahoma, etc, where they throw the

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t Is a Bit Razzle-Dazzle Himself

ball all over the state and 50 per cent of the time run on fourth down. Mr. Schmidt is a big fellow, nervous, fidgety and, in the presence of guests, always smiling— smiling a smile that smokescreens his impatience to get down to the job at hand. Somehow he reminds

you of Oscar Vitt of the lamentable Cleveland Indians, looks a bit like him too. We first heard of him from old Popper Boone, the sage of Ft. Worth. The old Popper told us an inter-

esting, amusing story about the fellow, a story which makes you understand him better, appreciate him more, causes you to be more tolerant of criticism. It doesn’t even bother you that it is old. He was coaching Texas Christian at the time. He drove his car into a gas station. He wanted to have the oil changed and the car greased. You know how those things are done. They roll your car onto a two-track rack and hoist it 10 feet in the air. Mr. Schmidt stayed in the car. He is always figuring out plays.

He carries a batch of cards with him for scribbling purposes. You can see what's coming. Sitting up there he hit on a play he liked. He was elated. He had®to tell somebody about it. He opened the door, stepped out and fell 10 feet. It is, to repeat, an old story, but we know of no other way to illustrate the man’s complete absorption in football. ‘It's not only his bread and ‘butter, but his life and death. We do not wish to be uncomplimentary .to Mr. Schmidt. Indeed, when we say this we mean

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just the opposite. His personality seems to personify the kind of wild, lurid, razzle-dazzle football he plays. He looks slightly mad, and hasn't it been said the first mark of genius is madness? We went out later and watched him put the Buckeyes through their paces. Our interest was more than casual because they are to play Cornell on Oct. 26 in what figures to be the epic game of the Eastern season. A year ago Cornell came here and surprised a lot of people, including Billy Seeman and Sport Ward, by wine

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SPORTS... By Eddie Ash

THE WORLD SERIES hardly had ended before baseball opened the stove league season by speculating on next year. . . . The champion Reds are pretty well set except in the catching department, and the fact that the club’s treasury was enriched as a result of the seven-game title classic is apt to make the Redleg chiefs stretch a point

in money matters to hold their League. : And the more players the Reds

the better the outlook for the Indianapolis Indians. .

supremacy in the National

get on their roster and farms, . Tribe

Manager Jewel Ens did a swell job of scouting the Tigers for the Reds, though he had to stand for a lot of ribbing over his notes after

Detroit swamped Cincy in the first

game of the Series.

In the long run, however, Ens received due credit for his eagle eye and it’s a dead cinch the Reds will go a long way to supply him with talent for the 1941 Indianapolis club. The fact that Mike McCormick batted .300 for the regular sea=

son and .310 in the World Series is dianapolis in good with the Queen

another item that will set InCity club officials.

Tribe President Leo T. Miller recommended McCormick to the Reds and though Leo carried the torch on that deal the first half of the 1940 season, McCormick finally came through in a big way

to vindicate his judgment.

Rejected Major Offers to Join Hoosiers

WITH ONE full major league season under his belt young McCormick probably will step up in all-around class and value next

year.

Mike McCormick is strictly a Miller product and of his own

choosing. .

. . Once in the Cleveland chain, the player was de=clared a free agent by Judge Landis. . .

. Miller had Mike at Buffalo

and when Leo transferred his master minding to Indianapolis he paid him a bonus to sign with the Hoosiers. - At the time McCormick turned down a couple of big league offers

that would have topped Indianapolis’

bid two or three times, but the

youngster decided to stick under the Miller wing and absorb more baseball fundamentals before tackling the big show. Everything worked out to the satisfaction and advantage of béth parties and Tribe Prexy Miller is in solid with the Reds.

Archie Gets Another Fling in Majors

GEORGE ARCHIE, former Indianapolis first sacker who was _ drafted from Seattle by the Washington Senators, batted .324 for

the Rainiers the past season. . . collecting 46 doubles, 9 triples and pilfered 26 bases.

. He was long on extra base blows,

27 home runs. . . He also

Outfielder Mike Christoff, drafted by the Cincy Reds from the

Oakland Coast Leaguers, batted .321 triples and 16 homers. . off’s first trip up.

and collected 38 doubles, three

. . He stole 12 bases. . . . It will be Christ-

Archie was up before with Detroit, but had no chance, since Hank Greenberg held forth at first base at the time and the Tigers weren't interested in rookie talent for the position.

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A MOVEMENT was started during the World Series to make

arrangements at the minor league

cember to include the Pacific Coast League

competition.

convention at Atlanta in Dein AA post-season

Officials of Kansas City and Minneapolis clubs broached the idea, favoring the elimination of playoffs within the circuits and

Spring

of the season.

the inter-league competition ‘immediately after the close

The American Association and International League champions

would title holder, according to the plan.

meet and the winner then would engage the Pacific Coast

Red Sox Draftee May Go Into Service THERE is a possibility that the Boston Sox, who drafted Pitcher

Oscar Judd from Sacramento, may player Se conscription.

have made their claim on the

in vain by losing him in a different kind of draft—Canadian

id, a 22-game winner the past season, is a native Canadian

and not an American citizen, and the recent conscription law takes men into the Canadian army between the ages of 21 and 30 years.

service

Judd, who is 24, is not married and is expected to be called into before the start of next season,

Judd is a six-foot southpaw and appears to be a bright big league

prospect. . + . He lost 13 games while winning the 22. veloped in the St. Louis Cardinal chain. .

Add Our Congrats!

Times Special ELKHART, Ind, Oct. 10.—Devon Alexander of Concord Township High School, something of a basketball star too, accepted corigratulations today for the no-hit, no-run game he hurled against Middlebury High School. Concord won, 10-0.

He was de-

Table Tennis

Results last night in the Commercial League at Jimmy McClure’s: American States, 15; Mallory’s, 3. Ayres, 17; Master, 1.

Standard Life, 15; Power & Light, 8. American National, 16; Bireley’s, 2.

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Joe Captains the Butler Football Team: Mrs. Dezelan Deals Out the Pancakes

Mr. and Mrs. Dezelan . . . at home in the morning.

City 11s Seek Lost Prestige In Games This Week-End

This is comeback week on the high school football front as the city teams attempt to regain some of the prestige they lost in last week's defeats. Nine games involving city and county teams are scheduled tomorrow and Saturday. with only Washington’s Continentals being idle. Their date with St. Xavier of Cincinnati, made last week, was

. | called off at the request of Xavier

officials. ‘ Victim of a 38-6 setback at Muncie last week, Tech will continue North Central Conference competition tomorrow against the Anderson Indians at the East Side field. Several changes are expected in the Big Green lineup, with Jim Myers starting at end and John Rainey at guard. Bob Hennigar, regular guard, will be shifted to one of the tackle posts, replacing Bob Becker. Several members of the Shortridge team have been nursing minor injuries received in last week’s game against Cincinnati Withrow, but the whole squad probably will be ready for tomorrow’s engagement against Lafayette Jefferson. Rehearsals in the Blue Devil camp have been devoted to blocking and the study of new formations. Broad Ripple will risk its record of two victories and one tie tomorrow at West Lafayette. Although the West Lafayette club has dropped three of its four games this season, it has beaten the Rockets the last three times out. William Steck, Rocket back who has been out of service because of injuries, is expected to see full action against the Red Devils. Southport takes on its fourth straight Indianapolis visitor under the arcs tomorrow evening at Roose= velt Stadium, entertaining the Manual Redskins. In the last meeting between these two rivals, Southport walked off with a 13-6 decision. The Irish of Cathedral believe they're back on their feet after taking a 13-0 decision from Southport and they hope to start a victory string at Elwood’s expense tomorrow evening. The only night game in the city, this argument will be settled under the lights at the Butler Bowl. In other games tomorrow Warren

.| Central entertains Westfield and

Plainfield goes to Ben Davis. Saturday's two contests pit Howe Military Academy against Park on

TOMORROW

Anderson at Tech. Shortridge at Lafayette Jefferson. Broad Ripple at West Lafayette (night). . Manual at Southport (night). Elwood vs. Cathedral at Butler Bowl. Westfield at Warren Central, Plainfield at Ben Davis,

SATURDAY

Howe Military Academy at Park. Crispus Attucks at Gary Roosevelt.

Drake Is Best Yard-Gainer

SEATTLE, Oct. 10 (U. P.).—The American Football Statistical Bureau made public its first 1940 compilations today and established Drake University as the leading ground gainer among the nation’s teams, : The Des Moines, Ia. eleven gained 930 yards from rushing and passing in two games for a 465yard average. Another Midlands team, Creighton, paced rushing offensives with 788 yards in two games. Aerial supremacy went to Cornell, which rolled up 276 yards by passing in its opener. Defensively, Mississippi State allowed an average of only 14.5 yards to each of its two opponents. Georgla University’s ground defense gave up exactly four yards in two games. No compilations were released this week on pass defense. Sectionally, the Far West made the worst showing, finishing last in all departments of team play. Figures for Oregon State College, how=ever, were not available, Statistics also placed the Southwest—traditionally one of the nation’s high-scoring = areas—behind

other sections in yardage totals.

By J. E. O'BRIEN

THIS MORNING Joe Dezelan, Butler's football - captain and tackle, rolled out of bed at 8 o'clock, gulped down a sturdy

breakfast of pancakes and coffee, told Mrs. Dezelan goodby and raced for school to beat the professor by a length to an 8:55 class. Two hours later, with those breakfast dishes washed and sundry other household duties finished, pretty Yolanda Dezelan set out for work, Along about 3 o’clock this afternoon Joe-will finish his physical education classes at Jordan Hall and move to the practice field for Tony Hinkle’s regular gridiron session. And at 5:30 he will be excused there. | That is the same time Mrs. Dezelan will get off work across town but since hubby has to be on duty at his brother’s bowling alley at 6 o'clock, they won't be having dinner together. This evening Joe's duty will be to see that everything is running smoothly on the smooth runways. with a chance to roll a couple of games himself if there's a lull.

Mrs. Dezelan will stay at home with a book or take in a show or perhaps walk a block and a half from their N. Holmes Ave. home to the alleys. : If she dcesn’t go over, she’ll get a chance to say a quick “hello” and “good night” when Joe comes home at midnight for his required eight hours sleep. That, in, six paragraphs, is the domestic and economical life of a family football player who still finds time enough to make better than a B scholastic average. And of his wife. who would still like to show more of her home-making ability than she can at flipping breakfast pancakes or frying breakfast eggs. But the Dezelans are doing very well, thank you, and enjoying life. “Look at me,” Joe said. “I weigh 20% pounds and believe I'm in better condition than at any time during the 14 years I've been playing football. Sure, I miss a little sleep now and then and I don’t have much time to myself, but I'm well satisfied.”

The Better Half Agrees

Mrs. Dezelan was in complete.

agreement. She had just come off the bowling alleys—this is her first year at the sport—and she was a bit ashamed of what she considered a poor three-game total.

“We don’t see a whole lot of each other,” she admitted, “but Joe has a night off now and then and we take a drive or go to the show—adventure movies usually— that's what Joe likes. And then on Sunday evening we have dinner together.” Incidentally, Sunday is as busy as any other day for Joe. He usually Works into the wee hours Sunday morning, but he always gets up to go to church. After a few more hours of sleep, the two dine together before Joe returns to the bowling alleys. It might surprise you to know that Mrs. Dezelan has never seen Joe” play football for Butler, although he has been doing it for three years now. “It’s not that I don’t like football,” she declared. I'd be a good fan if I had Satur(Continued on Page 21)

|Thank Crosley

MEN'S SUITS, e TOPCOATS

For the Reds

Hires Best Men Available for the Jobs

CINCINNATI, Oct. 10 (U. P.).— You never saw his name in a box

score, but the man who really made the Cincinnati Reds the champions of baseball is Powel Crosley Jr., who likes to have winners in sports as well as in business. A success in manufacturing everything’ from cake mixers to automobiles, Crosley purchased. the Reds in 1934 when they seemed to have a permanent lease on last place and brought them out of the doldrums by applying the same principles to baseball that he does to business.

He Stays in Background

Although Crosley owns two radio stations here—WLW and WSAI— and is one of the nation’s leading industrialists, his fellow townsmen don’t know him well. When Cincinnati thinks of the Reds, it thinks of General Manager Warren Giles and Manager Bill McKechnie rather than of the man who owns the club. That is because Crosley prefers to stay in the background and let his capable executives run the ball club. “All right, if you boys-want to do it, go ahead,” is his usual answer when consulted on matters of club policy. Fifty-three years old and six feet four, Crosley .played first base, pitched and caught on an amateur team when he was a boy, but it was only when the Reds began to be pennant contenders that he became intensely interested in baseball.

Hires Best Availbale

His policy with the Reds is to hire the best baseball men available and then let them work. He brought Larry MacPhail, now general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, to

ing toward a pennant. In 1937 Giles took over the general managership and the Reds continued to improve. They finished fourth in 1938, won the National League pennant in 1939 and took the world championship this year. Crosley’s interest in sports is not confined to baseball. He shoots golf in the 90s rides horseback and hunts at his farm near North Vernon, Ind. He owns his own plane and has a private airport. His personal pilot flies him between Cincinnati and North Vernon on commuting trips during some of the summer months. None of his friends was surprised when he acquired the controlling interest in the Reds, for Crosley has tried almost everything,

Once Entered the “500”

He studied engineering and law at the University of Cincinnati and in 1905 worked as a chauffeur because he was curious about automobiles. That interest led him to become the president of three small auto manufacturing companies, and once he even was entered to drive a car in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway race. He was bitterly disappointed when he broke his arm at the last minute and had to withdraw. Crosley’s wide interests carried him into the advertising and bond business and in 1936 he joined a mail-order firm. A few years later he bought the firm and sales

Cincy Big Chief

Powel Crosley Jr... . “if you boys want to do it, go ahead.”

Cincinnati and slowly began build-|

Four Expected in Pimlico Special

NEW YORK, Oct. 10 (U. P).—A sheaf of thin, white cards was mailed today inviting the best of the nation’s thoroughbreds to come along and settle their clams to the title of “horses of the year of 1940” in the fourth Pimlico Special on Nov. 1. The cards were addressed to seven horses in all but Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who mailed them out, looked for no more than four answers. They were expected to come from: — W. L. Brann’s Challedon, Greentree Stable’s Hash, C. S. Howard's Mioland and Belair Stud’s Fenelon. The reason that answers could be expected only from these four is that the other three horses honored all are out of training. They are Seabiscuit,” Bimelech and Eight Thirty, whose invitations were sent merely as compliments. : Vanderbilt said that the Special would be run under. the same conditions that have held in previous years. That means that the distance will be a mile and 3-16 and weight will be assigned on the basis of age, 126 pounds for the 4-year-old Challedon and Hash and 120 for the 3-year-old Fenelon and Mioland. For the last three seasons. the Special . winner has been acclaimed all-age champion. These winners were War Admiral in 1937, Seabiscuit in 1938 and Challedon in 1939. First money again will be $10,000, winner take all. :

Newark Rules The Minors

Colonels Beaten in Final Game, 6 to 1

NEWARK, N. J,, Oct. 10 (U. P.).~= The Newark Bears today held their

third Little World Series baseball

championship in four seasons. The Bears captured the 1940 title last night by defeating the Louise ville Colonels, American Association representatives, 6-1, for their fourth win in a six-game series. The Bears finished 2% games behind the pen-nant-winning Rochester club in the regular International League season and disposed of Jersey City and Baltimere in the playoffs. Louisville, finishing fourth, downed Columbus and the champion Kansas City Blues in the American Association playoffs. Steve Peek, loser in only one of his last 14 games, went the route for the Bears last night and limited the Colonels to six hits. The Louisville tally -came in the fourth when Vince Sherlock tripled for the first Colonel hit and scored on Chet Morgan’s in=field single. A homer by Bud Metheny tied the score for Newark in the fourth and Charlie Wagner, who went into the game with an 1ll-game winning streak, held Peek even until the sixth when the Bears went in front. The Bears received about $370 each out of the series, plus $240 playoff prize and 16 days pay during the Governor's Cup .series. The Colonels collected about $240 each for the series, and $175 and salary for the playoffs.

Seats Available for Trojans-Illini

Times Special

CHAMPAIGN, Ill, Oct. 10.— Plenty of seats in good locations will be available for the Southern California-Illinois football game even at the last minute Saturday, Manager C. E. Bowen reported today. A crowd of 30,000 is expected to welcome the Rose Bowl and Pacific coast champions to the Illinois stadium. Victory over Bradley by the decisive score of 31-to-0 stime ulated the demand for accommodations for Saturday’s encounter with the Trojans.

Race at Greenfield

GREENFIELD, Ind, Oct. 10.—A. 100-lap stock car race matching the crack Midwestern drivers will be staged here Sunday at the Fair Grounds track. Qualifications will start at noon, with the feature race getting umder way at 2 p. m.

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