Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1940 — Page 8
PACE 8
Games picked, 178; winners, ‘average for season to date, .766.
By EDDIE ASH
* After what happened
prises the past two weeks the grid experts are becoming immune to punishment and write everything off by calling it a strategic retreat in this business of calling the turn
in upcoming games.
This week's college schedule presents . as many problems as any crystal gazer
cares to han
other week end of distaster to the prognosticators, but who's going to stop ‘em
from risking
Top billing in the Hoosier State goes to Iowa at Indiana. The Hoosiers are due to win one after losing two tough tilts. So, come on Indiana and do it. Notre Dame meets an old foe in Carnegie Tech and we are picking the Irish over the Kilties. And Butler over Wabash. Last year Illinois stopped Tom Harmon and upset Michigan. And Minnesota over Ohio State and Tennessee over Ala-
ASH
bama.
130; losers, 37; ties, 11. Batting
Indiana over Iowa. This is
in the way of football sur- Notre Dame over Carnegie
Selections for the week on all fronts: i ; STATE COLLEGES
against the ratings. Tech. Irish take off wraps.
Butler over Wabash. Superior power and more reserves. Ohio Wesleyan over DePauw. On a limb on this one. Swarthmore over Earlham. A battle between Quakers.
‘Valpo over Cent. Normal. 'Nother big day in Danville.
Ball State over Manchester.
dle. It probably will be an-
their necks?
man, But we like the Wolverines.
St. Joe over Evansville. Pumas are up and coming.
It’s usually a thriller.
Ind. State over Grand Rapids. Groping without lights. Franklin over Hanover. Tab it as a toss-up.
MIDWEST
Minnesota over Ohio State. Gophers lost it last fall. Michigan over Illinois. But don’t sell Bob Zuppke short. Northwestern over Wisconsin, Wildcats seem to have it. Marquette over Creighton. This rates a close encounter. Nebraska over Kansas. Based on comparative early form. Missouri over Iowa State. Depending upon Paul Christ-
Toledo over Scranton. Rockets are becoming a power. Oklahoma over Kansas State. May be fre-scoring here.
Dayton over Miami, O. A faint fling on the Flyers.
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Prof. Ash Ducks and Takes I U, Irish, Butler, Minnesota .
Tulsa over St. Louis. Figures to be a toss-up.
Xavier, Cincinnati, over St. Vincent. Scoreless tie
year.
&
last
Oberlin over Hamilton. Come on, ye, Yeomen. he EAST : Fordham over Pitt. But Panthers are still tough. Cornell over Syracuse. Big Red peels the Orange. Boston College over Idaho. B. C. has a lot of class.
Dartmouth over Yale. Both Detroit over Manhattan. It
Green and Blue are weak. was free-scoring last fall.
Harvard over Army. Crimson prevailed in 1939. Pennsylvania over Princeton. Based on last week’s form.
Navy over Drake. Putting it
up to Middies.
Penn. State over Lehigh. Nittany Lions keep rolling.
Duke over Colgate. Blue Devils look safe.
Holy Cross over N. Y. U. It may be a close affair. Georgia over Columbia, It’s in the toss-up bracket. Franklin-Marshall over Muhlenberg. Diplomats are vet-
erans. Y
Boston U. over Cincinnati. It’s tougher than tough. Michigan State over Temple. A rousing contest indicated.
SOUTH
Tennessee over Alabama. Old South’s leading attraction. Mississippi over Duquesne. A bitter battle promised.
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Georgia Tech over Vanderbilt. They're rated about equal, Texas A.-M. over Tex. Christian. Stringing with the
Farmers.
Georgetown U. over: Virginia
feated.
Tech. The former is unde-
Florida over Maryland. Just toss a coin and guess. Centre over Louisville. A scoreless tie last season. Lou. State over Mercer. It, shapes up that way. Rice over Tulane. The former has powerful forwards, Southern Methodist over Auburn. Another bitter battle, Texas over Arkansas. By a one-point margin last fall, Kentucky over Geo. Washington. Both are undefeated.
N. Carolina U. over N. Car.
State. But not by too much.
Villanova over Baylor. Out on a.long limb. FAR WEST
TU. C. L. A. over California.
Giving Uclans the edge.
St. Mary’s, Cal., over Loyola, Cal. Looks about even.
Southern Calif. over Oregon
U. It was a deadlock last fall,
Utah over Utah State. Annual rivalry attraction. Oregon State over Washington, Seattle. Call it a toss-up. Stanford over; Wash. State. By not more than a nod, Montana over Montana State. It was a squeek last year,
So You Picked the A. L., Chortle. The Readers at Colonel Joe
Yes, Joe Did Select The Figures on His S
By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer
NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—At the
admirers we are having our tailors rig us up a snappy, form-fitting sack
cloth, liberally sprinkled with ashes
to walk up and down the streets with a sign on our back reading: “This is the dope who said the American League was stronger.’
Just as a good natured gesture, For years we have been saying just that and when the recent World Series rolled around we said it again, though not with our customary arrogance because we realized the Tigers were a patchwork ball club with a creaky infisld and uncertain pitching. We admitted all this in our sparkling epic but added. . . . “Maybe it won't take a great team to peat the Cincinnatis.” The Mail Pours In It wasn't until today that we had time to go through the accumulated mail. And how our National League admirers have poured 1t on. We ‘are ‘classified as everything simple dope to a subsidized writer dominated by the office of President Will Harridge. Most of the more tender expressions of admiration came, naturally enough, from Cincinnati, Here is an example/. .. “Ha, ha, ha. Dopey you. Just close your eves and pick the American League team to win. Oh, how smart. I know you'll alibi yourself out of this one because you can’t take it. But take it from me anyway. H. D.” This admirer refers to our opening day epic in which we preferred to think it took no great amount of vision to dope the Series. We wrote: “One thing the National League can’t get away irom is figures. We've been covering these things for 20 years. In that time the American Leaguers have won 13 out of 20 championships; they have won seven out of the last 10; they have won five out of the last five. Nobody's going to tell us these figures aren’t significant.” Having presented this cold fadtual testimony we added that it was silly to attempt a technical examination of the two teams; the thing to do was just pick the American League
team all the time and let it go at |
that. + Joe Still Says ,..
This was one year we were wrong. But even so the figures are still all in our favor, Instead of having won seven out of the last 10, the . American Leaguers have won seven out of the last 11; instead of having - won five out of the last five, they have won five out of the last six. Until these figurese®are narrowed down to a more even point we are going to stand by our guns that the American League is the stronger league and should continue to be made the favorite in any World Series. Our National League admirers have been saying that it was not a question of league superiority but of one team (the Yankees) superiority. With becoming. modesty and restraint (one letter begins “You big fat bead”) these gentlemen remind us that the Yankees weren't in this Series, therefore the result was inevitable. The National League had to win, Of course, overboard on the National League as ‘we have been going on the - American League. Besides, the figures refute the stand. Let's exclude the Yankees from consideration and see what we find. Each league has won the Series 14 times. So not counting the Yankees’ eight wins at all the National League is not better than an even bet any time the playoffs start. This would seem to dispose of the claim that the American League is a one-team league. Yes, Mr. Dawson
So much for that. Many of the clippings which have been returned to us deal with our review of the Series. One of our observations was that Bartell and Gehringer had gone back so far they no longer could make double plays. It was our revealing notion that this was one of the reasons why the Tigers lost the Series. Pertinently one Sterling Dawson of Chicago writes: “Where were you all season? How did it happen that you had to. wait until the World Series was over to find out that Bartell and Gehringer couldn't make double plays?” A fair questicn. ‘We suppose we were just dumb about it. We'd like to mention that we saw the Tigers play only three games all season (the final three against the Yankees in Detroit) but this no doubt would come under the head of what our aforementioned admirer, H. D., calls our ability to alibi, so we'll skip it. Anyway, the Tigers won: two of those three games and all teams look pretty good winning.
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Yawkey Buying All of Colonels
NEW YORK, Oct. 16 (U. P).— Tom Yawkey, wealthy owner of the Boston Red Sox, and Prank McKinney, Indianapolis banker, me=t
today to compicte transter of the entire holdings of the Louisville American Association Club .to the Red Sox magnate. McKinney and Yawkey, who each own one-third of the club, along with Donnie Bush, former major league .manager, made prelimmary arrangements for the purchase yesterday. The sum involved was not disclosed. “The chief reason for the sale,” McKinney said, “is the fact that my lifelong friend, Bush, has been iil most of the time since we want into the project, while I'm primarily a banker who hasnt time enough to devote to the club.” Louisville led the American As- | sociation in attendance the past two | seasons, breaking the league record with a total of 311,000 in 1939. ‘The Colonels finished fourth both years and won the playoffs each time. They defeated Rochester for the Little World Series title in 1939- but lost to Newark in this year’s Litile World Series. .
No Staff Changes Due for Colonels
| Times Special LOUISVILLE, Ky. Oct. 16. — It was reported here today that Tom | Yawkey's purchase of full interest in the Louisville baseball club -would involve no changes in the staff of the team. : Yawkey, owner of the Boston Red | Sox and one-third of the Colonels, | is buying out the two-thirds interest held by Ownie Bush, former big league manager, and Frank McKinney, Indianapolis banker. \ Bruce Dudley, executive manager of the Louisville club, said today it was his understanding that he would continue in the same capacity and that the same applied to Bill{sin Dr. Anderson uncovered someBurwell, field manager for the last thing new in his ball-carrying detwo seasons. | partment. Bill Green, junior full-
Eddie Has Only To Fling at
Coach Eddie Anderson in the way
Only 17 lettermen, 10 of them seniors, a well-fortified line from tackle, to tackle an experienced field general and two other ground gaining backs. Now do-you still want to lend Dr. Eddie that hankerchief?
I. U.~Too Bad, Eh!
All-American Nile Kinnick is gone, you say. Prasse and Dick Evans, his pass-catching ends. What does that leave
Yawkey, Bush and ‘McKinney {bought the Colonels in 1938 from the estate of the late Col. William Knebelkamp for a reported $200,000.
‘back who will do, the 100-yard dash lin 9.8 when he’s stripped down to running togs, scored three touchdowns against the Badgers and, in
that's going as far
Since then, attendance at the Colonels’ games has gained steadily until last year it led the league in paid customers.
general, ignited the Hawkeye offense in their 30-12 triumph.
A Left Halfback Also At the time, Green was filling in for powerful Ray Murphy, deuble letterman, but Green also knows the formations from the left halfback slot and he may get the starting call there against I. U. Murphy, incidentally, is the, pulverizing type| of fullback, always welcome in any man’s backfield. Al Couppee, also a letterman, has ST. LOUIS. Oct. 16 (U.P.).—Pep- | turned in a capable job of field‘per Martin, former member of the general work and signal-calling 'St. Louis Cardinals’ famous Gas {rom quarterback, and he's another ‘House’ Gang and new manager of | Of your starting backs—in spite of a ‘the Sacramento Solons of the Pa-|Shoulder injury he received against | cific League, said today that he'd {the Badgers. Should Green not open teach his boys “to hit the ball and at left half, one of two sophomores run like heil.” Martin, who starred in the Cardi- | 184-pound Bill Stauss or 170-pound nals’ 1931 world series victory over Tom Farmer. the Philadelphia Athletics, signed| At right half will be Bill Gallaa ohe-year contract yesterday to |gher, 185 pounds of blocking matemanage the Cardinal farm club. rial who has had two years of first“I'm going to teach Gas House | String experience. : Gang baseball to my team,” said| To strengthen the wings,'Ander-
Pepper Pilots Coast Club |
will be filling the position—either |
Two Reasons Why Dr. Anderson of
Ray Murphy . , . Hawkeye pulverizer.
17 Lettermen
O’BRIEN So are Capt. Erwin
of Iowa Hawkeyes to throw against
Bo McMillin's Hoosiers Saturday af Bloomington?
: son’ this year ‘refurned Kenneth | Pettit, a two letterman, to left end.
| That was where Pettit was sta|tioned as a reserve in 1938, but last
lat the other end will be Wilford Burkett, a 6-foot-3 sophomore.
Nothing Lacking at Tackle
You couldn’t ask for much more than Dr. Eddie Anderson has at tackle. Big 202-pound Jim Walker of South Bend, who is stationed a# left tackle, was a headache to Wisconsin last Saturday, blocking one punt and running for a touchdown. The other tackle is Capt. Mike Enich, two-year veteran. who also scales 202 pounds. I'e suffered a fractured nose in the Hawkeyes’ opening Conference engagement, but won’t.let that keep him sidelined Saturday. : Three capable candidates are used interchangeably at guard. Charles Tollefson is the usual left guard, but Herman Snider can play that pesition when Henry Luebcke, another veteran, mans the assignment to the right. At center is Bill Diehl, a Cedar Rapids junior. The main concern in the Hawkeye camp this week is pass defense. Dr. Eddie Anderson saw Wisconsin
score twice against Iowa through |
the air, and he’s afraid that's just a sample of the treatment his boys can expect against the ozoneminded McMillins.
Pepper, who is now 36 and plans to| ~m | be a player-manager. Pepper said he didn’t know if his new job was a promotion or not but before signing the contract he was assured the use of one of the Cardinal organization's tractors on his Oklahoma farm.
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off on it at the race track.
in a drive for the wire. Ruth has a bet on Eddie whenever he goes to the post, and that’s quite often since he is one of the country’s great jockeys. It doesn’t
| matter what he’s riding—a claiming
plater or a stake champion — she digs into her purse and plays her man to win. I sat with Mus. Arcaro at Jamaica yvesterday—and it's a pleasure to sit with her, too, because she’s as pretty as a 10-to-1 shot pulling away in the stretch-—and talked to her about the life of a jockey's wite. “I'm slowly going broke,” she sald. “Even if Eddie were riding a goat, and the other boys were riding Challedon, Mioland and Whirlaway, I'd have to bet on him. Only twice
The first time yas a year after we were married when he rode Lawrin to win the Kentucky Derby.”
: : | since we have been married have I | Last Saturday against Wiscon- | yeqr he played guard and did a|tailed to back him. And was I sorry. {good job at that. The likely starter
Mrs. Arcaro Would Be Rich If They Paid Off On Love
M’LEMORE
~ United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—Love is a beautiful thing, but
they don’t pay.
They still go by the numbers that flash on the board. If love conquered all, as the poets would have us believe, Ruth Arcaro would be so rich that her husband, Eddie, never would have to slip into silks again, never would have to lift his whip to a thoroughbred
Another field went to the post and was away. “Come on honey, come on honey, come on honey.”
eagan Pushes Penn’s Ranking
Into Championship Class
He’s Outshone Harmon on Occasions—Which Poor
0’ Yale Will Ne'er,
Deny
By LESLIE AVERY United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—Francis shone the great Tom Harmon of last year, has sent Penn's football and Blue must be ranked close to ham in Eastern standings. In handing Yale its worst grid defeat in history (50-7) last week, Penn's big gun .was Reagan, who seerns to be -able to do anything with a football but swallow it. This home-grown product of Nor:heast Catholic High in Philadelphia can hit the line, sweep the ends, pitch passes and catch ‘em. He scored three touchdowns against the hapless Yales—one after snagging an aerial .and scampering 35 yards down the sidelines, another after returning a punt 45 yards to the five, then pounding over on fourth down, and a third with a 19yard off-tackle reverse. Although Michigan nosed out the Quakers, 19-17, last year, Penn rooters never will let you forget that Reagan was a better man than Harmon that day. He rolled up 356 yards for Penn from . scrimmage, punt returns, kickoff returns and passing while Harmon totaled but
- 1 294,
14 With Perfect Records
With Cornell still the top club of the Iiast, the Penn-Cornell meeting cn | Nov. 23, final game for both teams, shapes up now as a fitting climex to settle any question of superiority between the two. According to today’s standings for the Lambert Memorial Trophy, emblematic of the Eastern championship, Cornell, Boston, College and Fordham rank one, two, three, with Georgetown in the fourth slot and Penn fifth. : Including the above five undefeated, united clubs, the East still boasts 14 perfect-record teams, which gives the section one of its best starts in recent years, despite the decline of the big three—Princeton, Harvard and Yale. The others
Xavier Reagan, who actually oute Michigan in a man-to-man duel stock booming and today the Red Cornell, Boston College and Fords
still to feel the sting of defeat are Navy, Penn State, Columbia, Due quesne, Rutgers, George Washinge ton, Lafayette, Villanova and Franklin-and-Marshall. Of the lot Pitt and Columbia face the most severe tests this week, Fordham travels to Pittsburgh to meet a rejuvenated Pitt eleven that has bounced back from the opening defeat by Ohib State to beat Mis< souri and tie S. M. U. Columbia may -not have the guns to stop a Georgia club trying to snap back from last week's defeat by Mississippi. A Breeze for Cornell Cornell should have an easy time with Syracuse despite the Orangemen’s improved showing against N. Y. U., Boston Colleges is too tough for Idaho and Penn ig a topheavy choice over the fioun=der Princeton outfit that lost to Navy. The Middies have a push= over in Drake. Remainder of the Eastern proe gram includes Georgetown-Virginia Tech; Franklin and Marshall-Muhe lenberg; Latayette - Gettysburg; Penn State-Lehigh; Manhattan-De-troit; Temple-Michigan .State; Bose ton U.-Cincinnati; - Yal2 - Darte mouth; N. Y. U.-Holy Cross; Hare vard-Army, and Brown-Tufts.
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Mrs. Arcaro still sighs when she’ thinks how she failed to back Eddie | when he rode Corydon in the With-| mums ers Mile this year. “He told me he! | was riding a good horse, but I had|/ heard so much about Bimelech, and|{ thought he was so invincible, that|} I bet on him.” i Mrs. Arcaro doesn’t watch the: races through binoculars. That] ¢ brings them too close. She doesn’t] i like to see her husband slip through { needle openings or weave his way to the rail. Scares her too much.
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